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bvm··on Kubernetes Failure Stories
Hi drugesso - Thanks for getting back to me. I actually signed up to premium to get support for this issue. Got one email back, replied and then never heard back :(

It would be really great if there is a human I could speak to at GitLab about this. I've put my email in my profile.

bvm··on Kubernetes Failure Stories
Lots of magic for me, I've broken a (dev) k8s cluster by installing Istio via Gitlab k8s integration. The overhead appeared to be non-negligible, but I noped-out-of-there pretty quick, so I don't have the data to back that up.
bvm··on US mid-terms: Hackers expose 'staggering' voter machine flaws
Isn't that incredibly illegal? Like years-in-prison illegal?
bvm··on Hire people who aren’t proven
Ah yeh, sorry, my mental maths strayed a bit into hyperbole there, it's more like 4-5x
bvm··on Hire people who aren’t proven
Sure.
bvm··on Hire people who aren’t proven
YMMV but numbers of them! we offer good salary/benefits etc, but on the whole senior and mid-level devs seem to be contracting for our tech stack (React/Node) and that's a path I'm not particularly keen on going down.

edit: if anyone reads this and wants a job, I've put my email in my profile.

bvm··on Hire people who aren’t proven
I feel your pain. Trying to hire perm in London at the moment is a real challenge, even with a recruiter. Contractor rates are obscene (5-8x perm). Recruiting and retaining is what keeps me awake at night over and above any tech issues that I'm working on.
bvm··on Ask HN: Best email client for a Mac?
I have to dissent unfortunately, I find it slow, buggy, unwieldy, and it will frequently do crazy things to HTML formatted emails.
bvm··on Ndb – An improved debugging experience for Node.js
This looks fantastic! My project has a build process that transpiles the source directory using Babel to a build dir, and then runs from that. Is it possible to use a sourcemap to debug based on the pre-transpiled source?

edit: i've built the sourcemaps, and like devtools, it is recognising them, but even though the source directory is in the working tree, it doesn't pick them up...

bvm··on Tesla Autopilot has driven over 1.2B estimated miles
Would highway/motorway/autobahn miles be an acceptable substitution?
bvm··on Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Keyboard
the key on my mcbook ir no longer works, which is rel pin in the ss.
bvm··on Renting is Throwing Money Away, Right? (2015)
I've just signed a 3-year fixed term @ 1.49% (at which point i'll then have to find another...). I'm pretty amazed at how different it seems to be in the US.
bvm··on Examples of everything new in ECMAScript 2016, 2017, and 2018
there's a babel plugin for this: https://www.npmjs.com/package/babel-plugin-transform-optiona...
bvm··on 1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service
http://packetlife.net/blog/2010/feb/5/ripe-plays-with-1-0-0-...
bvm··on Dejavu – Web UI for Elasticsearch
> atrocious JSON-based query DSL (seriously thought it was a joke at first)

I could not agree more, I found this in my codebase https://i.imgur.com/44stiHv.png

I've never seen an odder choice of data structure.

bvm··on How Amazon Can Blow Up Asset Management
I think I'd by the 3x leveraged inverse of my consumption habits.
bvm··on Alcohol use disorder largest risk factor for dementia
per day. Every day.
bvm··on SpaceX's Falcon Heavy center booster lacked ignition fluid to re-light engines
Which was like a pint and a half. Pretty powerful stuff.
bvm··on Assessing a startup’s culture before joining
I may be being dumb here, but what does bias refer to in the first point? Is it a social thing, or does it refer to being dogmatically biased towards certain frameworks/methodologies? Perhaps both.
bvm··on The Brutal Lifecycle of JavaScript Frameworks
and don't eject until you really need to! CRA is fantastic and surprisingly extensible.
bvm··on Google retires the Pixel C tablet as it shifts focus to the Pixelbook
I know I'm a glutton for punishment but the eeepc 701 keyboard is the best I've ever typed on. I miss it to this day.
bvm··on Guacamole – A clientless remote desktop gateway
I tend to use Amazon Workspaces for this. It's a joy to work with(especially now it supports two screens). Having a desktop that is exactly the same wherever I am doesn't sound like much but is one of those small things that you really miss when it's gone. I'm not aware of any other providers, though I'm sure there are 1000s. One nice advantage of Workspaces is that it integrates with Amazon AD out of the box.
bvm··on How Booking.com manipulates users
Recruiters are like the Booking.com of people though.
bvm··on Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person
I used to work a night shift in a cash depot that routinely stored over £200m. It was famously the subject of a heist, and the robbers only quit at £30m because they couldn't fit any more in. That was a lot of money.
bvm··on Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person
I feel like it might be fun (though ultimately utterly utterly worthless) to make a kind of 'best guess' one. I have genuinely no idea where one would start...
bvm··on Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person
Is there a measure of the most fully liquid richest person? i.e. the individual that holds the most cash.
bvm··on Powering Twitch and Medium, Algolia (YC W14) raises $53M
I really enjoyed using http://searchkit.co/ a while back. If i were to do it again, I'd probably roll my own, as IIRC state management with searchkit was a bit of a black box, but it is a pretty nice drop-in lib .
bvm··on How the Beatles Wrote ‘A Day in the Life’
Hmm, not sure about the very grandiose 'quadruple plagal cadence' over 'circle of fifths'
bvm··on Azure Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL
I'd like to submit IBM Watson services. That was a waste of an afternoon. And then a morning. And then another afternoon.
bvm··on SES-10 Mission
If you think about it, rapidly reusable suborbital rockets are like a physical version of the communication you describe here. It's plausible to physically be anywhere in the world (if you burn enough fuel) within 30 minutes. Ditto up to 10 tonnes of cargo.
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