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by abofh 2y ago
The (data) purge
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by abofh 2y ago
Yup. "We value your privacy, and would like to share it with 1438 of our corporate friends, please click accept to waive your privacy!"
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by abofh 2y ago
I think I interviewed with that team (or tried to at least) - it had great concepts, but the limited leadership I met on that one seemed unlikely to actually get to product (I say with 20 years retrospection) - they were stuck on sql when i
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by abofh 2y ago
Most cloud providers can spin up an instance to SSH-able pretty quickly (seconds), if it's holding you back, you may want to look at the image you're using to boot those instances - perhaps it has dependencies you weren't hit
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by abofh 2y ago
I don't see a she said? Being the devils advocate is fine, but if you have to invent your own she to say something, that's just bad faith isn't it?
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by abofh 2y ago
We didn't have toilet paper because some people freaked out, you think there's a maintained warehouse of perishable supplies? Or just a big vault of cans somewhere? No, nations do not have the means to feed their constituents in a
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by abofh 2y ago
Your IT department didn't choose it, I promise. Someone asked how to mitigate a risk, and the answer was spend money doing things well, or spend less money on a CYA solution and pass the buck. That decision maker was promoted and sinc
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by abofh 2y ago
The snarky answer is that it's easier to be a full stack developer if your stack starts and ends with JavaScript. It's also the real answer - most webapps create value in the instant of views or clicks, so being charged solely on
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by abofh 2y ago
It's been a long time, but I think you're correct. In my environment I didn't actually care (any failed push would be retried so the layers would always eventually complete, and anything that for whatever reason didn't
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by abofh 2y ago
It makes clean-up simpler - if you never got to the "last" one, it's obvious you didn't finish after N+Timeout and thus you can expunge it. It simplifies an implementation detail (how do you deal with partial uploads? m
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by abofh 2y ago
I was absolutely snarking on NPM's collection of libraries - so that pointing to 'libraries exist' isn't necessarily a good point; Stupid libraries exist, expertise is knowing which ones to pick. Both of them would get
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by abofh 2y ago
I have zero interest in arguing with a candidate who, when asked to implement bubble sort argues the requirements instead of the implementation. I have NDA's that may preclude me from telling you the details of the stack you'll b
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by abofh 2y ago
Yeah for that you're better off using one of the live-coding platforms rather than take home, but my point stands -- mostly this is just the trash-can test. "What would you do if I asked you to get me that trash can?" - if
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by abofh 2y ago
In truth, it's really hard to judge if someone is a self-starter, creative or able to follow basic directions just based on a resume. Giving them a basic coding take-home (and I mean basic, 30-60 minutes should be more than enough) is
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by abofh 2y ago
To be fair, it's similar because it's the problem people wanted solved - start this thing at boot, if it dies, restart it. I know rcS.d didn't handle the 'restart it', but even for the lowliest desktop user, if the
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by abofh 2y ago
Stolen goods maybe? Though that may qualify as 'sourcing' with a broad enough interpretation.
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by abofh 2y ago
They mentioned avoiding google wallet, so we can assume android, and that apple wallet wasn't considered for not being an option for them.
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by abofh 2y ago
It doesn't directly, on net though, the average tech nomad is coming in with a salary that's 4-5x the average domestic worker, so that 20% goes a lot farther. Add to that nomads are far more likely to need to buy crap (26% vat),
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by abofh 2y ago
Especially since the CEO in question certainly didn't bring "don't be evil" back, so citing a guidestone fifteen years expired seems disingenuous.
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by abofh 2y ago
It's always been the people, not the process. I've basically been the same sysadmin with a CS degree I've been since before I got a degree. I've been called a developer, a sysadmin, pool boy, IT, site reliability... It
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by abofh 2y ago
Most of what I write is for an audience of one - even if it gets merged to the company tree, I'm usually writing for my own immediate needs. But to what you explicitly ask, I contact and I hate invoice management, so I have my own tim
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by abofh 2y ago
As the article points out, the hardware was revised because it wasn't desirable.
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by abofh 2y ago
Children. Always the children - you're advocating for parents to delegate their responsibilities. I'm advocating for children. There's no implication, I'm being quite explicit - protect the children -- especially from
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by abofh 2y ago
Port knocking works if you have to ssh to your servers, there are many solutions that obviate even that, and leave you with no open ports, but a fully manageable server. I'm guilty of ssm in aws, but the principal applies - the cattle
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by abofh 2y ago
Put meat in bag, put bag in water, receive protein? A turkey might be hard by size, but sous vide is basically the easy-bake of cooking, takes no effort or creativity during the cook and you can only really impact it before and after.
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by abofh 2y ago
And that's service right there - they tried to distribute the most compatible malicious kernel exploits for you, but sometimes you need a bespoke compilation for your system -- and these guys step up and make sure you get one! That&#x2
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by abofh 2y ago
IP the node module used regular expressions to validate 32 bit numbers and failed at it.
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by abofh 2y ago
Do you understand that what you're writing is repeatedly saying it's everyone else's fault? The people screaming think of the children are almost always the ones I want nowhere near children.
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by abofh 2y ago
> ... children can combat all that with training from over worked and underpayed parents Parenting rule 1? Show up. The thing overworked parents don't have? Time. Hence my entire point- if you don't have the time for kids, it
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by abofh 2y ago
Mostly admission of liability. The longer they can argue that the government deemed it safe, the harder it is to sue them for knowingly contaminating water supplies.

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