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   by renaudg 10y ago

   IBM's much-talked about TCO argument for Macs also holds true for individuals IMHO : - Don't just look at the initial outlay that gets you on the Apple ladder : Macs also have a much, much better resale value than PCs, even years
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   by renaudg 10y ago

   For an individual, the TCO argument for Macs still holds, but it's a bit different : - Don't just look at the initial outlay that gets you on the Apple ladder : Macs also have a much, much better resale value than PCs, even years
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   by renaudg 10y ago

   Thank you !
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   by renaudg 10y ago

   "It already feels nice not needing an external device just to use a goddamn 3.5in disk" (iMac, 1998) "It already feels nice not needing an external superdrive just to use a DVD" (Macbook Pro, 2012)
5. 515.▲
   by renaudg 10y ago

   This is not the future, it's the temporary present. This is a uncomfortable transition period, but it won't be too long until USB-C is ubiquitous and you're not carrying dongles anywhere.
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   Building a Bank with Kubernetes [slides](community.monzo.com)

   375 points by renaudg 10y ago|100 comments
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   by renaudg 10y ago

   And indeed the supply of good engineers is low. If Facebook insists on hiring only them, then it makes sense that they're paying more on average.
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   by renaudg 10y ago

   And bazillions of other locations : https://www.facebook.com/careers/locations/
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   by renaudg 10y ago

   and the company pays for them (former FB employee)
10. 520.▲
    by renaudg 10y ago

    Facebook is paying 40-50 percent more than other places, which is usually a sign developers don’t want to work there. More likely a sign of a high hiring bar and corresponding paycheck.
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    by renaudg 10y ago

    All of the usual rumor sites agree on the Q4 timing for the redesigned Macbook Pro, I'm not sure what your source is.
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    by renaudg 10y ago

    I'm one of the commenters on the original thread, and I'm surprised that people here aren't discussing the other elephant in the room : pro audio software developers being exceptionally reluctant to take advantage of Apple&#x
13. 523.▲
    by renaudg 10y ago

    New Macbook Pros are widely expected to be introduced in October.
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    by renaudg 10y ago

    GNU legacy aside, I see RMS as a sort of extreme moral compass whose views and principles are an important contribution to a number of conversations, but anyone would be insane to actually try and live by them.
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    by renaudg 10y ago

    What are you on the record saying when you were 19 ?
16. 526.▲
    by renaudg 10y ago

    The CI/CD system should do that.
17. 527.▲
    by renaudg 10y ago

    > Nobody's suggesting that we hire under-qualified women/elders/blacks How else are you supposed to meet arbitrary diversity quotas, when the pool of applicants is overwhelmingly white and male ?
18. 528.▲
    by renaudg 10y ago

    I'm pretty sure Moneyfarm are based in Italy, so definitely in the EU !
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    by renaudg 10y ago

    https://www.nutmeg.com in the UK are quite good. I can provide a referral : you get 3 months fee-free (and an additional £100 if you invest >£15k) and I get a small bonus. There's https://www.yomoni.fr/
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    by renaudg 10y ago

    Where is this documented officially ? There's very little mention of Websockets in the guides, and none at all in the ALB creation wizard, which I didn't find reassuring.
21. 531.▲
    by renaudg 10y ago

    I'm the process of containerizing an app that includes a Websockets service, and given ECS / ELB limitations we'd just decided to go for Kubernetes as the orchestration layer. This ALB announcement + the nicer ECS integration
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    by renaudg 10y ago

    Are we talking days or weeks ?
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    by renaudg 10y ago

    Out of curiosity, what are these workarounds ?
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    by renaudg 10y ago

    In London it's the reverse. Anybody who's any good at their job and has a few years of experience under their belt, would be crazy not to give contracting a try. You make almost twice as much as an employee doing the same job if y
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    by renaudg 10y ago

    >People in the general public don't really have a clear idea about what Facebook, Google, and Amazon are doing. But neither do you really, right ? Sure, you may have a better idea than them of what's technically feasible, but t
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    by renaudg 10y ago

    The problem with your argument is that you admit "the statistics look good" but then present a bunch of unsubstantiated personal opinions ("getting worse all the time", "boring") that are just not supported by
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    by renaudg 10y ago

    The bug isn't that you get emailed about things only after you've left, that's the feature. The bug would be to get emailed about things that happened while you were using the site and were notified in real time about already
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    by renaudg 10y ago

    This sounds like a bug / coincidence. I've never got a later email about something that happened live while I was browsing the site, and was already notified about.
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    by renaudg 10y ago

    Could Facebook be doing so well because this is actually a win-win situation for everyone involved ? That includes the people you mentioned yes, but also users who get to use a valuable tool for free. The whole "if it's free, you
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    by renaudg 10y ago

    No, "Normal people" who care about their social lives use whatever their friends use to get together at the time. Nowadays this is social networking sites, i.e. Facebook.