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Sona | HR Tech | Remote (within Europe / UK) | Elixir & React Native Engineers

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Really like this approach but 7KG cabin baggage limits on lots of international flights are what makes it really hard for me. I sometimes struggle to get single laptop + iPad + charger + power bank within the limit, let alone two sets.

Yup agree, that's exactly what's being used here, along with some tweaks to make it easier to do things like passing the auth JWT's back to the underlying app etc

There are still a few places in Scotland which operate on such a system (I spent a bunch of time in one of them growing up and still go there at least once a year). There's a fish van and a meat + fresh produce van which comes on a (relatively) predictable schedule. Nearest supermarket is 2-3 hours drive, more due to road quality than physical distance, so people still go there semi-regularly and generally run big deep freezes.

Thanks for this, generally find discovering new (as in recent) guitar music challenging. You've sent me down a veyr enjoyable rabbit hole of awesome new stuff!

Any chance you've got a documentation link for this? My Google foo is failing me and this is a feature I've also wanted for ages!

This is an amazing response, thank you!

I'd be really interested in how you're approaching persistence? I've also found self managing clusters provisioned with kuibeadm fairly hassle free until persistence is involved. Not so much setting it up (e.g. rook is fairly easy to get going with now), but the ongoing maintenance, dealing with transitioining workloads between nodes etc etc.

This is a really good starting point; https://github.com/hobby-kube/guide I've used it for several projects and it works a treat.

Do you know of any more accessible books which might give people a feel for what they might encounter? DSM-5 is pretty heavy going for someone outside of the field but agree that some awareness of it could be really valuable.

I was really confused initially, I thought these guys https://www.gousto.co.uk/ were already called Gusto.

Similar in the UK, I'd say I make most of my small purchases (e.g. lunches, coffees etc) contactless now.

Exactly this. I've found (on OSX) that an Alfred custom search to quickly do a Google Last Year only search is incredibly useful.

This is definitely what I was getting at. My admittedly fairly small sample makes me think I'd rather hire someone who appears to be an excellent developer in general and train them on a new language/ framework than someone who appears mediocre but already has experience.

Yeah you're totally right, it's a huge over simplification. I was specifically thinking of the scenario where you add roughly the same number of users each period, where that number isn't really enough for it to be a viable business but because there are some users, it becomes really hard to say "this isn't working" and either radically change something or quit. Agree that retention is often a much better metric.

Hey, author here. My logic is usually that an NDA is a restriction on me, so I won't usually sign one unless I'm getting something in return. E.g. I'm happy to sign one in the context of a piece of paid work.

Most people are quite receptive when I explain the above and that in practice I don't believe that ideas really get stolen. Well not (web/app)tech startup ideas anyway. I've never had what you'd call a "bad" reaction to it and in about 75% of cases, people have then gone on to explain their idea.

I think the counter view here is that video can be incredibly inconvenient depending on your exact use case. E.g. my scarcest resource is time and video is, for me at least, a very slow way of consuming content (compared to text). So if it's content that I need to consume quickly, video is a none starter.

If I'm browsing the web, I'm already reading textual content so reading is about as low effort as can be. Watching a video means "context switching", reading to watching, along with making sure I've got headphones on, pausing any music I'm listening to etc.

That's not to say the above is true for everyone, but for some people, watching a video is substantially less convenient and entails more effort than reading text.

Yep they purchased Periscope earlier this month. http://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-acquires-live-video-stre...

That still seems to be the behaviour, so it still works for open tracking just not the additional meta data. Fantastic tool you've created by the way!