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by theamk 2y ago
The problem is "knowing their salt to do recruiting" is very hard. In all places I've been, the kinds of interview we are talking about here (technical problems, etc...) are delegated to regular engineers. So those technical
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by theamk 2y ago
Mercurial had its chance, and it blew it by insisting that the history is immutable and branches are heavy-weight objects (SVN-style). Turns out that's not what people want, so git won. (And the fact that Mercurial supports history edi
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by theamk 2y ago
That seems pretty opinionated design, I am surprised so many people wanted it. The fan/light combo is neat. Steel work surface with magnetic holders sounds like a great idea. But the rest of items do not make it a "portable worksp
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by theamk 2y ago
A question for Domino developers: "There is never a question of where the logic for an application is, it's in the same database as the data." - this caught my eye, how did this work? Specifically, say there is an existing ap
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by theamk 2y ago
When I visit that gritql link, the first line of "Usage" already tells me a lot: (1) what problems can it solve, (2) how do I use it and (3) what is entry threshold. This makes it a very cool tool which I am will be using in the f
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by theamk 2y ago
ISPs, at least in the US, already offer free email hosting.. they used to offer basic web hosting too, not sure if that's still the case. Using those is worst idea ever. ISPs are all horrible, and the only good thing is you can switch
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by theamk 2y ago
Can product recommendation sites place a funny video on their website, unrelated to products, just so readers can have a little rest while doing all this product comparison? Can product recommendation sites _pay_ a video creator to create a
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by theamk 2y ago
Which models are there? The only other ones I know is patreon-like, which totally destroy the long tail. And long-tail ones are the best. There are some great videos on youtube which are 10+ years old and do not have millions of views. I am
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by theamk 2y ago
Do such things exist? I am pretty sure that any review site today has many "inorganic" reviews on them, and products recommended just because vendor paid more.
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by theamk 2y ago
You spam forums, send emails and abuse any free resources you can find. If you can find them, that is, because without ad revenue they would be closing pretty quickly. It'd be a very different world, I anticipate a lot of paywalls and
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by theamk 2y ago
Agree, that'd totally work - things like "billboards" or "ads on public transport" are possible to define and regulate. Advertising on the web would be much harder, I'd like to hear a good proposed rule on that
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by theamk 2y ago
It is not clear to me that in general, political stories generate more cash flow vs things like sports or celebrities. I am sure that's the case _today_ , with all the crazy politics going on, but if you ask me average over 2 years? I
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by theamk 2y ago
I am thinking outside blackboard ones, where owners write message in chalk [0] - they don't pay anyone to write the words, nor do they pay anyone to "install" it (= take it out). I suppose the sign itself must be paid for...
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by theamk 2y ago
Most crashes today are not actually caused by physical memory degradation, but rather by the bugs in software. So "memory corruption detector" is not going to help much. If a program tries to read invalid pointer and segfaults, cr
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by theamk 2y ago
ok, what if ABC buys a 55% stake in Bounty and puts ads for them because they are the same owner now? What if it's 10% stake? Can they claim (truthfully) they want to increase the value of their stock?
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by theamk 2y ago
exchanged with whom? If it's a small business, it's likely the owner puts the sign out themselves. Or is it money exchange with sign manufacturer? In this case are outdoor signs OK if owner personally made them?
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by theamk 2y ago
What if they are running the story on local ocean tides or soup kitchens? They are doing this to sell more newspapers or more airtime for advertisers.. does this mean there is an "exchange for money" under your rule?
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by theamk 2y ago
I am sure that some people would still want to live on the surface of that beautiful, untouched planet. And I am sure this could be arranged, for the right price of course. And as the extra bonus, all those rich surface-dwellers would not n
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by theamk 2y ago
Yeah, the naming was pretty bad for a while, but it seems today `#!/usr/bin/env python3` is a safe bet. And pip/virtualenv should not matter - remember, we've are talking about "python-without-dependencies&quot
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by theamk 2y ago
It is that simple. You can pass arguments to `bash -c` with no problems(just don't forget a dummy $0). If you don't want exception spam, replace `check=True` with explicit exit. Here you go, it's 5 lines now. #!/us
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by theamk 2y ago
python 3.0 code, released back in 2008, is still compatible with latest released python, with some exceptions like asyncio or obscure file formats which are unlikely to appear in scripts. The pip packages likely did break, but we are talkin
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by theamk 2y ago
"compulsory donations". I did not expect to ever meet someone using this non-ironically, but you seem serious...
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by theamk 2y ago
I've had to dig internet archive to see original post [0], but I don't see anything particular inflammatory there? Pretty standard job description, and being in the "Jobs" section is right on-topic. The only potentially
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by theamk 2y ago
It does not have to be all-at-once. Your bash program takes 10 input args and requires 15 env variables to be set? Don't reach out for that bash ini parser, create a python script which parses configs and invokes the original bash scri
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by theamk 2y ago
My rule has always been that once a shell script gets too complex, it's time to rewrite it in real language. This library is way, way beyond that threshold. My recommendation for rewrite is "python with only stdlib". Using pi
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by theamk 2y ago
An interesting story! I've also had an AI cheater during phone screen, but they were pretty clumsy... A question of form "You mentioned you used TechX on your resume, tell me more what you did with it" was answered with a lon
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by theamk 2y ago
Fair enough! The danger with disks however is that it's an entirely manual operation which is easy to forget. Something setup-once-and-forget - local server or a cloud-based one like backblaze - is more likely to actually have the late
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by theamk 2y ago
Well, yeah.. you never want to test backups on the same computer you made them, so to test them, you should go to secondary/friends/work computer and try to access the files. Boot from a fresh LiveUSB stick if you are feeling para
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by theamk 2y ago
Modern backup systems use reference counting mechanisms, which means you can set up any old versions policy you want. Something like "last 3 annual backups + last 12 monthly ones + last 8 weekly ones + last 30 daily ones" will hel
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by theamk 2y ago
Correct, this is for specific user/group. Restricting use to "specific application for any user" sounds pretty dodgy, security-wise. Linux makes no guarantees that processes are protected from executing user, so it is entirel

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