ukoki

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by ukoki 5y ago
Yep I'm based in UK, I don't speak any German, and it's never caused issues.
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by ukoki 5y ago
There is also the "expensive contractor" modal which can easily be in the 150-250k for big corporate clients. For this you don't need leetcode so much as familiarity with enterprise tech stacks -- the more obscure the better;
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by ukoki 5y ago
You can make plenty of money doing enterprise devops freelancing with the big German companies. I'm currently on around £320k/year contracting for a couple of household-name companies. I think most of these companies are based in
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by ukoki 5y ago
$549/mo lease on a Tesla model 3 + $199/mo for FSD could surely buy a lot of Uber/Lyft rides -- with the added benefit that you could drive drunk and don't need a parking space.
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by ukoki 5y ago
It fails with complementary products, like when you give away a browser for free to boost your search engine business.
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by ukoki 5y ago
Someone needs to start a ransomware operation were decryption keys are never released even after the ransom is paid. This will poison the well of ransomware and hopefully make it untenable as a business as no victim could reasonably trust t
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by ukoki 5y ago
AKA the OpenAI definition of Open
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by ukoki 5y ago
And don't calculate averages like Github Copilot or you'll get NaNs and/or panics when the denominator is zero func averageRuntimeInSeconds(runs []Run) float64 { var totalTime int var failedRuns int for
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by ukoki 5y ago
The averageRuntimeInSeconds example does not check for division by zero so it creates broken code at least 20% of the time based on the examples on the homepage :)
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by ukoki 5y ago
I guess they'll never go for this but they could do something like select 1% of buyers at random and pay them (or refund product cost) to write a meaningful review with pictures with updates at fixed intervals so the product is evaluat
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by ukoki 6y ago
If you use a third-party builder like Paketo you can use buildpacks anywhere you can use docker images https://paketo.io/docs/builders/
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by ukoki 6y ago
Apple needs streaming games via the browser to be good enough so that the app store is not considered a monopoly, but not good enough to be an actual viable alternative.
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by ukoki 6y ago
Interesting. Makes me wonder if you could train a machine learning model to take one or more football match video streams as input and turn them into a live 3d model. You then argue that the model simply documents the facts of the game, so
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by ukoki 6y ago
Whatever you think of Mark Zuckerberg, you can't accuse him of being stupid or lazy
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by ukoki 6y ago
> The Software Developers will follow the path of the Autoworkers of the 60s, once a high paid and esteemed profession which becomes a menial job with average pay. Not if we keep raising the barrier to entry by developing and making fash
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by ukoki 6y ago
Your cost of living is not the floor -- just ask Uber drivers. An income of less than the cost of living is still better than nothing. The floor is the next best thing you have available, or the minimum wage if applicable.
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by ukoki 6y ago
Even from a purely selfish perspective, Apple should have been doing this all along. As a platform, Apple has an incentive to prevent any one app in any one market grabbing monopoly, because the app maker will have too strong a negotiating
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by ukoki 6y ago
However employers decide to compensate employees in our post-Covid future, it doesn't matter because they must still participate in the market. If an employer's particular remote-salary algorithm spits out a number that is less th
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by ukoki 6y ago
> is there moral obligation to do your job well instead of let's say watching youtube and doing bare minimum not to get fired? No You can choose to do well to avoid being fired. You can choose to do well to chase a promotion. You ca
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by ukoki 6y ago
I meant using TOTP (app-based) two-factor authentication for securing your DNS provider and domain registrar accounts. The reason for not using SMS-based two-factor authentication is that it is not very secure https://techcrunch.
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by ukoki 6y ago
Incoming Tump TikTok ban whataboutism in 3...2...1...
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by ukoki 6y ago
It's insurance, a waste of money most of the time, and extremely good value for money very occasionally
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by ukoki 6y ago
To add to this: Never use a @gmail.com address, buy your own domain and pay the $6/mo to get a Google GSuite with your name@fullname.com address instead. If Google locks your account, you can now move your email hosting to another prov
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by ukoki 6y ago
Having different pay ranges for different countries still exposes Reddit to currency fluctuations.
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by ukoki 6y ago
Contract work pays around 2x the equivalent salary, and maybe around 1.5x after you account for lack of paid holidays, sick days, employer pension contributions, and downtime between contracts (although this can vary a lot depending on your
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by ukoki 6y ago
> to describe our technical debt! Are you sure? Debt that gets diluted to nothing like those airmiles or deposits in a Venezuelan bank would be best kind of debt.
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by ukoki 6y ago
Liveable wages might be one part of it, but blackcabs also charge more due to restricted supply caused by a 3-4 year qualification requirement that is almost completely obsolete in the age of GPS navigation.
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by ukoki 6y ago
Competitors will give someone a fake negative review... it happens all the time on Amazon
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by ukoki 6y ago
People are paid based on how much a similarly skilled worker is willing to work for, not based on how much value they generate for a company.
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by ukoki 6y ago
Nice -- I used this technique last year to generate "transport-tycoon-like" terrain: https://peterellisjones.com/posts/generating-transport-tycoo...

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