reallydontask

> You think that 25,000+ employees that work at AWS have somehow been silenced into some grand conspiracy?

You seem to suggest that every single employee that works at AWS is aware of everything that goes on with the company.

Isn't just possible that despite of what we know about the architecture, this might not be the whole truth and concerns about involuntary inter region transfers might just be warranted?

that's one way.

It's a tricky position as you want somebody with the right mix of tech knowledge, business knowledge and bullshiting ability.

Sadly, in my limited experience, there seems to be a large amount of people that excel at the latter but not so much at the other categories.

We've got a junior devops chap that is in his late 30s and has never worked in IT, so it's possible

> Maybe for Windows transplants. In general, not at all.

care to elaborate

In my experience, Powershell is so much nicer than bash that even on my work mac I tend to use it when doing stuff for me (not going to force it on my team)

I think that for Enterprise customers (G-Suite) dots might matter as I tried to create a new (bot) account in Github with my email sans dots and I never received the email (email was not @gmail.com)

I'm in a VM cabled area, so the I get ~ 100/10 Mbps and ~ 12 ms ping. This is the second lowest tier that VM offer btw

I was dumbing it down to prove that consensus is possible, the same can be achieved on your scenario though the consensus could well be less unanimous, I don't know enough about this area to have an opinion, though I suspect that people would prefer the former to the latter.

Ultimately you are right, but this is basically Popper vs Kuhn. I can confidently say that the sun will indeed rise tomorrow from the East and set on the West, to pretend otherwise is sheer folly.

to be fair there are people out there that do indeed fit that description, though they are in a minority but tend to be pretty vocal, so it's easy to overestimate their numbers

Enterprise software vendors?

what do you mean by very few?

In the UK, Apple market share for tablets seems to be ~65%

In my previous job we used Azure and moved from Service Fabric using Docker to App Service without containers. I should say containers developed by us. as App Service uses containers.

Overall, everything was easier though that might be because of not using SF rather than moving away from containers. An end to end deployment (Iac, App and integration tests) of ALL microservices would take between 18 - 45 minutes.

The lower figure was if it skipped IaC (limitations on ARM templates and Vnets forced serial deployment) and the upper figure was slowness on our agents. You'd have to add anywhere between 2 and 30 minutes for the build itself (30 minutes was the remnants of the monolith that was being slowly and methodically dismantled)

Could save another 8-16 minutes by not running any tests and work as ongoing to allow a more pick and choose approach as the full deployment method was starting to become too slow as the number of microservices increased (I think we had 12 when I left)

There was nothing that, say k8s, offered and we needed that wasn't available on our setup, plus it was miles cheaper than SF or AKS.

If it works for you then fine, if it doesn't the try something else

Maybe due to there being a previous discussion?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23564247

Is the issue the cut or the percentage?

I'd imagine that a sliding scale would be far more palatable for big companies, say every order of magnitude increase above say 1000 in installs, the cut drops by 5%, so if you have 1 million installs, any extra would be 15%.

I suppose there is the possibility of fake accounts but at this scale, likely hundreds of millions, is it going to be a big difference?

There is the Apple Developer Enterprise Program[0] but it suggests it's only for employees.

>Use the program only to create proprietary, in-house apps for internal use, and to distribute these apps privately and securely to employees within the organization.

Not sure if there is another programme that would work for universities

[0]https://developer.apple.com/programs/enterprise/

Would you care to clarify?

Do you mean that universities can distribute iOS apps to iOS devices without using the App Store?

The Golf is not a town car in Europe

>Also, to spend £100k on a car (cost here in the UK)

Google suggests that Tesla Model 3 starts at £42.5K and the S and X are around ~ £80K, which I guess is what you had in mind

> There are quite a lot of people now that just use a web browser on their desktop or laptop. For them, a 5 year old (or older?) CPU is good enough that they don't know they are missing anything. Especially if they have enough memory and an SSD.

My 2015 laptop is still more than capable of doing .net development, or I should say, was when I last tried in 2019.

At work I've got a 2015 macbook pro and it's also more than enough for devops (namely, terraform, docker and the odd script in bash or python)

I should add that neither feel sluggish though no doubt new kit would be faster

I need to get out more clearly, I'm only 43

It would be good if there was sorting on the table. Current sorting is not very useful

> It found that queer females aged under 30 were charged the least, at just $6.99 per month, while city-based straight men over 50 were charged the most, at $34.37 a month.

Any Australians care to comment on the use of queer?

It's pretty derogatory in the UK (in the context of sexual orientation)

edit:

added, in the context of sexual orientation

edit 2:

looks like my knowledge is outdated then :)

> the debate over whether Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation were an agent for good or an agent for helping Bill Gates sleep at night was a huge thing when I was in graduate school.

maybe both?

indeed

Specially with the audit/pen test theatre where they have to put something in the report, otherwise why are they getting paid £20K for two days work?

So most people choose the past of least resistance, when it doesn't matter much, so that you fight where it does.

there you go

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-renam...

edit: HN link

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24070385

There are positives to the default being opt in, e.g. organ donor.

There could be negatives of course, there is no substitute for an informed citizenry and indepedent media to challenge such instances.

I recently applied to the Civil Service in the UK and they asked me to produce an anonymised CV, namely remove my name and contact details

In principle I like the idea but I think they should ask to also remove the company names and perhaps dates, as it could be straight forward to work out who you are based on companies and dates.

As to how effective to remove bias, it's hard to say as I've not seen any A/B testing done with this, but give the massive push to get minorities on board, I'd hazard a guess that it's not as effective as they had hoped

Although I appreciate where your comment is coming from, namely her tenure at yahoo and probably tongue in cheek, people can change their views for genuine reasons and should, mostly, be admired when they do so. It takes courage to publicly admit that you are wrong

This completely off topic but the author has a long and detailed podcast series on the fall of the roman empire.

https://wondery.com/shows/the-fall-of-rome-podcast/

> I don't know where you work but no one where I work considers the current situation fine

why not?

My previous team was distributed across three sites with some people WFH and it worked really well.

Admittedly the people WFH, myself included, had a home office (i.e. a dedicated room for work), the lack of which, I guess, is the main reason for a lot of people not enjoying WFH, that and the children running around :)