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I can still remember an interview that consisted of nothing but those questions and I hadn't prepared answers so I either answered "I can't think of a time sorry" or tried to recall one on the spot. Interview was a train
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It's happening more and more because interviewers are asking these questions. They are looking for a nice story where I had conflict with my manager I used STAR to solve it and everybody was happy. So interviewees have to prepare such
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There seem to be dozens of Apache "Big Data" projects that all look kinda the same unless you are a Big Data person.
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Terra = Capital-T Bytes = Capital-B 200TB not 200tb
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I thought it might reference the book " 101 Uses for a Dead Cat " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/101_Uses_for_a_Dead_Cat "It consisted of cartoons depicting the bodies of dead cats being used for various
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The problem is that part of your bill may include things that cost money even if nothing is "running". Would you like Amazon to delete all your files, disks and backups once you hit your limit? Also Static IPs, Load balancers, DNS
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Not common where I live (NZ) either. In fact people commonly complain when Apps like Uber try and force us tipping culture on us.
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> So, yes. The tech downturn for this group of people--the non-passionate 9-to-5ers, particularly juniors--will last for many years, and that will lead to many jumping to other careers. This happened after the dot-com burst in 2000. At t
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The Australian battery isn't just making money from Arbitrage. It makes most of it from "Frequency control ancillary services (FCAS)". "80-90% of battery revenues have been coming from FCAS and about 10-20% from energy t
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You have to pay extra because it costs more. It costs money to handle cash. At minimum you have to maintain and empty machines. If you have people like bus drivers accepting cash manually hen it slows down boarding and you have additional s
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And what do you think the consequence will be if Open Ai loses? A: Big media companies will make billions from licensing, AI will only be produced by a few companies that can afford the licenses and creators will get an annual $10 check (se
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I'm listening to the "Flying Blind" book by Peter Robinson right now. I think much of this video is based on the same research. Would recommend it.
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Places get pretty big with no dedicated DBA resources these days. Last place I was at was a Fintech SaaS with 50 engineers and half a million paying customers. Running off a couple of medium ( $3k/month each range ) RDS databases with
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Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret in 4y running infra at a startup(cep.dev)
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Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret(cep.dev)
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There is mandatory training for CEOs to always be positive unless there is a very good reason not to. What did you expect him to say? "Yes, moral is low and all the good people are leaving" ?
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The Road User Charges level for Plugin-hybrids is also felt by somebody to be a too high. It has been pointed out that some efficient petrol cars might be cheaper to run. Owners of older plugin-hybrids that only get a very short distance on
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I'll just note that the above has a lot of opinion with respects to NZ politics that a lot of other NZers would disagree with. Also with respect to "can't vote out a list MP" I think this is exaggerated. "Bad"
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Depending on some court decisions it could be licensing of training data. We could see Google, Amazon and Microsoft spending billions to license content from media and publishing companies. Rivals without the budget will be forced to stick
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https://archive.ph/txeal
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A bit more information here: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/128397643/transport-revolut... "Ocean Flyer’s seagliders would be able to fly people between Wellington and Lyttelton in an hour for $60 a seat, o
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Lessons Learned: 1000 Days of Distributed Working at Atlassian(atlassian.com)
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You can make friends at work but to keep them make sure you interact with them outside of a work context. If they are just someone you talk to at your desk or even go to lunch or drinks after work then if either of you changes job that cont
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Not much use wanting to have a stand-alone place if you can't afford it.
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If you think DMS is a bad migration tool then try using it for ongoing replication to an external destination. Completely broken.
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I'll guess this is people who can afford a big stand-alone house in a nice area
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Except there are often fewer people per exit in single-exit designs and the exits are closer to each apartment
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Unfortunately people from the US (including those who have never lived in an apartment or thought about fire regulations before) instinctively get really worried about this whole idea and assume people are just going to get killed. Happens
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I just finished the book "The Children’s Blizzard" by David Laskin. The Blizzard occurred in January 1888 and the book gives a good picture of the state of US weather forecasting at the time ( technology, logistics and politics).
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One company I was with had a rule that former employees couldn't be re-hired for 18 months after they left. This was to stop employees getting pay rises by via the hiring process rather than the standard review process. At another we h

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