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by xchaotic 10y ago
"The main goal of the team was to implement a job processing pipeline that was vendor agnostic and cloud-based" I wonder if they feel they've achieved it? How much work would it be to switch away from their choice of JS libra
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by xchaotic 10y ago
I sent this to my ex-employer along with my resignation letter. Didn't help me, but they are now accepting remote workers.
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by xchaotic 10y ago
One easy thing I've found was to simply charge less. if you substract all your expenses - commute, office, lunch and coffee money, you can get away with charging a lot less. That way you can target a wider range of roles (roles that wo
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by xchaotic 10y ago
I would like to once more criticize the fact that BBC re-invented the wheel (and micro:bit) at a time where $5 Raspberry Pi 0 is widely available. It would have been much better to spend the effort of producing better learning software and
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by xchaotic 10y ago
Bad analysis. Nowadays, my bookings are 50/50 split between regular hotels and apartment rentals. I would have stayed in hotels 100% if there was no alternative.
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by xchaotic 10y ago
It's not the first time I read about Barcelona but it is more than just street layout that makes a city tick. It's the people, culture, history, weather, waste and delivery trucks. So you can't just do the exact same thing to
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by xchaotic 10y ago
If i read this correctly, this should expire in 4 years anyway, I know it's a lot of time in tech, but might be around the same time that trial completes?
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by xchaotic 10y ago
This may not go down too well, but it is an opinion I heard and I personally agree with (having worked in UK gov institution and that far from GDS): GDS is wasting taxpayer money, spending way too much attention on minute details like apost
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by xchaotic 10y ago
Actually ruins are just that - pieces of broken stone at best. They are not that interesting on their own in my view, but they are often in great locations - old towns with cafes and museum or top of the hill, with great views etc If it&#x2
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by xchaotic 10y ago
This. No matter how you spin it, shipping and handling large TVs is costly. Even a small % of failed units is going to cost you plenty for shipping returns alone. And the margins on TVs are as slim as modern TVs, I think the likes of Sony c
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by xchaotic 10y ago
Show me those cheap 55" 4k monitors that you speak of. I know Vizio TV that are cheap, but to my knowledge no 'monitors' exist in that size or price range.
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by xchaotic 10y ago
This is wrong. Modern TV follow standard 'bathtub' curve for failures. If the TV hasn't had any faults when new, it's not very likely to develop any new ones as it hasn't got any moving parts and things that wear an
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by xchaotic 10y ago
Rather than artificially avoid 9 to 5, I am now in a job where 9 to 5 makes a lot of sense (for worldwide 24/7 coverage) I clock out at 5ish and I don't worry about work until next day or after the weekend. No such thing with a bu
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by xchaotic 10y ago
Is there anything preventing the abuse of this systems to share copyrighted content? Just call it "Population.Data.torrent" where the actual data is a movie?
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by xchaotic 10y ago
I think I will be fine, thanks. I'll stick to my shell scripts, so far they've outlived any other devops fad.
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by xchaotic 10y ago
It sounds like the wrong question or a solution looking for a problem. Are you already hitting traffic that can't be handled by big servers? Do you actually have a problem?
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by xchaotic 10y ago
I also appreciate the review, but I think it's a case of too little, too late and too expensive. For that price you can simply build a spare HTPC in a box of similar size or get a powerful laptop with good GPU built-in.
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by xchaotic 10y ago
I will be very grateful for stories, opinions, links and I can provide more background or details if necessary.
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by xchaotic 10y ago
When it comes to it, people still use C where it matters. It has it's bare metal beauty, like a sharp knife, unless you know what're doing, you're more likely to cut yourself than do anything useful.
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Ask HN: AWS or bust? Support the AWS services or compete with them?
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by xchaotic 10y ago
5G is still a shared-medium carrier so it will get congested no matter how fast the total is - all it takes is a few bad or uneducated players spamming the wireless spectrum. Or just bad weather.
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by xchaotic 10y ago
Funny how most articles mention family as the only acceptable thing to do outside of work, Even, or especially when you're young, there's more to life than shaving milliseconds from that query code. Working OT should not only be d
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by xchaotic 10y ago
But can it run at 4k 60fps, VSync on, which seems to be the sweet spot for PC gamers with big budget (and big 4 screens/projectors)?
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by xchaotic 10y ago
I agree with, basically Musk is hoping that investors won't lose confidence in the company for several more years. However, this model has so far proven worked with Amazon and a few others and I think there is enough shareholders willi
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by xchaotic 10y ago
So basically Sublime / Textmate / VSCode / Atom that you can only use for Markdown and not other syntaxes and one htat you _have_ to pay for? Yay! Also somehow I think being only able to publish your blog posts from one devic
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by xchaotic 10y ago
How did you end up there? Did you go on holiday? And it infuriated you that you were able to enjoy the beautiful scenery on that road, whilst enjoying the holiday?
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by xchaotic 10y ago
1. Operating Systems: it's easy to take them for granted, but nowadays they just work, for both Windows and macOS and even Ubuntu are fine. Linux kernel is particularly impressive - I have a server with 1800 days uptime. Mobile OSes ar
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by xchaotic 10y ago
Tl;dr 20gbps virtual Nic
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by xchaotic 10y ago
It's really good that they were honest about it. An hour or so of downtime basically throws any five nines SLA out of the window for the entire year.
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by xchaotic 10y ago
Can anyone point me to why they chose TCP over UDP. I mean if a packet is resent several seconds later, it's of no use so why waste bandwidth on TCP overhead and unnecessary ACKs?

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