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by zerkten 9y ago
It seems like people never make this assessment, or use the GIL argument to put interpreted languages down. I personally run into I/O bound problems way more often than CPU bound ones. That said, I'm mainly doing things in the rea
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by zerkten 9y ago
I'm about halfway through "The Miracle of Dunkirk: The True Story of Operation Dynamo" by Walter Lord. Finding it to be a good read and it looks like it's still only $2.99 on Kindle if that sways it for anyone.
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by zerkten 9y ago
I think people understand the theory, but do most people have enough traffic on a side project to have viable A/B tests?
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by zerkten 9y ago
It seems that if you plugged into an ethernet port at many companies you'd be able to grab a lot of valuable information due to the lack of HTTPS. The move to SaaS products by departments inadvertently protects the company data in this
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by zerkten 9y ago
I'm not sure that any of these UI frameworks are going to get much traction, simply because they aren't as flexible, and don't solve web problems as well as the existing solutions. A search turned up https://github
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by zerkten 9y ago
Many people making "REST" APIs don't even know what media types are which means many REST APIs are impure. That doesn't mean that the author won't add these based on feedback, or that they they have something in par
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by zerkten 9y ago
Q&A tools (or features for existing community/collaboration tools) are an common request in the enterprise space. Virtually every large organization has some kind of knowledge manager either trying to build, or manage tools for thi
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by zerkten 9y ago
Both of those are much more "free form". You have to put effort in to get some value out. That's before you think of culture, and for it to be the norm for people to use those tools. SO has structure for Q&A which solves
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by zerkten 9y ago
It looks like it's a survey of startup-type organisations listed on that particular site. All across the globe there are plenty of SQL Server and .NET-related roles, but many are corporate jobs and not posted to the same places.
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by zerkten 9y ago
It seems to me that a lot of the technology making up PWA has been bundled with a PWA philosophy that has made it difficult for folks coming from a progressive enhancement background to understand how it can be applied. Too many people make
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by zerkten 9y ago
Pharma use it a fair bit, especially for Cheminformatics.
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by zerkten 9y ago
It's hard to know without knowing what your intro to C++ looked like, and what your background is. If you can get through Accelerated C++, then some of those books may be useful once you've gotten some practice. From http:/&
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by zerkten 9y ago
There is an overview on https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/c... .
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by zerkten 9y ago
Is there a reason for this? When I see something like it makes me question what it'll be like for larger clusters.
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by zerkten 9y ago
You could be strict and limit this conversation to formal boot camps, but the reality is that this training is happening in a lot of different places. I've been mentoring a number of our senior support folks on coding, and they've
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by zerkten 9y ago
It was divested for a number of reasons. First, there was (and still is) the Python 2 to 3 transition. Supporting Python 3 added a lot of overhead while full Python 2 support was not available yet. It also turns out that a lot of popular Py
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by zerkten 10y ago
I haven't been able to get through all of the content, but do you touch on any of the following: * Changing field to apply skills in a different way. * Going back to school later in your career. * Moving from roles that have a stigma a
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by zerkten 10y ago
>> Typically someone paying $2k for a ticket is likely in business class, and they'd only ever bump someone from economy. That is not true. There are cases of business and first class being bumped ( http://www.latimes.c
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by zerkten 10y ago
It's more likely that an employer in Europe, or Asia will ask for this. If you were coming to the US on an H1B visa, you'll have to file paperwork as part of the credential evaluation. For me, this involved a third-party reviewing
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by zerkten 10y ago
Hiring an independent financial adviser was one of the best decisions I've ever made. It's an occasional check-in to support decisions I make around investments with Vanguard and my 401k. Finding an adviser is the hard part, so it
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by zerkten 10y ago
This is so very true based on my experiences with pharma. The only addition I'd make in year 1 is that most of the company is told that everything will be business as usual. It's not "BAU" because the Offshore IT team br
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by zerkten 10y ago
Python has async/await since Python 3.5. I recall Guido acknowledging C# in a Pycon keynote. I don't think Guido hates (or misunderstands) functional features, but rather prefers Python to be something different from what you want
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by zerkten 10y ago
> If you want speed you go to any other scripting language (other than Ruby). Ruby has historically had the same issues. Most Pythonistas I know aren't so evangelical. It's mostly a question of how to go about integrating C&#x2
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by zerkten 10y ago
This is true in some organizations, but it can depend on the culture and assumptions that people have about remote working. There are many companies that are bought into having people all in the same place because it helps with "veloci
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by zerkten 10y ago
Any tips for the things that should be covered? Do you actually go into a lot of detail, or do you just suggest that the high-level area, and whether it's a commercial endeavor?
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by zerkten 10y ago
If you are running a large team, and handing out resources to people you may not directly manage, it'd be nice to be able to enforce billing alerts on certain individuals. Is there a way to do that? I've seen engineering teams han
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You can have situations where you are prepared to recruit someone with potential versus being the final article. In those situations the overqualified candidates may not compare well with what you consider the potential of the slightly unde
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by zerkten 10y ago
Do you have a list of guides you recommend for getting started with YubiKey?
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by zerkten 10y ago
Is "lack of effort" really the cause in the US? College completion rates seem to be heavily impacted by finances based on what I've heard on NPR.