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by ukoki 5y ago
Agreed. I prefer: "The salary and benefits package I'm given is a direct measure of how much I'm valued as an employee. This other company values me 25% higher".
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by ukoki 5y ago
> That makes no sense; successful companies will figure this out and unsuccessful companies will lose their talent I think there's a rational argument for it. Yes they will lose some talent by not raising wages to the market rate, a
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> China stands to benefit even from the sanctions imposed on Russia. If Russia loses, then a West-supported democractic underdog took on an authoritarian superpower and won. That's gotta make CCP leadership uncomfortable with regard
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by ukoki 5y ago
Here in the UK at least, those middle and professional classes also saved lots of money due to reduced expenses -- no holidays, no socialising, no commuting etc. https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/bank-overground/2020&#x2F
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by ukoki 5y ago
> The above code is bad because it makes unnecessary copies. plus doesn’t need its own copies of s and t; it can get by with just references to its caller’s strings. I was under the impression the compiler was smart enough to 'move&
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by ukoki 5y ago
{} squigglies () smoothies [] squaries <> pointies
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You're Wrong About has a great episode on this https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-mcdonalds-hot-coff...
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If any foreign actor wants a >1000x ROI on economic sabotage...
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by ukoki 5y ago
What if you had a system where anyone can bid any amount on any piece of land. Whether the owner refuses the bid or not, the land is now valued at the price of the bid for tax purposes. To avoid frivolous bids, bidders must place funds in e
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by ukoki 5y ago
My personal pet-peeve is when the obsession with DRY carries over to testing. Testing is not the place for DRY. Reading a test should be like reading a recipe: do A then do B, then do C, then expect result X. When you start abstracting the
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by ukoki 5y ago
To add another data point: I'm a contractor in the London charging day rates from 300 GBP (in the beginning) to 1100 GBP (today) over the past eight years. Net worth has just crept into the seven-figure GBP range with profits being m
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by ukoki 5y ago
I feel like improving my note taking has helped me continue improving my development speed and quality when it was at risk of stagnating. Not by way of documentation (which I do use it for) but more for tracking multiple streams of work in
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by ukoki 5y ago
PaaS has existed since the mid-2000s. It turns out people don't want it -- none of them ever got more than a miniscule fraction of the market for boring workloads that 90% of companies are using IaaS for. People want knobs & levers
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by ukoki 5y ago
yes
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Anyone who has working in software for any length of time will have come across people who deliver orders of magnitude more high quality work than their peers: high output, high quality -- the 10xer. This post confuses that archetype with t
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by ukoki 5y ago
There will be political unrest as soon as the populace realise that the easy victory they were promised is not materialising and in fact tens of thousands of sons -- only-children who represent the future, pride and prosperity of their pare
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by ukoki 5y ago
Kubernetes: lets commoditize public IaaS by containerising workloads thus making them IaaS-independent! Public IaaS: lets commoditize Kubernetes by making a multi-cloud Kubernetes control plane! (AKA Google Anthos, AKA EKS Anywhere, AKA AKS
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by ukoki 5y ago
Because the people most likely to be stumped by 2FA are the people most likely to bring in lucrative overdraft, credit card and loan fees.
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by ukoki 5y ago
I'm taking this as a pretty good sign. My poorly informed outsider's opinion of Russian local elections prior to this was that organised fraud was so endemic that resorting to such obvious measures would be unnecessary.
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I can also see battery manufacture (and maybe chip manufacture) may become a "strategic asset" continuously support by subsidies, much like farming is.
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by ukoki 5y ago
> Today, young English speakers are trying to popularize "they" as an English neuter pronoun, and it's not too absurd: we already use "they" this way when the gender of the person is unknown. I can understand why
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by ukoki 5y ago
Best guess: Taylors made a generous bid to McD corporate to become the exclusive provider of ice cream machines. This bid gives a chunk of money to McD corporate and promises maximum machine costs and maintenance call-out costs for franchis
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Jodie Comer I reckon
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You might be right. As a counter-argument I can only offer my anecdata of being a contractor who has met quite a few people deep in the bowels of large enterprises who I would class as brilliant, but who are coming up on five, ten and som
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by ukoki 5y ago
> The hard truth that many companies struggle to wrap their heads around is that they should be paying their long-tenured engineers above market rate. From an ethical point of view, maybe. From a rational point of view, maybe not. Jobs a
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by ukoki 5y ago
> What are the themes of this new movie, then, if not those? It falsely implies that Amanda is partially guilty for one (from the article): > McCarthy told Vanity Fair that “Stillwater’s ending was inspired not by the outcome of Knox’
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by ukoki 5y ago
> centimillion hectomillion, surely :) ? https://www.nist.gov/pml/weights-and-measures/metric-si-pref...
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by ukoki 5y ago
Possibly useful in dynamically typed languages. Definitely not useful at all in statically typed languages. And cloud resources are equivalent to statically typed - you cant turn an EC2 instance into an Elastic Load Balancer, for instance -
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by ukoki 5y ago
Resource types in the name is a pet peeve of mine. They should not be part of the name. An RDS instance can never be anything other than a database, no need for 'database' or 'db' or 'rds' in the name. Likewise
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by ukoki 5y ago
Next modal leaves school with a BTEC or crappy A-levels because they can't concentrate then gets a job in IT with a local firm and coasts along forever at 15-25k, automating the shit out of everything because although they have the int

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