In my past experience, any decently long lived bit of software (i.e. 5-10 years) goes through migrations to at least 2 different database engines (Usually as part of various other migrations like on-prem->cloud, or due…
Cambridge for embedded stuff
Get a copy of the Open University (UK distance learning uni, been around since the 70s) books on EBay. A full set of books for MU123 (The most basic maths course, basically school [age 16] level books) can be had for…
> Are they missing a check to see if their homepage is responding? I would be surprised if the health page is actually connected to their realtime monitoring system In most cases these things are updated manually.
Yeah, we used Hetzner in Germany a lot at a former workplace where I was for a number of years, for production traffic, and we had a good experience. Most of our other infra was in physical DCs we owned, but we used…
companies more so than the tech, I do Java in the banking space and its the same story.
They aren't that common. Only 2 of the high street banks offer them, and one is moving away from them. The rest are all Mastercard.
Other than some occasional small restaurants/pubs, and a few small indie shops, its basically accepted everywhere here in Edinburgh, I have a corporate amex and use it for expensing business dinners very often, and…
Totally agree. All the major banks apart from Barclays and HSBC use Mastercard for credit
Quite the opposite in the UK, at least over the last 10 years or so. 99% of debit cards are Visa, and most people buying stuff on Amazon would be using a debit card, folks only really use credit cards for large…
Basically the same as in 2010, except disks are now commonly NVM/.M2 rather than regular SATA, and SSDs are a lot cheaper.
Revenue doesn't mean profit. Netflix makes hardly profit, so thus pay little tax
Many men? If you are wearing a suit, a smartphone makes the trouser pockets bulge a lot, so it's common to keep it in your shirt pocket or jacket inside pocket - Both of which is next to your heart.
> Taking your beautiful game that you've spend 5+ years on building and hacking it to pieces to run on older hardware My understanding is that it was the other way around, which is why in my eyes there is no excuse for…
"You need to sign in or sign up before continuing." how about no
There is an open source version AND a commercial version, which extends it. The binaries they provide the latter, which are are commercially licensed and include proprietary parts, bound by those terms.
eInk would be a poor choice, the flash caused by updating the screen, every time you type a character, would be extremely fatiguing. This refresh would be very very slow on a decent size screen which would lead to a…
We used Hetzner in Germany, when I worked for a startup a few years ago, for some stuff which was getting too expensive on AWS, and which had to be located in Europe for certain reasons. A lot cheaper and reliability…
UK employee of a US company, its happening in both, contractors are gone everywhere and the US side has been particularly brutal with pay cuts - 7-10% here and 20% cuts in the US (50-100% for VPs and stuff).
When registering for a doctor or something, you generally just tell them where you live and your name. You might also need your national insurance number. If they want more, its usually a utility bill proving that, or…
I'm surprised they got paid at all, let alone anything more than minimum wage.
No - We don't even have a single standard state-issued physical ID, here in the UK, let alone an electronic version.
Here in the fintech/banking industry is not just frozen, but we have shed most of our contractors to protect jobs, and are giving fte engineers pay cuts
> The market is in trouble. To elaborate on this, 1) Banks are worried people won't pay their mortgages/loans/cards and they will crash 2) Banks therefore don't buy our stuff, or will seek to pay less for it. 3) We…
Engineering got 5-20% pay cuts, (50-100% at VP level and above), all perks cut, all the contractors got laid off, as did anyone low-skilled in Ops who has been there less than 2 years. We are the UK arm of a US fintech.…
In my past experience, any decently long lived bit of software (i.e. 5-10 years) goes through migrations to at least 2 different database engines (Usually as part of various other migrations like on-prem->cloud, or due…
Cambridge for embedded stuff
Get a copy of the Open University (UK distance learning uni, been around since the 70s) books on EBay. A full set of books for MU123 (The most basic maths course, basically school [age 16] level books) can be had for…
> Are they missing a check to see if their homepage is responding? I would be surprised if the health page is actually connected to their realtime monitoring system In most cases these things are updated manually.
Yeah, we used Hetzner in Germany a lot at a former workplace where I was for a number of years, for production traffic, and we had a good experience. Most of our other infra was in physical DCs we owned, but we used…
companies more so than the tech, I do Java in the banking space and its the same story.
They aren't that common. Only 2 of the high street banks offer them, and one is moving away from them. The rest are all Mastercard.
Other than some occasional small restaurants/pubs, and a few small indie shops, its basically accepted everywhere here in Edinburgh, I have a corporate amex and use it for expensing business dinners very often, and…
Totally agree. All the major banks apart from Barclays and HSBC use Mastercard for credit
Quite the opposite in the UK, at least over the last 10 years or so. 99% of debit cards are Visa, and most people buying stuff on Amazon would be using a debit card, folks only really use credit cards for large…
Basically the same as in 2010, except disks are now commonly NVM/.M2 rather than regular SATA, and SSDs are a lot cheaper.
Revenue doesn't mean profit. Netflix makes hardly profit, so thus pay little tax
Many men? If you are wearing a suit, a smartphone makes the trouser pockets bulge a lot, so it's common to keep it in your shirt pocket or jacket inside pocket - Both of which is next to your heart.
> Taking your beautiful game that you've spend 5+ years on building and hacking it to pieces to run on older hardware My understanding is that it was the other way around, which is why in my eyes there is no excuse for…
"You need to sign in or sign up before continuing." how about no
There is an open source version AND a commercial version, which extends it. The binaries they provide the latter, which are are commercially licensed and include proprietary parts, bound by those terms.
eInk would be a poor choice, the flash caused by updating the screen, every time you type a character, would be extremely fatiguing. This refresh would be very very slow on a decent size screen which would lead to a…
We used Hetzner in Germany, when I worked for a startup a few years ago, for some stuff which was getting too expensive on AWS, and which had to be located in Europe for certain reasons. A lot cheaper and reliability…
UK employee of a US company, its happening in both, contractors are gone everywhere and the US side has been particularly brutal with pay cuts - 7-10% here and 20% cuts in the US (50-100% for VPs and stuff).
When registering for a doctor or something, you generally just tell them where you live and your name. You might also need your national insurance number. If they want more, its usually a utility bill proving that, or…
I'm surprised they got paid at all, let alone anything more than minimum wage.
No - We don't even have a single standard state-issued physical ID, here in the UK, let alone an electronic version.
Here in the fintech/banking industry is not just frozen, but we have shed most of our contractors to protect jobs, and are giving fte engineers pay cuts
> The market is in trouble. To elaborate on this, 1) Banks are worried people won't pay their mortgages/loans/cards and they will crash 2) Banks therefore don't buy our stuff, or will seek to pay less for it. 3) We…
Engineering got 5-20% pay cuts, (50-100% at VP level and above), all perks cut, all the contractors got laid off, as did anyone low-skilled in Ops who has been there less than 2 years. We are the UK arm of a US fintech.…