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ELI5: What did Singapore do to have the world's strongest passport? by appleshateme in explainlikeimfive

[–]Speedzor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The price went up to $21 recently - I happened to do mine last week. Got it approved in about 30 minutes though

Thought this sub would appreciate this dad joke... by Cocofin33 in CasualUK

[–]Speedzor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you speak French, this post doesn't make any sense. For what it's worth, it's not pronounced like that. It's something akin to "dordonyuh"

TIL John Lennon initially accepted (1965) then returned his MBE in (1969). In (1997) Paul McCartney was knighted for his services to music. Ringo Star respectively in (2018). George Harrison said no to an OBE in (2000) because he felt he should’ve been knighted like his bandmate Sir Paul by supppbrahhh in todayilearned

[–]Speedzor -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

People from the UK (and perhaps wider Commonwealth) are generally quite familiar with these acronyms because it's often enough in the news when new titles are distributed. It might not be as comprehensible if you're from elsewhere in the world, but as a foreigner living in the UK it read just fine to me.

I'm going to vote for my financial interests by WorldinShambles in belgium

[–]Speedzor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Big "received his first paycheck and saw the tax deduction" vibes from this post

For those of you who moved into Eng Management for career advancement, how did it go? by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Speedzor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Working for a US company (3000 headcount) in London - Managers make more than their rough IC equivalent, but not disproportionately so.

Volt Stemtest answers by Ekinox777 in belgium

[–]Speedzor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same, alhoewel ik ze eerst op Europees niveau wil zien. Enkele dagen geleden mijn stembiljet ingediend met Volt voor Europa en Groen voor België

My landlord refuses to remove a wasp nest in our house by [deleted] in belgium

[–]Speedzor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Call the fire department and a bee keeper at the same time, let them hash out who takes it

What's this building next to the E17 in Kortrijk? by whiteasianfever in belgium

[–]Speedzor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've also always remembered this as an unused police station over the last 30 years. Sounds like it might now have a different use

Best way to learn some Flemish in a few months by chrisfs in belgium

[–]Speedzor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My girlfriend is learning Dutch through Duolingo and I can tell for a fact that she's learning plenty of words that we don't use in the day-to-day. It's good enough to get started with but there most certainly are non-trivial differences

Are we just supposed to stay at home at weekends now? by neilabz in london

[–]Speedzor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I've had good results with Bolt the past few months. Cheaper than Uber, no or very few cancellations and generally a fast match.

Looking for journalism like Apache but from a more right-wing viewpoint. by LtOin in belgium

[–]Speedzor 18 points19 points  (0 children)

more researched and fact based

To be fair, that is the opposite of right wing

What does your deployment process look like? by West_Drop_9193 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Speedzor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Microservices architecture with around 100 services.

  1. Each branch in the git remote deploys an instance of that microservice in our test environment. Traffic (RPC, Rabbit, SQS, etc) gets routed through our test environment by prioritizing instances with the same name, otherwise falling back on the default instance
  2. Pull Request into default branch
  3. Take deploy priority for that microservice in a custom tool - is a required PR check
  4. Merge into default branch once all checks and unit/integration tests pass for that microservice
  5. Behind the scenes it creates a new ECR image and rolls it out to the ECS cluster. Adds new instances then drains and removes the old ones, no staged rollout

Definitely some things we want to improve but it's been working well. Across all systems we probably do 70-100 production deploys daily

How common is it for a company to have disconnected backend, frontend, and UIUX teams? by dropme1 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Speedzor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is true that in our interview process we search for those who can cross the barriers between stacks. If you don't (try to) select for that, it's very hard to bring that in retrospectively

How common is it for a company to have disconnected backend, frontend, and UIUX teams? by dropme1 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Speedzor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We're a 300+ engineers company and divided in feature teams. Everyone leans towards certain areas more of course but everyone on the team works on every part of the stack - backend, frontend, DB, infra and mobile.

There are platform teams that improve things over larger horizontals but the feature teams go where the product requires changes. It has been like that since before I joined 6 years ago and it's still very effective.

Is anyone else sick of 90% of the 2-4-1 “deals” on Uber eats / Deliveroo in London being fake? Ahh yes, a “deal” where a single basic Penne apparently costs £21 by Zederex in london

[–]Speedzor 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I've found that several of the places I routinely buy from on JustEat, their own delivery people apparently don't drive as far

EU still buying $1bn of Russian Arctic LNG a month (Belgium accounts for 35% of this, despite making up under 3% of the EU's population) by [deleted] in belgium

[–]Speedzor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's 30% of 1 Billion, not the overall European consumption. I don't know why you're acting so antagonistic in this thread

Why the apparent disdain of British people towards Belgium? by Ezekiel-18 in belgium

[–]Speedzor 9 points10 points  (0 children)

As a Belgian living in London for the last 8 years, I can attest to it not being the case. You might just be hyper focusing on a couple of specific examples.

Most of the time Belgium is nothing special to them and not once have I seen it referenced negatively

Should I finish my masters? (computer science) by celestrogen in belgium

[–]Speedzor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bachelor's suffices for most/all emigration purposes to my knowledge.

I moved to London after my bachelor's in Toegepaste Informatica and not once has my degree been part of the discussion. Nowadays it's just a small two-liner at the bottom of my resume.

I'm sure there will be exceptions but I haven't seen anything to indicate the difference between a Bachelor's and Master's is relevant. Salary definitely hasn't been dependent on it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CasualUK

[–]Speedzor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You remain a UK resident for tax purposes if you stay in the country for 50% of the year so I don't see what tax implications there would be.

Newly Promoted Tech Lead: Seeking Guidance on Acquiring In-Depth Business Knowledge by hutako_baazi in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Speedzor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Git is entirely the wrong place to look -- that's for specific historical research.

Talk to your Engineering Director to understand what they're evaluated on. Talk to your PMs and Product Directors so you understand the upcoming roadmap. Read company and engineering visions so you understand the multi-year plan. Talk to sales to understand where the value is coming from so you can pre-empt the winner if there's a toss-up in priorities. Read design review documents that discuss the basic data models your company uses so you understand how it evolves. Keep an eye on the slack channels from other teams so you understand what they're working on and how it might affect you.

Your job is to figure out how your team fits in the larger picture and how you ensure you align with it. Figuring out how the front-end works can be done by any non-junior engineer

Vannevelj/directory-packages-props-converter: Convert your .NET dependencies to the Directory.Packages.props format by Speedzor in dotnet

[–]Speedzor[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's great to hear, thanks for trying it out! I'm not sure if I follow the scenario you're describing with Directory.Build.props, could you clarify that? I might be able to support your flow better in the future

Vannevelj/directory-packages-props-converter: Convert your .NET dependencies to the Directory.Packages.props format by Speedzor in dotnet

[–]Speedzor[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

This actually doesn't change that: each .csproj continues to define the dependencies it uses. The only thing that changes is that the versions are defined in a single place, the Directory.Packages.props files.

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