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by twunde 9y ago
An AWS certification will be of most benefit if you're interested in working for a consulting company or MSP that specializes in AWS work. After that it may help you get through the HR screen at larger companies, but that may be counte
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I suspect that it will more likely be similar to YouTube where they try to keep images and other IP up, and generate ad revenue for both FB and the creators. Most of the team behind Source3 worked on a startup called Rightsflow, which did
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by twunde 9y ago
A major congrats to the source3 team! I'm excited for them and for the changes they'll bring to Facebook.
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by twunde 9y ago
I think Troy Hunt's article on this is the go to: https://www.troyhunt.com/offshoring-roulette-lessons-from-ou... On a personal note, living on the US east coast, I try to outsource work to eastern Europe or south Amer
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by twunde 9y ago
Frankly, I agree with Mailchimp. Giving access to that information raises privacy issues (someone could potentially see that I'm subscribed to an embarrassing newsletter our at least use that information in phishing or advertising). Ad
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The situation is not hopeless, the team hasn't been laid off and you've been warned about what's going on. What the company needs is at least one champion among the board members. This means you need to start pitching now.
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by twunde 9y ago
Looks to be back up: "Monitoring - The issue is resolved and Bitbucket is operating normally again. The team will continue monitoring to make sure it remains stable." Jul 19, 20:07 UTC Significantly faster time to recovery than mo
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Bitbucket is down
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by twunde 9y ago
As long as you're considering buying it and are willing to sign a NDA. Twilio also has a generic white paper that's available without scheduling a demo, which may be more accessible. If you're having trouble with Twilio&#x2
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by twunde 9y ago
Many security-conscious product companies go through an independent audit of their security processes to become certified. This doesn't necessarily mean that the code is secure, but it does mean that the company/product follows pr
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by twunde 9y ago
I want to explicitly call out an important point here. They inherited the original codebase and were able to understand the domain problems and what the original solution got wrong AND what it got right. Pretty much any language or framewo
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by twunde 9y ago
I've found Devops Weekly to be a good, well-rounded source of news: http://www.devopsweekly.com
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by twunde 9y ago
I think that as evidenced by the discussion about concourse ci today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14785254 that there is still room for improvement and new products, especially on-prem CI tools like Jenkins/Tea
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by twunde 9y ago
It is a red-flag but not an automatic disqualifier. Anecdotally, this is especially true outside of the major metropolitan areas, even just in the suburbs. I worked in the NY and CT suburbs outside the NYC area and it was absolutely used,
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by twunde 9y ago
Facebook has reserved its rights with their license and they can decide to enforce it at any time. Personal projects should be ok, but commercial projects should involve a discussion with legal. If the company thinks it's possible that
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by twunde 9y ago
I can't wait until NIST finalizes their new password rules. I wonder how many companies are forced into these inane password rules because of compliance requirements
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by twunde 9y ago
Can I ask where you live that you have 3! good ISP choices?
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I actually did use hired.com but I'll note that these platforms only work for jobs in major cities. I had ex-coworkers based in the Connecticut suburbs of NYC and they couldn't find jobs in the area through hired.com or an alterna
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by twunde 9y ago
I think the most insightful part of the article was the use of HR as a signal. I can see it being a particular problem for companies with young founders who never worked at large companies with HR so there's less awareness of workplace
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It's been discussed as a problem since at least early 2012, see https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/arti...
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by twunde 9y ago
Here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14575627 I was actually thinking the same thing. My general advice after being at a company that went through multiple rounds of layoffs within 4 years: Get your resume toge
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by twunde 9y ago
Honestly I would tell them that you're quitting to start a business, but this may depend on your relationship with the manager. You may be able to work something out where you're working part-time, taking a leave of absence or po
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by twunde 9y ago
First off, you're absolutely correct in trying to nail down the requirements before choosing. It sounds like there are a couple related problems that you're trying to solve. 1) You find the database design difficult to understand,
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by twunde 9y ago
The primary reason to defer updates is the risk that the updates will break existing functionality in a way that negatively impacts worker productivity. This could be bricking a laptop/server/computer, or causing software to stop
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My last job, between 50-75% of the programmers were 30+, with the oldest being over 70. There are a lot of older programmers, especially in the suburbs. Some will chase the new things like React and NodeJS while others are happy to use olde
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by twunde 10y ago
Honestly I would look at the job descriptions to see which jobs look more interesting to you. Coming from PHP and having a historical background in Java and C, means that all of these languages should be relatively easy to learn. The main d
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by twunde 10y ago
I have to say just how excited I am about this. I know two black developers. TWO. I've worked with numerous female developers and know plenty more. I've worked with hispanic, asian, white and european developers (no native ameri
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by twunde 10y ago
I can't think of any that are well known, but it's certainly a common bug (I put one into production a few months ago). Surprisingly it's a bug with few major ramifications. If you're using an email provider like Mailch
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Things like this make me simultaneously excited to be a dev and disappointed that I'm not working on something as life changing as this.
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Actually after Enron was exposed, most former employees head a very difficult time getting hired. It was a major black mark, made worse by the fact that many employees had significant savings in Enron stock.

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