Laos was so different to what I imagined when I visited. I just expected more landscapes like northern Thailand, instead these impressively steep mountains lined the roads I travelled.

Isn’t this also something that happens in the rift war books by Raymond E. Feist?

Correct, and since there are multiple instances I’m using a plural form, and fighting autocorrect at the same time.

My current favorite is in ruby with the unless keyword:

tax = 0.00
unless not_taxed(billing)
  tax = billing.zipcode.blank? ? estimated_tax_from_ip(account) : billing.tax
  tax = (tax.nil? ? 0.00 : tax)
end

To me, anything payments related you want to be really super clear as to what you’re doing because the consequences of getting it wrong are your income. Instead we have this abomination of a double negative, several turnaries, and no comments.

But there are alternatives to both CloudFlare and android, and CloudFlare has competitors with free tiers that I think are easier to use (I’m one data point)? The problem is people deciding to use CloudFlare or CloudFlare itself?

I need to show people I work with how little hardware you can use to serve this much traffic. We do around 500/second but our monthly EC2 spend is horrendous for the scale of traffic we get. But rails is what it is…

I think you have it all covered, but are there ways people can contribute with time? I’m mostly k8s focused these days though.

I just see a log? Is it like a captains log?

Not surprising. There’s a part of the Shopify careers site that has a letter you have to acknowledge that says (paraphrased): Care more about the ability to sell than what people sell, and if feel you might disagree with what people sell then this isn’t the workplace for you. They really drill that point home on the site and in interviews, not surprising their stance is ‘no comment’.

(I didn’t get the job)

The UK has been right up there on the highest number of cameras per person in the world, this isn’t surprising. They’ve been at the forefront of this before China took the records.

Absolutely ran into fake CVs and people farming off the interview to 3rd party interview factories. Not at all surprised this was happening. Can’t say I ran into North Koreans but a lot of recruitment agencies were passing people on with little to no vetting. You’d interview someone on camera and they’d be a different person once everything was signed. Given how hard it was to correct that they’d still walk away with a few weeks salary, even in your states with at will contracts it’s super difficult to let anyone go.

I’ve got this, it’s in the canoo app. It’s for one year and not forever. Permanent residents and new citizens get access to this. I haven’t been able to use this particular benefit.

It’s a shortcut for experience, but you lose a lot of the tools you get with experience. If I were early in my career I’d be very hesitant relying on it as its a fragile ecosystem right now that might disappear, in the same way that you want to avoid tying your skills to a single companies product. In my workflow it slows me down because the answers I get are often average or wrong, it’s never “I’d never thought of doing it that way!” levels of amazing.

Dream of tech bosses everywhere. Pay an intermediate dev for average level senior output.

What a shambles. I have a T3 now which means I now know I needed a T3, previous to that it was still unclear so I just had to wait. After reading this article I’m still unclear on what bare trusts are. They could use some helpful examples or a diagram.

I’m a lefty but my teachers never knew how to handle a lefty so my handwriting is also illegible. I had to go do handwriting basics (“colour in the enclosed area of the A shape”) in high school.

So mileage may vary even if leftyism is tolerated. But look at me now teachers! I type obscure commands all day and get a sore hand when I pick up a pen! Checkmate!

Human? I’m just a lead induced hallucination. In reality you’ve been chewing on your gems, which coincidentally are made of lead, and talking to the wall.

I think this (well, Community) gives people hope that there are better versions in different timelines. Dash those hopes, there is only one reality, this is where they are. No rolling dice out of this one.

Enter sandman with a boner

No yaml, no helm, no operators? Using Pulumi as a layer of abstraction but not using ingress because its a layer of abstraction?

I don’t know the equivalent in GCP, but in AWS this would be treating EKS like ECS. Missing out on 90% of the benefits of kubernetes by ignoring that 90%.

But also, small company. Kubernetes is a better base to start from and expand from there.

Interesting. Politicians just come in to existence already in power? This explains so much.