bigmanwalter

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Eric Waldman Full stack software freelancer and consultant

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Comment · 2 years ago

Not at all. The MBAs have taken over at this point and expectations are far too aggressive for anything like 20% time to exist. The rule of thumb is that they give so much work that even if we only complete 80% of it, that should be considered "meeting expectations".

I've heard people refer to 20% projects now as "120% projects".

Comment · 2 years ago

What's wrong with a doctor refusing to treat a patient they don't like?

Comment · 2 years ago

Should individuals be forced to perform their duties against their wills?

Comment · 3 years ago

Even some smaller ones too. The Google Montreal office has an excellent music room!

Comment · 3 years ago

I'm a fan of PDO olive oil from regions in Greece that are known for their olive oil. Anything from Crete, Messinia, or Kalamata is usually top quality.

Since it's PDO, it's guaranteed to be a single cultivation, and from a region that takes its quality seriously.

Comment · 3 years ago

Rust is good for writing performant code, incorporates a lot of the latest programming language research, and gives great error messages.

You don't need it. But if you prefer using it, it's nice to have a web development framework.

Comment · 3 years ago

All this to get a feature that was already prevalent 15 years ago in oldschool PHP applications.

Comment · 3 years ago

This is great stuff! To use this in Canada, we have a few extra requirements as well. Firstly, we have to separate our tax onto two lines, one for Federal tax (called GST) and one for Provincial tax (has a different name in each province) and we are also legally required to include our Federal and Provincial tax registration numbers on the same line as the amount of tax being charged.

Even trickier is that some line items could also be tax-exempt.

A config option such as the following would help for that:

  --tax 0.05 "GST" --label="GST #12345679"     \
  --tax 0.09975 "QST" --label="QST #55592929"

And to handle items that are tax exempt, an item can have the:

  --item ... --tax_exempt (or --tax_exempt="GST" in case it's only exempt from one of the sales taxes)

Comment · 3 years ago

I used to host a Janus server, which is similar.

https://janus.conf.meetecho.com/

Was fairly straightforward to setup. Eventually I replaced it with Twilio as it was easier to scale across regions.

Comment · 3 years ago

Definitely avoid makefiles per directory, see Recursive Make Considered Harmful https://accu.org/journals/overload/14/71/miller_2004/

The approach being recommended in the sibling comment to this is quite nice!

Comment · 3 years ago

Did you try searching stack overflow? https://stackoverflow.com/a/43402649

If you dedicate a specific directory for all your JSON, then you can depend on that directory and it will do what you're asking for.

Comment · 3 years ago

Let's say someone working for FAANG making $300,000 USD per year (including benefits), that's roughly equivalent to $150 per hour. Could they make the same on Top Tal?

Comment · 3 years ago

What kind of hourly rates can you expect to find on Top Tal?

Comment · 3 years ago

I'm a fan of this shop https://www.facebook.com/kiosquemontroyal/. Not sure what they do for international shipping as I usually go in-person since I live pretty close by, but feel free to contact them.

They offer different grades of maple syrup, from Light, to Medium (Amber) to Heavy and Very Heavy. I like the very heavy syrup, it's made later in the season and has way more flavour. Most people tend to prefer the Amber as it's the most common and they're more used to it. I recommend trying them all and seeing for yourself!

In terms of specific brands, it can be difficult as most syrup is produced on smaller, family-owned farms, and then relabelled by exporters.

There are some award winning syrups which could be worth trying if you really want to aim for consistency, something like Saint-Paulin https://souvenirdefamille.com/en/products/sirop-derable-2021... or Escuminac https://escuminac.com/ (I don't know why but their site is broken for me and keeps reloading.)

Comment · 4 years ago

This slide deck is somewhat popular as an internal resource that gets shared around within Google. Does anyone know if it's by the same author? He has 13 years of Google experience on his Linkedin so there is probably some sort of connection here.