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by Herald_MJ 8y ago
SilverRail Technologies (Expedia Group) | Senior Python Engineer | London, UK | Full Time | ONSITE | Above-market Salary | https://www.silverrailtech.com/ SilverRail is searching for a senior-level Python engineer for our A
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by Herald_MJ 8y ago
Perm roles are now (finally) getting better at competing with sky-high contracting rates. Every successive budget also makes contracting a slightly less lucrative situation.
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by Herald_MJ 8y ago
Revenue vs user satisfaction isn't entirely a binary choice though. If Monzo offer a feature which costs them a lot but offers user's some convenience, it's a bit of a balancing act to figure out what the convenience is actua
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by Herald_MJ 8y ago
Tried this in London for bicycle routes and it's completely broken: https://imgur.com/a/mF4CU43 .
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by Herald_MJ 8y ago
Yes, I don't really understand the controversy either. I work with Python a lot in my day job, and I am quite frustrated with how slowly the language moves. For a long time, it seemed like the reason was the Python 2-3 switch, but now
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by Herald_MJ 8y ago
That's not an accurate summary of assignment expressions. Assignment expressions perform the assignment and also return the value of the assignment. So you can assign and test a conditional at the same time. It's quite an elegan
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by Herald_MJ 8y ago
`range()` also takes an optional `step` argument which would help here.
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by Herald_MJ 8y ago
I agree. I have only just heard of this product, but can immediately see it would be extremely useful to me. Sadly, I can say 100% that I can not justify this kind of spend on a single operational analytics tool. For that reason, I probably
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by Herald_MJ 8y ago
This should help you: https://gist.github.com/reggi/dc5f2620b7b4f515e68e46255ac042... Once you have your lambda running inside a VPC, you can assign an elastic IP to the VPC. You don't need an EC2 instance, but yo
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by Herald_MJ 8y ago
I found this interesting too. Does anyone know a reason why it didn't work?
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by Herald_MJ 8y ago
And what about non-free?
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by Herald_MJ 9y ago
Not relevant to article content, but: please don't use Javascript to hijack my scrolling like this page does.
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by Herald_MJ 9y ago
It was an optional course for me, and also one of the hardest I took. But also one of the most enlightening, rewarding, and enjoyable of my degree.
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by Herald_MJ 9y ago
> Just tell them you don't have cash, and they'll make sure their card reader starts working. They will actually usually just suggest driving past an ATM so you can get them cash. A good alternative that usually works is if you
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by Herald_MJ 9y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong here: MyTaxi and Gett are solely for black cabs? This makes them a lot more expensive than private hire. Their UX is also slightly behind Uber's offering. Addison Lee are also overpriced, and are not a comp
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by Herald_MJ 9y ago
> Since such work would complicate the PyPy code base and our day-to-day work, we would like to judge the interest of the community and the commercial partners to make it happen (we are not looking for individual donations at this point)
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by Herald_MJ 9y ago
> It's a useless and confusing marketing buzzword A marketing buzzword is something like "web scale", which might be used by a non-technical person to describe a technology, but has no real technical meaning. Serverless is
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by Herald_MJ 9y ago
No, I'm not peeved by the "misnomer". What is getting a bit annoying is every conversation about serverless being dominated by snarky comments about there being no such thing. As software professionals, we all know there is a
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by Herald_MJ 9y ago
My favourite is a small town called Towcester - pronounced like "toaster".
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by Herald_MJ 9y ago
> Uh oh! The data scientist isn't up to date on the trends in gender studies and critical theory, better send her off to sensitivity training! The problem here wasn't that the data scientist was asking the wrong questions, it&#
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by Herald_MJ 9y ago
pgAdmin3 is the postgres GUI tool you are looking for. Avoid pgAdmin4.
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by Herald_MJ 9y ago
These issues might have a place in technical interviews, but framing it as a question the user can get "wrong" feels a bit like you're setting a trap. In a real interview, this would just be a talking point. What would be int
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by Herald_MJ 9y ago
It feels like a lot of this quiz is just trying to "catch me out" on subtle behaviours of Python I didn't know or might have forgot about. I guess this is fine if you're making a little trivia toy to distribute to Python
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by Herald_MJ 10y ago
Is that legally enforceable?
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by Herald_MJ 10y ago
Their latitude and longitude have been mistakenly switched around.
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by Herald_MJ 10y ago
I know of the first two examples you gave, but disagree that they're evidence of Apple not being interested in user privacy. Let's not hijack this thread to talk about Apple's security record.
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by Herald_MJ 10y ago
Can't speak for Android, but on iOS it is not possible for an app to "listen" to your microphone unless it is in the foreground, and you have explicitly given the app permission to do this (the first time the app attempts to
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by Herald_MJ 11y ago
Actually, I don't think any of those criteria should definitively rule a place out.
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by Herald_MJ 11y ago
At that point, your monthly fee would be greater than that of a regular S3 bucket, which has fewer barriers to retrieval.
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by Herald_MJ 11y ago
Full time, career Python developer here. Never worked on a project as part of my day job which is built on Python 3. Recently, for the first time ever, there are projects in the company I work for which are built in Python 3. But I'm

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