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by te_chris 7y ago
My friends and I in London are already salivating at the prospect of going to the pub, night clubs and music festivals. Each to their own.
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by te_chris 7y ago
Yeah, why would anyone with a simple system want an elegant way to declaratively describe the state of their runtime?
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China Is Avoiding Blame by Trolling the World(theatlantic.com)
8 points by te_chris 7y ago|0 comments
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by te_chris 7y ago
One of the real problems with tree planting is that humans don’t comprehend the lifetime of a tree intuitively - hence chopping down a heritage tree and replacing with 10 saplings. It takes a couple of centuries for a tree to reach full mat
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by te_chris 7y ago
The man leading the richest and most powerful country on earth is a unilateralist and a physical embodiment of the Peter Principle. He’s doing an awful job and not reaching out globally to solve a global problem. How is this derangement syn
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Thread about UK's Covid-19 response by Anthony Costello(twitter.com)
17 points by te_chris 7y ago|3 comments
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by te_chris 7y ago
Waterstones in the UK did this - they decentralised curation to their store managers. Seems to have worked, at least in the narrow part of London that I inhabit. The stores are generally a lot higher quality than one would expect from a cha
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by te_chris 7y ago
Even still it’s not like it’s non-trivial to just bring up and drop clusters. Just setting up peering with cloud sql or https certs with GKE ingress can be fraught with timing issues that can torpedo the whole provisioning process.
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by te_chris 7y ago
London pubs will be busy.
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by te_chris 7y ago
Not everywhere: UK is 50/50, same with USA and AU. Globally yes, but On the ground in different markets it’s different. We’re uk based e-com and android devices are a minuscule part of our traffic, so we’re doing iOS first.
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by te_chris 7y ago
In the UK and back home in NZ I use the govt. websites.
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by te_chris 7y ago
I’ve been to Paris a lot and wear my wallet in my back pocket and have been fine. Just need to be aware when going through crowded areas. They know how to pick off the naive ones who aren’t used to real cities.
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by te_chris 7y ago
Most of these people I've met in London are all ex consulting, so basically useless day to day.
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by te_chris 7y ago
I've done a bit of Salesforce dev as I'm CTO of a small startup (~12 headcount currently). The Process and Flow builders are a breath of fresh air to allow me to do simple logic based programming tasks which respond to events and
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by te_chris 7y ago
It’s a community activity, at least for me. I love going to record stores, discovering gems etc.
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by te_chris 7y ago
Because that’s a small fraction of law jobs, and as I said, the expectation with these jobs is that you basically work 1.5 times normal full time hours. I have friends who are senior associates at magic circle law firms and their idea of qu
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by te_chris 7y ago
You’re massively over estimating law. Magic Circle and American firms pay hugely....but they’re basically 1.5x FTE roles and you’ll work the hours.
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by te_chris 7y ago
Dead tree books.
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by te_chris 7y ago
We're using Appsignal and it's been great. Fantastic support too.
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by te_chris 7y ago
Modern JS is a total shit show of competing build tools, APIs that only work in certain ways in certain places, NIH reinventing the wheel. Thankfully there's some standardisation now, mostly due to the heft of Facebook, but it's s
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by te_chris 7y ago
Guardian Weekly or The Week are good periodicals
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by te_chris 7y ago
God it’s rampant in the UK, completely bisected between London and the rest of the country.
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by te_chris 7y ago
The data lake is also a real, live GDPR PII time bomb if you worked out how to get the data in but not take it out
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by te_chris 7y ago
Yes, GKE would be great. If we could specify the source of an ENV in a Deployment as a Managed Secret that would be incredible and save us so much hassle.
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by te_chris 7y ago
That's why I like the Guardian, if you're a digital sub app is ad free.
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by te_chris 7y ago
Actually going to look into this - given up on Evernote, don't like Apple Notes and Bear writer just didn't click....but did anyone else get put off by the whole "casually going to show off my notes on Prepping and Bugging Ou
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by te_chris 7y ago
Is there a better argument for a land tax in NZ?
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by te_chris 7y ago
You don't need to biochar them, in a forest ecosystem they take care of themselves.
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by te_chris 7y ago
I urge people to read The Secret Life of Trees ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28256439-the-hidden-life... ). This guy says "This is why we only need to irrigate our forests for about 20 years — once they
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by te_chris 7y ago
They have competitors though, Yodlee and Salt Edge to name but two. Have had some 'fun' recently in the UK when the FCA introduced open banking without actually allowing foreign companies any way to particiapte. This broke the bud

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