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by baconner 11y ago
Seems to me this hits on a very important point. There's a terrible language barrier that is damaging our ability to come together on this issue in the US. Inequality of income growth is a great metric for indicating that there's
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by baconner 11y ago
Wait so... It's not about crypto? That's a little confusing name wise.
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by baconner 11y ago
This is a great point. More times than I'd like to admit I've found out someone working for me had worked themselves up worried about something that we could've resolved in 5 min with a simple conversation. If you're anx
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by baconner 11y ago
Speaking as a boss who I'd like to think falls into the former category... If you don't ask you won't know what they'll do for you or not. Could be your boss doesn't help or makes it worse then you know exactly what
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by baconner 11y ago
I think it's important to understand that burnout is situational depression and/or anxiety. If you are burning out it's important to recognize that it's not some special software developer thing its a real psychologica
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by baconner 11y ago
I served on a jury for a murder case last year and think your characterization is not accurate (and only partially because I don't think I'm dim or plyant). Yes the prosecutors were clearly selecting for their own advantage but th
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by baconner 11y ago
I can appreciate where your comment probably comes from - it's absolutely been oversold at many organizations and there's an industry of scrum trainers and the like that oversell it. Against the standard of perfection no methodolo
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by baconner 11y ago
Ok then my mistake - there's nothing in the article that says they were files classified as confidential.
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by baconner 11y ago
I think these qualify. You are free to disagree. CIA Director John Brennan’s private account held sensitive files — including his 47-page application for top-secret security clearance — until he recently learned that it had been infiltrate
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by baconner 11y ago
You've got me there. Ultimately being secure is Brennan's responsibility. Maybe we need a secret service for tech that's outside the command structure of these agencies.
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by baconner 11y ago
The key point for me is even if we assume that security blunders like this or say keeping a private email server are ignorance rather than malice ignorance is unacceptable at this level of government. Where's the security officer at ad
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by baconner 11y ago
All this time I had assumed when Brennan called for dangerous things like encryption back doors he must understand the negative impacts would be but just didn't care as long as it helped the CIA. Now I'm thinking he actually doesn
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by baconner 11y ago
This. There's nothing like setting up a rigid password policy to give the appearance of security, then providing a secondary super weak password like ssn or easy to figure out security questions. For many sites its purely about appea
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by baconner 11y ago
Drivers license is an even bigger can of worms - see any voter identification law discussion.
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by baconner 11y ago
I think the problem is basically that it presents some (albeit weak and messy) solutions for companies and they're not stopped by law from this risky behavior. Since national IDs are politically untenable in the US no pkey alternative
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by baconner 11y ago
It may be counter productive to try and argue both (totally consistent) positions at once since it opens you up to the implication that if it somehow worked that you'd be OK with it. Still I don't see why we should allow pro tortu
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by baconner 11y ago
I build BI products for a living and used to get into a lot of pedantic arguments about whether a pie chart or worse, the dreaded 3d bar or line plot, should ever be used. Eventually I had to give it up though as it's not a productiv
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by baconner 11y ago
Sure, but there are many avenues of investigation that were previously available to law enforcement and still are. The question in my mind is does having effectively unbreakable ways to store data do more harm than good? I think it does mor
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by baconner 11y ago
My experience was the same as yours. Frankly I've never lived anywhere where I felt like I made more beyond the surface connections with people than the Seattle area. I never experienced any hostility for being in the software industry
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by baconner 11y ago
The thing about Tableau is that they're really the industry leader in terms of data exploration workflow. Users love the tool so much that they expect any new data system put in place to work with it so even vendors that are trying to
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by baconner 11y ago
There are a few similar technologies out there some of which are open source. Prestodb comes to mind but there's also some other closed systems like powerbi (with some underlying azure distributed data warehouse bits), etc out there. W
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by baconner 11y ago
I think the big issue with "bi" is that the term is just too broadly applied to be meaningful anymore. Every piece of software with a chart in it somewhere is billed as BI these days and moreover if you ask 10 business users what
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by baconner 11y ago
Ha well you got the name right, yes. Sadly there's a bit more to it to sell to an enterprise software consumer - here just fill out this 30 page rfp... Anyway serious answer in parent.
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by baconner 11y ago
Maybe it would be more correct to say - mostly because its not from a long lived company and also a dash of open source fear. One of the aspects of enterprise software is that customers want to rely on it over the long term with low fear th
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by baconner 11y ago
I don't see the relevance of that point. The existence of violence without a particular weapon does not refute the argument that a new weapon may lead to even more death and suffering. By your logic since violence already exists appare
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by baconner 11y ago
No that's not what I am saying at all. I'm saying I think they can have the effect of making it easier for a person to kill more people with less risk of consequence and that the lack of consequence makes violence easier to turn t
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by baconner 11y ago
These aren't infallible defense only hug-bots we're talking about. They're not going to just grab your arm they are more likely to shoot you and anyone else who happens to be too close to you. Imagine instead summary executio
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by baconner 11y ago
It lowers the barrier of entry to use lethal violence and that is not a good thing. A more realistic scenerio is that rich countries will have less reason to seek diplomatic solutions now that the only people doing the dying are the poorer
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by baconner 11y ago
I think you're basically right here, but many companies are going to have a huge amount of code, builds, work history, etc wrapped up in these systems. So making a big bang move off to a different system can be time consuming, costly,
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by baconner 11y ago
I think that's about right. Heck we are actually running gitlab already for a limited set of projects and I could see how I could sell this easier. Also don't discount how much might be bound up in a system like perforce already s

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