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by zinckiwi 6y ago
> too many people still look qualified after going through rounds of interviews Maybe we're not as special as we think and not just a few mythical uberengineers are qualified to do the take-something-from-here-and-put-it-there cod
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by zinckiwi 6y ago
1997. 1999 was Macau. I lived in Hong Kong until 1995. The Basic Law is supposed to apply for 50 years, so we should only be about halfway through that. The sense in the HK expat community at the time was skepticism that it would make it th
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by zinckiwi 6y ago
They are, but daylight saving time means that from April to October the time difference is 5 hours (NZT: +12, PDT: -7) and otherwise it's 3 hours (NZDT +13, PST -8). With a few weeks of a 4 hour difference at the edges since the daylig
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by zinckiwi 6y ago
In the US judges tend to be elected. That's not the norm around the world. US judges must to a certain extent be politicans, and "being tough on crime" plays well to the electorate. Many probably do feel their sentences are a
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by zinckiwi 6y ago
Ah, but will conspiracy theorists use Bic or Zippo to burn them down?
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by zinckiwi 6y ago
I'm in Tauranga -- I have gigabit fibre, reasonable taxes, an amazing Prime Minister and a 3-5 hour time difference with Silicon Valley depending on the season. I am fortunate enough to have a remote job for a distributed company but I
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by zinckiwi 6y ago
... Weave a circle round him thrice And close your eyes with holy dread For he on honey-dew hath fed And drunk the milk of Paradise.
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by zinckiwi 6y ago
Unfortunately it took a couple of generations! At a macro level, everything will be fine eventually, you're right. But short term pain regardless.
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by zinckiwi 7y ago
Yes, don't mean to minimise the challenge of having a home office that befits the name. While I am fortunate enough to have the space, my company does provide a stipend for people without it to e.g. rent a desk at a co-working space. M
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by zinckiwi 7y ago
Your home office is not a home office. My fear, being a proponent of distributed work, is that high-profile places will half-heartedly try it due to the current circumstances, declare it to be a failure, and take us two steps back.
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by zinckiwi 7y ago
I also bought a copy of the Cuckoo's Egg when I was 12ish and devoured it. Then figured out enough about BBSes and the weird link some of them had to be able to send email to write him some fan-mail, to which he graciously replied. Tha
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by zinckiwi 7y ago
I usually go with a Django or RoR monolith, something that I know I can run on a cheap DO droplet or similar, and while there's a fixed monthly cost it's reasonable and I can scale up with ease (albeit manually). If I were explici
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by zinckiwi 7y ago
That's a fair observation. I do go back and forth but in the end it's enough to swing me, in the principle-of-least-regret way.
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by zinckiwi 7y ago
I've often looked at and played with Firebase since it does so much of what I need to back a React Native-based app for simple mobile games and utilities. I always end up talking myself out of it due to Google's history of pulling
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by zinckiwi 7y ago
Boring is in the eye of the beholder. Sports like soccer and the longer forms of cricket are the opposite of boring to those who value suspense more than constant "action" (where I use "action" to mean the scoring mechan
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by zinckiwi 7y ago
Apple's About Us page will be all smiles.
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by zinckiwi 7y ago
Come to New Zealand! The NZ bakery/cafe[teria]/"tea rooms" is what you describe; grab a tray and a couple of small plates and go down the side of the establishment to self-serve from the hot cabinets with (savoury) pies,
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by zinckiwi 7y ago
Very true, I make homemade lemonade by just stirring it into lemon juice and cold water. No need to go through the simple syrup route.
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by zinckiwi 7y ago
Icing sugar (at least as I know it in Commonwealth countries) also contains cornstarch/cornflour.
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by zinckiwi 8y ago
I used to Photoshop>Pixellate a nice photograph very coarsely, and cherry pick a few colours from the resulting "swatch". Not sure how sound a method it was, but it got me past analysis paralysis when starting a new project.
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by zinckiwi 8y ago
1. Why should it be? 2. Even if you're a famous neurosurgeon, it's a good an index as any.
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by zinckiwi 8y ago
About 8 per day too many, no?
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by zinckiwi 8y ago
n://a?
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by zinckiwi 8y ago
No need for a tool, I can just go and stay in a Hilton.
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by zinckiwi 8y ago
Until the introduction of Cloud Function support, I believe that was essentially the execution model for Firebase.
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by zinckiwi 8y ago
Agreed. Why reinvent a wheel that's there for the using, when you could be working on the aspects of your project that make it your project ?
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by zinckiwi 8y ago
I like some coding in interviews. I try to make the tasks fairly real-world though. I am a UI engineer so my tasks typically fall into one of two buckets: - A take home (2-3 hours) task for retrieving tabular data from an API and displaying
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by zinckiwi 8y ago
Plus sheer manual dexterity, "/yell TRAIN TO ZONE" while running like the dickens yourself.
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by zinckiwi 8y ago
That would be great; in the meantime PortingKit [1] has a decent hit rate on select titles, and the GOG installables are always recommended over the Steam alternatives for obvious (DRM) reasons. 1: http://portingkit.com/en&#
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by zinckiwi 8y ago
Start off by going deep, not wide. You'll pick up other languages and technologies over time. Pick a stack that appeals to you and focus on it for a while, learning its idioms and best practices and improving your development fundament

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