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How the Guardian’s engineering team supports the 24 hour news cycle(theguardian.com)
3 points by slyall 7y ago|0 comments
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Research topics that Tyler Cowen thinks should be funded(marginalrevolution.com)
6 points by slyall 7y ago|0 comments
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by slyall 7y ago
That makes things look even better for St Louis and Minneapolis type places. Startups in BA can't even hire juniors for $140k while if they pay $100k in St Louis they will have people jumping at a chance. Now I'm sure the BA peopl
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by slyall 7y ago
Of course these days the janitor doesn't work for the TV company. He works for a cleaning company that has the contract to clean the place. So nobody can just flip him over to a new job, even for an evening. I wonder how this affect IT
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by slyall 7y ago
For me it's most IoT stuff. I really can't see the point in paying good money[1] to be able to do weird things with my lights, aircon or stove. Security system perhaps but not the other junk. [1] - Also concerns about privacy and
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China flight systems jammed by pig farm’s African swine fever defences(scmp.com)
5 points by slyall 7y ago|1 comments
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A Dropbox account gave me stomach ulcers(reddit.com)
348 points by slyall 7y ago|122 comments
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by slyall 7y ago
The ones I rated highest out of those I read this year (which is what I think the question means). * Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester * Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Is
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World chess champion on the verge of topping fantasy football table(theguardian.com)
2 points by slyall 7y ago|1 comments
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by slyall 7y ago
The mouse-over effects on the "Projects Notes Speaking About" links at the top right of the page (on desktop) are nice.
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Two Years Working at Dropbox(chadaustin.me)
95 points by slyall 7y ago|76 comments
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Did ISOC leave $1B on the table?(lancewiggs.com)
1 points by slyall 7y ago|0 comments
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Finding Where Do the World's Developers Live via GitHub Data(benfrederickson.com)
4 points by slyall 7y ago|0 comments
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by slyall 7y ago
I've got the devs using "password123" as the default in code because that value gets over-written. Freaks me out every time I see it and I'm trying to get them to use "overwritten_on_deploy" or something simila
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How do we move the needle on progress?(elidourado.com)
2 points by slyall 7y ago|0 comments
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by slyall 7y ago
Because you are deploying a single artifact with minimal dependencies that behaves in a known fashion. Whereas if you are deploying code blobs they start depending on the operating system to provide stuff. You have to have the right version
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by slyall 7y ago
Remember when people talk about their bad experiences interviewing at companies and write things like: "The 4th Interviewer was really bad. Sat there lobbing obscure questions about XYZ to prove he was smarter than me" and subject
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by slyall 7y ago
The last time I got asked a question like that at an interview I blanked out. I was trying to think of one that I thought would sound positive to the interviewer. Probably next time I am going to interviews I'll grab a few lists like t
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by slyall 7y ago
I'd estimate a worst case would be: * 20,000 people show up * 2,000 of those try to get though the gates/fence * Half of those are in vehicles, some offroad * Some people are armed * Shots are fired as vehicles refuse
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Reasons Not to Be a Manager(charity.wtf)
2 points by slyall 7y ago|0 comments
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Recession Is Coming - How it'll affect tech companies and jobs(sysadmin1138.net)
11 points by slyall 7y ago|4 comments
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by slyall 7y ago
I'm not sure why you want fixed point. Some of the reasoning behind them going with base20 is here: https://github.com/google/open-location-code/blob/master/doc... * 10 characters can represent a 14
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The History and Legacy of JQuery(blog.logrocket.com)
2 points by slyall 7y ago|0 comments
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Rashomon of Disclosure for Security Vulnerabilities(addxorrol.blogspot.com)
4 points by slyall 7y ago|0 comments
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by slyall 7y ago
OTOH Blockbuster paid for the DVD once and got to rent it out as long as it lasted. How much do itunes/Amazon have to pay to the studio every time they rent out a movie?
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by slyall 7y ago
Plenty of tech companies do. Complete change freeze so you only need a minimum number of developers and ops people around. Although it is sometimes a good time of do that big CICD pipeline rebuild. The lawyers, HR, finance and office suppor
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by slyall 7y ago
In Australia/New Zealand if you are in the tech industry most employers will have a brown-out/embargo over the Christmas and New Year period. About 80% of staff will be off for those two weeks (6 days leave equals three weekends a
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by slyall 7y ago
I use it casually. I got one of the "lifetime" accounts so it doesn't cost me anything and I put the odd bookmark into it. Best tool for the cost. I wasn't really sure about recommending it to other people though since i
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by slyall 7y ago
http://archive.is/cytZl
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Only 37 dogs of each breed can have the same name(twitter.com)
227 points by slyall 7y ago|96 comments

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