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by aluminussoma 5y ago
Don't quit! I'd rather have good, honest people working at Google, instead of them quitting Google. What would Google be like if no good people worked there?
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by aluminussoma 5y ago
The highest performing teams I have been a part of did not regularly do estimates for planned work. That may be the best practice for 2021. If we had to absolutely deliver by a fixed date - a rarity - we broke the task down in parts that c
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by aluminussoma 5y ago
In California, most companies that require after hours duties because engineers are on-call, provide a company issued cell phone device because of California Labor Code section 2802: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces&
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by aluminussoma 5y ago
This is happening on my team, with a stark difference being that we are all paid dizzying tech salaries. Money only motivates people to an extent.
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by aluminussoma 5y ago
The hideous workaround is why it is here. Super interesting to see someone else carve an unintuitive path forward against seemingly unmovable obstacles. Very much a hacker mentality.
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by aluminussoma 5y ago
The closest model I could find to this is a SaaS usage model (think AWS) or an all-you-can-eat subscription model (think Adobe Creative Cloud). I dislike these models myself as a customer. At least in a usage model, you get payment when you
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by aluminussoma 6y ago
I agree that automation is ideal. But let's face it: most companies haven't. The goal of a business is not to have perfect engineering practices. It is to fulfill customer requests. When there is an outage in the middle of the nig
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by aluminussoma 6y ago
Cert Expiration is a problem that needs a better solution when a company does not renew it. These were internal certificates. Still important but not user-facing. One possible solution might be having the client introduce an artificial dela
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by aluminussoma 6y ago
I distinctly remember an interview on Win95 launch day where the local news was interviewing a guy in a computer shop about his thoughts. He was unimpressed. He said something like, "Mac* already does this and much better". When t
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by aluminussoma 6y ago
> it was dead bodies lying in the streets I remember seeing these videos in January 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic. Young, healthy-looking people, too. I'm very surprised that there were not similar instances outside of China
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Hacking a patch to run Unity games on older OS X versions(apple.stackexchange.com)
2 points by aluminussoma 6y ago|0 comments
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by aluminussoma 6y ago
It is thought provoking to think that the USA's interest in Taiwan is more about protecting TMSC than protecting a democratic state in East Asia. By this line of thinking, building capacity in Arizona, or anywhere outside Taiwan, is go
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by aluminussoma 6y ago
This is still a little bit rumor so it is not clear if it was a fat finger mistake or intentional. I would like to see an official comment from GoDaddy or the site owner. I don't own guns, don't care for them, couldn't tell y
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by aluminussoma 6y ago
I click on the ads of products I dislike so that the company gets charged for the ad. If you wanted to inflict the maximum damage, then click on the ad and install the app. Uninstall it later. I think the ad gets charged more as a "con
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by aluminussoma 6y ago
I worked at Macromedia with many people who worked for Elop before he rose to executive heights. All had very nice things to say about him. One speculated that he might even serve as Canada's prime minister one day. Reading him brande
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by aluminussoma 6y ago
I very much dislike Prometheus, but the fact that AWS is offering it as a managed service means I am in the minority. I attribute much of Prometheus' success to the influence of ex-Googlers. They joined other companies, had a lot of cl
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by aluminussoma 6y ago
Android frustrates me on many levels, but I appreciate having the source code to dig into. If the same issue happened in an iOS device, Netflix would need to do the workaround.
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by aluminussoma 6y ago
Call independent repair shops in the Bay Area that specializes in Macs. I could not get the name of the GPU repairer because the repair shop earned a hefty fee being the middleman.
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by aluminussoma 6y ago
I had the same issue happen recently: replaced the battery, GPU soon failed. My trackpad also stopped working. For the GPU, I took it to a repair shop here in the Bay Area. They were able to quickly diagnose and sent it to another shop in t
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by aluminussoma 6y ago
After reading articles and anecdotes about the way Amazon treats its employees - warehouse and office - I tried to stop giving my business to Amazon. It is hard. Amazon offers a much better customer experience. Trying to place an order at B
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by aluminussoma 6y ago
1) If people are really interested in the topic, they should read the source material and draw their own conclusions. I thought the article's characterization of Westervelt's tweet was incorrect. The author claimed that Westervelt
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by aluminussoma 6y ago
I looked at purchasing a home in another cheaper locale and also came to this observation. This area has regular floods. New neighborhoods had flood problems. Old neighborhoods did not. The areas without flood problems, and close enough the
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Wikipedia controversy over marriage UserBox leads to Adminship resignation(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by aluminussoma 6y ago|4 comments
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by aluminussoma 6y ago
Thanks for the link. I'm not familiar with that case so there is some further reading for me to do!
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by aluminussoma 6y ago
Unfortunately I get the impression that this is how you get proper support from Facebook or Google. Make a Reddit or Hacker News post, get a few upvotes, and someone with influence inside the company files an "Oops Help My Friend"
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by aluminussoma 6y ago
I get the impression that this is an opportunity to paint a political story that makes your side look better (other side is suppressing the vote, therefore my candidate lost!), or perhaps in this specific case, to poke fun at America as it
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by aluminussoma 6y ago
We must not rule out the possibility that rogue apps are siphoning data for ad targeting, especially given AT&Ts Privacy Policy: "We do not use the content of your texts, emails or calls for marketing or advertising". AT&T
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by aluminussoma 6y ago
For those who have been directly affected, file a complaint with your state's attorney general. For California, here's a link: https://oag.ca.gov/contact/consumer-complaint-against-busine... I would think tha
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by aluminussoma 6y ago
There is a lot of "idolization" in the this industry. Those who have accomplished much are sought out for their opinions on all types of subjects, 1) because they are influential, and 2) there is some belief that the methods which
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by aluminussoma 6y ago
Get started with any exercise is difficult! Soon after I commence, I find exercise-induced injuries that force me to rest until the pain goes away. A younger me would ignore the pain bit now I'm not so invincible anymore. More exercise

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