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by reallydontask 6y ago
Most people at my previous place did squash merge on pr completion and we cherry picked quite successfully, so I'd be interested to know how you get to: > Squashing also turns cherry picked commits into merge conflicts.
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by reallydontask 6y ago
From experience of working with new CI/CD systems where one doesn't quite understand what's failing due to ... reasons. It's really quite easy to get into the 50s or close to 100 commits in a branch, which can lead to a
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by reallydontask 6y ago
There is the idea of having an emergency fund, which given its nature, should be stored in an instant access savings accounts. This is money for when you lose your job for instance Your appetite for risks and circumstances determine how big
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by reallydontask 6y ago
FWIW, given how long people take to graduate from university in Spain, 25-30 is a more accurate measure of young working people that say 18-30. As for a real job, well, let's say that in Spain, it's complicated Massive Caveat:
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by reallydontask 6y ago
> what is the meaning of "too late"? I take it to mean for the human race to continue its existence in roughly the same way we've become accustomed over the past century or so (though the time frame will vary according to
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by reallydontask 6y ago
why not both?
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by reallydontask 6y ago
I should've mentioned the Kindle as I have one of the ad supported one, but I'm not aware of any other examples
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by reallydontask 6y ago
it's an interesting point you make, but perhaps companies should make these trade offs transparent. You can get the version that phones home or you can pay extra for the version that doesn't. I suppose the problem is that they&#x2
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by reallydontask 6y ago
I'm sure there is a joke there somewhere as to how it was meant for them not us
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by reallydontask 6y ago
To be fair, a rewrite from scratch can be justified in many situations, e.g. out of support stack that is hard to hire for or a change of direction where a lot of bespoke code was written and now a one size fits all is used, thus leaving a
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Admiral boss gives staff £10m as retirement farewell(bbc.co.uk)
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by reallydontask 6y ago
Do you work in the US or UK? I read your original post as working in the UK for an American company, but now I'm not so sure
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by reallydontask 6y ago
This reminds me of the old mechanic's trick of providing an overinflated quote to do work that they didn't really want to do.
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by reallydontask 6y ago
for a fiver you are on :)
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by reallydontask 6y ago
I get where you are coming from I find it odd that you consider Windows and PowerShell a niche, when it seems to have been enthusiastically embraced by the community
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by reallydontask 6y ago
> You think that 25,000+ employees that work at AWS have somehow been silenced into some grand conspiracy? You seem to suggest that every single employee that works at AWS is aware of everything that goes on with the company. Isn't
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by reallydontask 6y ago
that's one way. It's a tricky position as you want somebody with the right mix of tech knowledge, business knowledge and bullshiting ability. Sadly, in my limited experience, there seems to be a large amount of people that excel a
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by reallydontask 6y ago
We've got a junior devops chap that is in his late 30s and has never worked in IT, so it's possible
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by reallydontask 6y ago
> Maybe for Windows transplants. In general, not at all. care to elaborate In my experience, Powershell is so much nicer than bash that even on my work mac I tend to use it when doing stuff for me (not going to force it on my team)
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by reallydontask 6y ago
I think that for Enterprise customers (G-Suite) dots might matter as I tried to create a new (bot) account in Github with my email sans dots and I never received the email (email was not @gmail.com)
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by reallydontask 6y ago
I'm in a VM cabled area, so the I get ~ 100/10 Mbps and ~ 12 ms ping. This is the second lowest tier that VM offer btw
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by reallydontask 6y ago
I was dumbing it down to prove that consensus is possible, the same can be achieved on your scenario though the consensus could well be less unanimous, I don't know enough about this area to have an opinion, though I suspect that peopl
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by reallydontask 6y ago
Ultimately you are right, but this is basically Popper vs Kuhn. I can confidently say that the sun will indeed rise tomorrow from the East and set on the West, to pretend otherwise is sheer folly.
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to be fair there are people out there that do indeed fit that description, though they are in a minority but tend to be pretty vocal, so it's easy to overestimate their numbers
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Enterprise software vendors?
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by reallydontask 6y ago
what do you mean by very few? In the UK, Apple market share for tablets seems to be ~65%
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by reallydontask 6y ago
In my previous job we used Azure and moved from Service Fabric using Docker to App Service without containers. I should say containers developed by us. as App Service uses containers. Overall, everything was easier though that might be beca
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by reallydontask 6y ago
Maybe due to there being a previous discussion? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23564247
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by reallydontask 6y ago
Is the issue the cut or the percentage? I'd imagine that a sliding scale would be far more palatable for big companies, say every order of magnitude increase above say 1000 in installs, the cut drops by 5%, so if you have 1 million ins
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by reallydontask 6y ago
There is the Apple Developer Enterprise Program[0] but it suggests it's only for employees. >Use the program only to create proprietary, in-house apps for internal use, and to distribute these apps privately and securely to employee

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