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901.
by pbourke 8y ago
It’s a few hours over 1-2 days - not that much effort to save a few thousand dollars.
902.
by pbourke 8y ago
Does Wal-Mart commingle inventory with 3rd party sellers? That’s the root of the problem in Amazon’s case.
903.
by pbourke 8y ago
> What about that manager "sounds like a dill-hole"? If one of your team members is under obvious stress - and is asking to leave for the day - fucking let them leave for the day. If you don't do that - if you continue t
904.
by pbourke 8y ago
> His huge mistake was to ignore my plea to take the day off to feel better and be able to handle the situation. Had he done so I believe everything that happened could have been avoided. After reading your account, I agree completely. I
905.
by pbourke 8y ago
Yes, and no one jumps ship like a young tech worker at the base of their salary curve. The flip side of being able to code all day as a younger engineer is that nothing’s tying you to a job or location. One call from a recruiter in NYC, SF
906.
by pbourke 8y ago
I’d say that getting adapted to black coffee (I previously took it “light and sweet”) was the hardest part of starting IF for me. Took about 2 weeks, but now I’m enjoying it.
907.
by pbourke 8y ago
Yes, this is basically 16:8 (16 hrs without food, 8 hr window for meals)
908.
by pbourke 8y ago
Not sure about this, but the items on tag pages appear to be in reverse chronological order. It might help if there was a date displayed beside each item.
909.
by pbourke 9y ago
Exactly. The government also ensures that if an issue is found with a airplane The Shit Hits the Fan and multiple parties are heavily incentivized to fix it. We need a similar approach to critical IT infrastructure.
910.
by pbourke 9y ago
yep, my mistake - was looking at multicore
911.
by pbourke 9y ago
I don't know Go, but b and found appear to be byte arrays, not strings, which would imply O(1) indexing.
912.
by pbourke 9y ago
You probably wouldn’t want to work anywhere where people get in your face for not knowing something off the top of your head. The three phrases I wish that I heard more frequently at work are “I don’t know”, “I’m not sure” and “Do you have
913.
by pbourke 9y ago
I think it may be remembered as one of the most notable artistic works of the 21st century. It’s seriously that good.
914.
by pbourke 9y ago
>> A large majority of the code running on our planet today is OOP. >Good example code base? The majority of code running Amazon the retail site and AWS. Large swathes of Microsoft and Google online services. Most code running bank
915.
by pbourke 9y ago
Came here for this and to also link http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com
916.
by pbourke 9y ago
Podcasts are audio files syndicated over RSS
917.
by pbourke 9y ago
> I get that many people, especially seniors, are annoyed by the general software engineering process because they feel entitled to certain positions I’m annoyed by the process - as both interviewer and interviewee - because I don’t thin
918.
by pbourke 9y ago
The goal of agile, as implemented in most shops, is to get things done quickly and to establish a reporting cadence with management. Nurturing employees, and indeed software quality, is the product of company and team culture. The developme
919.
by pbourke 9y ago
> I feel like the current trend of agile development process common in startups now somewhat works against senior devs' interests to mentor junior devs. There simply isn't time allocated for this. If you're a senior dev, y
920.
by pbourke 9y ago
Could you clarify what you mean by “white label,” here? Your customers were going to sell the service to their customers?
921.
by pbourke 9y ago
When you have a long commute, even by transit, it tends to crowd out other activities that you might want to partake in. I'm not talking about a 30 minute trip, but rather 2+ hours each way. It's life altering.
922.
by pbourke 9y ago
I was disappointed that "commuting" was not on the list, because it's up there for me.
923.
by pbourke 9y ago
> Higher wages may also support more smaller/domestically owned businesses, which tend to treat their employees more humanely than huge corporations. I’m curious what you base that statement on, as I’ve generally not found it to be
924.
by pbourke 9y ago
The government has tortured its citizens in the past and is covering up that torture in the present. It sounds like a Royal Commission or similarly significant investigation is needed.
925.
by pbourke 9y ago
> Thus anyone claiming an objective basis for a problem in society is taking a simplistic view. And that’s my issue with saying technology is causing progress. The author seems to create a false dichotomy between solving “wicked problems
926.
by pbourke 9y ago
The theory is that the incentives to behave properly differ between people who are employed delivering packages full time and those who do it as a gig.
927.
by pbourke 9y ago
> At that point you could step up and be the person who communicates & reinforces that with the team. You have a year or two when you can do that with authority without being in the code day to day. After that, you're a fucking
928.
by pbourke 9y ago
Score or report? You're entitled to a copy of your credit report annually from each credit bureau, but not the score. I believe lenders typically use a score computed by s third party - often the "FICO Score," from Fair Isaac
929.
by pbourke 9y ago
At the very least, you could separate identity and data access and treat each person's data as a separate tenant. The main data store that contains everyone's credit reports (high side), should have physical and network isolation
930.
by pbourke 9y ago
* Acting as if employees are fungible rather than taking advantage of their relative strengths * Short-term thinking ("we don't have time to fix the tech debt, we have to get something on the board this quarter") * Over-resou

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