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It actually depends on the country (and I assume even state and city). Where I grew up, most firemen actually sleep at home and not at the station. They have "normal" work hours du…

The problem is that on-call is something in between work and not work. Depending on how often you are actually paged, it is closer to one or the other. As such, the policy I usuall…

I know the article is intentionally provocative and over the top to provoke a reaction... whether it's a healthy reflection on your attitude to success or crippling self-loathing p…

Not necessarily. Granted, you obviously need to make a network call at some point but you can host the entire experiment configuration in a file that is served through a CDN and th…

It depends on your definition of fully embraced. If you mean that there is no synchronous communication between services, then no, and neither does it make sense in the real-world …

Maybe I'm cynical but I'd bet money on people being able to turn this into a business...

I second that. Once a vendor becomes important enough I even stop thinking of it as a vendor and rather as a partner that you interact with as if it was part of your own organisati…

> When Google acquired Alooma, they slowed down the development and dropped the support for other destinations such as Redshift and Hive. Do you have a source for that? As far as I…

Scala works just fine in the java runtime for us

Prove you're not an alien lizard person.

I can second this. I always take 3-6 months off between jobs for travel and personal development (given I stayed there ~2 years). I'd say I technically progressed about the same du…

How would that work in this setup?

That's simply not true. Many European countries have privacy laws that render credit scoring agencies effectively useless. And yet it's not at all hard to get a credit card.

AWS Athena does thesame and is fully managed. Works reasonably well unless you have lists with complex objects in them.

There is so many more examples. Also hardly any of the links in the web version have an URL behind them, so you can't just open them in a new tab when researching something. Arguab…

Used Tyk with a similar experience. Generally very happy with it but the documentation was, at the time, a bit challenging.

Great job! The search can probably be improved. Searching for "Cedric" without the accent aigu (é) does not yield any results, despite there being several Cédric in the database. I…

Having had to go through public interview processes (i.e. not being approached by the company or referred) recently for the first time in a while I can't agree more. Take home assi…

You are, of course, absolutely correct. And I hope this is what internal package maintainers in large companies and individuals using putty as their standard SSH client do. However…

Ultimately this probably helps increase the overall internet security. Although in recent years it was available from a TLS secured source [0], the putty.org site (which might or m…

If a company can't spare the time of a senior team member to talk to you after some initial vetting they are probably not worth your time. I've been on the other side quite often a…

> So it goes. Always makes my day :)

I don't know where to look since I never had to. Personally I would stay away from the financial industry. Most jobs include politics, frequent restructuring, mediocre tech, etc...…

To be honest I never had to actively look for a job so I don't know where to look. I grew up, studied and worked there until I moved to London so I was always approached for jobs. …