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Re:What I gained, lost and learned while working for Microsoft
on Sunday May 12, 2019 @02:44AM (#19890542)
It's all relative. I spent six years at university without ever taking a single taxi and I still consider Uber rides a luxury, because I can also take the bus for a quarter of the price or bike for free.
Also, as the OP mentions, the trap of getting used to nice things is that while you soon stop appreciating them, you will feel their loss quite painfully.
Re:Marissa Mayer on career growth and how a revenue guarantee almost k...
on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @11:27PM (#19621559)
Does your codebase date from 1995? Because some of Yahoo's does. Time to send Jerry a nastygram about not adequately preparing the codebase for arbitrary color changes 25 years ago?
Re:Moving from Heroku to Google Kubernetes Engine
on Friday April 05, 2019 @02:11AM (#19580130)
If you can't wait for their teaser of "In a future post, I’ll cover the migration process itself", the GCP site has a hands-on tutorial of migrating an app which may prove interesting:
https://cloud.google.com/solutions/migrating-ruby-on-rails-a...
Disclaimer: I work for GCP and wrote most of that :D
At the end of the day, Heroku and GKE are rather different beasts with different philosophies, so migrations are never going to be 1:1. I expect this to become simpler over time as tooling matures though, eg. using https://buildpacks.io to build Docker images instead of having to craft them by hand seems promising.
Re:An American Citizen Was Forcibly Drafted Into the South Korean Army...
on Sunday March 17, 2019 @06:29AM (#19413293)
There was no mistake: by Korean law he's Korean and thus has to be conscripted. Of course it sucks that he wasn't aware of this, but the letter of the law was followed here.
Re:US refuses to ground Boeing 737 Max
on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @06:28AM (#19377370)
That initial A320 flight was a demo flight for journalists where the pilot was intentionally pulling stunts like flying very low in front of spectators. Turns out he was flying lower than intended and basically plowed into the forest at the end of the runway. There was a long, still unsolved debate about where the A320 reacted correctly to the pilot's eventual commands to rev the engines and pull up, but ending up needing to do that was definitely not the plane's fault.
Re:The head of luxury at Facebook and Instagram
on Sunday March 10, 2019 @07:27AM (#19351502)
People who don't signal wealth tend to like to think so, but it's been fairly exhaustively demonstrated that signaling wealth with visibly branded clothing does get you better treatment in all sorts of things, including job interviews.
https://www.cnbc.com/2015/04/10/wearing-expensive-brands-of-...
And yes, in some circles ostentatious signaling will be counterproductive, but that's the exception rather than the rule.
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A Newly-Generated Create-React-App 2.1.5 App Has 1,568 Dependencies
Re:The Colgan Air disaster was a milestone in aviation safety
on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @08:11PM (#19149451)
Please have a read of the article before downvoting: it's not some random neoliberal "unions are evil" rant, but a very coherent explanation of how seniority-based pay works and how the system is set up to ensure senior pilots get paid $300,000 while juniors get $16,000.
Re:The Colgan Air disaster was a milestone in aviation safety
on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @06:19PM (#19148722)
Two words: unions and seniority. Here's a good intro:
http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/unions-and-airlines
It's also worth noting that this is largely a US-only phenomenon. It has led to a lot of junior US pilots heading overseas to fly with other carriers, most notably in the Gulf, although that party is slowly starting to wind down.
Re:Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the...
on Sunday December 09, 2018 @11:49AM (#18641770)
Interesting, but how do you keep this up to date? These requirement change constantly and the only reliable source I'm aware of, Timatic (which is what airlines use), is copyrighted and quite tightly locked down.
Wikipedia does crowdsource this info fairly effectively though, sample: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_Indian_c...
Re:I Put Words on This Webpage So You Have to Listen to Me Now
on Saturday December 01, 2018 @11:12PM (#18580742)
Shallow typing? Seriously? Next you'll be telling me you use Dvorak. Deep hyping is where it's at and both flopnar and ropjax excel at that.
Re:I Put Words on This Webpage So You Have to Listen to Me Now
on Saturday December 01, 2018 @06:58PM (#18579844)
This is totally obvious submarine astroturfing. Christine is a paid shill of rilkef, whose VC fund lead investors drink the same brand of organic kombucha as Zuckerberg. Don't be fooled: flopnax, not rilkef, is the consensus way to do containerized federated blockchain service hybrid ML at web scale.
Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ever seen work?
on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @04:52AM (#18448716)
Totally unsurprising if you've ever worked with Oracle. The layers upon layers of legacy cruft are plainly visible even in simple things like the GUI installers.
Re:Japan's Hometown Tax
on Friday October 19, 2018 @04:23PM (#18259739)
I see a lot of moaning about inefficiency here, but here's a point of comparison. During the Bubble years in the late eighties, when many rural areas were feeling left out, there was a scheme to give basically every municipality in Japan a large lump sum of money ($10m?), no strings attached, except that it had to be used for building something new.
This, as you might guess, was an incredible waste of money. Many podunk towns built flashy "multi-purpose halls" (多目的ホール) perfect for all those symphony orchestras just dying to perform in the middle of nowhere. More memorably, the town of Utazu, Kagawa purchased a solid gold toilet...!
http://english.cri.cn/6909/2010/09/09/1901s593626.htm
https://www.emporis.com/buildings/191596/gold-tower-utazu-ja...
Re:Paul Allen has died
on Monday October 15, 2018 @10:11PM (#18225829)
That's just straight-up wrong. Legal ownership of a gun in Japan requires an extreme amount of bureaucracy, but it's entirely possible and most legal gun owners in Japan are (non-rich, non-well-connected) farmers.
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/gun-control-how-japan-has...
Re:Show HN: You Don't Need WordPress – Create a Blog With Only Google ...
on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @10:42PM (#18081770)
The data that G Suite organizations and users put into our systems is theirs, and we do not scan it for advertisements nor sell it to third parties [...] Google does not collect, scan or use data in G Suite Core Services [including Google Docs] for advertising purposes.
https://gsuite.google.com/learn-more/security/security-white...
Disclaimer: I work at Google Cloud, but not G Suite/Docs.
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Re:In Brazil, it is considered rude to be on time to a party
on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @02:40AM (#17651032)
I used to work in Indonesia, with Indonesian clients. Scheduling a meeting for 10 AM and not having anybody show up until 11 was normal; showing up four hours late and shrugging it off with "macet" (traffic) was not unusual. (Then again, Jakarta jams really can be that bad.)
They have a word for it too: jam karet, or "rubber time".
Re:Burger Robot Startup Opens First Restaurant
on Thursday June 21, 2018 @09:37PM (#17370625)
Which is why we should immediately un-mechanize mines and bring back hurriers and trappers!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrying
https://thoroglove.wordpress.com/2015/03/12/trappers-hurrier...
Simply put: if a job is so repetitive that it can be automated out of existence, it's in the interest of humanity overall that it should be.
Re:Ethiopia is now Africa's fastest growing economy
on Monday May 21, 2018 @09:13PM (#17123102)
Many Western aid projects are also thinly disguised subsidies for well-connected companies back home. The main difference with China is sheer scale and the fact that they tend to import their own labor as well.
Re:Medieval trade networks
on Monday May 21, 2018 @07:34AM (#17117589)
Many of the spellings seem to be historical and/or purposely antiquated.
Re:Airbus A380, Once the Future of Aviation, May Cease Production
on Monday January 15, 2018 @05:28PM (#16154023)
Well, it goes both ways: EK, being essentially a monopsony customer, is also in a great place to squeeze more concessions from Airbus. That's why the two sides are currently engaged in a game of chicken, with EK pulling what seemed like a done deal at the last Dubai airshow ("too expensive, lower your price!") and Airbus now making rumbling noises about cancelling production entirely ("price is too low, no plane for you!").
Re:Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two words for...
on Friday January 12, 2018 @07:13AM (#16132288)
Nit: Western (black) tea is 紅茶 hongcha, lit. "red tea". Chinese black tea refers to fermented teas like pu-erh, which are not the same thing.
Re:Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two words for...
on Friday January 12, 2018 @05:43AM (#16131914)
The friendly article notes that both Japan and Korea likely acquired the word long before the Silk Road.
Relevant random factoid: it's possible to tell when many Chinese words were imported into Japan based on the pronunciation, which varies based on where the Chinese capital (and hence the ruling class dialect) happened to be. See "Onyomi" under https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji.
Re:Bitcoin Visa debit cards are cancelled
on Friday January 05, 2018 @07:13AM (#16078139)
The major exception is Monaco, although this is only hypothetical since they haven't actually issued any cards.
It's also, ahem, a house of cards for its investors, but that's another story told on my blog: https://gyrovague.com/2017/06/16/monaco-doing-the-math-on-an...
Re:Professional Dress Code Tips
on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @11:16PM (#15976400)
Oddly enough, in stuffy industries not adhering to the dress code is a strong social signal that you're good enough to be able to flaunt it.
I used to work in telecoms consulting, which is fairly buttoned up: usually dress shirts, slacks and nice shoes, although us engineers were permitted to dispose of the tie and open the top button. But the best engineer in my company -- the guy who'd be flown in by private jet when needed because the billing systems were dropping $1m/hour on the floor -- maintained a steady uniform of ripped jeans, ratty T-shirts and permanent 3-day stubble, and the clients would always fall over themselves with gratefulness when he showed up. Not because of what he wore, of course, but because he was "the real deal" and very good at actually fixing problems, instead of talking about them.
Photos of Soviet control rooms
Re:The AWS Spend of Our SaaS Side-Business
on Saturday June 10, 2017 @07:49AM (#14527019)
Curious: How does that differ from GCP's Cloud Endpoints/Apigee Edge -> Cloud Functions -> Cloud Datastore?
Disclaimer: I work for GCP.