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by fendale 1y ago
Are you saying that on IOS 18 if you enable developer mode then each time you forgot the network it gets a new Mac? But without developer mode it does not get a new Mac each time you forget it? The Apple docs linked elsewhere in this thread
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by fendale 1y ago
Ah ok - so googling a bit on this, you do specify the size when creating the namespace. So if you have multiple namespaces, they appear as separate devices on the OS, and then you can mkfs and mount each as if its a different disk. Then you
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by fendale 1y ago
> local enterprise-grade SSDs support multiple namespaces (with their own internal queues) What do you mean by namespaces here? Are they created by having different partitions or LVM volumes? As you mentioned consumer grade SSDs only hav
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by fendale 2y ago
Over the last few months I have been seeing a push toward using Sqlite in production, where appropriate. Some of this has been coming from 37 Signals with their "Once" products, which use Rails and a SqliteDB. Sqlite can go pretty
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by fendale 2y ago
Where are you seeing these sort of roles? Are they labeled as "devops" or something else?
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by fendale 3y ago
One reason we have so many poor engineering managers is because the top engineers get promoted to management. The skills for the two jobs are very different. I’m sure many good engineers have tried management and found it to be not for them
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by fendale 3y ago
I was interest in a position at Aiven some time back. Did a recruiter screen and then a manager screen and then got asked to do a 20 hour take home assignment in Python that was to be completed in a single week. I politely declined at that
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by fendale 3y ago
I have a Shelly EM on my main grid circuit and solar array and find it to be an excellent product. They have lots of other automation products too.
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by fendale 4y ago
I’m kind of similar. I write up how I set something up or some strange problem I solved mainly for my own reference but if it also helps someone else, great. Once or twice I’ve Googled a problem and landed on the solution in my own blog or
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by fendale 5y ago
For a job that needs to access 100's of thousands of small files, the ability to read the meta data quickly is very important. This is the wider issue with small files. On HDFS each file uses up some namenode memory, but if there are j
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by fendale 5y ago
Apache Ozone https://hadoop.apache.org/ozone/ is an attempt to make a more scalable (for small files / metadata) HDFS compatible object store with a S3 interface. Solving the meta data problem in the HDFS namenode
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by fendale 11y ago
The biggest part of the EU cost difference is sales tax which is 20% in the UK and only 8.5% in California I think.
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by fendale 11y ago
I got my current job through LinkedIn too. Hadoop / big data position. I've got quite a few recruiter spam type messages though, but the one I got the job through was an in house recruiter for the company. I figured they were just
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by fendale 11y ago
I live in Belfast so I can either use a UK airport (Belfast), or Dublin. In my previous job, we flew business class from the UK to San Fran fairly regularly. It was often £500 - £1000 cheaper to fly Dublin to SFO connecting through London t
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by fendale 11y ago
From the research I have been doing over the past year or two, the UK stock market has shown about 5% real return (after inflation) over the long term. I think the USA stock market is slightly better. I am a total novice, and have fairly li
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by fendale 11y ago
1 in 4 likely means you are on call 24 hours a day for 1 week out of each 4 weeks. The support is then shared between 4 people. That's a fairly typical arrangement in largish companies.
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by fendale 12y ago
I really enjoyed the Honor Harrington series by David Webber. I've also read most of the Safehold series, also by Webber, which has been excellent so far. Currently half way through the Lost Fleet Series, which is pretty good too. Quit
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by fendale 12y ago
I'm pretty sure the Halifax card I mentioned gives the Visa wholesale rate too. I generally get same rate as quoted on FX sites anytime I've checked it.
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by fendale 12y ago
If you shop around in the UK for a credit card, you will get one with zero fees and an excellent exchange rate on foreign currency transactions. I use the Halifax Clarity card and I believe The Nationwide and the Post Office do a good card
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by fendale 12y ago
It would be great if you could set the points threshold on the RSS feed link too. That would allow all the stories that only make it onto the front page for a tiny amount of time to be skipped from the feed.
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by fendale 13y ago
I agree that rollbacks are hard, but if you think them through, there is usually a way. For your example, to merge first and last name, you would create a backup first, ie, create a table that contains the current version of first and last
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by fendale 13y ago
This is an area I have experimented with in large enterprise environments, usually with Oracle databases. In one job I created a process where we used Rails style migrations with some Ruby code I put together. As well as schema migrations,
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by fendale 13y ago
The MySQL clustered index (and Oracle IOT) are, in my opinion, often over looked powerful features. To pick an example I recently encountered ... I have an Rails app to implement a RSS reader. Each user has many feeds that get added over ti
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by fendale 13y ago
Oracle does seems to make limit queries much harder than they need to be. I wrote an article about limit and paging queries in oracle ages ago that may interest you, but you probably have it all figured out now. http://betterator
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by fendale 13y ago
Quite a while ago now, there was a period where you couldn't get to Stackoverflow on Virgin media. There were some quite long threads in Virgins forums about it, and apparently not all virgin customers were affected! It did eventually
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by fendale 13y ago
Funny, BT was the example I was thinking of too! I've moved on now but I had a good 9 or so years there.
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by fendale 13y ago
On the we vs I point, there is a class of interview where you get marked down for using we instead of emphasizing your own contribution. I'm thinking of the competency based interview that is typical of internal positions and promotion
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by fendale 13y ago
You get root on the droplet, so I'm pretty sure you can install whatever you want. I run a couple of rails apps on a 512mb droplet and it works great. Very low traffic on my sites.
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by fendale 13y ago
Is there somewhere Dublin startups tend to advertise openings? I'm in Belfast and I have wondered in the recent past if there would be any opportunities to work semi-remotely for a Dublin based startup. There is plenty of work in Belfast, b
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by fendale 14y ago
> twitter-bootstrap-rails, therubyracer, and libv8 Those three gems recently caused me a world of pain. I've been in and out of Rails development since the 1.x versions (more hobby projects than professional development), and once getti

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