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thinkindie
7y ago
this comment is so 2005 and it is suggesting you haven't worked with the latest versions of PHP and the ecosystem around it. From a language perspective, PHP is not any worse than Ruby, Python or Javascript. Composer, Symfony and other
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7y ago
UpsellGuru | Junior Software Engineer | Berlin, Germany | ONSITE We are looking for self-motivated, goal-oriented and enthusiastic engineer with a passion for learning and delivering. You will join our small team in Berlin and you will help
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8y ago
I don't want to take the part of Zuckerberg nor Facebook, but "spectacular leadership failure" from UK lawmakers after two years trying to get out of EU is a bit funny.
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8y ago
"pizza in berlin" lacks several options, and I just checked my neighbourhood. This is why I'm still using google maps on my iphone, their search results are far better and more accurate
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8y ago
They probably need stronger arguments than "Micro$oft is really bad" if they want to have an edge against Github. Professional tool solidity is way more important than the company process transparence.
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9y ago
Laravel is probably not the best example in terms of improving PHP landscape in terms of code/architecture quality: Symfony is way more prominent in that. It's not a case that Laravel is using many components from Symfony.
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9y ago
this is something a bit naive - basically all dynamic languages have the same low barrier and can produce the same crappy code, see for example javascript or ruby (with RoR). Python too, considering the fact that it's used by a lot of
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9y ago
is a 360 degrees camera really essential?
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9y ago
The company I'm working for moved away from hetzner coz it has a single location and far too many noisy neighbourhood. Hetzner was often target of DDoS and our connectivity was also affected.
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9y ago
GetYourGuide | Several Engineering Positions | Berlin, DE / Zurich, CH | Full-time, ONSITE VISA https://www.getyourguide.com/ With over 25,000 things to do, GetYourGuide is the world's largest marketplace for tour
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10y ago
Wifi will live as long as roaming charges are applied around the world.
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10y ago
I travel to Switzerland quite often for work plus I have relatives living in Switzerland since ages and I used to live close to the Italian-Switzerland border. I would never move there as the country is so boring. Really, every time I trave
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10y ago
this blog post is pretty naive, it was well advertised few months ago
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10y ago
I agree with you. I work in a team split into two and it used to be balanced between the two locations (Berlin & Zurich) but then Zurich had an additional engineer there and I immediately felt the difference of another person there coz
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11y ago
I'm working in Germany (Berlin) and I was shocked by how often you see "cash-only" signs and how electronic payments are avoided on a privacy ground. Plus I saw the reaction from a German colleagues when it was a matter of co
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11y ago
considered how Germans are obsessed with privacy and state surveillance (see for example cash usage vs electronic payments), let's see a country going nut in 3 2 1 ...
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11y ago
just use google chrome incognito or similar functionality in other browsers and it will work just fine
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11y ago
UIE website dates back to 2002 too
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11y ago
even by saying the volume of request at peak time doesn't tell the whole story, we still don't know how heavy are such requests.
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11y ago
2M req/day are roughly 23 req/s on average. I understand there might be busier periods, however it doesn't seem to be impressive figures.
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11y ago
I'm also getting problems with Cloudfront attached to an S3 bucket
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12y ago
the very same ranking ranks Italy better than Luxembourg where almost all the American large companies have their European HQ. It also ranks Malaysia better than Switzerland. Oh, please.
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13y ago
looks like that fastly and cloudfront pricing is not that much different, they apply pretty much the same prices for traffic and requests in each of their zones. http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/ https:&#
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13y ago
everyone has it's own <opinion> over the fact that facebook had to use another language rather than php. On the other side there is the fact that facebook managed to get one of the most visited website on top of php, period. This
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13y ago
still, Europe needs to fix the "double irish with a dutch sandwich" because there's indeed a problem,