AlexB138

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by AlexB138 10y ago
Not to be flippant, but this is pathetic. I don't generally care that much about this sort of dramatic news, but Gawker completely made their own bed here.
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by AlexB138 10y ago
Rackspace is, unfortunately, woefully behind the times when it comes to functionality. You're also looking at long term, very expensive, contracts for individual physical boxes if you're doing a hybrid approach. Their once-fanatic
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by AlexB138 10y ago
How is that "living in a bubble"? The last two major versions of the software support the feature. It's nearly a year and a half old. Classic finding things to be offended about.
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by AlexB138 10y ago
There are a staggeringly large number of firearms in the United States. Firearms are incredibly dangerous objects. Just about the only way to make one more dangerous is to have no idea how it works. I would also think that from an intellect
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by AlexB138 10y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "assault-style", but assault weapons are inherently automatic weapons, not semi-automatic. I find it very odd that you specified "semi-automatic" which is, by far, the least dangerous o
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by AlexB138 10y ago
Bringing up an app isn't the use case. Bringing up an app dozens, or hundreds, of times is. Think of it like this. If you need to build one moderately simple widget, is it faster to build it by hand, or to build an entire factory to ma
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by AlexB138 10y ago
The cutesy/manic writing style is a little jarring, but it seems like a lot of effort was put in to making a useful resource. Worth taking a peak at, don't let the style scare you off.
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by AlexB138 10y ago
It's quite bad, but consumer water filtration devices are cheap and plentiful. I personally use a water filter at home and work, and carry a decent quality bottle everywhere with me, so I'm not sure why others don't go that r
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by AlexB138 10y ago
That is an extremely easily replicated technology. Turning down a buyout was a horrible idea, but good for him for making it that far.
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by AlexB138 10y ago
>In many cases, the hardware being discussed (tracked vehicles? okay, I guess they're good in mud?) have nothing to do with offensive capabilities, and are quite often defensive. (Armored vehicles). The problem, in my eyes, is that
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by AlexB138 10y ago
You can not be prosecuted for fraud for lying about your previous salary. That's ridiculous.
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by AlexB138 10y ago
Amen. I'm so tired of self proclaimed "Thought Leaders" coming up with bombastic new buzzwords to sell to managers. In my eyes, the DevOps "movement" has mostly been a complete failure. It went from being about cult
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by AlexB138 10y ago
When I read things like this, I can't help but feel like we're approaching The Behavioral Sink. When I first read about John B. Calhoun's work, I thought it was interesting but sort of moved on. For some reason, it stuck in m
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by AlexB138 10y ago
The problem with your suggestion is information. The difference in quality is not in any way made available to the consumer. Terms people believe to indicate quality mean basically nothing, as indicated in this article. These cheap products
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by AlexB138 10y ago
It used to be a very common idea, but has fallen out of vogue in favor of more raw capitalist sentiment. There very much used to be an idea of changing the world for the better, but it died along with a lot of America's positive outloo
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by AlexB138 11y ago
I was feeling the exact same way about a year ago. The thing is, once you pick up a programming language, all of your other hard earned Ops skills are still very relevant and will become much more valuable. Without learning some programming
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by AlexB138 11y ago
I understand the other two, but I'm curious why "working at a popular company" makes sense to you. What does that have to do with avoiding risk? Is it the assumption that those companies don't make hiring mistakes?
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by AlexB138 11y ago
On the nose. SQL Server is a great product, but their MVCC is basically hacked in. They're also lacking in the features Oracle has around their Undo tablespace, and auditing.
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by AlexB138 11y ago
Agreed, it looks absolutely miserable. I would really like to see an end to the era of open work spaces, or at least shared desks. Is anyone aware of a study comparing the productivity of developers in these types environments to ones that
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by AlexB138 11y ago
Not related to this directly, but Jez Humble just joined 18F, which I found surprising, but great.
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by AlexB138 11y ago
>there are certain CS fundamentals lacking from bootcamps that are an investment in your future. Unrelated to the topic at hand, but would you mind enumerating a few of these fundamental concepts you feel bootcamp grads lack? Do you mean
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by AlexB138 11y ago
I'm in a rather large city with a big tech presence in the US, but not the Valley. Not to be crass, but the conversations I heard surround Swartz were only when he killed himself. No one talked about it as if it was a cultural touch st
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by AlexB138 11y ago
> “middle-income” Americans are defined as adults whose annual household income is two-thirds to double the national median, about $42,000 to $126,000 annually in 2014 dollars for a household of three. $42k for a household of three seems
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by AlexB138 11y ago
The studies sited in the article directly contradict your statement, unless I'm misunderstanding what you're trying to say.
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by AlexB138 11y ago
MailChimp? Constant Contact? I may be wrong, I'm not terribly familiar with either, but I believe they're largely focused on email.
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by AlexB138 11y ago
I agree. I probably phrased myself poorly. My point is that the continued drive for diversity is aimed at making the tech sector more closely resemble America's population as a whole. If every ethnicity but African Americans were repre
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by AlexB138 11y ago
I think everyone is perfectly aware that whites and asians dominate tech. You're not considered diverse because it's pretty commonplace to see ONLY those two groups represented. I guess if you compare it to only whites it's m
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by AlexB138 11y ago
Why would people want to work longer? As much as I enjoy technology, working is the least pleasant part of my life. Perhaps if I were self employed it would be better, but spending the vast majority of my time selling my time to a company i
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by AlexB138 11y ago
Actually, that's an entirely subjective statement. While I think they're monsters, many people feel that western culture is immoral and downright evil. To people who have seen nothing but the West waging war in their region, these
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by AlexB138 11y ago
Cantrill is one of my favorite tech speakers. Brilliant guy, and much more down to earth than a lot of others on the circuit, not to mention great energy.

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