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by awinder 8y ago
> the text is locked down, so there’s no way to improve the proposed text based on comments from other stakeholders (which the legislative process allows) Or one of those stakeholders or a chairman beholden to those stakeholders would ha
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by awinder 8y ago
I use the recipe from this book + the levain instructions — https://www.amazon.com/Flour-Water-Salt-Yeast-Fundamentals/d... Highly recommend though I believe the author is located in the Pacific Northwest, and one thin
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by awinder 8y ago
We had a class (mid-2000s, UMBC) that was I think part of the required major courses that taught design processes. The semester long part of the course involved getting paired as a small group with a professor who acted as a business user,
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by awinder 8y ago
If you run an enterprise, pay for enterprise support. If you aren’t (r&d accounts, startups that aren’t monetized yet, etc.) then don’t pay for it. Flexibility is the model here, and it’s utilized by the big players, so being naive to t
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by awinder 8y ago
Whether AWS or Google Cloud, if you’re running a real business with real downtime costs, you need to pay for enterprise support. You’ll get much faster response times so that you can actually meet your SLA targets, and you’ll get a wealth o
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by awinder 8y ago
right the problem is cucumber and gherkin lead to people trying to be very smart and then tests become some ridiculous NLP problem. The value is the readme file over a ticket, and language definition, not the gymnastics of tying human langu
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by awinder 8y ago
I just got through https://www.amazon.com/Specification-Example-Successful-Deli... which pitches a common structure (Given-When-Then) for describing behaviors and getting them out of your ticketing systems, which are not de
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by awinder 8y ago
I’m curious about a related question for people who have been around a bit (or are just generally knowledgeable). How should your average retirement investor react when reading about the market like this? I’ve been well-educated on staying
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by awinder 8y ago
Yeah being an X employee is setting a low bar. Behavior has to be adapted on a situational basis, and if you can’t, that’s a problem across the spectrum. Though if I had to pick favorites I would totally go for agreeable giver who wields th
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by awinder 8y ago
We haven’t had issues but we keep our time windows short for any searching through logs (and we don’t use json logs so that’s an interesting difference). We use other systems for longer range log analysis.
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by awinder 8y ago
Cloudwatch logs have been a big game changer versus on-disk logs for us. Getting into larger clusters (and larger log files), figuring out what’s happening in log files became somewhat arduous. https://github.com/jorgebastid
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by awinder 8y ago
I thought we had been dogging millenials for ages for bring dynamism to the workplace through not wanting to do what they are told? These kids can not do right, no matter what. I would love to mount the Mr. Holland’s Opus defense here. May
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by awinder 8y ago
More realistically they’re going into a shop proposing changes immediately, getting slapped down, becoming disillusioned, leaving, and then trying again somewhere else. Even when people do make changes like this, it’s unlikely they stand t
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by awinder 8y ago
Because the year was 1992 and the former USSR was winding down all sorts of boondoggle projects
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by awinder 8y ago
So insurance actually is the vehicle that most companies utilize to protect against shortish-term disability (which does cover pregnancy). Second, tax credits exist for FMLA leave, which stack on top of normal favorable wage tax treatment.
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by awinder 8y ago
> the fact that they tried left us with a bad taste. This is really one of the fundamental reasons that not taking care of mothers & fathers (and in fact: going after them) is just such a boneheaded move. It’s a statement of culture.
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by awinder 8y ago
Raising a newborn is not a vacation, that’s a highly insulting statement.
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by awinder 8y ago
comment seems to be saying -- in modern windows (UWP) it'll be using native code, but microsoft is taking the easy path on win32. i guess some people are surprised that despite years of telling people that win32 is going away microsof
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by awinder 8y ago
> Why their machines had so much success since Jobs return was that they were making machines that were equally loved by music/video/content creators, developers, mothers/fathers/grandparents, students etc etc... If y
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by awinder 8y ago
Why don't we have enough cabs? Because Uber was allowed to use vast sums of private capital to back market-hostile moves and create a world where it had to exist. We've regulated cab fares for decades, because as a society throu
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by awinder 8y ago
The funding model is completely different. Entitlement programs are funded by employers as a cost of doing business and taxpayers, and they’ve been providing intergovernmental loans for years to keep loan costs down. Meanwhile shoving billi
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by awinder 8y ago
I believe that is a factor of caffeine increasing blood flow, leading to quicker delivery within the body
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by awinder 8y ago
Caffeine got me through maaany sleepless nights with my daughter for the first year or so. Sometimes in life you lose the luxury of choice in sleep ;-).
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by awinder 8y ago
I think this is spot on. Another way of considering this feeling is that despite great minds existing for (probably well over) 2000 years, the wins of great minds may not seem as great as one would have hoped. Don’t get me wrong, great mind
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by awinder 8y ago
Taking a cursory glance you can find a lot of articles on — exposed MySQL / Postgres servers being infected when they run with weak / default passwords. Exposing your db servers beyond the private network is the problem, kudos for
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by awinder 8y ago
Faciciously asking that question is very much an active strategy to downplay & dilute the term. And astroturfing is monied interests dressing up as grassroots. An article in a paper expressing an opinion, accompanied by some body of res
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by awinder 8y ago
No, you are trying to lump state-sponsored attacks on democratic institutions in with opinion pieces that you disagree with, which is not only disengenous but also very very dangerous.
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by awinder 8y ago
absolutely we are, i merely asked the question for some fan to come in and prove and even that got downvoted to death :D
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by awinder 8y ago
Is there any verifiable time in history when such a complicated multi-actor system actually did increase wages? Or is this the cold fusion of government policy?
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by awinder 8y ago
I was at $150 a year ago for an edgemax router + one of the long-range access points (i added a second ap, but for comparison's sake, that was the cost for those 2 components), which gave me an open-source router os (vyos) out of the b

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