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by balabaster 5y ago
Fair. Perhaps I was over-zealous to include degrees in my statement.
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by balabaster 5y ago
This makes me laugh exactly because the number of jobs I've seen advertised after I've left them to do other things because they weren't challenging enough, only to see that the prerequisites posted for the "new" jo
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by balabaster 5y ago
A savvy engineer, like a spy, knows how to gain the confidence of the CEO long before they put a plan of "Gee, I think you should do this" in the CEOs ear. I've spent months ingratiating myself with the political circle befor
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by balabaster 5y ago
There needs to be something. I'm curious what we will come up with. Some kind of sentinel that sits on the network and does behavioural and threat analysis of all network traffic and prevents damage before it can happen perhaps?
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by balabaster 5y ago
And really it only takes a bad actor inside a company to circumvent most of the security on-site anyway. Until companies treat every accessor to the network as malicious, this will continue to go round in circles. Most businesses just don&#
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by balabaster 5y ago
Dictate? He has met English people, right? We don't really take to being dictated to that well. I can name half a dozen historic "circumstances" where that's failed quite catastrophically. We don't like being told w
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by balabaster 5y ago
I recall thinking back then that hackers were mysterious and cool. Fast forward to becoming a computer programmer and spending my life reverse engineering basically everything to be able to do my job and it seems laughable how much fear peo
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by balabaster 5y ago
I can't tell if this was legit fear, outright propaganda or satire. Having had a computer in my life since the age of 8, this seems like one hilarious cliche on top of another, the kind of thing you'd expect to see as an ad playin
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by balabaster 6y ago
To be fair, there's nothing particularly special about hovering ships either given the invention of the hovercraft...
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by balabaster 6y ago
I don't know what it means to live in a "right to work" state. I assume that means that everyone has a right to reasonably paid employment? I don't understand how this situation could come to be. What if there were no em
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by balabaster 6y ago
Both situations applied to different people. I'd find it weirdly paradoxical for one person to find themselves in both situations simultaneously.
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by balabaster 6y ago
You're both a little right. I grew up in the UK and lived there until I was 25, I've since worked and lived in the U.S. but now live and work in Canada.
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by balabaster 6y ago
Full disclosure: I've always been anti-union for my own personal approach to life. I do see the value in unions, I've just always, to this point, been a go-it-alone-and-fight-my-own-battles kind of person. I don't want to be
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by balabaster 6y ago
Finding peace in the day-to-day is a great way to find your way back to a good place. Allow yourself to do anything or nothing at all and not feel guilty about not being productive or even checking stuff off your to-do list. In fact, look a
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by balabaster 6y ago
If there's anything I can do to help, hit me up. I think my email is on my profile. If not, it's my username at gmail.
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by balabaster 6y ago
Ultimately you won't really know if it's a good thing until after the fact. I think just following my nose and doing what felt good in the moment was a big help. I guess it helped that I'd been trained as a youth counsellor e
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by balabaster 6y ago
This sounds like the beginnings of burnout or depression... do you find joy in anything else? Does anything motivate you? I went through this for about 3 years after my divorce. I couldn't find motivation or joy in anything. I turned t
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by balabaster 6y ago
"Darkness. The new standard from Microsoft!" Thanks, you owe me a new keyboard... and incidentally, a new cup of tea :D
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by balabaster 6y ago
I watched this game live in 1986... the atmosphere that day, in that heat and altitude they had to play in, even on the little 14" TV we had in our house was palpable. There was something about the quality of the colors, the weather, t
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by balabaster 6y ago
See my note below about spoon theory. I guess I could've been clearer that I meant not a total fix, it won't fix everything on it's own. I didn't mean that it's not part of the solution.
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by balabaster 6y ago
Nobody's advocating less empathy for humans, what I'm suggesting is that according to spoon theory, there's only so much in a day you can give a shit about before you burn out [YMMV]. I'm suggesting that when you put all
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by balabaster 6y ago
Empathy is great, but unfortunately it's not a fix. There's only so much empathy we can have for the environment around us without giving away everything and getting nothing in return. Having empathy for the needs of your fellow h
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by balabaster 6y ago
I even turned off the visual notifications on my email, facebook, linkedin, everything else that would normally give people the impression that my device is there for their benefit and not mine. The only audible notifications I get are from
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by balabaster 6y ago
His Masterclass was awesome too! And I definitely recommend listening to the Audiobook vs. reading it. Hearing his tone of voice and watching his body language made such a difference in understanding his point.
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by balabaster 6y ago
I turned off all social media notifications on my devices so that I feel more like they're there to serve me rather than me a slave to it. Having it in my pocket is a lot less enticing when it's not constantly nagging me. I feel a
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by balabaster 6y ago
Ugh... the visual studio integration is HOOOOOORRRRRIBLE. I hated it. It didn't do anything to make my life easier. You know what made it bearable? SourceTree, and I tried GitKraken way back when it was first launched in beta, it seeme
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by balabaster 6y ago
The biggest hurdle I had to learning Git, if truth be told, was my own aversion to doing anything that wasn't easy. It seemed difficult, so I dug my heels in and say "No! I don't wanna! It seems like friction and that's
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by balabaster 6y ago
Well, I've got both of mine... but then, I always wanted kids. Their mom was biggest part of the issue. That's why I have them at every possible opportunity - which translates to: If I'm home, which I am most of the time, the
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by balabaster 6y ago
The end user being the programmer? I find it humorous that so many programmers still can't see past the end of their nose when it comes to designing code for application testing. An application is deliverable. That means testable and d
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by balabaster 6y ago
You'd want your config injected so that you can swap out configs for test harnesses for continuous integration and deployment. It's one of the mainstays of making your software deployable by automation.

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