thorin

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by thorin 4y ago
I seem to remember Snowflake was a relational db that claimed indexes weren't required in most circumstances, but I only used it briefly. I guess the indexes are implemented under the hood somewhere and it's not really a massive p
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by thorin 4y ago
When I was working on the grid a few years ago we got all the data on leakage to plow through and it was greater than 50% at that point (UK)!
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by thorin 4y ago
Is this the only way they can make sure they break down frequently enough to force you to buy a new device every few years rather than building something that would normally last a generation. Also I guess they might save a couple of pounds
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by thorin 4y ago
Can you get stuff done, and did you have a reasonable work history before. If so, no problem, just go for it. If you're unsure or low on confidence start working on a new or existing skill, do projects, github, volunteer, teach, blog a
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by thorin 4y ago
I suppose it depends on your general health, medical history and what actually happened to you. Did you have an accident or is it just wear and tear, have you looked after yourself. You don't provide much information so it's hard
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by thorin 4y ago
I can write code, having been writing code for nearly 40 years, working in code for 25 years. I could never write most of the stuff Linus, K&R, Gosling etc come up with so maybe x10 is uncommon, but xInfinity isn't impossible.
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by thorin 4y ago
I have worked with many offshore developers as well as private contactors in India, China and Eastern Europe. There are absolutely many cases of people working on multiple things at once (especially in support) when they are supposed to be
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by thorin 4y ago
Same in the UK. You have to give a good excuse. Cue 1000s on bushcraft forums justifying their massive knife collection...
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by thorin 4y ago
At least the public, in general, don't accept large donations from related companies.
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by thorin 4y ago
I've never known people who have contacts/good experience and can deliver to "have to grind leetcode". This may be the case for new entrants or areas with huge amounts of competition. I've known several people to ge
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by thorin 4y ago
This is one of the companies I was thinking about, a very popular UK climbing company, based in Wales https://dmmwales.com/about-dmm Also Pyranha Kayaks for instance https://www.pyranha.com/about.php
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by thorin 4y ago
Was interesting to see the variance between US states and countries with the various lockdowns and even quite a big variance between schools in the same region. In the UK aside from a couple of terms my kids were generally in school full ti
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by thorin 4y ago
Podcasts get recommended internally through the podcast mafia :-) My favs are Joe Rogan (used to have very high quality guests, seems to have dipped a bit since he hit the news), Lex Friedman (excellent tech/science/CS guests), Jo
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by thorin 4y ago
Sofas. Hence there are many sofa factories right near me in the middle of the UK. Quite a few pieces of technical climbing or whitewater activity gear.
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by thorin 4y ago
What one man can do, another man can do.
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by thorin 4y ago
Not cheap in the UK either. When I was backpacking or living in London it was a constant "safe" place to go to a toilet though.
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by thorin 4y ago
I don't understand why anyone would call it "good". Cheap and convenient maybe, appeals to kids, somewhere to stop on a long journey in the middle of the night. There are so many options that are tastier, more interesting and
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by thorin 4y ago
What one man can do, another man can do.
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by thorin 4y ago
For instance for the google photos app (one of my biggest) I can see: App 134 Mb Data 228 Mb Cache 285 Mb Total 647 Mb I can clear the cache at any time from settings, I also get an option to delete app data but there is no explanation as t
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by thorin 4y ago
I think you learned an important lesson there. Not a lot you can do about it now.
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by thorin 4y ago
From android you get the option to delete the cache for almost all apps and that is normally massive.
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by thorin 4y ago
I think having the team names and player names is what gets people to buy that particular game (assuming they all play well)
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by thorin 4y ago
I'm not sure about your categorization. To some people I might be an A but to other people I might be a B or C and I frequently try to do things that are in your Partner category where it's something I'm interested in.
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by thorin 4y ago
If you aren't known to the people that control your project/company you might get outsourced. If you don't provide value for your salary and only have knowledge/skills that other people have you might get outsourced. If
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by thorin 4y ago
I played that a lot too, but I always preferred f18 interceptor.
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by thorin 4y ago
I'd agree with this as someone that is now rarely writing production code, but often reading other people's code as part of designing components or analyzing issues. I've recently seen very complex ternary expressions, linq q
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by thorin 4y ago
Personally 0. Well, I have one old Sony Vaio which I haven't used for several years. I have 2 work computers (one specific to a client I'm working with). I have 2 android tablets, which belong to my kids and one android tablet for
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eBay Architecture Evolution [pdf](web.archive.org)
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by thorin 4y ago
The history of EBay is long (in internet commerce terms) and complicated. At one point 100s of millions of customers on a single oracle db. A colleague of mine was working on this around 1998/9 https://web.archive.org/w
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by thorin 4y ago
At 6/7 I was typing in BASIC programs for my VIC-20 out of the book which isn't much different to working with a command line. I don't think I was exceptional, there just wasn't much else to do in the 80s.

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