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by was_boring 10y ago
I thought they asked for your HN username. What else would they do with it?
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by was_boring 10y ago
Color fading is a real concern in many industries. I have an old munsell book (the standard for coloring dirt) from a retired geologist and it's no where near the color in new copies.
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by was_boring 10y ago
Let's not forget about the social aspect -- testing is seen by many in the industry as a less prestigious activity, one which you hire barely competent "developers" and can hurt career progression if accepting a job doing it
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by was_boring 10y ago
I also refuse to take drug tests. I also refuse to get security clearances, which makes it a little more challenging living in the DC area.
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Ask HN: What are your best (relatively) passive, non-stock-market investments?
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by was_boring 10y ago
Air travel is very stressful, so stressful that I am scared of the security more than any threats they supposedly protect us from. I fly regularly for my job and about 6 months ago I was "randomely selected" for extra screening --
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by was_boring 10y ago
Why would these companies want a private blockchain instead of using a database and a history table? Or even more simple, timestamp log files? Is this many companies coming together to put clearinghouses out of business and therefor needs t
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Robot stitches tissue by itself, a step to more automated OR(washingtonpost.com)
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by was_boring 10y ago
Always on webrtc, screen sharing and realtime document collaboration. There are remote controlled robots with iPad faces, but I think those are more of a gimmick. So really just evolutionary, nothing revolutionary.
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by was_boring 10y ago
It's unclear what sort of prep work the author put into each interview, but interviewing is nothing more than a sales pitch and a "game" to be played. I'm 100% self taught, having never set foot in a CS classroom, and th
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by was_boring 10y ago
He has a job, and I would imagine a network of supporters.
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by was_boring 11y ago
At my job we use docker compose for this. Each service is able to be worked on in isolation just by cloning the repo, and we have a separate repo which ties them all together and can bring them all up at the same time (or individually) if y
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by was_boring 11y ago
> Call me cynical, but I'm a bit skeptical that a company would pay more than they had to. I think it also depends on the type of company and what they are after -- are they looking to save money by outsourcing or are they looking t
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by was_boring 11y ago
Actually, in California and several other states you can sell certain items as long as you do not pass a given revenue number per year. See http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/08/food-entrepreneurs/
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by was_boring 11y ago
I use docker, specifically docker-compose to do just that. So far it's 7 containers spread across 5 code bases all brought up with one command, `docker-compose up`. The django quickstart guide is a good starting point for wrapping your
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by was_boring 11y ago
My personal preference is to either have a "deleted_at" column so deletes never need to happen, or have a "history" table. When this isn't possible, I do a select for the PK and delete based upon only the PK. This w
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by was_boring 11y ago
I perfer the verbosity because it helps with eliminating ambiguity when the code changes hands or goes into "maintenance". This is especially true in weakly, or duck, typed languages. Both have merits though.
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by was_boring 11y ago
Exactly. I once identified memory leaks in a managed runtime implementation, worked around them, and showed that third party networking libraries from the hardware vendor were causing irrecoverable crashes but I can't spout off runtime
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by was_boring 11y ago
I had a job like that once, and it was clear to me I didn't fit there for a variety of reasons so I left because I wanted to make a difference at my job and not be a "resource". I then got a job at a "stable" startu