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by chojeen 25d ago
I'm looking forward to having the same experience as COBOL engineers did after retirement: companies backing up the brinks truck to anyone with the skills to keep the lights on.
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by chojeen 9mo ago
A better analogy would be "remotely swing a hammer as a service". You can't build something like that and act shocked when a significant fraction of your users use it to harm people instead of driving nails, and you certainly
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by chojeen 1y ago
I really don't get a lot of this criticism. For example, who is using iceberg with hundreds of concurrent committers, especially at the scale mentioned in the article (10k rows per second)? Using iceberg or any table format over object
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by chojeen 5y ago
> Riot and Blizzard both have large flagship franchises that they practically decorate their offices around, statues and all. When I was talking to recruiters in the past, Riot stood out as one of those "don't bother applying i
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by chojeen 6y ago
Do people have any pride? Why would you subject yourself to this?
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by chojeen 6y ago
It's hard to know how to feel about this complex situation. On one hand: - The Chinese government clearly has its tendrils in TikTok and uses it to push its oppressive censorship policies around the world - The security implications of
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by chojeen 6y ago
At a startup, there's a good chance Fred's time would be better spent knocking out feature work (you only have so much runway, after all). But at a mature tech company, assuming he's good at his job, Fred is likely providing
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by chojeen 6y ago
I can't imagine forced remote for all employees would ever become the norm. It feels like likely that companies would move from dedicated offices to leasing co-working spaces for those that want it.
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by chojeen 7y ago
Do they still have to label irradiated food in the EU? IIRC many people avoid it because radiation is scary sounding. I have to imagine that chemically treated meat would be an even tougher sell, regardless of how benign it might actually b
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by chojeen 9y ago
For a couple of years, the only thing that worked for me was mega-huge doses of PPI's. After several pH studies, endoscopies, and other tests confirmed that I don't have abnormal reflux, food allergies, gluten sensitivity, or any
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by chojeen 9y ago
FWIW, one of my GI doctors recommended trying alternatives to PPI's, while the other was highly skeptical of these data mining studies and recommended staying the course unless a causal link is established.
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by chojeen 9y ago
Some people (like myself) suffer from functional dyspepsia, in which GERD-like symptoms are observed with no apparent cause. There's really no standard treatment: some people find relief from PPI's, H2 blockers, small doses of SS
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by chojeen 10y ago
> Depends how pedantic you're being, but ripping DVDs for personal use doesn't count as "piracy" in my book. Exactly this. I got tired of lugging around my gigantic DVD collection and having them scratch or break wit
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by chojeen 11y ago
As I get older (I am currently thirty), this is something that terrifies me, mainly because it is something that I have experienced from both sides. I got a B.S. from a major CS university, then started on a Ph.D. in Astronomy. Due to my
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by chojeen 11y ago
I worked at Yahoo before and during this period, first as a QA contractor and then as a full-time developer. Before the switch, our team (advertising pipeline on Hadoop) used the waterfall method with these gigantic, monolithic releases; we
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by chojeen 11y ago
As an ex-doctoral student in astrophysics, I can confirm that there are a lot of crackpots out there. The most common claim was that heliocentricity was correct, if you can believe it.
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by chojeen 11y ago
> Getting a response so nasty it's easier to get them into trouble later on. :) I know the comment was tongue-in-cheek, but it bears mentioning: when dealing with the police, your objective should be to escape the situation unscathe
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by chojeen 11y ago
If you don't need open-source, but instead just want to migrate away from advertising-supported email, I find that FastMail works pretty great and is cheap to boot.
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by chojeen 11y ago
My dad owns a mid-size landscaping company in a medium-sized city in the Midwest. Until the Great Recession hit, he'd hire around a hundred of laborers from Mexico and Latin America on H2-A visas every year. He could only do so after
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by chojeen 11y ago
My method to survive an 80+ hour work week: 1) Actually "work" a 40 hour week 2) Spend the other 40 looking for a new job
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by chojeen 11y ago
I love that the desire for developer talent is so great that many employers will bend over backwards to accommodate your desire for work-life balance.
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by chojeen 11y ago
Maybe this is a dumb question, but is json (de)serialization really a bottleneck for python web apps in the real world?
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by chojeen 12y ago
Why would anyone ever take a job like this when there are tons of interesting jobs that actually do have work-life balance and pay a hell of a lot better? Hell, you could still work long 6-day weeks if you wanted to, but at least that wa
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by chojeen 12y ago
There are days when I love what I'm working on and I don't want to go home. But I still force myself to leave, because that work will still be there tomorrow, and I'll go in the next morning with renewed passion.
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by chojeen 12y ago
And it's not like these people are useless. I knew a guy like this in college, and he eventually settled into a decent job. Not everybody needs to be passionate about their work.
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by chojeen 12y ago
Also, some Yahoo employees might have transferred over after the acquisition.
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by chojeen 12y ago
Because women suffer the most of the consequences of an unintended pregnancy, I'd think most women would want to take control of the situation. That being said, I'll be meeting Citizen Snips right after child #2 is born, whenever
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by chojeen 12y ago
Was it the awkward breakfast after sleeping with yourself?
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by chojeen 12y ago
Same here. It seems like a really solid IDE, but I like a more lightweight development environment, and there's always that one vim command that vim emulator plugins miss. However, I've recommended PyCharm to several of my cowor
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by chojeen 12y ago
I find that this typically isn't a problem when you instruct git to ignore those files. Brilliant way of describing the IDE metadata files, BTW. I got a nice chuckle from that.

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