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by xs83 7y ago
I think a lot of it stems from the fact that many javascript developers blindly use packages for the most basic of things. The Left Pad mentioned above is a prime example - do you really need a dependency for that? Start adding nested depen
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by xs83 7y ago
In Melbourne it is rare to see anything $140k+ if you are not in leadership role (Senior Developer / Tech Lead etc). Contractors obviously demand higher rates and $200k+ is realistic for a decent developer.
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by xs83 7y ago
At what point will Apple start innovating again rather than playing catch up? I can think of only a couple of truly useful and unique things they have on their phones currently: iMessage and Airdrop. Meanwhile you have companies like Google
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by xs83 8y ago
The modern keyboard is a throwback from Typewriters, Typewriters had a specific layout to actually SLOW your typing down so that the print arms didn't get jammed by ensuring that letters that are often used together translate to print
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by xs83 8y ago
Great write up! I do find the Australian system a bit confusing but that is basically because on the NHS in the UK there are literally no "costs" other than prescription costs. It seems a much simpler way but as you can see there
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by xs83 8y ago
You need to ask the following questions (to yourself): - Has your salary increased with inflation? - Has your job changed to include increased responsibilities? - Do you feel others are getting paid more than you for the same roles with sim
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by xs83 8y ago
Not yet....
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by xs83 8y ago
I honestly find this baffling that there is a "limit" on how much treatment you can have done based on an arbitrary $ cost. Australia generally has great "free" healthcare but even then it is complicated with rebates and
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by xs83 8y ago
Disagree - as someone who has worked solely with startups for the last 10 years it is crucial to know this. I have (on more that one occasion) been without pay for a period because "the funding ran out" - it is part and parcel of
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by xs83 8y ago
It occurs to me just how much the US has poisoned its citizens against a national medicare type system. You know - no one in the UK even thinks - "Well I am paying more in taxes to treat old people", we all realise that at some po
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by xs83 8y ago
Efficiency maybe not - but at least it is not run for the benefit of shareholders - that only ever means increasing prices. Look at the UK rail system - it's a farce!
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by xs83 8y ago
As someone who has lived in the UK with an amazing free healthcare system and now Australia who has a more complex model - but basically still universal free healthcare for the most part - I can safely say I took the NHS for granted in the
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by xs83 8y ago
With the efficiency savings from a nationalised entity 2-3x is a stretch, yes people will probably pay more tax, that tax will be significantly lower than what they probably pay for private medical care. It removes the onus on Employers to
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by xs83 8y ago
Personally I would say no. For me a CS degree is too general as post graduate study, You don't need to prove that you are capable of coding as (I assume) you have a decent online portfolio of your work / what you are capable of. Y
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by xs83 8y ago
It is a huge problem in this space, we see that. We also believe that transparency and data democratisation is a huge draw for users. I think everyone is aware nowadays that if a product is free, you, are in someway the product. One of the
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by xs83 8y ago
XXHash has made pretty decent inroads and is integrated into many products already, we use it for Geohashing at scale on Spark and can't fault it!
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by xs83 8y ago
Speed is only one factor of a data warehouse that should be considered, as someone who has moved through 3 of these in the past year we have settled on a mix of Spark, Presto and BigQuery depending on the workload. - Presto is not good at l
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by xs83 10y ago
If anyone has ever read the Commonwealth Saga by Peter F Hamilton (for those of you who haven't I highly recommend it), in this world there is no such thing as Retirement, your "pension" is actually just a savings bond to pay
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by xs83 10y ago
One (Large) company in the UK years ago - "Our psychometric tests indicate that you are possibly a smoker and we are a no smoking organisation" Have never even held a cigarette in my life let alone smoked one Tests included questi
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by xs83 10y ago
.local will also cause massive delays if you have a mac on your network