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by svennek 7y ago
High-IO jobs, where a single system-image (read "os") is important. Most of banking and alike problems. The main three benefits of the mainframes (as a non-mainframer): - crazy amounts of caches - crazy amounts of pcie-slots (and
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by svennek 7y ago
Hmm... Our office has a Kyocera M6235cidn (around 2k$ with extra trays and a little rolling cabinet). The offcial linux driver for it is literally two PPDs (one for EU with duplex-as-standard, one "global" with no-duplex-as-standa
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by svennek 7y ago
Of course they do (exist in Europe). Most companies giving you a credit of some sort (banks, phone contracts, ...) are required to do vetting of you. To help them do that, they use credit rating bureaus. In Europe, you as a private person j
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by svennek 7y ago
forgot to write, that would be massive overkill for a private person...
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by svennek 7y ago
No, I run it in my (hosting) company. I pay around 250 USD per link per month each, but you also need AS-numbers and IP-addresses, in RIPE (I am in Europe) that is ~2k USD more per year.. edit typo.
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by svennek 7y ago
oh year, for sizing.. They run on a pair of supermicro boxes with a 8-core C2758 (atom) with 16G of ram, which is plenty.. They only do routing (and delivers it* inwards via OSPF where firewalls are on other boxes).. Notice we are a low tra
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by svennek 7y ago
oh, and note to new users.. don't do an "ip r" on those boxes....
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by svennek 7y ago
I have been running 2 bird boxes (1.6 series, a version 2 upgrade is scheduled later this year) each with two peers of full feed for both ipv4 (~750k and ~755k routes respectively) and ipv6 (~67k and ~69k routes) and one of them is connecte
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by svennek 7y ago
What a shitty situation. Luckily here in Denmark we have an organization called The Employees Trust (or something like it). If a company does not pay, it puts itself into the company's place and pays the workers. (It takes a few weeks
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by svennek 7y ago
What no naked work wednesdays ? :)
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by svennek 7y ago
Screendump functions (with various modifiers for whole screen, region, window, to clipboard or file)
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by svennek 7y ago
For me, the biggest two benefits are: - I can have my eyes wherever (not on the keys I hunt) - I don't spend any brain juice searching for the keys, their placement (after a while) is pure muscle memory. A while ago I had an injury tha
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by svennek 8y ago
I would be careful to take that as more interest due to "westerism". I have google Notre Dame a few times to see more/newer pictures of the damages. Even though the Sri Lanka bombings are much, much worse in any metric, the p
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by svennek 8y ago
(disclamer: I belong to the "show me your tables, and I don't need to see your code" camp) - Strong data modelling skills - Strong SQL skills - Fluency in at least two of PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Go, C, C++, C#, Java (more ex
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by svennek 8y ago
I think there are a lot more hustle-posts and a lot less quality tech posts than a few years ago. Sadly the same happened all around...
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by svennek 8y ago
Yes, they are. Many/some Mac users regret their switch. Personally I tried it the opposite way. I love Linux, windows is okay - but OsX was the reason I gladly took a 1000 USD loss after three months for getting rid of a fully specced
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by svennek 8y ago
Linux is also the only platform that a lot of people love, but has almost no hardware where it is officially supported (at least for desktops and laptops)!!!!
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by svennek 8y ago
Yes, and even more important: Thinkpads and "Lenovo"s (non Thinkpads) are two vastly different beasts. The former being great, the latter "meh".
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by svennek 8y ago
I think using Debian combined with an untrue belief of Linux being as polished as Win or MacOS is the root of some of your problems. As for battery, my two year old battery hits somewhere between 7 and 8 hours when I work without power for
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by svennek 8y ago
Not cheap, but the Thinkpad X1 Carbons are machines of the same quality as Macbooks. They are comparable to the Air in weight (but a little larger, I think) and are designed with reasonable trade-offs. They (of course) (only) come in stylis
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by svennek 8y ago
If it is some reasonable amount of work to show your skills, do it. Personally I would say okay for something up to two or three hours worth. Consider it an investment in your future job. The alternative is a white-board coding task, where
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by svennek 8y ago
A good developer starts out by planning, not coding. When you have a good plan, the next step is usually obvious. Also, you only learn by doing, and luck favors the active. Learn the very minimum by tutorials, make up a project and go - lea
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by svennek 8y ago
Closed source software from proprietary vendors also have long-standing bugs. You just don't have any easy way to get a list of them. All dev teams (no matter if they are OS or not) are always shortstaffed. That means bugs needs triag
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by svennek 8y ago
By dependable I mean really well built, serviceable and with on-site warranty, that is great..
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by svennek 8y ago
Lenovo X1, because it's tiny, dependable, powerful enough and not a mac. Mine runs ArchLinux.
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by svennek 8y ago
You might want to look at a Lenovo P-series. The 15-incer has optionally a Xeon and up to 128GB of ram. Three years of on-site warranty upgradable to 4 or 5 and accident protection too... I run Arch Linux on my Thinkapd X1 with no problems.
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by svennek 8y ago
Sorry to pop your bubble, but... I live in Denmark, and all of the above use cases are automatically calculated by our tax auth.. My most complex tax-filing was: - Full-time job - Extra "non-job" salary (board membership) - Invest
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by svennek 8y ago
First of all, permanent is a hard challenge, and CDs (as you mentioned) generally was good somewhere between 1 and 10 years, not more. I know the danish national library spends quite some time transferring archives from CD to a newer CD. I
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by svennek 8y ago
(This post is meant to be frank and only slightly provocative...) As a builder of a company for more than a decade (a lifestyle, not Start-Up (VC-fuelled)), the hard part about starting up is NOT the tech. You might be a really good develop
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by svennek 8y ago
> Uber, Lyft and co. would never have grown globally at such an astronomical rate (and eaten the taxi branch its lunch) if there wasn't a large demand for a 'clean' taxi experience In my country the main selling points of

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