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pards
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Comment #49209782
> orgs still just aren't really shipping that much more quality features Writing code was never the bottleneck at large enterprises.
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Comment #49209131
> people who can't do 2+2 and ones that can't understand the question without rephrasing it three times We resorted to filtering candidates in-person with 5 basic technical questio…
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Comment #49208959
> When the cost of building goes to zero Where are they getting all those free tokens from?!? I don't like this rhetoric. It still costs money to write code, only now that wealth g…
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Comment #48966846
Same, but with GitLab pages.
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Comment #48870990
Every hotel I've stayed at in Hawaii charges one - usually to the tune of $50+/day - even if the hotel has no resort-like facilities. It's a bullshit fee.
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Comment #48858468
> a light grey text on a white background This makes the page SO hard to read. Why are "designers" still doing this? Have they no respect for their readers?
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Comment #48858449
> Maybe add a dedicated clear button. It's tedious to have to hit DEL 6 or 7 times towards the end of the game. Maybe ESC could clear the whole word?
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Comment #48858442
This.
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Comment #48697338
100%. It deserves more detail, too. I've spent many hours explaining how idempotency is supposed to work, and why it's important. Most teams understand the need for it, but very fe…
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Comment #48685210
> I’ve been finding most restaurant dishes “low quality” Many restaurants use pre-made components like sauces bought from restaurant wholesalers which explains a lot of the samenes…
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Comment #48685121
> > But when 6 people simultaneously tried to pay their share of the bill, chaos ensued. > Hasn't that been a fact of life ? I remember having to split bar tabs at the end of the n…
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Comment #48637943
> “We think that all of the platforms, including Meta, need to do more to protect their customers … from the dangers that are on their sites,” she says. If the service is free, you…
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Comment #48489029
Ref: https://youtu.be/yujF8AumiQo
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Comment #48256486
We recently had an issue with our production Oracle database. Our in-house DBAs spent hours trying to get the AI support bot to assign a real person to join the incident call. It t…
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Comment #48256472
> When AWS first introduced a viable cloud to the world, it was amazing. Back in the 1990s when you wanted to implement an enterprise software solution, you first had to take a gue…
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Comment #48256214
> I was unable to put clients on both Evidence and Prefect because the former failed to attend a sales meeting booked through their website and the latter failed to book a meeting …
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Comment #48191920
> Automation takes a lot of manual labour That's a great quote. https://xkcd.com/1205/
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Comment #48178897
I tried this (as a Canadian): 1. It asks you to optionally sign up for a bunch of other services like Spokeo 2. It asks for access to your email via Apple's Mail app which I don't …
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Comment #48168570
> He argues that it's important to acknowledge that imperfection and work toward processes that improve results. > One way to do that is to automate the prompting process in a way …
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Comment #48035059
For the non-US readers: > COBRA is the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act. It gives workers and their families who lose their health benefits the right to choose to con…
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Comment #48034944
This design is perfect irony. I love it.
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Comment #48026425
It's scary. Our society is not set up to deal with mass unemployment.
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Comment #48024819
Nope. Banking.
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Comment #48023462
It's an investment that is not generating returns. It's inventory sitting on the shelf requiring ongoing maintenance costs but generating no income.