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Aren't they still vulnerable to Spectre?

If I recall correctly from older posts (I played Fortnite for a while), they're using AWS.

It's not recent, Vine has been around for years.

While it's a good program, there are millions of items, unlikely to have them all covered by Vine users. They would have to extend the program greatly for this to be an effective counter.

This is one of the ways "dead" people can keep voting over and over long after they've passed away.

On one of my laptops I downloaded a hosts file with a comprehensive list of advertising hostnames. This was to be able to browse with Edge back when it didn't have extensions and certain ads made it freeze. It was a bit of a pain because I had to go through the whole file to make sure there was nothing dodgy going on. But it did the trick.

I thought of making a script that updates that file automatically, but I can't say I've seen any ads on that laptop even without updating the file for months, so hasn't been my first priority.

I've recently made a little project with scrapy (for crawling) and BeautifulSoup (for parsing html) and it works out great. One more thing to add to the above list are pipelines, they make downloading files quite easy.

Curious. Are there no stores because they're not allowed or because they don't want to be there?

I would find it very hard not to have a supermarket or a corner shop nearby for when I run out of this or that and it isn't time for the weekly shopping. And I would think it's an excellent small business opportunity.

It's one of the reasons why I was using Groove. I'm going to keep the app to be able to play these songs.

Spain is divided by autonomias (comunidades autonomas). You can vote wherever you're registered to vote, nowhere else. I can't vote on issues in Extremadura or Valencia because I'm not registered in there.

I understand this affects Spain as a whole, so after the vote there should be a proper discussion rather than direct secession action (IF that were the result). But this question is regional, the rest of Spain doesn't decide if they want to live in an independent Catalonia state, because they don't live in there.

What about the Scottish Referendum then?

I did cut my salary by 40% voluntarily. I now work part-time (3 days per week, plus the rare emergency). Much better, as I can still pay the bills and got a 4 day weekend to do whatever I please with. I'm also a lot more productive as well both in and outside of work.

The only downside is that I don't have as much spare money as I used to to spend on those free days (e.g. travelling or taking lessons on x/y/z), but there are other low cost hobbies I take instead (my own coding projects amongst them). Socialising has gone up as well.

Working 70+ hours can be fun at some point in life, I've done it before. But it's too easy to get stuck in there and burnout or worse.

Each company has its own guidelines. A junior could be for example someone who focuses too much in the particular case of a problem rather than looking at the big picture. In interviews, for example, if they present you with a problem to solve and you don't have any follow up questions, you appear as less senior in the eyes of the interviewer.

This is just one of the criteria used, there are more.

The ranges are wide to give room for salary negotiations at the beginning of employment, but also to allow for salary raises for people who are not yet considered to be at a higher level. E.g. you could be a junior developer, but a very good junior, who deserves a pay rise because of performance, engagement or whatever, but still a junior technically.

If you get quite far into your own salary range but never get promoted (if that's how the company works), it's time for some reflection on the situation, for both yourself and the company. Note that the ranges can also overlap between job levels, in some cases.

P.S. Not talking about Google specifically.

So I suppose is it a one time thing only? A shame, it was quite fun to solve!

They are nice to have and welcome, but not mandatory. I'm actually the only one in my group of friends who has ever enjoyed these kind of things. That's why I say we are very lucky. Once you step out of the tech bubble you see that what you take for granted is only a dream for many. I can work part time and still make more money than they do.

So if you have 50 employees that's $5,000 per month, which could be used to pay another salary. Or you could pay your employees that extra $100 directly so they use it whichever way they want.

Employee discounts in retail are usually within company margins for sales and they are limited (e.g. $1,000 purchases per year or so). If the margin doesn't cover these discounts or the system is abused they will get reduced/removed. Likewise, if a startup thinks these $100 per month are better spent elsewhere perhaps they are just being financially responsible.

When I read things like this, I like to take a moment to realise how fortunate we are to work in a sector where something like freebies is almost considered to be a sacred right. Is there any other profession or sector where they get the same treatment?

I don't think removing or reducing these benefits is a sign of poor health. I think it's more a sign of turning into a proper business (which needs to answer to the people who put the money to buy all these drinks in the first place), which isn't for everyone, but it doesn't _have_ to be a bad sign.

I do agree with the second part. The attrition rate is definitely something to keep tabs on, but it's important to know why people are leaving.

I went through some kind of burnout as well last year (more related to personal stuff than work itself) and decided to take a long vacation. I didn't want to go back to the usual schedule and risk having the same issue again in a year or two, so I decided to work part time when I came back.

So, now I work Monday to Wednesday and have Thursday to Sunday free. This means I only have three days per week to make an impact on the company (as opposed to the ones who work full time), so I find myself really focused. My productivity vs before has skyrocketed.

What do I do on my extra days? Sometimes I go out, sometimes I just do nothing and relax, sometimes I do small side contracts or personal projects. I hope one of these takes off one day and allow me to recover the money I gave up when switching to part time. At least now I've got the energy to work on them.

Old Server versions of Windows were also affected. Could be what a lot of these service companies were running on.

I tend to agree. Call me paranoid, but I can't help to see this type of questions (not this one in particular and not implying anything, I mean in general) as a bit of social engineering. Even when it is a genuinely innocent question, nothing stops third parties from benefiting from the information and making use of it.

If you marry yourself to a single framework you remove a lot of degrees of freedom from PHP (which might be good or bad depending on the case) and introduce a set of rules that might or might not all be good for you.

It might save you time, initially. But at some point you will have to sit down and learn what the framework is actually doing behind the scenes (is it really secure? why is it so slow? I really need to implement this obscure, unsupported by my framework, thing), and you might not be so happy about your choice. Thinking about this ahead of time will save you headaches in the long run.

Think of PHP as sandbox programming. Such an open language, there is a lot of freedom, so many ways to achieve a specific result. The takeaway from the article is that "always do X" shouldn't be a thing, considering a) the vast possibilities and b) your purpose. Frameworks might be too much bloat, patterns should happen naturally, not forcefully. Security should be paramount, but it shouldn't be a blackbox behind third party code, you should be able to explain how you are protecting your users. Etc.

This is not a "don't use a framework/standards/etc" rant. I see it as a reminder to double-check if the current... trends/standards? match your actual needs and wants.

Well, this specific one is not about statistics and hard data, but about personal experiences and feelings. Perhaps larger numbers would simply add points that are too specific to include in a generalisation. Or perhaps it takes too much time to interview 1000s one on one :)

As small as the sample was, I think it was quite relatable.

How odd. I was reading it on mobile this morning and the whole article was (still is, just checked) fully available.

Do your websites show in the same rank in all three search engines? Do Bing and Yahoo need some specific SEO guidelines to be followed, perhaps? As usually SEO is mostly focused toward Google, perhaps they don't follow the same principles when ranking sites, thus you get less exposition and less visitors. I'm curious...

A side effect from this is that their Amazon Basics brand becomes more valuable, as the products are actually decent and from someone you trust.

Perhaps this was the plan all along...

It's a good practice to learn the inner works before adding layers that may simplify (but obscure) functionality.

There is a lot that can be extrapolated from your shopping history, more than you think (e.g. if you've got a new house, a baby, if you have health problems, if you're a geek, if you like drinking or not...). And it's not just your shopping history that gets saved. It's your searches (whether you purchased or not), whatever links you searched/clicked to get to Amazon, your wishlists, and so on.

This can be said for any website or app you visit regularly. How deep they go and whether they act on this data or not is in question, but Data Analyst positions are becoming increasingly popular for a reason.

My bet is that if/when this kicks off a bit more the next move will be Amazon laptops (these being like Chromebooks).

Mankind's Plan B, protected by polar bears :)

Apparently it only allows for company/school emails at signup. It's not aimed at personal use.