thirdusername

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by thirdusername 8mo ago
I don’t think it’s the parking attendants, grocery store cashier's, or cleaners job to “commit to their craft.” That’s a load of nonsense, and it’s also not in a normal contract. Some people just have jobs, either because of ability, o
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by thirdusername 3y ago
If it was only to gap fill then that sounds reasonable, but other risks here is the voice agent picks up slack and lowers the pressure for staffing and working on solving these problems in the first place. What is worse, that no one is avai
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by thirdusername 3y ago
I had a similar experience when it offered to connect me to the office manager so I could remove PII from the system, where it just stated it was taking an action and went idle.
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by thirdusername 3y ago
They didn’t just fail to develop a mobile processor, they laughed and said no when Apple came knocking got the iPhone 1 and so Apple went to Motorola. So much of Intels decline reeks of arrogant MBAs.
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by thirdusername 3y ago
Snapchat is overwhelmingly the primary way my much younger sister uses to talk to people of her age, discord is the second. It was quite surprising, I was also surprised people of her age are exchanging discord handles IRL like we used to w
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by thirdusername 3y ago
I’m also I’m a similar situation, but I get the call when the thing has been on fire for a while so it’s a lot easier. I can’t imagine a software engineer developing an interest defensive software engineering will be very visible until afte
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by thirdusername 4y ago
This was my exact reaction to. I was a customer for CircleCI for years and it was my go to choice and introduced it to countless companies, they were clearly at first an engineering led company that obsessed about functional programming. At
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by thirdusername 4y ago
When I was early in my career freelancing my AWS account was shut down for no payment for over a year, more than half a decade later I re-opened it through support and they wouldn’t even let me pay my old bill. I’ve been able to reduce res
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by thirdusername 4y ago
Also currently actual AWS staff is answering on the new community support forum re:post, I’ve been taking full advantage of that. There are some things which AWS suck at unless you have an enterprise support plan, like having a deep review
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by thirdusername 4y ago
I had an incident a couple of years back where AWS couldn’t swap a cancelled CC on AWS after we had for an unknown exception, and we kept getting overdue invoice alerts. and it was during December holiday season. AWS singapore has to escala
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by thirdusername 5y ago
It was so light weight that when they did user tests, the user didn’t start typing. They just waited there waiting for the rest to load. So they added the copyright notice in the footer. According to Marissa Mayer Copyright never has to be
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by thirdusername 6y ago
That's someone that's both a bad manager, and a bad engineer at the same time.
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by thirdusername 6y ago
Python 3.6 was pretty much on par with 2.7 and that was 5 years ago. There doesn't seem to be any meaningful difference between python and ruby these days at all https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksga
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by thirdusername 6y ago
That’s only 100-250rps per server, that’s really not very hard in any framework. Financial exchanges are doing 100,000rps of transactions per sever. That’s hard.
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by thirdusername 6y ago
I would refactor your second example into an exists using Arel, because at best the IN will result in the same performance. At worst it will be significant my slower. There are also particular issues with NOT IN and NULL. This is at least t
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by thirdusername 6y ago
I mean I see rails perform horribly too, it's my job to go in and fix things, and I focus a lot on fundamentals (what's your DB doing, what data do you need to serve the request, what shouldn't be inside of the request-respon
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by thirdusername 6y ago
That's not remotely true. If this is happening to you then you're almost certainly having N+1 problems which is architectural and would affect any solution you're using. Add google trace to get a breakdown of your requests SQ
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by thirdusername 7y ago
In 2018 there was 9 updates to the Olsson timezone database, it's not as irregular as you'd think. It doesn't always get communicated with notice, and sometimes applies retroactively depending on which government and point in
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by thirdusername 10y ago
Aardvark, you could send it a query on messenger and it would find random internet strangers to answer. Got bought by Google and killed. Trunkly, it was indexing all my social media links and made them searchable. Bought by delicious and ki
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by thirdusername 12y ago
Software Engineer - Singapore Media Pop has been building websites, web apps and mobile apps in Singapore over the last couple of years and we’re looking to expand our team. We’re a group of technically strong full stack developed that prim
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by thirdusername 12y ago
Without making a judgement on weather or not it is or should be legal, it's sadly common to plagiarize or outright copy without conscience amongst marketeers, especially the smaller firms. I have conversations with (often the same) mar
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by thirdusername 14y ago
Singapore - Kallang Area Software Engineer / Junior Software Engineer - Full Time Media Pop ( http://www.mediapop.co ) is a social media technology and marketing firm. We support big name brands and agencies in Singapore in their social me
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by thirdusername 15y ago
Ping me if there's a gettogether being oranized. I'm in Singapore, too but from Sweden. :)
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by thirdusername 15y ago
There is no legally mandated minimum wage in Sweden (often to the surprise of my fellow countrymen), there is however typically collective agreements negotiated by the unions that about 80% of working Swedes belong too.
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by thirdusername 15y ago
While interesting to read about wealthy family similar to Swedens Wallenberg Family ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallenberg_family ) that also has similar claims about having sway over 1/3 of Swedens GDP (seems unlikely). Your link say no
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by thirdusername 15y ago
That blog post has & in the second code sample that shouldn't be there according to the (much better) original source: http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/533/
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by thirdusername 15y ago
Germany and France is part of western Europe. In Northern Europe only Finland and Estonia (as of very recently) has the Euro.
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by thirdusername 15y ago
Sweden (and by extension probably all of Scandinavia) doesn't do punitive or exemplary damages.
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by thirdusername 15y ago
Funny you should say that. Marginal revolution cited a paper ( http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/demography/summary/v047/47.3.pa... ) the other day, that supports your point, from the abstract: Using data from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statist
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Is it true that hot water freezes faster than cold water?(skeptics.stackexchange.com)
9 points by thirdusername 15y ago|0 comments

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