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This depends on if you're doing live transcoding or VOD transcoding.

I work with live transcode, and it can be beneficial to run on g2 instances. Running c4.4xlarge I can transcode a good number of 1080@30 in with 1080/720/480/360/240@30 out. With a proper g2 instance I can transcode more simultaneously.

So cost efficiency really depends on sustained traffic levels. I scale out currently using haproxy and custom code that monitors my pool and scales appropriately. But I monitor sustained traffic levels to know when it makes financial sense to scale up.

If your main concern is transcode speed, CPU is likely sufficient -- I am unable to transcode faster than real time with live transcode.

I've worked in monoliths, and I've worked with good logically thought out microservices. I'll take the open source microservices model with a good dev team any day of the week.

I can't imagine being in a place where I don't care about how my code runs in production or scales.

what bothers me about it is the 75% pay, because I could never imagine not putting in additional hours.

Were I only getting 75% of the pay of a full time worker, you can be sure I'd never put in a single additional hour.

I could say that a drop in my hours to 40 / week would be nice, but I'm the one who chooses to work longer hours. There's no expectation of longer hours where I am. I'm also usually not productive 8 hours in a row every day, sometimes significantly less than that. It ends up being very much a give / take scenario.

Just checked and we are not right now. We actually don't have any remote engineers right now. We did just hire an additional person for DevOps.

I don't think all unlimited vacation policies are scams. At my office we get told we need to take more vacation if we don't take at least 3 weeks. And I have never once seen a vacation request denied.

It sounds like you've got a job where they are using unlimited vacation as a way to limit vacation even further instead of using it to promote a great work life balance.

I have had a teacher that said you needed to comment every single line because that's how code is written in the real world.

I told him he was wrong and argued with him on more than one occasion. In the end, I just did it his way because there wasn't a good alternative.

Are xHamster users going to be contacting their reps to complain that they can no longer access it? That's another situation that seems unlikely to me.

I can't see this having a big impact on law makers. Is porn in limited supply now?

Last time I was looking for a job I ended up with offers from both places I was interviewing at. I renegotiated and signed one of the offer letters.

When I called the other company, they asked me to sign with them even though I'd already signed a different offer. Because this is tech and people do it all the time.

It just felt dirty. I had already made my choice, and would not have changed my mind. But I've got an older mentality where it feels like I am burning bridges if I reneg after signing an offer.

Salaries are lagging in Waterloo as well. That's not to say they're bad or the CoL is equal, but they are lagging.

If you are talking about a module that everyone just includes and expects to work, then I'd imagine the goal would be a combination of correct and efficient, not readable.

VC are not donating money. They are investing. In order for them to be successful, there must be a return on their investment.

This means that either companies need to be acquired, or they need to go public. If someone is investing a billion dollars, you'd want to be acquired for 10+ billion in order to have been a good investment. I think this makes IPO a more likely outcome at those investment levels.

I can imagine this is a problem for many potential donors. As a software dev, I was on vacation for three weeks. Of course, I mainly sit and type while I work and have unlimited vacation.

But I can definitely see this being a problem for those who are not as fortunate in their work.

I was an anonymous living donor who kicked off a donation chain. I don't think it's a big deal. Recovery sucked for a couple weeks, but when you consider the benefit alongside the developments occurring in medicine all the time, it's almost nothing.

This is fantastic news. People should not need to die while being stuck on a waiting list. Super happy to see this news today.

Not formally. However, if I was getting my job done and was productive, I don't think anyone would complain about 20% time. Although my employer is quite flexible and I have unlimited vacation as well, though that is a privilege and not a right, of course.

I actually quite enjoy my job. I still have side projects that I also enjoy, but my job is wonderful along with the company I work for.

Also, this stuff: "I didn't care how my code read, or if it was maintainable, or if it was DRY, or if it was tested, or how long it'd take me to write, or if features were separated into logical chunks"

Right at the beginning is where you lost me, because even when I was in grade school, I still made my code maintainable and separated into logical chunks because I had to read and maintain it whenever I got a chance to get back to it. My side projects are all built with these things in mind.

It is good that you have decided that coding isn't the right career for you, but I wonder what is? I would also be careful of making harsh public criticisms of your employer. It's easy to figure out where you work, and these are the types of concerns that your employer should be able to work with you to address.

Best of luck.

That's a good one.

One of my favourites was always Anchorhead, which is a Lovecraftian horror game that is excellently written.

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The one I played, we did get some assistance with one puzzle we were fumbling on for quite a while. But the poster here specifically says they only had one minute left. I think that's a really short time to jump in on without feeling like you're railroading someone through the room.

Wouldn't special tax breaks for large multinationals make it more difficult for local business to compete?

I've seen cities near to me get burned by this. There was a water bottling plant that got a lot of subsidies and tax breaks from a nearby city believing that it would create a lot of jobs for locals.

Turns out you don't need very many people to run a water bottling facility of this nature and most of it is automated.

I've heard similar for data centers. Huge tax breaks believing they'll bring in a lot of jobs. People in town train hoping to be employed. Maybe 50-100 people actually required.

Places need to do a better job researching how much job creation is actually going to come out of this tax breaks and subsidies.

The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz specifically mentions it being terrible.

On the other side of the fence, also Canadian, my debit card has been compromised many times. Bank always shuts it down immediately and lets me know, then returns the money. I have never been asked to prove anything. Usually they ask me to double check and see if any other charges than the ones they caught were fraudulent.

This has been as simple as someone using a copy of my card to buy candy and video games, something I could have done but didn't in this case.

Really impressed with the services of my banks when it's come to debit fraud.

I've been in this situation.

Where I'm being told, "Hire more developers! We need more developers!" I respond with, "I don't need any more on my team right now. We can't handle more with our processes and the head count on our other teams."

That's not important though. To the people I was working with, more developers meant you could do more work, even if we didn't have a plan for what that work would be yet. Incredibly frustrating since more devs could actually contribute to gumming up the works if not brought in appropriately.

This article is on a site that productizes this exact thing. Can't really take that on completely good faith.

Yes.

Not too long ago I had the opportunity to have a surgery performed by a robot controlled by a human surgeon. My wife was adamantly against it since there had been accidents previously with the robot other places in the world. Overall, the rate of incident was lower than the rate of incident for human surgeons, but to her that was not the important point.

There are people who will definitely hold machines to higher standards, and if they don't meet them, to them they are clearly inferior.

How many engineers work at Airbnb? If there were 18, that would mean they hired 2. That's not that crazy.

I want Flash to die. What I need is a service that will transcode video to HLS and MPEG-DASH for live stream and VOD. Surprisingly, it's hard to find one that's really excellent.

I don't know how their new features would work without these permission changes. Just because they need the permissions doesn't mean they're doing anything evil with them.

Are there really places doing post-production code review? That sounds like a terrible practice.

I've worked for places that didn't have code review, and places with pre-production code review. The ones that didn't code review brought in code review practices (like they should). I have never seen a post-production review process though.

Probably because this was made by Canadians in Toronto according to the page.