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by smoe 7y ago
The case against Uber was led by a local company providing among other things an app to hail normal taxis. It wasn't just some politicians decision. Personally I never saw the big appeal of Uber and co anymore as soon as such apps star
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by smoe 7y ago
It basically boils down to Uber considering themselves a tech company while Colombian law sees them as a transportation company that must obtain licenses and oblige to regulations around ride fees and such. More detailed article in Spanish
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Uber announcing to leave Colombia over ruling by commerce superintendence(dinero.com)
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by smoe 7y ago
Sure, I will get more done in five than four days. I also get more done in six or seven days per week over five, but with diminishing returns and more and more impact on my non-work life. As a programmer I have the luxury of willingly takin
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by smoe 7y ago
They are not tied to apple, but it is often the preferred OS. I haven't used MacOS/OSX in a couple years, but at least back then it was in my opinion by miles the best out of the box experience for audio related things. E.g it too
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by smoe 7y ago
What helped me a lot getting away from being limited by ORM capabilites while on the job: - Get the raw SQL of some slow or memory intensive queries the ORM produces and try to optimize them by hand. Try different approaches to get the same
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by smoe 7y ago
I had a similar problem. In my opinion Blogs and tutorials are great for the very beginning and probably for specific advanced/obscure topics. I picked up interesting bits and pieces about theory and their application on Youtube from 1
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by smoe 7y ago
True. But not everyone works at a multi million dollar business. Many start using cloud platforms in small companies and side/school projects and build up knowledge from there which eventually affects bigger companies: "Hey! Shou
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by smoe 7y ago
Googles reputation was pretty much the decisive factor when a couple of years ago we decided to move from Heroku to AWS instead of GCP. Besides a prettier web interface GCP didn't really had anything going for them in comparison for ou
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by smoe 7y ago
And all the people who don't have $500+ phones, unlimited data plans and fast internet connections. I used a ~$50 android and pre-paid plans for over a year while traveling Latin America. Wast swaths of the internet are basically inacc
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by smoe 7y ago
I'd say if the goal is to maximize engineering knowledge, less might be more. Especially if you don't plan to apply it on a day to day basis as an engineer. For example, I'm currently reading Clean Architecture by Martin that
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by smoe 7y ago
While I agree that stating opinions as obvious best practices is problematic at any level, I do appreciate a lot that this guide seems (I only skimmed it) to keep things basic and to the essentials. From a lot of resources floating around a
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by smoe 7y ago
Don't know about Germany but in Switzerland the managers are not personally liable for the debts of a company. Except the damage to the company/employees/clients can be be proven to be intentionally or negligently caused by a
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by smoe 7y ago
Wouldn't it be much easier for the finder to just get in touch with the bank and ask them to notify the owner? I once got a call/mail from my bank giving me the contact details of someone who had found my lost keys that had an RSA
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by smoe 7y ago
My main reason to use end-to-end encryption is to protect people whose life might depend on it: Journalists and their sources, activists etc. If everyone uses encryption by default, those people can not that easily be picked out from the se
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by smoe 7y ago
I have designed/given internal SQL classes to business analysts, product managers and similar. From simple selects using some common functions and basic types, to filtering, to aggregations and grouping and finally joins. That gets the
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by smoe 7y ago
Can you back your second paragraph up with recent numbers? I have taken a lot of yellow taxis all across the country, but mostly in Bogotá, Medellin and Cali over the last couple of years (about 2-3 rides per week) and have yet to have a si
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by smoe 7y ago
Your quote was the conclusion of the original work by Ray et al., not the one from the reproduction paper linked here. That one in short is: "Unfortunately, our work has identified numerous problems in the FSE study that invalidated it
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by smoe 7y ago
I vaguely remember years ago google.com omitting tags to strip file size and there being some mild controversy around it. Pretty sure it was before HTML 5 adaption and don't think back then the tags where optional, just that browsers t
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by smoe 7y ago
This chapter of the Googles SRE book gives you a good overview. https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/monitoring-... But I think it is less abut what specific tool to use, but more to just get star
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by smoe 7y ago
Monitoring From the beginning of my career in web development I worked in companies that had good to great monitoring capabilities in place to log and measure performance, resource usage, availability, errors, etc. in all parts of the syste
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by smoe 7y ago
vincu.com | Bogotá, Colombia | ONSITE | Full-time | VISA Vincu is an employment technology and analytics company with the mission to increase job stability for people in lower income segments. We are looking for junior to mid-level Data Sci
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by smoe 8y ago
I see the applicability more for video games. There are a bunch of problems that don't exist in other forms of music, e.g. when you want to make the music adapt to user actions. "The Double-Edged Nature of Video Game Music"
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by smoe 8y ago
As a Swiss I'm quite puzzled why the author thinks it is another language. The audio sample disproves the claim in the article that even with full command of French and Swiss-German, you can't understand it. Sure, it can be hard t
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by smoe 8y ago
True, I'm a bit harsh on this, but I also used the word usually instead of always on purpose. Yes, sometimes someone can really get blocked and not able to work, no problem to ask for help in this case. On the other hand I have seen it
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by smoe 8y ago
Agreed. Its not just about the tool but how you use it. For us it actually helps to get less distracted. There are very few things that require a sub 3 hour reaction. So we just put a question in Slack even if it's for the person sitti
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by smoe 8y ago
Pretty much all Europeans I know working in Latin America that travel home 1-2 a year, avoid flights that go trough US airports even tough it would often be the cheapest options by quite some margin. For me not having to deal with US border
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by smoe 8y ago
This I think makes the difference between people who follow "best practices" and people who understand why they apply certain practices or not dependent on the situation.
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by smoe 8y ago
Although not directly mentioning it, the post seems to imply that things were better in the past. I like this 2013 article from the Guardian better because it goes deeper into fundamental issues with news, independent from the "interne
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by smoe 8y ago
Sorry, if I came off as too negative! For me it was just the initial perception I got. E.g. I only realized that the books were free after you told me. And yes, this is due to me evidently being too lazy doing an additional click. I don&#x2

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