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ekvilibrist

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    Comment #33740469

    You didn't explicitly have a clause saying something like "40 hour work week, Monday to Friday 8 AM to 5 PM"? Pretty standard where I live (Sweden), making this type of shenanigans…

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    Comment #27302164

    > There have been some weird legal cases in Sweden where businesses and scammers have been freed after having signed in using other people's "BankID" to change retirement savings a…

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    Comment #26644628

    They are very powerful tools, written in plain vanilla language and in a very generic way, a fact that makes them great learning tools which can help anyone learn how to code witho…

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    Comment #26510762

    You've probably heard this but the science says you'll "condition" your mind to sleep better if you associate the bed with just sleeping (and possibly that other thing). But try no…

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    Comment #26421279

    I'm sorry you had to go through that.

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    Comment #26191464

    > In most monoliths you will see all forms of behavior and that is the primary problem with monoliths. Invoke any client anywhere. Determine the requests context anywhere. Put busi…

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    Comment #26140747

    This is amongst a study of 600k Israelis, which is about 6% of the population. I believe their deal was that the entire population would be supplied the vaccine in exchange for the…

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    Comment #26100352

    Sometimes I feel his sentiment, like everytime I open up something (that seemingly) is identical to each and every version. Say the FileZilla app, or VLC. (But there are probably b…

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    Comment #24614612

    > I dont understand how this could be a viable strategy -- unless your job is entirely useless, the business must replace your position during your absence in order to continue nor…

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    Comment #24302732

    So there's no bad code, no poorly designed systems? Only "maintenance"?

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    Comment #23171654

    Wasn't the problem with "Flash sites" that it was way way worse than any regular website... as a website? Kinda like SPAs today. You had to reinvent stuff the browser already did p…

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    Comment #23068452

    Different keyboards for starters?

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    Comment #22684570

    Smoking? Vaping? From what I've heard about other cases its highly unlikely but not impossible to die from Covid-19 if otherwise young and healthy...

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    Comment #22341245

    You should try one of those unions, I heard they are good at these kinds of things...

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    Comment #22180942

    > Russia, unlike Saudi Arabia, is a democracy. They have elections. Elections alone aren't the sole definition of a full democracy. Hell, even Iraq under Saddam had elections...

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    Comment #21934021

    I've only suggested event sourcing once, and that was for keeping physical warehouse inventory synced with orders. I.e. instead of having like a database table with a "available pr…

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    Comment #21835770

    When comparing virtual machine and ephemeral block storage you're kind of missing the point of AWS "value" for me. It's the deep integration to other services. So yeah DO are perfe…

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    Comment #21824800

    Just remove all nytimes.com cookies and refresh the page.

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    Comment #21701052

    Netlify.com is pretty great for static websites. Its free tier gives you something like 100GB data bandwidth forever. But it does not give you access to SSH - its a managed service…

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    Comment #21683454

    EC2 instances?

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    Comment #21637103

    The problem with "having a great understanding of a system" is that it's hard to pin down, to define what that actually means. You can always use that as an excuse, if you are gate…