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I get what you are saying. There are plenty of sub par contractors out there. Unfortunately there are just as many sub par permanent employees and consulting firms.

I have seen terrible disasters developed by every single sort of person. The issue normally comes when we as developers seem more interested in doing "clever" things at the expense of making sure we code for maintainability and support ability.

Combine the above with a large part of our community being terrible at communicating and you have a recipe for confusion and chaos.
> The article address this argument though and says that the Foundation has already stretched the rules.

That bit of the article is arguably misleading. The foundation is not stretching its rules in awarding it to three people. That stretching (from one to three) was done immediately after Nobel's death as part of the settlement of his Will, and enshrined in the statutes of the foundation ("nor shall it be divided into more than three prizes at most")[0].

Whether it's possible to change it now to allow more than three is a question for someone who knows Swedish Trust law.

[0] https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_organizations/nobelfoundati...
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Hi, in our team we're using Flyway.

The reason we use Flyway is that we are developing on the JVM so it has support for Java, Scala and Groovy (which we are currently using) and eventually also Kotlin.

I suggest to use a version control tool when you are in greenfield projects and your database schema and data might change a lot.

Additionally it offers an easy way to control and keep track on how the database evolves. Imagine having to run SQL statements directly on the production environment without a clear way of keeping track of the changes.

On top you will have consistent changes that you can roll-out across your dev, qa and prod environments in case you have that set-up.

As for how we run it, the migration scripts are part of the project and when we release a new version we apply the migration scripts automatically when the artefact bootstraps.
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Look, you could just set the new subdomain as a cname with a large TTL and then handle that a-record via a different provider if you really need to. You could also choose to delegate the whole subdomain. Also, load-balancing via multiple a-records does not at all depend on the TTL. DNS is really the easiest part to handle here. Internal policy might prevent delegation, but that’s not a technical problem.
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s/standard/accepted, usual/, and it does hold up. Not everything that's generally followed here is codified.
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More than half of the people in the world still don't have internet access ! I believe the estimate of 3 B includes all yahoo accounts created until 2013 - maybe an opportunity to indicate the clout it once had.
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For explanation of both, watch this Video: https://anders.com/blockchain/
and then click on the "fork on github" link ;)
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The front end is what delivers value to our clients so we want to make sure we get it right. We've already started staffing with some great engineering talent and prototyping in Elm. We're looking for someone who:

- has experience shipping complex javascript apps in react+redux.

- likes elm and functional programming

- can mentor and provide technical and personal leadership to junior engineers

- can help with road mapping and product planning

We're less interested in what you you know and more interested in your capability to learn. We like machine learning, functional programming, and new ideas for the proptech space. Do reach out even if you feel you don't check every box. We'd love to hear from you.

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It might just be me misinterpreting your example, but having created the required records to run the following command ('var messageRef = db.collection('rooms').doc('roomA').collection('messages').doc('message1');'), i don't see no results. Or people is expected to understand that 'message1' stands for an object ?
Maybe we should only award Nobel Peace Prize posthumously.
what about a $5k rebate or discount?
First, look for companies that you'd like to work. See if the technologies that they work with are the ones you know, and start developing more skills on them. That will increase your chances of getting hired.
It might end up looking like a random "employee of the month". There are thousands of individuals working on their own little puzzle piece of these large cooperations, singling out some individual contributors "down in the trenches" for an award would be a lot more disrespectful to their peers than awarding some shared head figures who implicitly represent their entire extended teams.
Yes, cases similar to building jdk from the ports collection are exactly why prebuilt packages exist. It's now very easy to provision a new system since the new package manager was introduced in 10R, pretty much like in Linux. Yet you also have the option of using ports tree and customizing packages yourself using `make config` and the building and installing them using `make` and `make install`. This is easier than installing source rpms or debs and customizing your build mainly because it's menu driven and all the popular options are on the menu.

FreeBSD provides a quartely branch (enabled by default since 10.2) with prebuilt packages that are supported up to 3 months, to avoid moving too fast and breaking things. There's also the latest branch, with the latest and greatest stuff.

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/p...
I can't make sense of what this means.

Are my HTML and LaTeX documents code? What if I practice literate programming and interweave my manuscript and the code? Are both released under the MIT license?

The appendix of Cryptonomicon includes a perl script. Is the original manuscript therefore source code? Or only the executable code part?

What about a video game where the engine reads external data files, and it's the data files which specify the level. (Eg, wad files and DOOM.) Are those data files also "code"?

A Game of Life engine can take an array of 0s and 1s as inputs. Including from a 1-bit image file like one in PBM format. Are those image files under the MIT license? Are all PBM files under the MIT license because they could be used as input? Remember, the Game of Life is Turing complete.

It's surprising just how many things are accidentally Turing complete - http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/accidentally_turing_complet... .

Tools like fuzz checkers can generate billions of source code tests. Are those all archived?

If I have my computer generate millions of variations of my source code, will this "perfect public entity" store all of them? How is it indexed? Because it seems one way workaround is to make it hard to find the source code needle in the haystack of false leads.
Indeed.

Flash wasn't a bad technology per se (security issues in the plugin aside). It was just annoying, in the same way HTML5/JS is now annoying. When people want to do user-hostile things they will do user-hostile things, no matter what technology stack is popular.
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Working in semi academia I do see these kind of applications. The following are personal opinions that work for convincing me when I am in an hiring committee.

* A good cover letter
* Having worked with a version control system
* Shown initiative

For me a good cover letter makes a world of a difference. Anything at all that shows you have thought about the problems that the organization you are applying to is gold and basically an guaranteed phone call.

I still see CV's and get people at phone stage that never used a version control system e.g. git. I don't care which one you used. Its just that it is my baseline for competence.

For a junior position our main aim is to have someone who is willing to grow to a senior and that requires initiative i.e. doing more than what they are told to do but seeing what needs to be done and starting on it. Being in semi-academia I also know that we can rarely keep people once they become senior level due to wage differences. Initiative can be shown in many ways, from the way you reach out to us in the pre-interview stage, to highlighting things you have started in your social live e.g. club activities etc...
I use Ansible + Vagrant for development env only and for some times to test on different env too like staging etc.

I try to shift my env to docker but faced alot issues in configuring and running some scripts on docker-compose up.
There are tons of exciting things happening in this space.

Check out the OpenAg Movement out of the MiT Media Lab, Caleb Harper's TED talk on youtube.

Also go to www.openagriculturesupply.com for all the Kits, Parts and supplies you need to build your own "Food Computer".
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No, I was running 'pure' Arch, same as I do with FreeBSD now. List of my packages is very minimal so it can be assumed they reliably work the same way on both systems.

I am using offlineimap, mutt, vdirsyncer, khal, khard, w3m, urxvt...
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Has Shellscape fixed the bug with size-hinted windows?

I found that when you had two terminal with size-hinting tiled, and the 'wrong' window resized, shellscape would wig out and pit the size-hints of both windows against each other, resulting in windows resting in some weird geometry and position.
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Proofs are founded on reason and logic, but reason and logic are themselves a product of consciousness. It would be a tautology.
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> This article's main topic is just "tech companies are building big offices", dressed up in some purple prose.

It seems to me that the article's main topic is that tech companies are building company towns, comprising not only housing units (The expansion of its headquarters will boast fifteen hundred units of housing, 15 percent of which it claims will be “offered at below-market rates.”) but also commercial spaces to provide town services such as retail stores and police stations.

The article goes on about what the author perceives as being the perils of a company town, complete with emotive platitudes regarding capitalism, but it is in fact an article about company towns, not "tech companies are building big offices".

I really don't understand how you were able to completely miss the whole point made in the article. Have you actually read it?
I am particularly impressed by the efforts of the rest of my colleagues when it comes to public outreach. Our members attend loads of local events around the world, sharing LIGO outreach material across the collaboration; members are often invited to talk at science clubs and societies; we conduct Reddit AMAs after each detection announcement [1-3] and tweet to the public about the goings-on. There are even apps [4]! Two other things we've gotten a lot of positive feedback for are our open science center [5], which has tutorials where you can conduct essentially the same analysis we did in our discovery on the same data (using Python notebooks), and Gravity Spy [6], which lets the public hunt for glitches in our data (a new type of glitch was identified by the public, showing how important it can be!).

So, while we can always do more to reach out to the public who fund our work, I feel like I'm surrounded by colleagues who are really passionate and dedicated to interacting with the public!

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/45g8qu/we_are_the_lig...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4odza8/we_are_the_lig...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/6fekz5/science_ama...

[4] https://www.laserlabs.org/spacetimequest.php

[5] http://losc.ligo.org/

[6] https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/zooniverse/gravity-spy
If you want a promotion and more money - ask. Nobody is going to give it to you if you won't ask.

If they decline, look for a new job.
How can I handle a subdomain with a different provider while handling the whole zone myself? I'm not an expert in DNS, so really curious.
I don't think that would happen. S3 is already at a competitive advantage in same region due to the absence of data transfer costs you typically pay.

I'd be more interested if Blackblaze purchased several 10gig links per region to AWS under an arrangement like DirectConnect, or had alternative direct peering with AWS removing transit and peering exchange risks. I dont think current DirectConnect is compatible with this though as it seems Blackblaze would have to swallow all the traffic costs for every customer. I could be wrong though...
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I STRONGLY advise you to keep your db changes tracked in version control along with your application changes.

From .NET land, the guys who wrote DbUp are a good example of a reasonably neat way of doing this. Check out their library.

I wrote a little tool for those of you who use ServiceStack, the approach is to spin up an application host that loads a list of db initialization and migration scripts to apply in sequence, scans your db for current version, and runs any scripts that have not yet been applied to your db.

This way, your db creation and migration is repeatable (I fire up all my test cases against a REAL db that i KNOW matches my production environment in structure), you can do various tricks to inject seed / test data along the way, you can get vastly greater comfort that your development and release will go smoother.

Its still unfortunately very light on readme documentation I just realised, but there is a test case which will demonstrate how a database can be created, and migrations, applied.

https://github.com/daleholborow/iayos.core.db.deploy/tree/ma...
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I think this is what you get when the participation trophy generation wants to rework the Nobel Prize.

Some of his criticisms are valid - e.g. discrimination against female nominees (although perhaps not the number of same) - but for the most part it seems to be a thinly veiled complaint about the concept of prizes in general.
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No, this is quite common throughout numerous regions as a totally natural occurrence. It is definitely nothing new or unique to fracking areas. It's especially likely in older homes with space below the floors at ground level. It's easy to test for it.

https://www.epa.gov/radon/find-information-about-local-radon...
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sorry wrong post , how do i delete it ?
I hope you will succeed but frankly I don't see mass adoption of yet another subscription app for something that can be replicated on paper or any note app (of course it won't be as good, but it will be free).

I'd pay 5 bucks once for an Android app that does what your app is doing, but not every month (these costs add up, I have to choose what's superfluous and what's not).

Just my 2 cents.
There were also all the blaxxun-based ones, such as Cybertown or the one from Canal+.
Spell check your website. Rookie mistake.
GDPR refers to any business that transacts with the European Union, so businesses outside the EU (and the UK) are included.
The ever-present possibilty of open-sourcing on github and getting code-reviewed by future employers hangs over my head like the sword of Damocles.
kaspersky antivirus do not allow this extension to run

complains about :

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what you have there ?
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GCs are better these days. And you're much more likely to wait on IO anyway, at every granularity level in the system.
Exactly. Big banks have already dealt with these trust issues through their teams of lawyers, longstanding partnerships, and reputation in the market.

I'm not saying big banks have nothing to gain, they do, but proportionally less than a smaller company that no one knows about. It allows "Bank of Mom & Pop USA" to confidentially do deals with "Little-Town Bank" Shanghai" without going through the mega-banks.
Last time I checked, Facebook, Google et.al where not philanthropic organizations.
For it to be less evil they should build the houses, then sell the properties, not rent, for below market prices.
Having a good understanding of things you claim to know (even if that is not a huge set), and ability to effectively convey that understanding to someone else.

Personal or commercial projects that demonstrate relevant skills. Bonus points if I can see the source.

Having a mentor really helps to prioritize your learning efforts in the right spots, both before and after getting the job.
I am a developer without a degree and transitioned from IT into development. I am in my last year of my Undergrad in CS now.

What you need more than anything are skills. Ranging from networking knowledge to having a good command on linux. In addition you have to be able to program in Python, Java, JavaScript, C. You also have to understand data structures like linked lists, queues, b-trees..., and to top it all of understand algorithm analysis to judge the efficiency of the code you write or look at.

My recommendation is to get the degree, medium to long term you will need it, and it will benefit you greatly.
It seems to be popular to claim a degree is not needed for CS but if you want to do anything besides simple web apps then you will need the knowledge.
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Your life will probably keep getting weirder and weirder: https://www.tor.com/2010/08/05/divided-by-infinity/
The only part of these provisions I object to, is the social media scanning. That looks a lot like thought police to me.
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Nobody is arguing that hardware doesn't eventually fail so I don't know why you mention that.

False. It's not outstandingly good news, not if we want to become multi-planetary in short order. We need to get to better than commercial airliner standards quickly.
From what I understand, it's handled by well placed fuel tanks, where even if they blow, no on inside the vehicle gets hurt.
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I think the best argument against a Nobel Prize in Economics was made, precisely, by one of its recipients, Friedrich August von Hayek, during the 1974 ceremony [1]:

> I must confess that if I had been consulted whether to establish a Nobel Prize in economics, I should have decidedly advised against it.[...] the Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.

> This does not matter in the natural sciences. Here the influence exercised by an individual is chiefly an influence on his fellow experts; and they will soon cut him down to size if he exceeds his competence.

> But the influence of the economist that mainly matters is an influence over laymen: politicians, journalists, civil servants and the public generally.

> There is no reason why a man who has made a distinctive contribution to economic science should be omnicompetent on all problems of society - as the press tends to treat him till in the end he may himself be persuaded to believe.

That behavior which he describes... sounds like any Nobel Prize in Economics you know?

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[1] https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/la...
Just to begin with: there is a legacy avatar system that half the people use. It has clothing system etc. but it's ugly, so other people hide their legacy avatar with "alpha masks" and wear "mesh avatars", which are meshes rigged to the same armature as the "legacy" avi. Then there are different rigging methods, the avi has a set of basic legacy bones, a set of volume bones, and they recently added another set of bones. Their market contains clothing and skins/meshes for all possible combinations of those hacks. What's even more confusing is that SL gives by default a "mesh avatar" to new users, and the poor guys have to learn about all this clusterfuck after the fact.
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> the team discovered lymphatic vessels in the dura, the leathery outer coating of the brain

Can someone explain why these vessels were never discovered during autopsies until now? Are they too thin, or transparent, or thought to have been something else, or the tubes become squished after death and therefore difficult to separate from other tissue, or what?
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