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Backslasher

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    Comment #48873030

    I think these are discussions about workplace / team policy that get extended into a post. I recognize these from different dev teams where it was agreed that a "how much AI" polic…

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    Comment #48803241

    I wanted to help so I took a look at the issue and the code. I was unable to reproduce the issue from your description. Firstly, issue #153175 refers to the "time of day" sensor, w…

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    Comment #48786057

    I think the original biblical phrase was about getting out of a hole which you fell into, and in that domain it's always better to not fall into the hole.

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    Comment #48778897

    The part about Costco choosing to avoid the last mile shipping problem reminded me of a proverb, roughly translated as: A clever person solves a problem; a wise person avoids it. I…

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    Comment #48607354

    A bit tangential. In Israel, case records are sort-of-free. They're publicly available in a byzantine system maintained by the Court Management, a governmental entity (Net Hamishpa…

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    Comment #48108534

    Referring purely to the article and not to the title (which is hard, because I see a lot of people are, and it is tempting), I can say that I disagree with 1 (Using AI means you do…

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    Life led me to consultancy to tech oriented companies, and I can say that like the father at Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film), I make more money fixing the machine than I d…

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    Comment #47988428

    This reminds me of a similar offering in Israel (Kosher Cellular Phone) for Orthodox jews. Hebrew wiki: https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%A8... It has restr…

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    Comment #47986354

    Location: Israel Remote: Yes (EU hours, async with US) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Java, Python, Go, Postgres, infra and backend generall…

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    Comment #46162387

    To me, since the DB is there to serve the app (which is there to serve the user), the lookup/enum decision mostly depends on whether the list is defined before build time (> enum) …

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    I've been working on this for the couple of last months. I found this project to have multiple tech angles (pcb, electronics, C-level ESP, Python, webui / Javascript, machine visio…

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    Comment #45578360

    https://web.archive.org/web/20250828091300/https://www.nytim...

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    Comment #45560084

    More like "on a long-running process that is not a full-blown Django server"

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    Comment #45558195

    Is Django's ORM even supported outside Django sites? I had a consulting gig that had a FastAPI website using Django's ORM and it produced a bunch of weird bugs.

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    Comment #38212764

    I bumped into them when looking arouns. During the interviews you could tell the CTO had a huge backlog of juicy items that had a healthy mix of "things I have a clear idea of how …

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    Comment #38211919

    I appreciate your feedback. I don't think I'm non-committal, more like afraid of being boxed into a too-small domain. The last sentence is factually incorrect. During my time at FB…