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by shubb 4y ago
Be careful - many people here hang an entire identity on their high status, high paid jobs which were earned by memorising the answers to theoretical algorithms questions. It is important to their self worth that that stuff is relevant to t
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by shubb 4y ago
I thought people tech companies mostly bought Mac hardware because they wanted a first class unixy developer experience that you don't really get from Windows even with WSL. If you feel the need to install Linux on the hardware, why no
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by shubb 4y ago
A lot of Landrovers used in off roady places around the world are ex-army models. Maybe they were more water tolerantly trimmed. E.g. at one point you could buy Landrover Rover Wolf fairly cheap I think
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by shubb 4y ago
Some amazing... solutions. A bad UX hackathon is a great idea, and explains how bluetooth was invented.
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by shubb 5y ago
Do you want number plates? Mine have never helped me get anything except for parking fines, but lawmakers decided being able to visually and uniquely identify a car for the purposes of law enforcement was more important than my privacy beca
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by shubb 5y ago
Thankyou for this comment. It helped me understand why a long running very much not indie project is making me feel quite so fed up. The next step will be to try to use it to fix it.
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by shubb 5y ago
In fairness, rumour has it that the station fit outs were an avoidable screw up. Supposedly the detailed design work was behind schedule so they started the physical building work "at risk". Because it was not well planned, it was
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by shubb 5y ago
I've been reading a lot of Chinese novels and web comics. Discovering new genres based on chinese mythos, fresh takes on western fantasy and japanese manga tropes, and all the weird and wonderful new types of story has been a lot of fu
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by shubb 5y ago
This is how I get all my cakes. At the end of the day at a donut or cake stand, most of the goods go in the trash. Even if there is no price flexibility, the employee will often agree to sell you a cake for full price then give you a cake o
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by shubb 5y ago
There is def an element of this. Replicability, perverse incentives, bad scientific cultures in specific fields, and all sorts of problems mean a lot of bad or pointless research is done. It is very hard to say with basic research, what is
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by shubb 5y ago
One really major innovation is that we have developed the capacity to do experiments at a massive volume physically, and are just - with the big data revolution - developing the capability to understand these data volumes and translate them
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by shubb 5y ago
It's interesting to consider the difference between project and event driven (ops) work. Engineering project teams doing Scrum struggle when tasks need to be initiated and completed at a faster cadence than their sprint cycle - for ins
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by shubb 5y ago
Although I don't think such an option exists in the UK, several EU countries are offering "Digital Nomad" visas which give you a legitimate status while remaining employed by your SV company.
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by shubb 5y ago
I am very worried (UK) that the government retirement safety net may not be there for us, as the retirement age is being pushed up beyond 70 but I am not sure most people can work full time that long without health issues. Nor can we assume
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by shubb 5y ago
I see threads elsewhere full of "I joined a FANG hoping to make amazing algorithms and push computer science forward but I'm just building dashboards and changing button colours", so I'm not 100% sure the work content is
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by shubb 5y ago
Still a thing in much of Asia, certainly Japan, Thailand - instead of "smoke anywhere so long as it is outside" it is more "smoke only in the designated place, inside or outside, not in the street". Being able to smoke a
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by shubb 5y ago
I dunno - to get jobs some places you need to be really good at leetcode - and that's a niche skill that is increasingly hard to keep current at as you get older, busier in your role and family life. I'm not confident that I could
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by shubb 5y ago
But AWS specialists get paid more, and if as a sysadmin you push these technologies in your business, you will become a highly paid AWS specialist. This is a big driver for the adoption of any tech - internal teams want to gain specific ski
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by shubb 5y ago
My experience of UK government and government contractor jobs is that they follow a recruitment standard where they are much more likely to check convictions. Many need some low level security clearance too which would be a problem. On the
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by shubb 5y ago
No, basically I delivered an app, but the engineer on their side got fired so the back end didn't get done. They didn't want to pay me until they rehired and finished the backend so they could see the app working.
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by shubb 5y ago
To share a failure - back in 2015, I tried to set up as a freelancer and ended up going back to perm/employed work about a year later. Between subcontracting from established freelancer friends and reaching out to my network I was able
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by shubb 5y ago
At the moment, the model is that we put our valuable data into a pool in return for access to the pool. We then get access to semi-aggregate data from the pool which may be profitable for us, and the platform makes money by selling access o
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by shubb 5y ago
Salary data is pretty valuable. Someone should make a site (like glass door) where existing employees post salary information and other non-nda breaking information, and people who want it pay them for it (with the site taking a cut) Why ar
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by shubb 5y ago
If you are a tech jack of all traits... "architect", but seriously... I have somewhat gone this route and I would say it isn't ideal - the logical trajectory becomes to gain deep domain knowledge and move into a psuedo techni
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by shubb 5y ago
Azure has a lot of features around this model.For instance, you can put a kind of azure agent on your on prem servers and then provision azure virtual machines and managed databases onto them, or cloud active directory for on-prem desktops.
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by shubb 5y ago
It can mean very different things different places. From "option to spend the morning at home if you have an excuse" to "everyone meets up every 2 weeks for a day long meeting, so live in the same state I guess". Depen
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by shubb 5y ago
We don't have to do everything ourselves. Maybe you could find researchers working on his topic (your disease or the generic problem of identifying causal mutations for a disease) and pay them to work on your case? You might fight your
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by shubb 5y ago
Seems like the problem is either on the authors end, or the specifics of how things were said in the meeting. He outlines a situation where a life-critical project undergoes technical review. The reviewers raise various reasonable concerns
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by shubb 5y ago
This would seem like an argument for installing wired / wire->mesh 5G base stations around our houses instead of the wifi repeaters we currently use.. Amazon in the past flirted with the idea of building a mesh network of Amazon IOT
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by shubb 5y ago
First of all, you probably know a lot more than me about the company, so take this with a pinch of salt. You said that you are not sure what we are discussing. We may be discussing different things. I'll try to be specific about what I

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