EnderMB

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by EnderMB 3y ago
This is how I've always described it. It's also how I say that there isn't really a useful problem that decentralisation solves. After all, most git users use git in a centralised way.
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by EnderMB 3y ago
Sadly, this feels exactly like what working in big tech has been like for me. It amazes me that after so many years of these types of problems that in 2023 a team can have a bus factor of 1 across the entire team, with requirements often be
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by EnderMB 3y ago
It still boggles my mind that they closed this down. To date, it was the best job board for software engineers, and had filters you just don't see anywhere else - like filtering by companies that sponsor visas. Finding work there was a
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by EnderMB 6y ago
Well, I've effectively bricked my brand-new MBP after installing it, so not really... Obviously, I'm one person out of many, but a quick Google search indicates that I'm probably not the only one that felt stupid updating tod
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by EnderMB 6y ago
I might be wrong on this, but wouldn't that still be fine in order to achieve herd immunity? I distinctly remember reading something that said 60% was the minimum threshold required to ensure that the virus spread as a greatly reduced
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by EnderMB 6y ago
Surprisingly well, given the circumstances. Before lockdown, I had already been looking for jobs. Since then, I've been rejected pre-interview by a handful of companies, and have bombed out of a handful of interviews at the final stage
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by EnderMB 6y ago
After receiving an email from a Big N recruiter, I decided to spend the last month working through LeetCode problems. I'm glad I did, because literally every job I've applied for has had some kind of Codility or HackerRank style t
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by EnderMB 6y ago
I'm very sorry to hear that. I'm not sure where you're based, but I've heard of Usher's Syndrome after hearing a talk from someone named Molly Watt, who also has Usher's Syndrome. It might be worth dropping her
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by EnderMB 6y ago
I'll probably get a lot of shit for this, but LeetCode. I've recently been furloughed, and I think that redundancies aren't too far away. There aren't many companies hiring in my area at the moment, and if I'm going
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by EnderMB 7y ago
While I'm fully agree with the "this isn't a tech problem" comment, there are indirect ways that people can help. I think the biggest problems many are going to face aren't related to the illness itself, but the eff
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by EnderMB 7y ago
It's hard to say, especially when you consider that the NHS has had its funding cut for years, and that even with a full lockdown it is likely to struggle even with a modest rise in patients over time. This might sound dark, but as oth
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by EnderMB 7y ago
I'm going to try and remove any kind of political talk from this as I can. To be honest, with Brexit looming and uncertainty around a possible election, I've spent the last year preparing myself for a recession. Over the last few
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by EnderMB 7y ago
This is my only gripe with DDG. For daily use, it's fine, but it's awful for local results or anything that requires a map or directions.
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by EnderMB 7y ago
I'd go even further with this. I'd say that most software engineers are ultimately powerless to improve software beyond a certain point because doing so would cost more than their employer is willing to spend. Given enough time, a
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by EnderMB 7y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one. I love tmux, but I prefer vscode to vim, and I'd rather just keep tmux as the place where I keep all my terminal panes/windows. A lot of people look at my tmux screen and assume that I&#x27
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by EnderMB 7y ago
While I largely agree, I would attribute most of the BBC's issues down to simple budget cuts. A world-leading organisation had its funding reduced, and was eaten from the inside by those put in charge by the government. The government
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by EnderMB 7y ago
Which is a crazy argument because iPlayer was ahead of the times for years before Netflix became a mainstream choice in UK households. Hell, the 2012 coverage of the London Olympics was still some of the best coverage I ever remember seeing
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by EnderMB 7y ago
There is more to athletics and sports than American sports. Most European countries have a professional football players union, and their contracts are owned by the club, and not within a monopoly like with American sports. The same goes fo
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by EnderMB 7y ago
I miss some channels, but not necessarily IRC as a whole. I still believe that #csharp on freenode is the main reason why I pursued .NET as a career choice. As far as channels go, they were by far the most helpful when starting out, and the
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by EnderMB 7y ago
I clicked this expecting an overly opinionated list on how to do things the right way, but came away agreeing with nearly everything said. > Writing non-trivial software that is correct (for any meaningful definition of correct) is beyon
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by EnderMB 7y ago
While I largely agree, one similarity I see to software engineering is that a beginner (i.e. a day one white belt vs a fresh grad) can work with a purple belt or a senior-level developer and be amazed at the gap of knowledge, when in realit
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by EnderMB 7y ago
It makes me wonder whether Google is now "too big to fall" in regards to search. I switched to DDG a few months ago, and quite frankly I can probably count the number of times I've needed to switch to Google on one hand, and
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by EnderMB 7y ago
IMO, Stack Overflow has already achieved its initial mission, but not the mission they set out for. Stack Overflow wanted to create a wiki of questions and answers, when in reality all initial users wanted was a dedicated programming Q&
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by EnderMB 7y ago
Also, always make sure you're testing your backups by restoring to a non-production space, and ensuring that customer services are still available. Gandi has never explicitly said they never had their own backups, just that they don&#x
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by EnderMB 7y ago
I don't blame the communications rep. From her perspective, she's probably been told what the CEO believes - Gandi lost data, but they never promised backups so it's not a big deal. They responded to someone that is being ext
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by EnderMB 7y ago
Oof, this Twitter thread looks particularly bad, especially the response from the official Gandi account. https://twitter.com/andreaganduglia/status/12151991477012316... While I appreciate that there are real peop
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by EnderMB 7y ago
My first performance review was at my third job. I was promoted to lead dev in my first six months at my first job and by the time my review came up we had been acquired. In my second job I was made redundant a few days before my review. My
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by EnderMB 7y ago
As someone that used to write a lot of C#, I find that the language is changing so often that it's hard to know what's new and what's been around for years. In contrast, Java hasn't changed all that much over the years,
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by EnderMB 7y ago
If we're purely talking about Let's Encrypt, it's not straightforward to set up on Azure either. It's easy to set up a standard cert through Azure, but if you want to use Let's Encrypt there's a whole dance you
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by EnderMB 7y ago
No, absolutely not. Trust goes both ways, and if a company cannot trust me to use my time appropriately, then I cannot trust them to provide an adequate environment for me to perform my job. This is doubly-important for remote work, as you&

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