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by alexjplant 6y ago
Brazil is one of my favorite films of all time, which is unsurprising given how much I enjoy Terry Gilliam's other work as well. The first time I saw it I was in high school and my drummer lent me the DVD. It was aesthetically compelli
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by alexjplant 6y ago
I actually just slicked the SSD and replaced Fedora with Linux Mint on my personal machine last night for those types of reasons... annoying dnfdragora popups and weird behavior, failed firmware flashes via the GUI utility, mediocre battery
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by alexjplant 6y ago
We're talking about two different things... work itself is supposed to be mutually beneficial but using corporate assets for personal ends when you could just as easily use your own is silly and makes everybody's life more difficu
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by alexjplant 6y ago
Why is this a revelation or surprise? Your employer provides you with equipment and applications not for their benefit, not yours, and I think this is perfectly reasonable. It'd be one thing if GMail cost money, but you can get _your o
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by alexjplant 6y ago
I've had the misfortune of working at a few places were many/most of these things were pretty universally frowned upon. > - Standards Resistance to using formatters and linters because they prevent you from merging code more qu
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by alexjplant 6y ago
University of Maryland had a data breach a few years back [1] so I suppose that it's unsurprising to see that it happened again. At least they had the common sense to stop asking me (somebody affected by said breach and a dropout, no l
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by alexjplant 6y ago
Not sure if you're speaking generally or only with regard to ATCs, but it's completely possible to make a good living doing IT work without having a college degree. If you're able to make the jump to software development it c
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by alexjplant 6y ago
I got away from self-hosted mail a few years ago and haven't looked back. There are a few flexible privacy-forward options on the market now (FastMail, Proton) and I don't have to worry about configuring DMARC/DKIM/SPF,
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by alexjplant 6y ago
I've always like C# for its multi-paradigm nature, good runtime, and excellent collections framework. It's basically what Java could/should have been. Unfortunately the legacy tooling is infuriating to work with. It's be
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Were .Skip() and .Take() not implemented?
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I have more than two hundred pages of dreams typed out. It was a lot easier to do this when I was younger as I had much more time in the mornings. I remember everything vividly but once ten minutes have passed since waking it's pretty
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by alexjplant 6y ago
...that's Rupert Holmes you're thinking of. He's also musically brilliant but in a different way (from an artistic/compositional perspective).
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I don't think it's cynical at all... it's just an unfortunate reality. New things come along and people try to fit them into existing frameworks. Words' meanings evolve over time. People that don't actually do techn
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by alexjplant 6y ago
> larger company looking for a generalist with no concrete role is a sign that they don't have their stuff together. Or that their culture is such that they have entrenched, stovepiped personnel that don't venture out of their
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by alexjplant 6y ago
> Especially companies having "dev ops" engineering model, where engineers must be able to work on all stages of the product lifecycle - from design, development, testing, to deployment and operations. This is what DevOps is _s
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by alexjplant 6y ago
Cute naming schemes are a holdover from the days of physical servers when location, function, etc were subject to change so an immutable machine name couldn't contain them. Now that most things are virtual and easily created/destr
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by alexjplant 6y ago
Doesn't Google collect SSID, MAC, and WAN IP data so that they can correlate it with location to improve non-GPS location services? I wouldn't be surprised if some boilerplate library they're using wants this access and they
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by alexjplant 6y ago
I thought it was an obscure regionalism for a refrigerator... that definition makes far more sense grammatically.
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One of the more amusing cultural intersections I've seen is Larry King on Snoop Dogg's YouTube channel... though I guess given the latter's collaborations with Martha Stewart it shouldn't be _that_ surprising. RIP. http
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by alexjplant 6y ago
+1 to you sir. I was just having a discussion this past weekend with some technical friends and noted that a well-architected monolith often lends itself to easy deconstruction such that you get the best of both worlds when they're nec
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by alexjplant 6y ago
> I learned very quickly that I don’t wear a three-piece suit to PARC: it was t-shirts and shorts, kilts … one guy walked around with a parrot on his shoulder. Was this perhaps Dave Poole, founder of Foonly Inc. and architect of the inf