awill88

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by awill88 4y ago
Wait, does no one else use Shift ZZ?
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by awill88 4y ago
I know someone who works there, seems cool. I generally agree. Want to just a balance out the thought that when it comes to running businesses, different strokes for different folks. If teams want to over-engineer and praise themselves for
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by awill88 4y ago
Vaccines are a modern miracle of science. They save lives effectively. Yes, we have a system that is so privatized and powerful and feeding off public spending getting ridiculously rich and the formalization of scientific literature sounds
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by awill88 4y ago
I want to side with both here, personally that sucks, professionally, what’s happening over there? Paying the bill shouldn’t be a second thought, understanding how it got to that point afterwards is what’s important. That company can’t be h
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by awill88 4y ago
As I read this title, for whatever reason, I imagined Walk Out Technology as being some kind of worker’s union SaaS and had to do a double take. I’m not intending to be unproductively facetious mind you, those types of specialized SaaS offe
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by awill88 4y ago
Right, if it’s not open sourced then most likely they have something to hide via omission. I mean, I do appreciate the bluntness over some obscure concoction of FOSS security libs marketed as some cutting edge technology stack. At least the
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by awill88 4y ago
Add linters, to start. You can’t argue with that. Linting is extremely powerful. I had a team member flip out on me and slam their hands down like a man child. But hey, that reflects more on them. Use precommit hooks so they don’t get too f
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by awill88 4y ago
See, this whole metadata problem being used as a means to credit somebody’s royalties on a platform that wants to appear both on moral high ground and judicious to the artists and public is exactly the kind of problem that a blockchain woul
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by awill88 4y ago
I was joking with my boss the other day that the way I start out my technical writing (which I hate because it is such a different skill set) is to start “talking shit” and then I self-edit based on the fear that someone is going to call me
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by awill88 4y ago
When I started getting blasted with Medium email digests that were all articles about the war in Ukraine, that was it—-done. I interacted with one email out of morbid curiosity a day or two before. Next digest I paid attention to I received
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by awill88 4y ago
What about maintenance of the framework? It can be a nightmare, not all frameworks are considered equal (I’m looking at you, SailsJS). And even mature frameworks come with plenty of woes WRT patching vulnerabilities. But, that can be attrib
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by awill88 5y ago
Used to feel this way and largely agree when there are less contributors on the project or the tests are so trivial like things doing what they obviously do. However, unit tests can describe behavior and written succinctly can be beneficial
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by awill88 5y ago
In a idealogical vacuum, totally fair. But in a (spiritually) capitalist economy, the federated nature of government is an effective instrument when applied properly. It’s not either the left or right’s fault that government is dysfunctiona
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by awill88 5y ago
I'm no MD, but I would say it's more accurate to describe it as an inability to control impulses, which puts important relationship commitments at risk, romantic or otherwise.
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by awill88 5y ago
I interpret this as you may not have had previous experience with therapy that's focused on you. If I'm right, then my two cents is, avoid telehealth. The convenience is not worth it, the stakes are way too high and technology is
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by awill88 5y ago
I am not triggered, lost no sleep over it. I'm happy for them, truly. And I care about this stranger, because when I read their writing, they don't seem like a stranger to me. I see myself in them. There is a nuance I wanted to co
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by awill88 5y ago
I love hearing it too, I'd like it to be well-received, even by those human beings living in "mud hut and subsistence farming" should they encounter their writing.
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by awill88 5y ago
My intention was not to express anger, wokeyness, etc. but I can see why that might be interpreted here. I identify qualities of myself in the author. So this isn't misplaced rage, more of a plea packaged as contempt to cut through thi
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by awill88 5y ago
There is a lot to unpack, but I hear you. “Perhaps I am not suited for working in a services company with rapid transitions“ I think you’re right. You read like you’re a people pleaser. I know it because I am too. You, like me, might have a
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by awill88 5y ago
I wonder if there could be a way to just turn off issues and only accept PRs. Contribution-driven feature requests. That would be a boundary that I think would protect the maintainer from the potential outcome that the article about boundar
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by awill88 5y ago
I appreciate that they are not memorializing this as a “hack.” That’s a mature stance. However: Sarcasm alert: so the gist is engineering is hard and we should never assume actors within a system will act predictably: you don’t say! Securit
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by awill88 5y ago
Additionally, there are different means to the same end, so being vague is keeping the discussion focused by keeping it about the general practice instead offering details that could easily derail into unproductive commentary. The ad firms
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by awill88 5y ago
Love the way he articulates why he’s credible before he starts talking about the subject-matter, and it’s a humanizing and thoughtful way to detach himself from the conversation. It’s like a breath of fresh air to watch these days; everythi
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Meditation: Flex your third eye or it didn’t happen
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I want to say thanks to your team for open sourcing this library so the community can discuss. It’s ambitious and to me feels like a right size approach to the problem, for all the heartache around DI, it seems like it’s different strokes f
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by awill88 5y ago
I think we should also comment on the quality of the framework. I use a home grown approach too. It doesn’t mean I’m not hoping for something to come along and disrupt (for the better) my approach for the “right” abstraction. That’s what is
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by awill88 5y ago
“meeting customers where they were” I’m a total AWS fanboy, but even I cringe when I read that superficial, customer-centric sound bite. You know who meets people where they are? FOSS maintainers. “Also as far as I know one of the lead comm
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by awill88 5y ago
I think it’s the fact that the implementation details don’t change the optics; AWS had the resources and talent to both monetize AND be a Good Samaritan by contributing to the upstream. The contributions could have been RFCs, GitHub issues,
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by awill88 5y ago
Agreed. This is a good article, written well for the intended audience—which I would qualify as occupying that ambiguous space between junior and senior developer knowledge. Perhaps the author hasn’t really arrived at the “right” answer for
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by awill88 5y ago
I mean, if you turn off WiFi radios, unplug from ISP, remove the antennas, and then reset with a single Ethernet connection, it’s really beyond the typical imagination to have the device still compromised. If you don’t trust it at that poin

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