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by valbaca 6y ago
I never worked in AWS Really just gossip is what you have to go off of initially. After you've been at the company for a bit, when you're interested in a new team, you can usually get some meet-and-greet meeting with current membe
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by valbaca 6y ago
amznymous here you're 100% right
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by valbaca 6y ago
amznymous here Thanks :)
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by valbaca 6y ago
amznymous here You are absolutely right. As other have pointed out, it's probably 1000x worse to be a doctor saddled with med school debt who is literally operating on people. I will not argue that, ever. But that's also not me an
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by valbaca 6y ago
amznymous here Don't do it :) Please don't be envious It didn't produce good code, but to be fair, the project didn't need to have great code, just working code. It absolutely increased the bug count. Again, in hindsight
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by valbaca 6y ago
amznymous here. You're right. The proportional compensation is something I was very wrong about. At the time, I was also in debt due to being straight out of college and having been dumb AF with money (student loans, car, & credit
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by valbaca 6y ago
Hi there. So, I wrote this. I'm the original author. I'm amznymous (still proud of that username) It's wild to see this pop-up at the top of HackerNews 5 years later, but I'd be more than happy to answer any questions an
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by valbaca 6y ago
I've been using Pocket for free since 2011: getpocket.com It's not great or perfect but it's good enough for "to read later" and keeping a running "grimoire" I've tried other methods: chrome bookmarks
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by valbaca 6y ago
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23067181
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by valbaca 7y ago
"""So where can I find your blog? """
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by valbaca 7y ago
woooosh
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by valbaca 7y ago
Why can't companies provide feedback iff the candidate agrees that the feedback is subject to NDA? Interview candidates already sign NDAs for the coding questions asked. Granted those NDAs are always ignored (based on coding interview
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by valbaca 7y ago
It's good to hear I'm not the only one having frustrations with the Magic Keyboard and Notes. Otherwise, I'm also a fan of how perfectly minimal and focused Notes is for journaling.
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by valbaca 7y ago
"Inspired by investors" (as opposed to "Inspired by inventors") got me good.
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by valbaca 7y ago
The title isn't bad: "ignoring" implies they were never on AWS and just went their own way.
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by valbaca 7y ago
During our team's recent move/restack, about 80% of our desks were replaced with adjustable standing desks. The door desk is dying.
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by valbaca 7y ago
My company provides a pretty standard laptop, but they rarely have more than 2 cores. In native app development, Android Studio and Xcode are severely bottlenecked by 2 cores. The difference between my laptop and my Mac Mini (6 cores) is as
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by valbaca 7y ago
It appears that it would depend on the keyboard. Some did a subtraction of the code and others did a bitwise AND. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_character#How_control_...
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by valbaca 7y ago
tl;dr: Clojure, Spacemacs, and gardening. I had similar thoughts about Go. I got excited about it but didn't find that learning it was really that difficult. That's good if you're learning it to quickly use it but I'm lo
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by valbaca 7y ago
+1 Here's why: ag provides sane default and settings for developers. grep is ubiquitous and great, but to do what most developers want it requires some guidance, whereas ag focuses on being what you want most of the time. What I mean b
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by valbaca 7y ago
Or just buy Goo Gone https://googone.com/
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by valbaca 7y ago
Looks useful! FYI, Your Java install example points to a broken link (no version specified) $ curl https://download.sqreen.com/java/sqreen-.jar -o sqreen.jar
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by valbaca 7y ago
"Martyr" is probably more apt.
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by valbaca 7y ago
Dupe. Too slow: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20087168
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by valbaca 7y ago
To save someone else a search: obby means "obstacle course"
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by valbaca 7y ago
Thanks for the suggestion (and for using AmazonSmile!)
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by valbaca 7y ago
I've taken the class within Amazon. Honestly there isn't anything that you couldn't get by simply reading and applying the advice from "The Elements of Style" by Strunk and White[1] and "On Writing Well"
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by valbaca 8y ago
Here's the product page in question: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Orlco-Paintings-Decoration-Collecti... You can clearly see the artist's signature cut-off in the bottom left of the image. Here it is on the artist&#x2
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by valbaca 8y ago
Works perfectly with people! Such a well done and simple tool. Of course I'm biased, but I think putting in the effort to have this work with pets would be well worth the time. There's services that allow you to turn photos with t
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by valbaca 8y ago
> I guess some folks weren't watching the news and didn't get word before hand. How would have knowing about it changed anything if you can't opt out?

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