rmchugh

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Irish software developer working in Denmark. https://github.com/ronan-mch

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Comment · 3 years ago

Also possible that they joined a "non-tech" company that needs technical roles.

Dublin-based Twitter executive secures injunction to prevent dismissal irishtimes.com

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Comment · 4 years ago

Comment · 4 years ago

I'd suggest leaving and taking a break until your health issues are under control. Serious stress takes some time to work through the system. Be well!

Comment · 4 years ago

Talk to your union. This is nonsense. We are SOC2 compliant at my employer without any surveillance tools. There are plenty of other controls that are perfectly reasonable though.

Comment · 5 years ago

You have no idea what you're talking about.

Comment · 5 years ago

It's nonsensical in my opinion. There is no reference to relations between the "Soviet" and Soviet Russia. The only connection is the name.

Comment · 5 years ago

it's not about financial games, but rather externalities. There are significant external costs of our way of life that are borne by others. That new car emits CO2 that contributes to global heating. The steaks we eat come from cows that have been fed with soy beans from cleared rainforests. etc etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality#Negative

Comment · 5 years ago

This is the essence of Mob Programming as popularised by Woody Zuill. Can recommend.

Comment · 6 years ago

Definitely not an impossible situation. Could even be a regular situation given a flaky DNS provider and a sufficient volume of requests.

Comment · 6 years ago

I don't think I learnt any code from this book, but it's still my favourite programming book by far.

Comment · 7 years ago

Elasticsearch, Kafka, Kubernetes.

Comment · 8 years ago

I'm in a similar situation myself. My plan is to buy a high school textbook and work my way through it, chapter by chapter. I assume that the selection of topics in such a curriculum is reasonable and if the presentation is deficient I'll supplement with YouTube etc until I understand.

Comment · 8 years ago

Well, things are a bit different in the US where your universities are privately funded but in many countries the publishing industry publishes research from researchers employed by state funded institutions and sells the research back to libraries in state funded institutions. So, really they're being doubly financed by the state.

Comment · 8 years ago

I don't think that's a reasonable summation, there is a correlation between mobile phone use while there are other studies showing teens assigned to use less of Facebook are more happy. The author could not find movement in other variables that could account for this change, although of course that does not prove that they don't exist (she only mentions homework and economic growth). It's obviously not definitive and she acknowledges this, but it is striking nonetheless.