abarwick

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by abarwick 3y ago
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by abarwick 3y ago
There's plenty of people inbetween the extremes. I don't want the bloat but I'm also busy (tired) and don't want to spend a weekend getting my dev env setup. These pre-made environments are great to dip my toes in the wa
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by abarwick 3y ago
I find monospaced font in documentation nearly unreadable for some reason.
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by abarwick 4y ago
It sounds like you were fortunate to have your passion and career be one and the same for 2 decades. Many people do not have this blessing, so ask yourself: what does everyone else do in this case? Personally, I think trying to find purpose
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by abarwick 4y ago
Exactly. It sounds faux-romantic to wane about democracy and the power of voting, but when the systems that support this system have been perverted over the course of decades, it becomes a horror story. Democracy as it has been thought of i
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by abarwick 4y ago
Simply training government workers to use open source tools would shut down governments for weeks.
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by abarwick 4y ago
I obviously can’t speak for all, even most, but back in my consulting days I can say the many US federal and state agencies use Azure AD and a litany of AWS services that are core to vital work streams. Enough that having to shut them down
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by abarwick 4y ago
This is just naive. Government offices/agencies are so tightly coupled with packages like office 365 that forcefully separating them would require home built solutions which would always be terrible, less secure, and more expensive to
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by abarwick 4y ago
To use? No, most modern languages can abstract to a high level. But senior JS developers that don't understand even basic memory management are not going to have a good enough handle on what's going on under the hood to be helpful
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by abarwick 6y ago
If he had gotten into twitter to make some funny status's then sure, community service makes sense. But this kid scammed a lot of money from a lot of people, severe criminal charges are appropriate.