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by smoe 6y ago
I once almost got killed joking that LGBTQIAA2S+ looks more like a password than an initialism ... But I don't really care personally about any specific words so that is not where I see the problem. What I'm worried about is when
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by smoe 6y ago
First days of quarantine, but it being clear that this is going to take a while (Living in Colombia, most of the world has already been hit at this point), I realized that this might well be the easiest time for the rest of my life to chang
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by smoe 6y ago
The piece itself seems fine? It being a book announcement and introduction to an maybe underrated, less known artist. The title might well be overblown, but there is also a good chance that it wasn't set by the author themselves.
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by smoe 6y ago
Yes, culture and trends are a waste, when they are primarily a marketing tool to make people consume your product. Look at history and you find plenty of examples how cultures and trends emerged and spread within parts of societies, then go
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by smoe 6y ago
I think plenty of people said that a global pandemic is just a matter of time. Countries had made preparations with varying degrees of success. E.g. Switzerland back in like 2014 did a nationwide preparedness test, identified numerous probl
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by smoe 6y ago
For me standup meetings are not a part of agile. The latter is more of a minset, how you go on about things. Everything else, standups, scrum boards, epics, story points, squads, retros etc. are just tools that might or might not be useful
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by smoe 6y ago
Not GP, but my impression is a bit, that the better things are going, the more farcical stand ups can become. The status update aspect of it could be automatized from the task management tooling, people reach out for help/input as need
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by smoe 6y ago
> So a viable way is, even with two displays, don't try to utilize them. I did that before switching to single display after having multiples from the first day of my career onwards. But I didn't even had to try. By the end, be
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by smoe 6y ago
Could you give me some pointers how to setup virtual desktops and tiled windows that are completely keyboard controllable? I only use W10 as a secondary OS and never used windows as main since XP/2000. So far never got to dig deeper in
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by smoe 6y ago
Same for me. Multiple desktops with tiled windows on a single screen has been a much better experience than the two screen setup I had in every job before. Example for my desktops setup for web application development over the last couple o
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by smoe 6y ago
I think both are true. With training we reinforce our method and knowledge - whether good or bad. But even choosing a bad method you still get better but maybe hit diminishing returns faster. A good method lets you get better in a more sust
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by smoe 6y ago
> This counts on the bootstrapped company tapping outside capital once they hit their stride. Isn't tapping into outside capital only at this point what makes the most sense, because you are in a much better negotiation position hav
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by smoe 6y ago
Because that is what pretty every US American independently from political affiliation i talked with about this told me. They need to spent their own money on things that is covered via taxation in many parts of Europe. Whether this is good
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by smoe 6y ago
You might have missed my point in the original post, that I care about everyone getting these or similar benefits, not just me in a higher salaried positions or after years of staying in a company. It indirectly improves my own quality of l
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by smoe 6y ago
I haven't read the article in full yet and only skimmed it. But a lot of the challenges I think still apply and what they seem to suggest is to start off bootstrapped, rush to getting operational, break even as quickly as possible and
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by smoe 6y ago
There is this site / newsletter for books mentioned in hn comments https://hackernewsbooks.com/ There are much fewer books in the last six or so weeks editions. Don't know why this is. Whether it is some scraper n
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by smoe 6y ago
I think even in those cases there are benefits. I would certainly want to extend, modify and replace the data models for my core business as I see fit. But beyond those there are still going to be a whole lot of models in need in order to r
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by smoe 6y ago
Sure, maybe. My point is that US companies have to pay more because more things need to be taken care of by the individual instead of it being socialized to different degrees. Also there is very little in terms or labor rights in the US. So
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by smoe 6y ago
Benefits and regulations vary from country to country. I don't know details about eastern Europe, but all those are fairly common to different degrees in large parts of the continent.
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by smoe 6y ago
So here is couple of things, not a complete list, I would expect working for an US company: - 5 weeks paid vacation per year(6-7 if we skip regional holidays) - 13th month salary (that is independent from other bonuses) - Paid overtime the
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by smoe 6y ago
It is the other way around. The ORM sits on top of core, the sql abstraction. This separation is what I like about it, if I know how to do something in SQL I can use the tools sqla provides and it maps very close to 1:1. Or I can use a more
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by smoe 6y ago
All of them optimize for different things (E.g. SQLalchemy and Django have very different philosophies), so are they all wrong? What should they focus on instead?
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by smoe 6y ago
I agree with you but I think Sqlalchemy/alembic do the compromises better than Django ORM With Django I always ended up hitting brick walls and ugly hacks. Whereas Sqlalchemy more easily fit in any use case that I had over the years, m
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by smoe 6y ago
They can converge. In Colombia, where instead of office cafeterias/canteens you have tiny independent set-meal/fixed price restaurants everywhere (often multiples per block). Even before Covid you could get subscriptions to have a
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by smoe 6y ago
Think it depends on your living situation. I have been living alone for a long time, but was used to having lunch in cafeterias / restaurants and only cook on weekends mostly. Over the last months of working from home, deciding to cook
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by smoe 6y ago
Think I was using the wrong terminology. What I meant is that your ORM code in the app needs to reflect your database pretty much exactly, otherwise you can get unwanted migrations. Which is in most cases desirable, but for example if you w
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by smoe 6y ago
Sorry if that comes off as looking down on people, it is not meant that way, but I'm honestly a bit baffled how I meet many people to this day that still discover schema migration tools as something new/special instead of just lea
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by smoe 6y ago
Yes, that is exactly how you use sqla alembic: You connect it to your development db, generate the migration, then run the migration locally first then on staging/prod. This has both the pro and con of your app being quite tightly coup
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by smoe 6y ago
I have written a lot of server side code in dynamically typed languages (mostly Python) with a variety of database systems (I started my career in the mid 2000s on ZODB, an object-oriented database). At least in my experience the "phil
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by smoe 6y ago
I guess it refers to them servicing (updating, reacting to downtime, etc.) the software, while it being deployed on premise? In contrast to the clients IT department doing so.

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