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by shazzy 2y ago
To add to this, Indians could choose to return back home to India after their contract was over. Of course lots decided to stay, but some did return.
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by shazzy 2y ago
I am British born, with Trinidadian and Guyanese parents. I've had a very similar experience, not just in tech but throughout all areas of my life. I look Indian, but culturally it's very different. Everyone always (perhaps South
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by shazzy 2y ago
Allegedly, the Conservatives are against calling a winter election, as their largest cohort of voters (OAPs) are less likely to turn out to vote due to cold weather, darkness etc.
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by shazzy 3y ago
I moved to Maryland from the UK. I was shocked by the standard of the driving test. Literally just going around the block and doing a reverse bay parking. In fact whilst driving the instructor asked me what the speed limit was on two separa
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by shazzy 3y ago
And for £18/month. Subscriptions for car features need to die.
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by shazzy 4y ago
In the UK fixed speed cameras are actually painted bright yellow, for the sole purpose of making them more visible to drivers. The reason being is they are positioned in places where you want to force the traffic to slow down for specific s
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Helium Mobile: The World’s First Cryptocarrier(blog.hellohelium.com)
1 points by shazzy 4y ago|0 comments
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Crossrail: Elizabeth line due to open on 24 May(bbc.com)
4 points by shazzy 4y ago|0 comments
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by shazzy 5y ago
Uptrace looks really pretty interesting. I particularly like the query language that you can use to query your distributed trace data. This is the biggest limitation I have found with jaeger, lots valuable data is stored in storage, but it&
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by shazzy 5y ago
It seems to be a regular occurrence these days. I recently did a take home test for GitHub and got completely ghosted by the recruiter after submitting the test.
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Jaguar Land Rover to suspend output due to chip shortage(bbc.com)
5 points by shazzy 5y ago|0 comments
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by shazzy 5y ago
Here is a segment that The One Show did on the University in Sheffield one, for anyone who is interested in seeing it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAjYAfb_HPk
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by shazzy 7y ago
Would you mind expanding on your plan for traces with jaeger, zipkin etc
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by shazzy 7y ago
“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. B
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by shazzy 8y ago
Obligatory why electronic voting is a bad idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI
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by shazzy 8y ago
Looks great, excited to try it out. Just skimming through the Documentation, is there any way to specify the Schema through an API? My use case that I want to define my schema somewhere, and have something which "syncs" the it wit
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by shazzy 9y ago
Question, why are mobile phone contracts in the US so expensive? In the UK I pay £17/month for 4G, unlimited data, and free roaming in a whole bunch of countries (including US). Anecdotally, when I roam in the US the speed is faster th
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by shazzy 9y ago
Interestingly (in the UK) theft requires that the perpetrator have the intention of "permanently depriving" [1] the owner. So at least in the UK this seems like it wouldn't be counted as theft. https://www.legislat
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by shazzy 9y ago
Also a shameless plug for my python library for declarative multi-field validation: https://github.com/shezadkhan137/required It makes it easier to expresses complex inter-field validation rules, and is meant to be use
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Required: Python package for declarative, multi-field validation(github.com)
1 points by shazzy 9y ago|0 comments
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by shazzy 9y ago
Slightly off-topic, but a great video on why Electronic Voting could be a bad idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI I've wondered before why the UK doesn't have e-voting, and after watching it is sort
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Required: A python package for easy cross field validation(shezadkhan.com)
2 points by shazzy 10y ago|0 comments
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by shazzy 10y ago
This actually happened to a law firm that I know of. One of their clients had their account hacked and in the client's mailbox they found emails from the law firm including some outstanding bills payable to the firm. The attacker then
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Terraform 0.9 Released(hashicorp.com)
2 points by shazzy 10y ago|0 comments
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Required: A Easy Dependency Validator(shezadkhan.com)
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Required: A Python package for easy dependency validation(github.com)
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by shazzy 10y ago
"Black History": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUtAxUQjwB4 - Probably the best, most eye opening talk on any topic, but especially on the roots of institutionalised racism, and perhaps the cause of a lot of issu
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REVL: London’s latest events discovery app(techcrunch.com)
1 points by shazzy 10y ago|0 comments
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by shazzy 10y ago
Any recommendations for sessions worth watching?
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by shazzy 10y ago
Apart from the Sunday roast you mentioned, which incidently is available in the majority of pubs I've been to (I had a very nice one yesterday) what other parts of the "english cultural" experience are you missing?

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