toupeira

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by toupeira 7y ago
Well I thought that was the central point of the article, that only looking at averages / combinations of traits caused misleading interprations in other studies, and looking at distributions / individual traits gives a more compl
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by toupeira 7y ago
> How do you know that someone who looks callous and aggressive on online questionnaires is actually callous and aggressive? You don't, but it's also not necessary. It's impossible to objectively assess someone's subj
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by toupeira 7y ago
That's certainly a valid concern! From my perspective, the programming skills in these job descriptions are one requirement among many others, and I'm not sure how much weight it really has in the hiring process for these roles, e
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by toupeira 7y ago
We have some public Pingdom stats at http://stats.gitlab.com/4932705/history , looks like this was the first time we dipped below 99.9% this year (partial outages excluded). But yeah, our response times have been steadi
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by toupeira 7y ago
The discussion is still ongoing, the latest official communication I'm aware of was the blog post at https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/11/12/update-on-hiring/ Note that this was always only ab
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by toupeira 7y ago
GitLab engineer here. The "Ops" section actually consists of product development teams for features in GitLab itself (the Configure/Monitor "stages"), while the SREs are in the "Infrastructure" department.
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by toupeira 7y ago
That's curious, they do work fine on another machine running Xfce so apparently it's related to Gnome. Filed a bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1591783 , thanks!
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by toupeira 7y ago
It's in the Gboard settings under "Glide typing": "Enable gesture cursor control". There's also "Enable gesture delete".
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by toupeira 7y ago
Whoops I apologize, looks like it's only the console prompt! I get that Ctrl+V might be disabled for security reasons, but is there a config flag to enable it anyway? And yeah for some reason Ctrl+Left/Right to jump around words,
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by toupeira 7y ago
We don't really have a "ban" as such, see my recent handbook change here with more discussion: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/... But even before that it just seeme
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by toupeira 7y ago
It would be great if the DevTools input fields behaved like all other input fields in Firefox ;-) Things like Ctrl+C/V, Ctrl+(Shift+)Left/Right, and others I'm probably forgetting right now (am on phone).
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by toupeira 7y ago
That was only the horrible TV cut, his name is still attached to the theatrical version.
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by toupeira 7y ago
Awesome, as a long-time Debian user myself that makes me very happy :)
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by toupeira 7y ago
We have an ongoing project to enable Elasticsearch on gitlab.com, which will greatly improve this: https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/153 There's also a dedicated Search team being built a
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by toupeira 7y ago
There are some high-profile FOSS projects using GitLab, but they're not as visible as they would be on GitHub because they host their own instances: - https://gitlab.gnome.org/ - https://gitlab.freedesktop.o
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by toupeira 7y ago
Here you go: https://v8.dev/blog.atom (found through the <link> tag on the blog)
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by toupeira 7y ago
Which sounds nice in theory, but there are the usual legal exceptions: > The resolver must not retain, sell, or transfer to any third party ( except as may be required by law ) any personal information, IP addresses or other user identif
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by toupeira 7y ago
To get the best of both worlds: You could use normal merges while working on a branch, and then when it's done do one rebase (which also removes merge commits) before merging back into master.
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by toupeira 7y ago
It's right there as option 3, "paid open gigs".
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by toupeira 7y ago
Even though I don't like ads either, I think this experiment was a glorious failure which will lead too much learning. That was supposed to be a compliment :) I'm not sure if GitHub Sponsors is already planning this, but since the
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by toupeira 7y ago
More info here: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-qu...
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by toupeira 7y ago
I want something like Bandcamp for movies and TV shows. Let me buy and download the damn things in full quality and watch them wherever/whenever/however I want them! Give me RSS/Atom feeds I can subscribe to and integrate int
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by toupeira 7y ago
At my current position for a remote job, one of the interview assignments was reviewing a pull request for a very basic example app using their tech stack, and then implementing my own suggestions during a video call (while sharing my scree
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by toupeira 7y ago
I just use a table with experience level columns like e.g. "Proficient", "Advanced", "Hobbyist". But use categories that make sense to _you_ and your skillset.
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by toupeira 7y ago
Buffer is one example: https://buffer.baremetrics.com/
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A guide to GitLab's soft landing acquisitions(about.gitlab.com)
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by toupeira 7y ago
Looking at [1] and [2], in unstable it actually seems to be: - 31K source packages - which build into 136K binary packages - consisting of 1.2 billion lines of code [1] https://sources.debian.org/stats/ [2] https:&#x2
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by toupeira 7y ago
You can use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-search... to work around this.
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by toupeira 7y ago
I still don't understand what's the problem with simply using "you" as second-person plural pronoun, most of the time it's perfectly clear from the context whether it's singular or plural. And if not, there&#x2
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by toupeira 7y ago
The Omnibus package is very painless and internally uses Chef to apply configuration changes and data migrations. I maintained a (small) instance for a few years and never ran into any issues, all you need to do is upgrade the package thr

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