heisnotanalien

Why can't I just pay for FB a monthly fee and as such they have no need to make money by selling my data or spamming me with crappy ads?

Uber could (and eventually will destroy) Lyft in one fell swoop. They're just holding back to appease the government atm.

Well duh. That goes without saying.

So people work hard all their life for their wealth (maybe they earned a lot or maybe they were just frugal) and smart people think it is okay for the state to take 100% of it away? And you think that's okay? I just can't get my head around how anyone can think that's moral at all.

Oh yes, I see this is teh same Guardian writer that was defending Stalin so no surprises really.

Sure but I rarely hear people talk about class which isn't so visible as other things. You can be a black woman born to professors or a working class white man born to garage store attendants.

What about if you are white working-class man? Is a middle-class black woman less privileged than a white working-class man? What about short versus tall people? What about beautiful versus ugly people? The halo effect is well-known. The whole thing is just absurd and dehumanising.

Why? What's your goal? In all honesty, you'd be better off just working on a significantly large project that pushes your skills forward and learning as you go.

I agree with this but I think the responsibility for fixing all this stuff lies with the teams responsible for each app - they should be the ones dockerising apps, setting up monitoring etc - that way you're distributing the devops stuff around the team which is what you really want.

You hate starting an AMI and having a simple script to connect to an ECS cluster?

I dont really get it. It seems like every company aspires to all of those values.

I get your point but the truth is if the government REALLY wants your data then they're going to get it. It's not hard to install a physical keylogger for example and you'd never notice.

Will there just be one company in the future called Amazon?

They ordered a fire tv and popcorn. Of course it's a stunt!

Your performance anxiety about failing at algorithms problems is making your fail at algorithm problems. You need to believe. Yeah, maybe you will need to work a bit harder but you can do it.

Women are doing well across the globe (okay, outside of the middle-east). More are going to school and getting higher paying jobs.

Women in Senegal are certainly not free in the same way American women are. When I say, American women are more mean I mean they have more opportunities to try different things and want more from work than just money and when that happens they IT becomes less appealing.

Women in countries like Senegal are less free to choose want to do and so this is not surprising. As societies become more prosperous and free, women (generally speaking) are less likely to be interested in careers in IT. Of course, women who do want to work in IT should be encouraged and accepted.

Just showed Girls Make Games to my 14 year old daughter and all she said was how condescending...

Nope. I didn't say I believe everything should be fine. Why can't I just pay a small fee instead of seeing ads? Why is seemingly no one toying with alternatives?

Say it's not true?! Search ad decline?! How will we survive?!

My point is that it's not really a great way of 'backing' up a database because typically you want the transactions after you've made the change as well.

Except you'll lose all the data since you created the snapshot... You've been able to do this for years on Linux with LVM anyway.

Web dev.

My first job when I graduated outside of London was 30k. You are seriously underpaid.

The problem I could foresee with this is that all/most writing prompts are just really irritating. A photo or something would be preferable.

You can find 600 calorie pizzas easily enough, which fit into a 1800 calorie a day diet just fine.

You just need to get use to the admittedly unfashionable idea that it is possible to like people for some reasons and dislike them for other reasons.

Oh give me a break. Those actresses are just taking time off to have children. Nothing wrong with that. There are plenty of successful middle-age actresses.

It's not really about that. I have many friends from wor. Though I tend to become better friends[1] with people once I've stopped working with them... Too many work orgs expect you to be a certain way politically/philosophically and even asking questions can be seen as a sign of you're-not-one-of us, so in a way work relationships are always tainted.

But really this is just more a case of I wouldn't be comfortable talking about my deepest desires with a random person. Sure, once I get to know someone a bit, I'm fine to do that...but a random interviewer? Eugh.

[1] That said, my Russian partner would not consider them friends. Friends in her world are people you can count on for anything and how many of us can say that about our colleagues?

I sort of like the sentiment but this sort of interview, at least for me, would feel a bit too personal. Look I'm not your friend so let's not pretend that's what this or you just really want to get to know me. No. You just want to know if I can do the job so just get me to do a task which meaningfully reflects what I'd be doing day-to-day then ask me questions about it.

How innovative. How inspiring.