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I am not sure where you are getting your information from, I assure you it’s far from the correct. I suggest a visit to https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-fi... and do some research in to vi
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Unfortunately FP jobs seem to be niche and extremely location dependent. Python and Javascript are winning the market, FP had a slight increase in interest but sadly fading, job wise anyway. I say this as someone who didn’t know much FP 8 y
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5y ago
You can use types to help with the outside world by making error states explicit encoding them in types. ZIO for example. I can write programs without code covering all scenarios by stubbing out methods with types, using ADTs etc then it’s
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5y ago
Yes. Http4s, zio-json, zio-config, scalate templates, doobie for the db. These are libraries not frameworks but the way it’s designed you don’t need a framework as so easy to slot together. Think of it as writing a crud app with Express on
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Similar I wouldn’t say specifically software, it’s more in an intense office environment / thought work under high pressure. Hard physical work I’d go home at the end of the day 10-12 hours, tired but could switch off mentally and rela
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> in the Scala community The allegations are serious. If the author believes she was drunk and did not consent to unprotected sex and taken advantage of that should be reported to the police and the courts due to the seriousness, it’s ra
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6y ago
The art of standard serverside generated HTML and progressive enhancement or a page composed of JavaScript apps/widgets for interactive elements seems lost today. In the age of React everything is a SPA first by design from observation
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6y ago
It’s interesting you use the word “casino”. She wasn’t gambling in a casino. She was gambling in what is essentially a pub that has a large room filled with pokie machines. This is common across Australia, pubs have dedicated rooms (so call
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6y ago
I thought it’s normal at IPO to have a lockup period of 90-180 days for staff preventing them selling shares.
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6y ago
This is one of the differences between Kafka (Confluent) and Pulsar. Confluent make big bold claims "Exactly once delivery" and have aggressive marketing. Pulsar on the other hand would say we have "effectivley-once". Re
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6y ago
I went through the computer speaker setup options at the start of lockdown. In the end I went with a reasonable well reviewed for price (cheap) front ported passive speakers Jamo S 803. Front ported as they sit close to a wall so front port
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6y ago
> Types almost never save the day and they don't add much to the understanding. There’s a saying in strongly typed languages “make illegal states unrepresentable”. Java doesn’t let you get all the way there but it’s better than noth
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6y ago
Type hints are optional. Type hints are very different to a strongly typed language with a good type system. Haskel as an extreme feels like algebra, you have a type a, you need a type c, you have a function a to b, and a function b to c, y
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That's interesting. I'm not the biggest Java fan, I can tolerate it. Recently working on a Python project I find I'm massively unproductive compared to something like Java or more specifically Scala as using Spark. Not having
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Docker has nothing to do with any of that though. There artifact is a single statically linked binary/executable, not a docker container. They can build that binary once and pass it along a deployment pipeline i.e dev, test, prod chang
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I have a Sony X9500. I run a dns blocker on my router so it may be serving me ads but if it is I don't know. From my research I don't think the X9500 serves ads. I was quite pleased with upgrading to it from a dumb tv and cheap an
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That's strange, the LG CX series are the mid to premium range from LG being OLED? I am willing to pay more to avoid ads but putting ads on premium models now leads to why should I pay more if I'm going to see ads anyway so might a
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Yeah for a router you wouldn’t use the M1, it has one Ethernet port and overkill. I use one of the Pc Engines APU2 board’s. The reference to the router was in regards I used OpenBSD and found OpenBSD a great server OS. I have multiple vlan’
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The M1 mini would be a great home server in its form-factor (small size), power usage and performance. As the current mini is pretty much an empty shell, the minis' size should get smaller in the next generations. Intel nucs are popula
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I loathe Facebook. I fail to see them as the bad guy in this. The Australian government made a policy to prop up a specific powerful media organization with wealthy donors who have falling readers and revenue. Facebook likely took the easie
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I don't think they are deliberately undermining anyone. The Australian government introduced a policy to prop up a specific powerful media organization that is loosing readers and money. Facebook for all their faults are not the bad gu
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> Those London based devs can now easily get SV remote jobs Is this really the case? I have seen an increase in remote jobs. Most of these remote jobs I've seen have a requirement you are in a similar timezone to the company's
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I know you can reference images via the hash which no one ever does. It’d be nice if container registries where immutable so when you pull the image by tag, it’s the exact same image every time. As it stands the image you pull today might n
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6y ago
Never really had to deal with interviews as been lucky all my career but recently looking for new work I've had to do a few, it's extremely frustrating. The last one I went through 3-4 hours worth of remote interviews. In the firs
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6y ago
I use Church encoding quite a lot in Java for a poor mans pattern matching / ADTs. It's one of the more useful patterns I use. import java.util.function.Function; public abstract class Tree { // Constructor
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Interesting you mention WSL2 as a plus. I've used Linux since early 2000's and OSX on the desktop since 2010+. Before that Windows CE, 95 and think Vista or 7 was the last. I was curious about what Windows looks like these days as
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Harley have the LiveWire, an electric bike. It’s expensive so not designed to sell a lot of them but everything I’ve read says it’s a extremely good bike with every one riding it saying if they had the spare cash and wouldn’t miss the money
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I’ve used client-side certs at a reasonable scale for API’s. The only downside I saw, setting up an internal CA and no matter how many warnings you send someone will always forget to renew the cert at some point. They work really well and I
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I'm not fully understanding the Australian media's issue with Google. Google shows links or a small snippet of news articles, a user may decide hey I want to read that and clicks the link and goes to the media outlets website to r
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It's a shame one of the largest media companies in the world is publishing a blog post on how they scale their web content platform / assets on Medium, not on their own blog. If anyone here is from the Beeb is WebCore a replacemen
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