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turok

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    Comment #44824098

    Maybe I am doing it wrong as an Engineering Director, but technical round 2's are with me for 90 minutes. I often explicitly tell the candidate that I respect their time and that i…

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    Comment #44571602

    Firefox is very nice these days, and will prompt you to import all your Chrome data if you haven't opened it in a while. It's a very easy thing to do, and U-block origin works on i…

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    Comment #42328355

    I actually feel a little queasy after using that site, the point about nausea & vertigo is very true, and I have neither on a day to day basis.

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    Comment #41377611

    Thanks, we are trying to compose an argument with this service in mind, we didn't have any recursive invocation protections for this lambda, and the AWS services it hammered during…

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    Comment #41356210

    We incurred a 6 figure bill when the API an authentication token handling lambda was updating from was taken down. The lambda went into a crazy loop self invoking, as it had a retr…

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    Comment #39026079

    > Blocked on this page0 (0%) Please feel free to include adverts as a means to monetize your work, my first impulse was to disable uBlock on your page.

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    Comment #38653072

    We try to do this, QA owns deployment to production and has the final say if a feature needs a re-write. The almost adversarial incentives of dev and QA are why it works. Dev wants…

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    Comment #38249521

    The use-case may be valid but the implementation doesn't necessarily facilitate it. I'm stating in the first quote that there is an idea of artists selling their work, but that isn…

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    Comment #38203508

    My opinion, I am not an expert by any means, I have only read the bitcoin whitepaper and written some very trivial blockchains to further my own understanding: Blockchain and crypt…

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    Comment #37046654

    The Brother grey box is exactly what a printer needs to be, totally anonymous until it is needed circa 3 times a year and then just works.

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    Comment #31312850

    As mentioned the SKX is no longer produced, and the replacements for it are inferior as the 5 series has increased in price beyond inflation and are not true dive watches anymore. …

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    Comment #30883502

    9) Coloured success/failure feedback, even just the words correct or wrong being coloured, it takes me a few moments to pick the result ouf of the new text being shown to me. This …

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    Comment #23526783

    I had a frustrating experience with this only yesterday. I was trying to search for the word "aquarium" but chrome kept filling in " https://aquarium.org" , I would delete the ".or…

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    Comment #20353291

    The issue is that effective free speech is now facilitated by private entities who are not legally beholden to it. The public forum is now privatised and more and more monopolised.…

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    Comment #19253770

    I'm currently in Western Europe waiting for the delivery of forms to cancel my Australian business number, this law has destroyed industry confidence in the Australian government f…

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    Comment #19170041

    I use "old.reddit.com" exclusively too, information density is king. Material design and minimalism probably have a lot of strong theory behind them, but the cargo culting around t…

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    Comment #16855398

    This assumes A & B haven't both developed a cure and are holding it back until the other party releases their cure. Neither do because of the profits being made on the perpetual tr…

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    Comment #15694101

    That subreddit seems more heavily focussed on 'bible code' style inference of hidden messages and conspiracies than the actual market forces driving these videos, and hence ignorin…

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    Comment #15311042

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%E2%80%93cube_law I think this is what you are referring to, the square cube law.