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by stepbeek 7y ago
> actually wanted to ignore my OS and focus on the code I was writing and connecting to WiFi reliably I feel this. I was a distro-hopper for years. I eventually settled on just using Ubuntu LTS for ease but definitely benefited from the
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by stepbeek 7y ago
I'm a big fan of scala and really enjoy the language. That being said, the scala community does sometimes advocate an approach that's pretty over-engineered.
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by stepbeek 7y ago
Decent for development, not great for production. My experience has been that the things you would pay the license fee for ( e.g. transactional replication) aren't there yet.
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by stepbeek 7y ago
Our benefits are all things that wouldn't make sense to take away from a part-time employee to be honest. We don't offer private health care currently, and every other benefit is a pretty direct link to how productive that employe
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by stepbeek 7y ago
Sorry, I was a little ambiguous. We're not considering paying less per unit time. This is fully illegal in the UK even if we did consider it. What we are considering is whether a part-time employee is significantly more productive pe
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by stepbeek 7y ago
We're in the UK. I think the lower bound of this from our perspective is 50%, though wondered whether it would be perceived as willfully ignoring that productivity is non-linear. To be honest, I hadn't really considered the legal
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by stepbeek 7y ago
This is a really good point. I don't think I'd given enough weight to this offline processing before.
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Ask HN: How do you scale salary for part-time work?
102 points by stepbeek 7y ago|84 comments
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by stepbeek 7y ago
We try to keep as much in the repo as possible. So raw assets, markdown documentation etc. It suffers from many of the same problems, but having it be in the same directory/editor that I'm making a code change makes it more likely
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by stepbeek 7y ago
iirc Amazon worked like this for their first n years before the difficulties that resulted made a SOA more compelling. I think there's a middle ground between microservices and a single monolith for a large global corporation.
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by stepbeek 7y ago
To its credit? Anecdotally, I feel like I run into way more abandonware on npm registry than on say maven central.
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by stepbeek 7y ago
I ran into this with a client recently. Unfortunately, they were already on the business plan. We ended up just hosting an OpenVPN server and having them connect automatically on startup.... This then broke Microsoft Office's ability t
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by stepbeek 7y ago
This might be the most helpful comment I've ever read on Hacker News. Thank you. :+1:
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by stepbeek 7y ago
EdgeQL looks really interesting - I'm glad I read through the article. I think the issue - for me - with articles like this is the tendency to take the stance of "${EXISTING_TECH} sucks, let's drop it for this new thing"
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by stepbeek 7y ago
Thanks for linking to this. I think I've been trying to build a poor mans version of it in scala without realizing it...
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by stepbeek 7y ago
Not sure about efficacy, but using a DNS sink like PiHole or pfblockerng gives me some piece of mind.
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by stepbeek 8y ago
> 2 year later email of 'we lost access to everything.' This is my recurring fear. It's why I like the idea of making it difficult for the client to gain this access because I'm hoping that a misplaced access mechani
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Ask HN: How will you pass on secrets when you're gone?
1 points by stepbeek 8y ago|3 comments
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by stepbeek 10y ago
Complete Robot by Isaac Asimov When frustrated by technology, it's pretty cool to read some things in this collection of short stories and think "We're actually in the future. We just aren't great at making robots walk y