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by scrabble 10y ago
This depends on if you're doing live transcoding or VOD transcoding. I work with live transcode, and it can be beneficial to run on g2 instances. Running c4.4xlarge I can transcode a good number of 1080@30 in with 1080/720/48
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by scrabble 10y ago
I've worked in monoliths, and I've worked with good logically thought out microservices. I'll take the open source microservices model with a good dev team any day of the week. I can't imagine being in a place where I do
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by scrabble 10y ago
what bothers me about it is the 75% pay, because I could never imagine not putting in additional hours. Were I only getting 75% of the pay of a full time worker, you can be sure I'd never put in a single additional hour. I could say th
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by scrabble 10y ago
Just checked and we are not right now. We actually don't have any remote engineers right now. We did just hire an additional person for DevOps.
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by scrabble 10y ago
I don't think all unlimited vacation policies are scams. At my office we get told we need to take more vacation if we don't take at least 3 weeks. And I have never once seen a vacation request denied. It sounds like you've go
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by scrabble 10y ago
I have had a teacher that said you needed to comment every single line because that's how code is written in the real world. I told him he was wrong and argued with him on more than one occasion. In the end, I just did it his way becau
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by scrabble 10y ago
Are xHamster users going to be contacting their reps to complain that they can no longer access it? That's another situation that seems unlikely to me.
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by scrabble 10y ago
I can't see this having a big impact on law makers. Is porn in limited supply now?
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by scrabble 10y ago
Last time I was looking for a job I ended up with offers from both places I was interviewing at. I renegotiated and signed one of the offer letters. When I called the other company, they asked me to sign with them even though I'd alrea
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by scrabble 11y ago
Salaries are lagging in Waterloo as well. That's not to say they're bad or the CoL is equal, but they are lagging.
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by scrabble 11y ago
If you are talking about a module that everyone just includes and expects to work, then I'd imagine the goal would be a combination of correct and efficient, not readable.
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by scrabble 11y ago
VC are not donating money. They are investing. In order for them to be successful, there must be a return on their investment. This means that either companies need to be acquired, or they need to go public. If someone is investing a billio
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by scrabble 11y ago
I can imagine this is a problem for many potential donors. As a software dev, I was on vacation for three weeks. Of course, I mainly sit and type while I work and have unlimited vacation. But I can definitely see this being a problem for th
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by scrabble 11y ago
I was an anonymous living donor who kicked off a donation chain. I don't think it's a big deal. Recovery sucked for a couple weeks, but when you consider the benefit alongside the developments occurring in medicine all the time, i
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by scrabble 11y ago
Not formally. However, if I was getting my job done and was productive, I don't think anyone would complain about 20% time. Although my employer is quite flexible and I have unlimited vacation as well, though that is a privilege and no
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by scrabble 11y ago
I actually quite enjoy my job. I still have side projects that I also enjoy, but my job is wonderful along with the company I work for. Also, this stuff: "I didn't care how my code read, or if it was maintainable, or if it was DRY
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by scrabble 11y ago
That's a good one. One of my favourites was always Anchorhead, which is a Lovecraftian horror game that is excellently written. http://iplayif.com/?story=http%3A%2F%2Fifarchive.org%2Fif-ar...
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by scrabble 11y ago
The one I played, we did get some assistance with one puzzle we were fumbling on for quite a while. But the poster here specifically says they only had one minute left. I think that's a really short time to jump in on without feeling l
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by scrabble 11y ago
Wouldn't special tax breaks for large multinationals make it more difficult for local business to compete?
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by scrabble 11y ago
I've seen cities near to me get burned by this. There was a water bottling plant that got a lot of subsidies and tax breaks from a nearby city believing that it would create a lot of jobs for locals. Turns out you don't need very
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by scrabble 11y ago
The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz specifically mentions it being terrible.
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by scrabble 11y ago
On the other side of the fence, also Canadian, my debit card has been compromised many times. Bank always shuts it down immediately and lets me know, then returns the money. I have never been asked to prove anything. Usually they ask me to
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by scrabble 11y ago
I've been in this situation. Where I'm being told, "Hire more developers! We need more developers!" I respond with, "I don't need any more on my team right now. We can't handle more with our processes and
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by scrabble 11y ago
This article is on a site that productizes this exact thing. Can't really take that on completely good faith.
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by scrabble 11y ago
Yes. Not too long ago I had the opportunity to have a surgery performed by a robot controlled by a human surgeon. My wife was adamantly against it since there had been accidents previously with the robot other places in the world. Overall,
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by scrabble 11y ago
How many engineers work at Airbnb? If there were 18, that would mean they hired 2. That's not that crazy.
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by scrabble 11y ago
I want Flash to die. What I need is a service that will transcode video to HLS and MPEG-DASH for live stream and VOD. Surprisingly, it's hard to find one that's really excellent.
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by scrabble 11y ago
I don't know how their new features would work without these permission changes. Just because they need the permissions doesn't mean they're doing anything evil with them.
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by scrabble 11y ago
Are there really places doing post-production code review? That sounds like a terrible practice. I've worked for places that didn't have code review, and places with pre-production code review. The ones that didn't code revie
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by scrabble 11y ago
Probably because this was made by Canadians in Toronto according to the page.

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