bigmanwalter

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by bigmanwalter 3y ago
Not at all. The MBAs have taken over at this point and expectations are far too aggressive for anything like 20% time to exist. The rule of thumb is that they give so much work that even if we only complete 80% of it, that should be conside
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by bigmanwalter 3y ago
What's wrong with a doctor refusing to treat a patient they don't like?
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by bigmanwalter 3y ago
Should individuals be forced to perform their duties against their wills?
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by bigmanwalter 3y ago
Even some smaller ones too. The Google Montreal office has an excellent music room!
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by bigmanwalter 3y ago
I'm a fan of PDO olive oil from regions in Greece that are known for their olive oil. Anything from Crete, Messinia, or Kalamata is usually top quality. Since it's PDO, it's guaranteed to be a single cultivation, and from a r
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by bigmanwalter 3y ago
Rust is good for writing performant code, incorporates a lot of the latest programming language research, and gives great error messages. You don't need it. But if you prefer using it, it's nice to have a web development framework
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by bigmanwalter 3y ago
All this to get a feature that was already prevalent 15 years ago in oldschool PHP applications.
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by bigmanwalter 3y ago
This is great stuff! To use this in Canada, we have a few extra requirements as well. Firstly, we have to separate our tax onto two lines, one for Federal tax (called GST) and one for Provincial tax (has a different name in each province) a
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by bigmanwalter 3y ago
I used to host a Janus server, which is similar. https://janus.conf.meetecho.com/ Was fairly straightforward to setup. Eventually I replaced it with Twilio as it was easier to scale across regions.
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by bigmanwalter 3y ago
Definitely avoid makefiles per directory, see Recursive Make Considered Harmful https://accu.org/journals/overload/14/71/miller_2004/ The approach being recommended in the sibling comment to this is
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by bigmanwalter 3y ago
Did you try searching stack overflow? https://stackoverflow.com/a/43402649 If you dedicate a specific directory for all your JSON, then you can depend on that directory and it will do what you're asking for.
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by bigmanwalter 4y ago
Let's say someone working for FAANG making $300,000 USD per year (including benefits), that's roughly equivalent to $150 per hour. Could they make the same on Top Tal?
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by bigmanwalter 4y ago
What kind of hourly rates can you expect to find on Top Tal?
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by bigmanwalter 4y ago
I'm a fan of this shop https://www.facebook.com/kiosquemontroyal/ . Not sure what they do for international shipping as I usually go in-person since I live pretty close by, but feel free to contact them. They offer
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by bigmanwalter 4y ago
This slide deck is somewhat popular as an internal resource that gets shared around within Google. Does anyone know if it's by the same author? He has 13 years of Google experience on his Linkedin so there is probably some sort of conn
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by bigmanwalter 5y ago
I backpacked through China and stayed in youth hostels. Highly doubt they were bugged. They didn’t even have heating (we used electric blankets)
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by bigmanwalter 5y ago
The most desirable teams are filled by internal transfers. External hires get the teams that have trouble hiring internally.
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by bigmanwalter 5y ago
It's like arguing if a piano sounds better when played by one or two people at the same time. It's just different. Hard to argue that the solo pianist is "better".
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by bigmanwalter 6y ago
> Being an effective manager often means buying cover for your team to do their work and evolve it organically. You hit the nail on the head! I might have to print this out and frame it.
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by bigmanwalter 6y ago
The tyrannical boss is a classic trope due to the necessities of competition. Companies are unlikely to stay profitable if they’re overly generous. They need to profit handsomely to survive.
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by bigmanwalter 6y ago
My fist taste of convolution was in a discrete signals class while studying for a B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering. You’re right it was an excellent approach!
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by bigmanwalter 6y ago
So true! Anonymous masses vs private fiefdoms. Almost everything commercially successful is run by tyrants. I wish regulating anti-social behaviour out of industry was more popular.
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by bigmanwalter 6y ago
IEML encodes a flexible and upgradeable semantic schema in a git repo where anyone can pull request! https://pierrelevyblog.com/my-research-in-a-nutshell/ https://github.com/IEMLdev/ieml
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by bigmanwalter 6y ago
I follow the IEML project which combines semantic ontologies with folksonomies into a recursive data structure hosted in a Git repo. Interesting ideas, would highly recommend checking it out! https://pierrelevyblog.com/my-re
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by bigmanwalter 6y ago
Gary Bernhardt has a pretty good talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAxiiRPHS9k
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by bigmanwalter 6y ago
The issue with slow execution is that you don't run the test suite often enough. I like running my tests almost as often as I compile my code. If they run fast enough, it creates the most addictive feedback loop for TDD. Besides, we sh
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by bigmanwalter 6y ago
There are ways to structure your code so that this can be done. Of course, it would require a complete refactor to achieve full test coverage on an existing project, but if you build like this from the beginning, it's feasible.
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by bigmanwalter 6y ago
The key to TDD is to write tests that evaluate on the order of 10ms. A whole test suite should take less than 1s. Only this way does TDD not interfere with development velocity.
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by bigmanwalter 6y ago
I can usually max out my connection speed with torrents. This is rarely the case with direct downloads.
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by bigmanwalter 6y ago
The end result of Microsoft wanting to dominate OS is equivalent to Google wanting to dominate communication; through monopoly of a resource they are able to charge a tax to all users of consumer technology.

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