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by aynsof 6y ago
I do wonder how the expert in the article came up with the assertion that fake was now environmentally friendly than real. Surely shipping a pile of plastic from China is worse for the environment than growing a real tree for 10 years. Even
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by aynsof 6y ago
But you need to take a very long position on this. Someone's beloved cat died? That's your problem, because it's affecting the way they work. You need to help them through it. Someone's working well? That's great, b
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by aynsof 6y ago
I recall hearing that in Eastern Bloc countries, telling the wrong story to the wrong person could get you 'disappeared'. The (possibly apocryphal) story that sticks with me is of the young child who told their teacher that their
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by aynsof 6y ago
I've worked with at least three people who were -x programmers. That is, they produced negative value to the organisation. They did this by breaking systems (DNS, build pipelines, etc), producing code so bad that it had to be rewritten
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by aynsof 6y ago
I love Fitzgerald's translations! I find Lattimore utterly dull and lacking in poetry; Fitzgerald is readable and fun, in my view. Each to their own, of course, but I wanted to provide a counterpoint to anyone out there deciding on a t
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by aynsof 6y ago
It seems to me that the former is a convenient excuse for the latter.
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by aynsof 6y ago
AWS Instance Scheduler is an official AWS Solution: https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/implementations/instance-sc... It allows you to create automatic start and stop schedules for your Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS ins
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by aynsof 6y ago
I agree that this is a large part of it. I did Alexander Technique for about five years, and that helped me unpick a lot of bad habits. It helped my singing, teaching me to stop getting in the way of my voice. It also helped me with broader
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by aynsof 7y ago
Here's the unrolled thread for anyone who find it hard to read long Twitter threads: https://threader.app/thread/1210242184341000192
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by aynsof 7y ago
The thing that really helped for me was Alexander Technique. You have to find a good teacher - there are a lot of cranks, unfortunately - but the good ones are amazing. My teacher helped me to work on my underlying habits around movement an
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by aynsof 7y ago
It misses a couple of big ones: 1. Offer a great user experience. Many cloud providers are just pumping products out the door with little to no concern for UX. 2. Have great personality. That could be through offering outstanding support, o
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by aynsof 7y ago
You can definitely run Lambda functions locally, too: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/serverless-application-model/lat...
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by aynsof 7y ago
I don't think there's any link between certification and competency. Here in Australia we're going mad for certifications. I had a friend who looked after kids in an after school program. A minimum wage job, but one that she
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by aynsof 7y ago
This isn't limited to just smaller sites. Many slower-moving organizations, e.g. government and banks, aren't yet up-to-date with zero-downtime deployments.
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by aynsof 8y ago
What would you would do if you were attacked by another country? What if your peaceful trade partner was being attacked? What if there were a genocide occurring in another country?
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by aynsof 8y ago
When I think of 'passion', I think of creating things, making things better, doing something that can bring me into a state of flow. I'm not an avid gardener, but I can absolutely see how gardening would tick those boxes for
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by aynsof 8y ago
This is a great point. When I talk to people who are worried about cloud lock-in, the parallel I use is the operating system. Does anyone regret going all-in on Windows for their enterprise desktops 20 years ago? Did we try to go multi-desk
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by aynsof 8y ago
And all your EC2 instances have noisy neighbors, no matter how many times you terminate and reinstantiate. A living nightmare.
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by aynsof 8y ago
My partner used to spend $10,000AUD on each hearing aid. It was insane. Now that we're going to Costco, she's paying $3000AUD each. It's still really expensive, but it's a darn sight better.
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by aynsof 8y ago
You might want to look into honeycomb.io and follow Charity Majors on Twitter. Heck, just follow Charity anyway - she's a genius.
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by aynsof 8y ago
Hence this service which would appear to be much easier than setting up a persistent remote ssh server with port forwarding.
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by aynsof 8y ago
The Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) is the Australian government agency behind the Design System. Paul Shetler, the former CEO of the DTA, quit after a philosophical disagreement with the new minister. Shetler's company is now cons
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by aynsof 8y ago
Except for the fact that Azure names seem to change once per year. Our Azure SA was giving us a presentation and actually got confused himself. "So that's TFS... I mean VSTS... Actually wait, it's Azure DevOps now?"
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by aynsof 8y ago
I can only talk for AWS, not GCP or Azure, but there are services that can help mitigate DDOS attacks: Shield ( https://aws.amazon.com/shield/ ) is AWS's DDOS protection service. It's free and is basic protecti
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by aynsof 8y ago
Am I the only one who's a little disappointed they didn't call it CharybDB?
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by aynsof 8y ago
I just this morning read this interview with Lindsay Holmwood about how he does 1-on-1s, and it's a master class: https://soapboxhq.com/blog/meetings/how-envato-does-remote-o... I've never had him as a m
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by aynsof 8y ago
'The dictionary defines infantilizing as treating someone “as a child or in a way that denies their maturity in age or experience.”' I don't know whether to laugh or be offended!
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by aynsof 8y ago
> Kubric got the fastest lenses he could Not just any lenses! Lenses designed for NASA to capture the far side of the Moon: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Zeiss_Planar_50mm_f/0.7
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by aynsof 8y ago
Haha I don't have either, I'm afraid. Here's a link to the common architectures I helped out on when I was at Geoscience Australia: https://bitbucket.org/account/user/geoscienceaustralia/proje..
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by aynsof 8y ago
"The State has also agreed to waive the burdensome CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) for this massive development." Well that's disappointing.

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