Amasuriel

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by Amasuriel 3y ago
Both of these extremes to me are both just lack of actual leadership. A real leader should absolutely value and respect the input of their team, but also know when to just say “of the options, this is what we are going with, here is the tra
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by Amasuriel 3y ago
It’s not quite the same, many people with hearing loss only lose hearing on part of the spectrum, so it’s not just about making things louder, it’s about making the specific frequencies louder in ratio to the loudness of the noise.
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by Amasuriel 3y ago
Decay implies simple neglect, vs deliberate actions that make the platforms or systems worse, sometimes out of incompetence, but often because the companies objectives no longer align with the customers.
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by Amasuriel 3y ago
Location: Brantford (Toronto area, Canada) UTC-5 Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: C#, F#, Scala, Spark, Python, Elasticsearch, Data Engineering in general, some ML, Azure/Aws/Kubernetes, l
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by Amasuriel 3y ago
Not particularly good though. I did a fair bit of looking at them and tried a few on loan a couple years ago. At the time at least, you have to set up an electronic fence to set boundaries, which is very annoying if you have scattered garde
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by Amasuriel 3y ago
I don’t think this is particularly representative, since most Canadian companies that hire outside of Canada (even in the same time zone) are doing it because they can pay less. Pre pandemic senior roles were usually double that or more. Ev
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by Amasuriel 3y ago
This seems like either a regional and/or phase of life difference. As a homeowner in Canada for example, I often have need to find contractors for home items for example, like I just replaced a few windows. Most of those businesses do
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by Amasuriel 3y ago
The tone of your comment seems to indicate you think this is obviously a bad thing? Prescriptions would just be doctors recommendations in this case. There could still be mechanisms to softly encourage only this usage, like insurance only c
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by Amasuriel 3y ago
Azure has this too, you can have what they somewhat confusingly call subscriptions, which are logical units with their own billing, limits and permissions inside and organizations account.
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by Amasuriel 3y ago
Do a lot of people really use the UI of any of the cloud services? Most people want managed infra, which means at least cli scripts if not terraform. Not arguing the Azure UI is amazing, but it’s low on my list of concerns personally for cl
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by Amasuriel 3y ago
For what it’s worth there is a tabular view that has more item detail. Things like marketplace subscriptions can often appear as Other in the graph. I’m pretty happy with azure. I’ve not used GCP but vs AWS I find permission management a lo
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by Amasuriel 3y ago
People often seem to equate retirement, as in you no longer need to do things you don’t want to do just for money, to assume that those people are going to sit around all day. People need purpose, no doubt. And while I’m sure there are peop
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by Amasuriel 4y ago
In the 80s and 90s (when I grew up) there was still a sense that technology was capable and going to be empowering people and making lives better, healthier, more convenient. Even though in many ways this wasn’t really true at the time eith
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by Amasuriel 4y ago
I agree. The whole article is pinned on the idea that infinite economic growth is not only possible, but critical. Even given that premise, it assumes that population growth is required for that. I don’t feel like you need to be an economis
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by Amasuriel 4y ago
It’s actually worse than that. I would hardly count myself among the best, but I’m certainly experienced and would absolutely love to try and fix the absolutely appalling state of health care records for example. But besides there being no
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by Amasuriel 4y ago
I was also very pleasantly surprised by K6. The load tests are written in JavaScript, the api is super clean. It’s command line only, but the command line output is really readable. I’m sure it doesn’t cover all the edge cases of Jmeter, bu
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by Amasuriel 4y ago
I don’t know what they are like in California, but where I live in Canada developers are generally disliked because 1) They tend to build houses not communities, for example it’s rare a developer will include parks, community spaces like ma
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by Amasuriel 4y ago
Because most of the reasons modern settlement is T+2 and cross jurisdiction trading is extremely complex is about regulations in those jurisdictions and various forms of counter party risk mitigation. Crypto currencies and equities largely
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by Amasuriel 4y ago
Or F# if you want a wider ecosystem, it’s based on Ocaml and has many nice functional features, but you can utilize any .net code you want
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by Amasuriel 4y ago
The logical conclusion is that THOSE ads don’t work, not that ads don’t work in general. I am no fan of digital advertising, but there is a lot of variation on ad platform, targeting, ad content, ad space etc that will make a massive differ
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by Amasuriel 5y ago
I would like to point out that you also appear to be making sweeping statements. I don’t agree with you that colocated teams have an inherent advantage, or that they require more management to be productive than a remote team on average.
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by Amasuriel 5y ago
I would add that sometimes there are some truly magical food experiences lurking in there if you have an open mind, and Michelin restaurants are a good place to try new things. A few years ago I ate at the modern in New York. Most of the ta
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by Amasuriel 5y ago
Unfortunately like many areas of medicine (at least in Canada), sleep specialists will do a sleep study, and unless your sleep is sues fall cleanly inside a condition they can treat (cpap for apnea for example) you are on your own except fo
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by Amasuriel 5y ago
I think the psychology of pay raises and inflation is interesting. I’ve never heard anyone when inflation was low taking about how their 20% pay raise (from moving to another company for example) was 18% over inflation. This comparison of p
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by Amasuriel 5y ago
I'm surprised by the negative reaction to this in some of the comment. I don't think this is an attack on modern medicine or drugs, but I think it resonates because it highlights the impersonal, 1 sized fits all approach we often
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by Amasuriel 5y ago
I recently started a small project on Azure for something new, but most of my experience is small companies on AWS which is similar. If you aren’t already comfortable with K8 I wouldn’t use them, there is a learning curve there for sure and
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by Amasuriel 5y ago
I agree with this, my schedule was always more the same working from an office than at home: 1) same 5 restaurants to reasonably eat at, or packed lunch options that reheat well 2) same work location 3) same limited number of places to take
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by Amasuriel 5y ago
I agree verticals is too simplistic, but the example of zoom is an interesting one because it still had the differentiator of being consumer focused (which brings a whole list of attributes like price sensitivity, ease of use etc) vs the in
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by Amasuriel 5y ago
No particular love for Heroku, but you can pay for multi az failover if you want it. https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-postgres-ha If you don’t pay you won’t get the feature. Given that multi az failover dir
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by Amasuriel 5y ago
It’s certainly possible they don’t care, or they don’t know how to write good code. Another possible reason could be that they know it’s temporary. A lot of startup code gets rewritten at least once in the first 5 years, there is some art t

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