msilb

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by msilb 3y ago
> This happened to me ten years ago. My employer expected me to explain to my coworkers how some things work during that time. Once I was asked to continue interviewing candidates after I gave notice, which seemed a little odd at the tim
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by msilb 5y ago
This. I am 37 now and feel healthier and overall happier than when I was 15, 20 or 25. It really depends.
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by msilb 5y ago
Not sure about the US but in Europe there is Revolut that allows you to create virtual credit card numbers tied to your main account. They can be deleted/disposed of at any time in the app.
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by msilb 5y ago
Switzerland with (currently) 19 votes (+1:)) is overrepresented for its relatively small population size (~9m).
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by msilb 5y ago
> If I had to describe the style of Scala written at Databricks, I’d put it at 50% Java-ish, 30% Python-ish, 20% functional This is interesting as in taking a different approach to most other Scala shops I’ve experienced so far where die
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by msilb 6y ago
I was also wondering about the missing figure 3. In the linked pdf version everything seems to be in place.
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by msilb 6y ago
From my experience job hopping usually pays off (at least financially). Bumping your salary in the next job by 50% is not uncommon while may be much harder to achieve when staying at the same firm for years. As others have pointed out befor
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by msilb 6y ago
Purchased U2720Q after reading through a number of rave reviews and can definitely vouch for it. Excellent 4K image quality and works well with MacBook. It's only the monitor though, so no webcam or audio speakers.
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by msilb 7y ago
Your description resonates quite well with my own experience. I've seen this over and over again in different (mostly large) enterprises. Peter principle at its best where someone with solid engineering skills gets promoted to become m
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by msilb 8y ago
Looks like Java is slowly but surely catching up to Scala in terms of API, syntactic sugar etc. I wonder if some people disliking Scala compiler slowness would consider the switch back to Java.