SaltyBackendGuy

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by SaltyBackendGuy 5y ago
> Sometimes the key to staying warm and happy is to be willing to move when the temperature changes. Thank you for this. It really landed close to home for me.
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by SaltyBackendGuy 5y ago
Anecdotally, the most manipulative individual I've ever met was a nerd.
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by SaltyBackendGuy 5y ago
> Bad Official Admin GUI UX As bad as it is, it enabled our team of all backend devs to stand up a functioning infrastructure management tool that was mission critical to the business's success in the early stages, for relatively lo
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by SaltyBackendGuy 5y ago
> there's at least some basic decency in companies I would exercise caution with this perspective. They stand to gain a bit of mind share from this action as it's a popular position to take. I am not saying virtuous companies d
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by SaltyBackendGuy 5y ago
I used to be against this as well, until I worked at a company that abused this and leveraged it against it's vulnerable employees. Basically, more Jr. or bootcamp people were making _way_ less than market even though they have been wo
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by SaltyBackendGuy 5y ago
> I'll go somewhere else where I can get the same job I'm doing but negotiate a much better pay bump Can confirm this works in our current employment market in the US for Software Engineers. In fact, I have less responsibilitie
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by SaltyBackendGuy 5y ago
> It works nice and is free, but for how long? I wonder about this a lot. I wonder if they have some big 'whales' that help sustain their business OR they're just selling all of our data (is that enough to make money at di
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by SaltyBackendGuy 5y ago
This is somewhat pessimistic.. If the case is high profile enough, they will _always_ find someone to find guilty.
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by SaltyBackendGuy 5y ago
> But I assume rakes, at higher stakes, do add up really quickly... I used to deal poker in a past life, here's an anecdote. We started a low limit game and everyone (10 players) bought in for 60$ - 100$. Over the course of the next
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by SaltyBackendGuy 5y ago
I wonder if we removed the ability for companies to patent, only individuals (or groups of individuals) would help. Limit the patent protection for lifetime of said individuals. I feel like that would remove the patent troll economy.
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by SaltyBackendGuy 5y ago
> Not to mention having fewer resources to fight if you are audited. Can't find the link now, but I read somewhere that the IRS avoids audits if the risk of losing is higher (i.e. the person in question has more resources to fight i
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by SaltyBackendGuy 5y ago
That's a really good point. As the old saying goes 'History is written by the victors'. If we all lose then we also lose history.
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by SaltyBackendGuy 5y ago
I was just talking about this last night with my SO. We both agreed that history will look back and see these companies being responsible for the destruction of humanity. I really hope that's not the case, however seems to be the cours
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by SaltyBackendGuy 5y ago
I wish that our government (the people who allowed them to be the middle man) would take some accountability. But I guess that would be uncharacteristic.
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by SaltyBackendGuy 5y ago
> but inside individual games and apps. IMO that's worse. You spend more time in game than on the menu screen. Sadly this is likely a pandoras box we will not be able to close.
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by SaltyBackendGuy 5y ago
> and an uphill certification battle. This really makes me wonder how much of the lack of innovation in recent years is regulatory capture. > If this concept had legs I would expect it to have been already gobbled up by one of the maj
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by SaltyBackendGuy 5y ago
> Advice like these are not laws. They are like hats. If one doesn’t fit, try another. Lists like these are full of survivor bias. In fact, it's baked into it.
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by SaltyBackendGuy 5y ago
In my particular case, I opened the CI/CD can of worms using Docker (which obviously has great use cases). My use case could have fit into a Rails/Django + Heroku model that would have saved me a bunch of time. I thought by invest
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by SaltyBackendGuy 5y ago
Same. I completely overbuilt a recent side project and ended up scraping the whole thing because it wastes too much time to maintain it. As much as I love building new projects, having children at home reminds me that time is my only true r
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by SaltyBackendGuy 5y ago
> Now that we're remote, if I were so inclined I bet I could hold down a second job and not go over 40 hours of total work time. We had a guy do exactly that recently. He was working another full time job for several months before b
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by SaltyBackendGuy 5y ago
Thanks for sharing. This made my afternoon :)
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by SaltyBackendGuy 6y ago
> but the landlord doesn't care to provide access to Verizon Very generous words. I lived in a building once where the landlord flat out told me that we can only have Comcast because they paid him. Obviously, YMMV. In my experience
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by SaltyBackendGuy 6y ago
Anecdote. I also learned to do this from my father, who was a trial lawyer. When I joined the US Army, I regularly got 'smoked' in basic training for talking with my hands. I stoped doing it for several years. A few years after le
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by SaltyBackendGuy 6y ago
Sounds like an operational risk on an RCM somewhere in the ivory tower. Instead it's cheaper to stay competitive through regulatory capture. I wish bribing politicians was more expensive than providing a better product </r>
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by SaltyBackendGuy 6y ago
> Technical Product Managers (close to developers) In my humble experience, I think the real value of a TPM is being the interface between management and technology. They're able to frame technical jargon in a way that the business
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by SaltyBackendGuy 6y ago
> we will act to protect retail investors when the facts demonstrate abusive or manipulative trading activity Specifically calls out retail investors (i.e. WSB). I read it the opposite way, but I can see how it could be interpreted as a
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by SaltyBackendGuy 6y ago
Hopefully it's more than posturing and that there will be action taken to back up this statement.
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by SaltyBackendGuy 6y ago
Just wanna say thanks for this library (fuzzyset). It's great and was easy to implement / test against.
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by SaltyBackendGuy 6y ago
> private companies padding out the contract not government employees I have no references to back this theory up, but I feel like this is where most of the waste happens. [Gov spend public money] -> [pay private company] The governme
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by SaltyBackendGuy 6y ago
Law might be different. An anecdote my Dad (Lawyer) used to tell me. > I went to school to learn the law. After school I had to teach myself how to be a lawyer.

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