em10fan

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by em10fan 4y ago
In my past experience, any decently long lived bit of software (i.e. 5-10 years) goes through migrations to at least 2 different database engines (Usually as part of various other migrations like on-prem->cloud, or due to some licensing&
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by em10fan 4y ago
Cambridge for embedded stuff
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by em10fan 4y ago
Get a copy of the Open University (UK distance learning uni, been around since the 70s) books on EBay. A full set of books for MU123 (The most basic maths course, basically school [age 16] level books) can be had for under £50 on Ebay. Work
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by em10fan 4y ago
> Are they missing a check to see if their homepage is responding? I would be surprised if the health page is actually connected to their realtime monitoring system In most cases these things are updated manually.
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by em10fan 4y ago
Yeah, we used Hetzner in Germany a lot at a former workplace where I was for a number of years, for production traffic, and we had a good experience. Most of our other infra was in physical DCs we owned, but we used Hetzner for production D
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by em10fan 4y ago
In my experience (Fintech), status pages aren't actually hooked up to monitoring systems, they are updated manually. But yeah it sucks that they haven't noticed and updated it.
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by em10fan 5y ago
companies more so than the tech, I do Java in the banking space and its the same story.
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by em10fan 5y ago
They aren't that common. Only 2 of the high street banks offer them, and one is moving away from them. The rest are all Mastercard.
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by em10fan 5y ago
Other than some occasional small restaurants/pubs, and a few small indie shops, its basically accepted everywhere here in Edinburgh, I have a corporate amex and use it for expensing business dinners very often, and supplies from office
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by em10fan 5y ago
Totally agree. All the major banks apart from Barclays and HSBC use Mastercard for credit
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by em10fan 5y ago
Quite the opposite in the UK, at least over the last 10 years or so. 99% of debit cards are Visa, and most people buying stuff on Amazon would be using a debit card, folks only really use credit cards for large purchases and things like tra
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by em10fan 6y ago
Basically the same as in 2010, except disks are now commonly NVM/.M2 rather than regular SATA, and SSDs are a lot cheaper.
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by em10fan 6y ago
Revenue doesn't mean profit. Netflix makes hardly profit, so thus pay little tax
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by em10fan 6y ago
Many men? If you are wearing a suit, a smartphone makes the trouser pockets bulge a lot, so it's common to keep it in your shirt pocket or jacket inside pocket - Both of which is next to your heart.
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by em10fan 6y ago
> Taking your beautiful game that you've spend 5+ years on building and hacking it to pieces to run on older hardware My understanding is that it was the other way around, which is why in my eyes there is no excuse for how badly it
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by em10fan 6y ago
"You need to sign in or sign up before continuing." how about no
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by em10fan 6y ago
There is an open source version AND a commercial version, which extends it. The binaries they provide the latter, which are are commercially licensed and include proprietary parts, bound by those terms.
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by em10fan 6y ago
I had it in Atlanta and it was great.
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by em10fan 6y ago
eInk would be a poor choice, the flash caused by updating the screen, every time you type a character, would be extremely fatiguing. This refresh would be very very slow on a decent size screen which would lead to a very noticable typing la
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by em10fan 6y ago
We used Hetzner in Germany, when I worked for a startup a few years ago, for some stuff which was getting too expensive on AWS, and which had to be located in Europe for certain reasons. A lot cheaper and reliability was good. We had many t
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by em10fan 6y ago
> Non-compliant. The CovidSAFE application heavily uses source code from https://github.com/opentrace-community/opentrace-android which was released under GPL v3 That's not to say its non-compliant, they could
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by em10fan 6y ago
UK employee of a US company, its happening in both, contractors are gone everywhere and the US side has been particularly brutal with pay cuts - 7-10% here and 20% cuts in the US (50-100% for VPs and stuff).
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by em10fan 6y ago
When registering for a doctor or something, you generally just tell them where you live and your name. You might also need your national insurance number. If they want more, its usually a utility bill proving that, or if they want photo ID,
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by em10fan 6y ago
I'm surprised they got paid at all, let alone anything more than minimum wage.
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by em10fan 6y ago
No - We don't even have a single standard state-issued physical ID, here in the UK, let alone an electronic version.
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by em10fan 6y ago
Here in the fintech/banking industry is not just frozen, but we have shed most of our contractors to protect jobs, and are giving fte engineers pay cuts
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by em10fan 6y ago
> The market is in trouble. To elaborate on this, 1) Banks are worried people won't pay their mortgages/loans/cards and they will crash 2) Banks therefore don't buy our stuff, or will seek to pay less for it. 3) We th
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by em10fan 6y ago
Engineering got 5-20% pay cuts, (50-100% at VP level and above), all perks cut, all the contractors got laid off, as did anyone low-skilled in Ops who has been there less than 2 years. We are the UK arm of a US fintech. The market is in tro
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by em10fan 7y ago
> I guess my question is why would you want companies to be able to use it for free? Why not release under a viral license with a commercial license also available? The amount of hassle it takes in most companies to licence software from
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by em10fan 7y ago
If you want people to use it. Companies are not that keen on GPL in any form.

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