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It's still showing hurricane force winds. I guess they've decided it's better to show the correct forecast data + bad wind data than take down the page entirely.

Not looking but great to see Bristol represented!

I'm not affiliated with him in any way, but I quite like the tweets from http://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz He has a book that I've not read, but could be worth getting https://blog.p…

Asking questions is helpful. Knowing when it's fine to let them go with a 80% perfect plan

At-least this persons email to jeff@amazon.com triggered a ? email. https://independent.co.uk/money/amazon-underpaying-workers-e...

It doesn't, a bad manager (allegedly) did. Having said that, having say 50% fewer commits than your peers is probably a reason to dive-deeper...it could be a good thing, maybe you …

Kill Everyone: Advanced Strategies for No-Limit Hold Em Poker. Never turned much of profit at the poker table, but the life-lessons in that book have been invaluable.

I'm not sure that 55 months of up-time indicates it's more or less likely to go down in the next month, but I'd guess more likely. Surely there are options, have you tried de-compi…

At Amazon you literally can't get promoted to Senior Engineer (SDE3) without showing influence outside your team.

Development is the ability to deliver/ship the things that increase your business metrics, consistently. Sometimes the right thing to do is TDD, sometimes the right thing to do is …

Nothing worse then the page on Friday night, oh there goes my weekend.

Do Facebook not use it?

I would never ask a candidate this, and I'd never dignify it with a response.

I work at one of the other Big4 and to be honest it's not that impressive. This kind of report would be a high severity ticket, the person on-call for the given team would get page…

I have a desire to be free. I'm working towards never having to look at a fucking computer again. Hopefully by the time I'm 30, I'll have enough to do only need to work about three…

I may be in Madrid next week, fancy a drink/bouldering sesh? I'm a 25 year old Amazon SDE from the UK.

I'm 25 and got turned down by a start-up for being too old.

I haven't read the article but Dr Ben Goldacre has written some great stuff on this. Incidentally he was the first person to get me engaged in science as a teenager, and I love his…

We're in an industry ten years behind so we're just getting into Big Data. Obviously the issue that we can't write working normal software hasn't been addressed but we'll see how i…

I'm that guy but instead of leaving I hung around, god knows why. After three years, I'm interviewing and getting offers of about 60% salary increase. From £32,200 -> £55,000.

He's essentially more of a brother to me, and yes it wasn't the nicest experience for anyone involved but he didn't lose his life-savings.

Not OP but I'm in the market and need: - Windows based as I do mostly .Net - =< £500

I was in BTC from very early on. Ironically I didn't make much money but that's another story. I'm shocked, absolutely shocked that the Magic The Gathering Online Exchange wasn't s…

It doesn't really matter too much, within reason. Do what you think sounds interesting. Do internships. Play sports/some form of physical activity to a relatively high level. Start…