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by ukoki 8y ago
Because people whose startups tanked due to them not keeping an eye on competitors are likely under-represented in the category of "things Hacker News pays attention to".
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by ukoki 8y ago
Agree! Changing clients is preferable as there are more opportunities for networking, and there is a novelty factor: Each slow-moving bureaucratically-controlled poorly-defined enterprise IT project is slow-moving, bureaucratically-controll
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by ukoki 8y ago
I've been thinking about an "inverse secretary problem" for choosing contract jobs: 1. I have a limited time in which to secure the next contract 2. Potential clients opportunities appear at a fixed rate (eg 1-2/week) 3.
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by ukoki 8y ago
Shanghai and London may have similar costs of living after certain factors are accounted for, but that’s a coincidence not a rule. Compare Manchester and London. London has much higher rents and higher prices in shops, bars and restaurants.
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by ukoki 8y ago
> Not as bad as snap but what could they possibly be spending $100 million a year on? They are working on self-driving cars — which likely comes with massive storage requirements for recorded sensor data, and the compute to crunch it.
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by ukoki 8y ago
This just sounds like bullying to me.
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by ukoki 8y ago
Drug addiction already comes with so many negative side affects that you don't need the added incentive of potentially losing access to housing. If I offered you lifetime room and board in return for a crippling heroin addiction would
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by ukoki 8y ago
> If insurance rates were standardized, there’d be a lot more sports cars out there Is insurance that large a cost factor? I would imagine the increased cost of the car and fuel costs would still be strong incentives against upgrading
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by ukoki 8y ago
Or a Spanish "cafe con hielo": An espresso served alongside a tumbler of ice cubes.
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by ukoki 8y ago
It's just YAML until you need: * multi-tenancy * auto-scaling * security auditing * automated os/container patching * multi-tenant self-service route/ingress management * multi-tenant self-service logging, monitoring and aler
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by ukoki 8y ago
"Every sufficiently large K8s deployment contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a PaaS" K8s may well be the best foundation upon which to build a PaaS, but I think building a PaaS shou
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by ukoki 8y ago
The pessimists' view is that automation will deprecate a heap of jobs in the tech industry that will never return. The optimists' view is that automation simply allows companies to do more stuff: things they couldn't afford
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by ukoki 8y ago
This is why it should be illegal to pay a ransom
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by ukoki 8y ago
Any idea why there's such a narrow peak at 160k? Is it a tax efficiency thing or are law firms colluding on salary? (or something else?)
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by ukoki 8y ago
I read it as both children acting in bad faith. The hummer acts in bad faith by following the letter, not the spirit of the law and humming "loudly and triumphantly" in as annoying a manner as possible. The hummee acts in bad fait
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by ukoki 8y ago
I have sympathy for those cleaning floors at Facebook HQ, but it's disingenuous to suggest that the engineers (with compensation packages many multiples the local median, getting daily LinkedIn recruiter spam) "have no choice&quot
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by ukoki 8y ago
Nice! Here's my attempt at a _De Stijl_ themed classic game: https://peterellisjones.com/posts/theo-van-doesburg-counter-...
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by ukoki 8y ago
You can also get unlimited everything at £20/mo though. Three in the UK ( http://www.three.co.uk/ ) have unlimited mobile data for £20/mo on a 12 month contract. You get: - unlimited calls and texts in UK and 71 oth
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by ukoki 8y ago
Location: London, UK Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Willing to travel for short engagements Technologies: Cloud Foundry, Terraform, Google Cloud, AWS, vSphere, Concourse, Bash, Ruby, Golang Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.
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by ukoki 8y ago
> salaries are unheard in Europe This income exists in the UK for contractors. $150k/year is a day-rate of approximately £500/day if you take four weeks off per year. This is slightly higher than the median but reasonably achie
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by ukoki 8y ago
Nice. This means frequent VM repaving for security reasons / OS updates will not reset the sustained use discount.
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by ukoki 8y ago
> eg, if I have cleaning work that requires 1hr of labour and generates value of $10, it theoretically will not happen under a minimum wage regime of $11/hr True, but I think the far more common scenario is this: I have cleaning wor
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by ukoki 8y ago
Location: London, UK (can travel internationally for short engagements) Remote: Can do remote or on-site Willing to relocate: Not for long periods of time Technologies: Cloud Foundry (PCF and OSS flavours), Concourse, BOSH, Terraform, AWS&#
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by ukoki 9y ago
Completely agree — I'll happily rewrite something 17 times on a hobby project. But at work I'm also the first person on the team to ask "do we need this?"
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by ukoki 9y ago
I'm surprised how many people here are snow-flaking their own web application servers instead of just using Heroku. Heroku is $25/dyno/month. At $100/hr for a dev a Heroku dyno costs 15minutes of dev time per month. If y
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or use cloudflare https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl/
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by ukoki 9y ago
Have a CI/CD pipeline that does the following: - unit tests each service - all services fan-in to a job that builds a giant tar file of source/code artefacts. This includes a metadata file that lists service versions or commit has
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by ukoki 9y ago
My standard way of "smoke testing" docker images is to run a verify script at the end that just checks all the expected binaries are in the path, and tries to access any expected environment variables while `-u` is set. https:&#x
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by ukoki 9y ago
Yep! I contacted customer support over a month ago as I am unable to make withdrawals. Still haven't heard a thing from them.
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by ukoki 9y ago
Personally I find Concourse to be better at CD than CI. We've been using it for a couple of years now to deploy Cloud Foundry which has a complex dependency graph of deployment steps. Concourse pipelines are great at modelling this,

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