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by zwischenzug 3y ago
I wrote about this in summer 2020, about London. Maybe it's happening but taking longer than I thought. https://zwischenzugs.com/2020/07/25/the-halving-of-the-centr...
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by zwischenzug 3y ago
Gambling.
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by zwischenzug 3y ago
Exactly.
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by zwischenzug 3y ago
Useful insight, but whether it's 5$ or 50$ a month, compared to dev costs that's a rounding error pretty much everywhere.
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by zwischenzug 3y ago
I've often mused about creating a language that put readability, maintainability, logging etc over, say, performance.
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by zwischenzug 3y ago
I still don't really get it. There are so many simple, easy to build, cheap to run three tier frameworks out there so why bother with all the hassle of porting at all? If your system gets super busy then you can repurpose the code with
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Cloud Repatriation Trends: Where Are We Now?(blog.container-solutions.com)
1 points by zwischenzug 4y ago|0 comments
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Software Security Field Guide for the Bewildered(blog.container-solutions.com)
2 points by zwischenzug 4y ago|0 comments
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Is It Imperative to Be Declarative?(blog.container-solutions.com)
57 points by zwischenzug 4y ago|73 comments
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by zwischenzug 4y ago
My parents told me this every time we went past it when I was growing up. https://londonist.com/2016/06/why-does-apsley-house-have-the... It looks from Wikipedia that that's a popular name rather than officia
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by zwischenzug 4y ago
Fair enough, I only used PS for a day or two.
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by zwischenzug 4y ago
I remember joking that PowerShell is a properly architected shell, which is why it was so uninspiring to use. I still use Bourne-derived shells because they're just so damn human.
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by zwischenzug 4y ago
I had the same thought, but I guess if you're paying someone for legal counsel then they need to be held responsible for the service they are giving, however they give it. That's qualitatively different from buying a legal textboo
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by zwischenzug 4y ago
My son's (he's 17) peers are all using it for homework at school. Agree on the wild ride though. This is like the advent of the electronic calculator on maths study, but the difference here is everyone has got it at once.
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by zwischenzug 4y ago
If it's one percent, that makes me think it's an announcement designed to help the share price, or send a message to its workforce, since 1% is close to natural attrition of a few months, ie some sort of hiring freeze could achiev
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by zwischenzug 4y ago
A business owner neighbour told me that marketing is the first chapter in all business books. No marketing, no business. Applied to my career, that advice changed my life.
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by zwischenzug 4y ago
> Still others raise an eyebrow at the large number of games he has played in recent years that get a score of nearly perfect from computer analysis. This has been debunked (just google it), and this confirms for me that this is very sha
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by zwischenzug 4y ago
This is an ad.
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by zwischenzug 4y ago
Not a script as such, but I did put this together, building on what someone else did: https://github.com/ianmiell/bash-template It's a 'cut and paste' starter for shell scripts that tries to be as robust
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by zwischenzug 4y ago
I do 4 hour long OReilly trainings. These are to about 100 people online you can't see or hear. The first time I did it, it was so stressful that I couldn't stand up afterwards - my legs were so tired. I also needed to switch my b
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by zwischenzug 4y ago
Author here. That's interesting, as I've not worked with healthcare too much. Others here have cited segregation of duties, which is definitely a factor, but the other one less mentioned in finance is the 'one throat to choke
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by zwischenzug 4y ago
Agreed.
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by zwischenzug 4y ago
Author here: yup Pendulum back to the center
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“Who Should Write the Terraform?”(zwischenzugs.com)
222 points by zwischenzug 4y ago|134 comments
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by zwischenzug 4y ago
Who is the minister for London? I live in London and have never heard of that title. Do you mean mayor?
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by zwischenzug 4y ago
Runbooks give more scope to human judgement and experience. But I don't know a formal difference.
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by zwischenzug 4y ago
Allocate resources to it. See: https://zwischenzugs.com/2017/04/04/things-i-learned-managin...
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by zwischenzug 4y ago
I couldn't agree with this more. What people hate is not Jira but the organisational thinking that it facilitates. I've used jira in other contexts and it's been mostly a joy because the processes it modelled were happily sim
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by zwischenzug 4y ago
It's the marginal rate, not the overall rate.
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by zwischenzug 4y ago
I wrote a post on this topic: https://www.google.com/amp/s/blog.container-solutions.com/wh... Based on moving from a technology company of 700 to a bank of 120000

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