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by shrikant 3y ago
Agreed on all points you make btw. If I had to contend with the rental market, and didn't already have much of a senior-ish network here in London which is currently keeping my pay well above what I can get anyplace else in the world (
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by shrikant 3y ago
Yeah Spain salaries aren't great for devs even by the UK's standards, but GP's numbers seem way too low. About 4 years back I didn't bother proceeding with a couple of (well, two) mid-level engineering positions based ou
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World of Goo Remastered(play.google.com)
153 points by shrikant 3y ago|106 comments
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by shrikant 3y ago
There's also the Museum of Computing in Swindon. https://www.museumofcomputing.org.uk/ I wouldn't recommend going out of your way to visit it, but if you find yourself in Swindon for some reason, then it's wo
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by shrikant 3y ago
> Them: Can you just quickly pull this data for me? > Me: Sure, let me just: > SELECT * FROM some_ideal_clean_and_pristine.table_that_you_think_exists Credit: https://twitter.com/sethrosen/status/125229158
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Indian airline Go First files for insolvency, sues Pratt and Whitney for $977M(ch-aviation.com)
2 points by shrikant 3y ago|0 comments
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by shrikant 3y ago
IMHO, Tron 2 was also only made because of heavy piracy of the original -- the gap between the two seems baffling otherwise.
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An error that sent Indian teen to death row for 25 years(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by shrikant 4y ago|0 comments
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by shrikant 4y ago
There's this website cataloguing such hypocrites for nearly 20 years running now -- https://gayhomophobe.com/
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by shrikant 4y ago
You can't reply to, or retweet, or like, or bookmark any tweet that has a Substack link in it because Musk wants Twitter's newsletter thingy to take off instead.
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by shrikant 4y ago
This is one of those reviews that is so well-executed that I almost don't want to read the actual book because it may not actually live up to the quality of the review.
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by shrikant 4y ago
At my previous job, BigQuery was the only Google Cloud service we used -- everything else was AWS.
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by shrikant 4y ago
I thought this was about the ML toolkit too. I remember trying to use it in a toy project way back in... mid noughties sometime, along with adjacent tools Kettle and Mondrian, so pretty sure that came first!
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by shrikant 4y ago
When I was a bored and under-challenged student in the early days of university, one of my tests during a programming exam was to write a program that spit out the factorial of an input integer. For shits and giggles, I just just wrote a se
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by shrikant 4y ago
I was a tech lead on one of the testing analytics data platforms by one of the "commercial firms" mentioned in the article, and I used to plead with/yell at/cajole various groups of people to not ship uncompressed CSVs a
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by shrikant 4y ago
You may be thinking of this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppercorn_(law)
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by shrikant 4y ago
> Losing weight is actually really easy. Eat less calories than you burn, and be motivated. I've often heard fitness instructors often phrase this as "weight loss is simple, but not easy" precisely because it's hard t
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by shrikant 4y ago
(I often try and struggle to explain my thoughts on this, but I'll try again.) I keep hearing here in the UK that the reason people aren't having kids is because it's so expensive, and I do what you do -- point people at the
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by shrikant 4y ago
I'm confused by one of the Musk tweets in the earlier "exit interview" thread referenced: https://twitter.com/anothercohen/status/1632931816750346242 Has he not actually seen Office Space? Does he n
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by shrikant 4y ago
> There have been no major changes to the platform, only cosmetics, and they managed to fuck up every single one of them I've been trying to explain this to some of my Musk megafan acquaintances from when Musk was making lots of noi
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by shrikant 4y ago
This happened to me last week, but with Wayfair instead. We ordered something from Wayfair by a seller called "Williston Forge", and the item that arrived was in packaging branded as "VASAGLE". I looked up the correspond
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by shrikant 4y ago
> Parents of one child are often the worst to talk to. They have figured out what works for their one kid, and are quite unaware that it doesn't generalize at all. Parent of one child checking in -- strongly agree with you! I genera
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by shrikant 4y ago
Unsure why you've been downvoted. I haven't been able to find any reporting about this story[0] till this Reason piece, so I'd be curious to understand their journalistic process in putting this together. [0] https:/&#x
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by shrikant 4y ago
Timid, un-self-promoting Indian-in-the-UK here. Yours is a broad generalisation, and one that has hurt my career in the past because of senior people who inevitably follow this chain of reasoning: "Indians are good at playing the self-
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by shrikant 4y ago
> - Did you think about what makes a good kid and work backwards? Others have made some great points, so I'll just address this one. I would not necessarily recommend doing this, unless you're able to have a high degree of conf
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by shrikant 4y ago
> - there was no way to make CMD/CTRL+T open a new tab in the same container context as the one you were currently in. To me, this seems like an obvious UX flaw. If you’re browsing in a container, the actions you’re doing should kee
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by shrikant 4y ago
IMHO, this sort of thing is not really going to be a consumer-driven change. If the commercials for meat alternatives are compelling enough even in the face of lobbies and subsidies, capitalism will drive the big fast food chains to market
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FTX US Balance Update 2023-01-17 – SBF's Substack(sambf.substack.com)
3 points by shrikant 4y ago|0 comments
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by shrikant 4y ago
TBH, the vast (VAST!) majority of services where I've filled out a form online don't actually need to know my gender for anything useful related to their service. I just assume every place that asks for it is selling the data some
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by shrikant 4y ago
GCP forgave my team's bill of approx £220,000 when we'd misconfigured an ETL job that ended up running horribly expensive pay-as-you-go queries for about 3 days before we noticed. It was pretty much entirely our fault, and we were

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