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zerkten
6y ago
The process is quite a lot easier for the hire and the outcomes are frequently better for employer. A key point is that it is a much more substantial process than it is in tech, and the qualitative aspects are understood/accepted/
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zerkten
6y ago
You can embrace new tools and replace the old new tools. What you generally aren't able to do is to replace email not matter how hard you try. The appearance of email being replaced exists in some places, but you find pretty quickly th
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zerkten
6y ago
It wouldn't be under that specific clause, but GDPR gets attached to many situations because people don't have a clear understanding of what it is and the limitations. If you work for a global company you'll find GDPR attache
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zerkten
6y ago
As others have stated, coding development jobs are the best thing to aim for. They also give you a baseline that has value everywhere else. Others have provided good advice on this so I'll focus elsewhere. Documentation writing is some
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zerkten
6y ago
Looks like it might be a direct PowerPoint export. They might be open to suggestions from someone who has to manage large numbers of slides/images in the context of a teaching environment.
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6y ago
It seems like they haven't gotten to this, don't understand the needs and the potential, or aren't doing this intentionally. My understanding is that Docker maintains what amounts to a wrapper VM with nice integration to enab
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zerkten
6y ago
A problem in a lot of cases is that for some people, the discipline is about casting spells as opposed to solving problems. It doesn't take a lot of these people to damage projects, but they exist independent of pattern books. If I was
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6y ago
You can only reduce the window that the aircraft is vulnerable, or deploy some kind of countermeasure to provide additional cover. Only in the worst kind of situation is it acceptable to lose an aircraft like this, especially when you have
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zerkten
6y ago
Wouldn't it be more of a priority to move it for lower memory use and higher request speed? A better type system is good, but often these are a struggle with scaling interpreted languages compared to other lower level languages.
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6y ago
Get some experts in the area to rank your existing content and suggest weightings for their recommended sources. This is the less from launch after launch of really great sites that aggregate information. Let's take Stack Overflow as a
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6y ago
This is surprisingly common for large companies. It often isn't formalized because no one wants to dedicate engineers to going onsite with customers. Often the expert is too valuable to give up, or is a poor choice for customer engagem
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6y ago
This exists in almost every company by design. Engineering teams wouldn't make any progress towards their mission if they are constantly dealing with outside interruptions, but at the same time there are things which should be qualifie
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6y ago
That's why user uploads are worth some thought and consideration. File uploads normally gets treated as a nuisance by developers because it can become kind of fiddly even when it works and you are getting file upload bugs from support.
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6y ago
> I actually had a conversation with a product manager; I checked the yes you can contact me when I cancelled my account. They simply refused to admit that an upsell was a advertisement and that disrupting my workflow on my paid, profess
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6y ago
> We can only guess their motivations I don't understand this perspective, but I guess my own is built from experience. We can never know exactly what Twitter discussed internally before taking this action, but there is lots of exte
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6y ago
Liability and risk management. As soon as a lawyer becomes aware of a situation where an individual is using the service they are required to act to mitigate risk. There is no obligation for anyone to have access to a private service and th
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6y ago
> It's advised to use not the cheapest hoster here, because any little outage directly affects every site that implements your tracking technology. I guess it depends on how essential your tracking is, and how you've implemente
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6y ago
There can be some more nuance to this. The devs can often see the problems, but know more optimization is needed. They've done everything to implement what a PM asked. When the PM views it with ideal network conditions they assume it&#
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6y ago
> Politics is fine. But in general Reddit has so little content actually worth anyone's time that it's crazy to me how people spend so much time on it. I don't go to Reddit for content, I go for the community. That doesn&#
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6y ago
Are there any communities where the new site is preferred? I wonder if offering different experiences for what is the same site is actually working out better in practice than we'd expect. That contradicts what we seem to know about si
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6y ago
>> So, in reality, the right solution is probably: use UUIDs for keys, and don’t ever expose them. > Can someone shed light on this? Some of the answers over at https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/question
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> I prefer the upgradeability. The market doesn't care about such niche concerns, but it'll not flip completely overnight. I like the idea of upgradeability too, but when the trade-off is such great performance, I'm not go
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6y ago
> That thing about the filesystem performance could have been the occasion to optimize NTFS and even to add to the NT kernel the support for other filesystem, natively. I doubt that would be feasible given how important backwards compat
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6y ago
> I wonder if I am the only one that loves debugging difficult/weird problems. Same here. At times, I'd prefer to just work on debugging things for colleagues versus writing rather boring code. It can give some insights when it
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6y ago
That seems like a good approach. Andy Slavitt's podcast had really good coverage of this recently: https://www.lemonadamedia.com/podcast/toolkit-how-to-stay-sa... .
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> Especially if someone has already booked flights that may be non-refundable, they are likely to go anyway. With the pandemic I completely stopped following the details of the aviation and airline industries (a combo of not flying and i
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6y ago
The BBC asked a similar question after the event: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-53755289 .
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6y ago
I think VS Code will get there very quickly given demand and availability on Windows ARM. For nginx etc, many people have moved to Docker or uses Vagrant workflows which may slow them down. Anyone who follows more classic workflows or insta
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6y ago
It is when the policy enacted is reasonably close to the one you'd expect from intervention. There are multiple possible outcomes here ranging from this being insufficient progress to enough progress splintered across separate changes
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6y ago
Are you hosting any databases in Dokku, or do you keep data outside? For a very small PaaS keeping the DB on a separate node feels like the most reliable option.
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