ridethebike

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by ridethebike 6y ago
Microsoft Teams Cons: slow, consumes lot of memory plus all of the above Pros: not as buggy as Skype for Business
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by ridethebike 6y ago
Hey, given that you're "on the ground", in your opinion, what is the mood there and what do you think is more likely: - no invasion (flex muscles, drills, go home) - limited invasion - full-scale invasion
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by ridethebike 6y ago
Australia and Austria Latvia and Lithuania South Africa and Africa You get the gist :)
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by ridethebike 6y ago
I wonder if we randomly select 7 million people (without vaccine) and observe them for couple of months - how many of them will get the blood cloths
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by ridethebike 6y ago
>> Smaller Commits, Better Commit Logging In my current company (one of top us financial institutions) widely spread habit is to use jira title as commit message, be it small jira for a bugfix or something big for twenty commits and
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by ridethebike 6y ago
>> You've said hibernation is a matter ideological purity I've never said that. I think this conversation is going nowhere, no reason to continue it.
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by ridethebike 6y ago
One doesn't have to be kernel developer to acknowledge the fact that Linux on desktop is not doing very well. By the way, Linux did well on Android because it is made there with "grandma" in mind.
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by ridethebike 6y ago
Linux is tremendously successful as server OS. Desktop - not very much, because of "grandma"
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by ridethebike 6y ago
Not great but not terrible
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by ridethebike 6y ago
Move to cloud they said. It will be more reliable they said. But seriously, as inflexible, painful and tedious to support our on-prem infra last time we had critical outage was ~3 years ago, for like an hour. We've almost finished migr
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by ridethebike 6y ago
Disclaimer: former EPAM employee (early 2010-s). Such big* consulting/outsourcing companies in Eastern Europe(epam, globallogic and the like) have competent engineers. I can see it especially clearly after moving to the US and having t
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by ridethebike 6y ago
I don't know. There are crazy snakeoil hypes without "pretty young woman" being a founder. Even if it did contribute to the hype the it probably wasn't insignificant compared to rest of the factors
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by ridethebike 6y ago
typo correction: Market-driven
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by ridethebike 6y ago
Exactly my point. Feels like major news corporations need to balance between maintaining credibility (at least ones that care about it) and publishing something that might (for lack of better term) trigger reaction like "wtf my favorit
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by ridethebike 6y ago
>> No one gives a shit what programming language you use Well I do for one. In my experience programmers with exposure to multiple PLs/paradigms/platforms tend to perform better than programmers who worked only with one, un
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by ridethebike 6y ago
No it doesn't. Only few people can afford Lamborghini. Trying out Clojure - books are cheap, tutorials are free, it's just a matter of actually doing it.
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by ridethebike 6y ago
"Readers" becomes "costumers" "Telling readers the truth" becomes "satisfying the customers" Subtle but important differences edit: replaced "=>" with "becomes"
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by ridethebike 6y ago
Wasn't Theranos debacle because the tech was never going to work due to it being borderline snake oil and whishful thinking hyped by con(wom)man?
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by ridethebike 6y ago
>> And the consequences of being accused of sexism by an online mob have now become so extreme that many investors don’t want to risk it anymore. I'm glad someone said it and I'm glad that that someone is a woman so that the
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by ridethebike 6y ago
It's not always the case. I work at one of those US bank. The amount of inefficiencies in form of red tape, confusing processes, custom half-baked tools that crash half the time is just mind-boggling. I've spent more than a week n
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by ridethebike 6y ago
Not sure I like how transparency plays out currently in the US: "well, he's a moron but at least he's not republican/democrat"
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by ridethebike 6y ago
Destroyed by the garbage. Cards survived due to being plastic. Wallet went to washing machine.
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by ridethebike 6y ago
One nice Friday night when I was tired and barely walking after long week I threw into the trash my wallet with some cash, credit card, debit card, subway pass, driver license and US green card. Then I threw the trash into container next to
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by ridethebike 6y ago
Primadona dev here :) >> most of those "primadona devs", as you call them, would much prefer to write well-designed programs cleanly coded Most of them - yes. But there's a non-negligible chunk of them who are too carel
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by ridethebike 6y ago
I know right, these days I just open browser with Gmail and youtube home page (not even watching a video) and do nothing - 10%+ CPU utilization (i7, 8 cores). Start serfing the web - laptop fans go into overdrive. It's almost like how