rdevsrex

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by rdevsrex 6y ago
As a US expat living in Joburg, I agree that there is a lot of corruption in SA. But damn if 2020 hasn't shown a spotlight on the shady business in the US as well.
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by rdevsrex 6y ago
Yes, definitely. I dropped out of college to be a missionary. While I was there I taught myself programming and servers and took care of the ministry’s websites. When I left, because I was still living overseas, I applied to many remote job
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by rdevsrex 7y ago
I do think nuclear will have a resurgence. You don't have to make nuclear as safe as clear air to use, only reasonably safe with a plan to handle the waste. Nuclear is already safer than coal in terms of people killed by power generati
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by rdevsrex 7y ago
Wow. That is a really cool project. I can see why you need that level of performance.
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by rdevsrex 7y ago
Wow, it makes me realize how easy my first job (pharmacy assistant) was in comparison to food service. But one thing I don’t understand is why so many people have to live on their own before they have the skills and the job. Some of my Indi
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by rdevsrex 7y ago
Yep, PHPStorm is a memory hog, but man is it handy in catching errors I didn’t think of.
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by rdevsrex 7y ago
No doubt this is real engineering. I'm sure they had to do a lot of software verification work.
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by rdevsrex 7y ago
Damn, that is inspiring. Here I am whining about how late it is in my life to go back to school to get a Bachelor's and your Dad is racking up masters :) I wonder if there are age limits for PhD programs? Also, I will say, I wish the U
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by rdevsrex 7y ago
This. I know from experience how terrible a company they are with customer service, but there is that little arrangement with the NSA called PRISM...
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by rdevsrex 7y ago
Do you have any links to those stats? I’ve only ever heard partisan talking points and haven’t looked at the data myself.
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by rdevsrex 7y ago
I’m not sure about all hydropower in Switzerland but Grand Dixence is very high up. I’ve been there myself and the nature doesn’t seem to be disturbed. I don’t think there are any salmon swimming up from the Pacific like in a lot of rivers
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by rdevsrex 7y ago
Really? Sometimes when there is a problem with out of SA connectivity the only non-local websites that work are Google and YouTube. I’ve got 20ms ping times so Google must have a point of presence in SA.
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by rdevsrex 7y ago
True, but it isn’t hard to add S3 as an additional backup destination. Ideally if they had their infrastructure setup as code, it would have made recovery possible.
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by rdevsrex 8y ago
I use PHP everyday and it rocks for what it does when you use it with best practices. The real problem is with small companies who won’t or don’t upgrade their infrastructure on a regular basis. Heck, even with Wordpress these days you coul