Tehchops

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by Tehchops 8y ago
Aren't most people running those kinds of workloads doing so on Linux already? Doesn't seem cost-effective at scale to run on beefy Apple machines.
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by Tehchops 8y ago
> so many people have lost their jobs, friends, and livelihoods due to publishing the 'wrong' thing on facebook. If your job, friends, or livelihood is at stake, I'd say either all of those, or your content, needs to be ev
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by Tehchops 8y ago
Hey, if you want to take 18 month stints without healthcare to clean up mis-managed "digital transitions" at places like GE, more power to you ;-)
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by Tehchops 8y ago
> "These tools don't use the thing I like!" Pretty much. I know several admins who appear to be joining a growing pool of luddites who rail against anything new. They're particularly butt-mad about anyone drawing more
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by Tehchops 8y ago
Been 100% WFH(office is 2000 miles away) for over a year now. Have a separate room for the office. That being said, it's adjacent to the kitchen and has no doors, so there's still traffic. I don't think kids are a non-starter
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by Tehchops 8y ago
Yea, based on our experience with SfB I'm frankly a little gobsmacked there are any enterprise clients with an overwhelmingly positive take on their experience. I mean, they tout GE, a company in the middle of an incredibly well docume
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by Tehchops 8y ago
This is consulting blog spam. You see this stuff all the time: * Person starts $consultingCo * Person creates website for $consultingCo * Person adds "blog" section to website * Writes a few vague, high-level pieces like this * Sp
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by Tehchops 8y ago
Oh not this deceased equine again. Is /r/sysadmin leaking? >gosh what the tech industry could accomplish with a union Much less than it does now. I've had odd jobs at union places. I know career workers in union-dominated
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by Tehchops 9y ago
Because when I think responsible, competent custodians of personal data, I think federal government /s. Secondly, the mere premise that we "need" a Facebook, or alternative, is inherently flawed. Probably echoing the rest of
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by Tehchops 9y ago
> How exactly has Google violated this license? If they are not including the attribution specifically defined in the MIT license, then they are violating it.
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by Tehchops 9y ago
Is 1.25 the number of TB of RAM you need to run it? I'm afraid my workstation only has room for one Electron-based monster(Slack). Hopefully the Rust re-write improves things.
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by Tehchops 9y ago
In the case of "Fluent Python", the author fairly explicitly calls out it is not for rote learning of the basic language: > ..."if you read it too early in your Python journey, it may give you the impression that every Pyt
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by Tehchops 9y ago
I mean, it's at least reasonably good content, versus him spamming backlinks into random Disqus feeds.
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by Tehchops 9y ago
Ah, well, that pretty much confirms it :)
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by Tehchops 9y ago
Looking for an official announce from Jeff Barr/AWS Blog. This just looks like a pretty basic Git repo.
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by Tehchops 9y ago
That's fair. Kudos to you in that you at least recognize the situation, can articulate the problem, and have an exit strategy. Far too many people keep holding out hope things will change, and get walked on in the process.
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by Tehchops 9y ago
Yeaaaaa... If you've actually been waiting 4 years for career development/promotions to materialize, I've got bad news for you. Every minute you stay at this point is free work for them basically.
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by Tehchops 9y ago
Looks like all their server-side stuff is coming from Heroku.
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by Tehchops 9y ago
Author cites the all too relevant XKCD with regards to "automating things". Curious to hear if anyone else is making IFTTT work for them on a daily basis. My initial experience with IFTTT was buggy, tasks would fire inconsistently
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by Tehchops 9y ago
Currently reading: Hyperion. * Peak: Secretes From the New Science of Expertise * The Hard Thing About Hard Things * American Gods * The Dark Tower * Children of Time * Sapiens * The Lies of Locke Lamora: Gentleman Bastards #1 * Red Seas Un
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by Tehchops 9y ago
Children of Time was one of my favorites this year as well.
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by Tehchops 9y ago
> When you speak of "collective labor action", though, I presume (perhaps wrongly) that you're talking about unionization. This was the assumption I took as well in my original reply. Sure, the work of OSS is kind of a soc
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by Tehchops 9y ago
It'll surely work this time!
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by Tehchops 9y ago
|Too bad most programmers are allergic to collective labor action. Because there are plenty of real-world examples in other industries of the end state of "collective labor action", and it's generally not pretty. We a
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by Tehchops 9y ago
> Even if your company was able to hire only people who work well from home, all of those other people have to work somewhere. Well sure. I don't think going completely decentralized is something most larger orgs can embrace yet. Bu
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by Tehchops 9y ago
> it's easier to schedule and conduct meetings, there are far fewer slackers, etc. That's a lot less a problem with telecommuting work and a lot more a problem with your company not being able to hire effectively. If employees
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by Tehchops 9y ago
As a West Coast tech worker who relocated to the Midwest to work remotely, I certainly agree that the arrangement is an attractive, and ultimately mutually beneficial one. I have a slightly different take on a couple of points though: >
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by Tehchops 9y ago
Thanks for the update. I too reached out early-October. Should we assume our initial contact will suffice, and you will be replying if there is mutual interest?
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by Tehchops 9y ago
> I'm realizing how amazing career services can be. They send out weekly emails saying: "James Dimon is coming to speak." Interesting, and I can see it. But then again, I have to wonder if there is some degree of confirma
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by Tehchops 9y ago
Thanks for the reply! Is the corporation listed as a C-Corp? Doesn't the business have to pay taxes on profits, then pay employment taxes on what it pays to employees as well, on top of what the employee must pay?

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