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by aluminussoma 4y ago
I would only be surprised if the other manufacturers are NOT doing the same. We (collectively speaking) do the same at work. We optimize for what gets us promoted rather than what benefits the company. Companies optimize for revenue rather
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by aluminussoma 4y ago
> They are given the power to stop deployment. If they can't, they're not SREs Google is the only place where this is even discussed. I cannot name any other company that does this. Not Apple, Meta's Production Engineers,
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by aluminussoma 4y ago
In the several examples of separate SRE orgs that I've seen, SRE builds their own little empires with no alignment to the product. A cynic would guess that the goal of SRE management is to hire enough SREs so there can be senior manage
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by aluminussoma 4y ago
In my division, there is an infrastructure team and product teams. Those platform type projects are handled by the infrastructure team. In a product only team, it will always be difficult to work on such projects. Ultimately, the answer tie
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by aluminussoma 4y ago
SRE has an identity crisis. It means too many things to too many people. In some companies, it is an operational help desk. In a few companies, SRE is rumored to be a different aspect of software engineering. Pay is a rough signal on what a
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by aluminussoma 4y ago
The link for "The UNIX time-sharing system" only provides a 1-page PDF of the abstract. I believe the correct PDF is located at: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/361011.361061 It wasn't clear to me by
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An update on Google's performance review system(protocol.com)
4 points by aluminussoma 4y ago|0 comments
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by aluminussoma 4y ago
I am going to post an alternative take to the general sentiment that saw this coming from a mile away. I think it is awesome that an organization as old as TimeWarner was able to launch a bold new product. Yes, it may have failed, but they
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by aluminussoma 5y ago
The news story correlates school attendance with cancer diagnosis. Most schools draw students from specific neighborhoods nearby. Everyone focuses on the school itself. I want to know if the "pollutant" could have come from the ne
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by aluminussoma 5y ago
Exactly. He is not the only person thinking this; he was just the only one who put his thoughts on paper. I remember when American capitalism was about succeeding by making other people successful. This kind of business - succeeding by suck
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Target settles claim for showing higher prices on mobile app in physical store(pleasantonweekly.com)
2 points by aluminussoma 5y ago|0 comments
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by aluminussoma 5y ago
Since complaining on Hacker News is the only way to effectively reach Google employees, I'll say that as a customer I am confused at the offerings of Google Domains and GCP Cloud Domains (via Cloud DNS). I recently registered a domain
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by aluminussoma 5y ago
Now I use brown paper bags I get at the grocery stole, without any holes. I did not notice any success with mesh. Maybe I will try it again.
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by aluminussoma 5y ago
No matter how much care I take to store Russet potatoes, or other potatoes, they always grow sprouts after a few days. I store them in a paper bag, in my laundry room where it is cold and dark (and the dryer, which I don't use often, e
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by aluminussoma 5y ago
Come on, that is being being pedantic about semantics. They do not need to be all-in with open source to like it/love it/appreciate it.
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by aluminussoma 5y ago
I was taught that management theory sprung from army management. These were the first organizations that required coordinating very large groups of people - in the life or death situations of war, and in the brutal monotony of peace. I doub
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by aluminussoma 5y ago
I don't think the recruiter gets 10% of the salary anymore. I have seen recent recruiter fees for 20% of the first year base salary. People should know that.
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by aluminussoma 5y ago
The Internet today feels like a big box strip mall in suburbia. While visiting my home town, I looked for a local, independent hardware store. There was only Home Depot and Lowe's. Then I realize how few independent businesses were lef
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Arm Predicts Stagnation If Nvidia Deal Fails(eetimes.com)
45 points by aluminussoma 5y ago|29 comments
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by aluminussoma 5y ago
Cal Newport and Shane Parrish, in a discussion on the Knowledge Project podcast, talked unfavorably about to-do lists. They favored scheduling time to perform the needed tasks in a daily calendar. I tried that calendaring system a few times
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by aluminussoma 5y ago
It got a chuckle out of me. I went through the Wikimedia source to track down a bug and I can agree with the sentiment. I guess most technologies are like that. Once it is written, once the major bugs are caught, few revisit the code anymor
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by aluminussoma 5y ago
Some metacommentary: It is quite nice to see, in 2021, someone publishing original thoughts on a blog with their own photos (mostly). I did not see any advertisements. It seems quite old fashioned today. Looking at the front page, most link
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by aluminussoma 5y ago
If we look at the wikipedia definition of social media, it states: "Social media are interactive technologies that allow the creation or sharing/exchange of information, ideas, interests, and other forms of expression via virtual
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by aluminussoma 5y ago
Because it's entertaining. I don't feel the toxicity there is harmful to me, personally. I stopped using Facebook because I did feel that the FOMO-feelings I got were harmful to me. I do a lot of things that are unhealthy, in mode
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by aluminussoma 5y ago
I am now off popular social media (Facebook, Instagram). The void is now replaced with other forms of social media (Reddit, Hacker News). Reddit, arguably, is more toxic than my version of Facebook - but it is strangers being toxic, and zer
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by aluminussoma 5y ago
Here's an older thread on the cable: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7794520 This was pre-2013. So perhaps the proprietary connector was a reaction to the cable?
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by aluminussoma 5y ago
I suspect they began soldering it because the cable connecting the disk drive had a lot of problems in older MacBooks. Soldering may have been an easy fix for that. I hate the soldering, too. I'm just offering an explanation that may m
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by aluminussoma 5y ago
What happened to cause such a long outage?
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Roblox comes back online after 3-day outage(twitter.com)
4 points by aluminussoma 5y ago|1 comments
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by aluminussoma 5y ago
Because of greed. For most humans, what you have is never enough. A few years ago, Netflix had a reputation of paying very well to lower level senior employees (think L5 and L6), but not as competitively for higher level employees (L7+).

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