derex

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by derex 4y ago
Their ios app is inaccessible at the moment too
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by derex 5y ago
I have a close friend who got Sr Engineer offer from Bolt. The 500k yearly TC is somewhat misleading because it’s assuming more than 2x growth in evaluation. While they may very well achieve that, you’re not gonna see the full 500k for an u
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by derex 5y ago
I’m also a Primephonic subscriber. Been using it everyday for the past 8 months. Let’s be honest, their mobile app sucks. I’m using iOS but willing to bet on their Android app sucking equally. That said, I’m paying them for the giant catalo
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by derex 5y ago
Internal politics. Anecdotes are that org leaders face potentially serious consequences if the products they’re responsible for are down per status page. So they find ways to cover it up. This culture is passed top down as everyone is incen
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by derex 5y ago
From what I see, lots of people who object to this policy change raised a (legitimate) concern: where is the evidence supporting the claim? It’s not like corporations have ever had any problem firing people over productivity issues. If peop
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by derex 5y ago
In other words, “some political advocacies are good for our business and some are not. As a result, let’s ban all of them.”
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by derex 6y ago
g is not gravity, it’s a constant that quantifies the force that gravity impresses on a mass in Newtonian mechanics
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by derex 6y ago
Can you link reports on this or the source where you obtained this information? In the US at least, the claim that “all Chinese companies are controlled government” is thrown around way too often without evidence backing it up. People seem
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by derex 6y ago
How does it work if the former employee is on work visa? Do they still sign a no-show contract with the former employer?
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by derex 6y ago
In some sense this is a good problem to have. With on-prem you used to have very limited resources to start with, so cost efficiency is a baked-in requirement. With cloud providers you seem to have limitless resources and the new problem o
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by derex 6y ago
The Chinese general public don't value information privacy as much as the Western counterparts. Mass surveillance could become a huge problem if the tech keeps evolving while the public awareness lags behind. And that is assuming it&#x
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by derex 6y ago
I don’t have revenue breakdown on AWS orgs to back this up but I suspect CloudFormation isn’t one of the money printing products so it’s hard to justify investments as large as acquiring Hashicorp. This is despite the obvious role of CloudF
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by derex 6y ago
Can you elaborate on what concerns you so much that it warrants deleting your account right upon hearing the news?
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by derex 7y ago
> You learn to find an isomorphism between the concepts in your brain and someone else’s. Coming from a math background myself, this is a really great way to relate philosophy to something I'm used to thinking about. So many times i