bamfly

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by bamfly 3y ago
Truly, a very small number of real servers, just enough for blue/green deployments and so you can stay up if any one server goes offline, meets any plausible needs for a really, really high percentage of businesses & products. A
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For software, at least, whole 8-figure-equivalent software projects have been carried from ideation to delivery & maintenance, largely overseen by software developers , not managers, mostly over email and IRC (hey, look, human interac
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We do, but it's taught as trivia. Applications and various "tricks" are what matter for binary in CS, and they don't teach that. We're taught about non-10 bases, but not taught why we should give a shit about them.
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by bamfly 3y ago
I've gotten to use bitwise operations like twice in a 20-year career. Trivial applications of things that might go in the first couple weeks of an algo class, about the same rate of use. I always get a little excited when I get to use
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> Sounds like you're a decision maker and you told like being told your decision are being made on a fragile basis. :) I have bad news for you if you think this doesn't apply to like 99% of of management decisions (and product,
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by bamfly 3y ago
Maybe just me, but I actually find I have an easier time staying focused when I'm away from my desk with just my laptop. Multiple screens are great, and sometimes I have good success for a while after going back to my desk with its
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by bamfly 3y ago
Private offices, minimal monitoring, high pay, and lots of schedule autonomy, are perks of the higher tiers of management, and, more generally, are markers of upper-middle class norms in a work setting. Letting programmers have all those th
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by bamfly 3y ago
I have no idea why people jump to this argument any time it's halfway relevant. It's... well, put it this way: do farmers want money? Look, "liberal" Hollywood is largely conservatives at the top. Big farm owners &
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by bamfly 3y ago
Ah, yeah, that probably won't be enough for you then. Need Windows monitoring, and want the graphs—yeah, much bigger pain to get anything like that working via email.
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Setting an email address you actually check in /root/.forward would provide most of this, and all of it with the addition of low-tens of lines of shell script and a cron job or two, no? I get that tastes vary, but adding more serv
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by bamfly 3y ago
> [1] Which of course no one believes he did, they're still in Skywalker Ranch somewhere. Leaving "Harmy's De-Specialized Editions" to become the definitive release of that art. 4K77/80/83. Scanned at 4K res
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Lots of incentives offered to businesses, especially at the city level, are contingent on providing some number of jobs in a specific place . They want you to have to give locals jobs if you need to hire, and they want those locals spendin
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by bamfly 3y ago
There were some Apple events in the '10s that featured significant price cuts, often alongside an improved product. Better iPad, $100 cheaper, better MacBook, $200 cheaper, that kind of thing.
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by bamfly 3y ago
The more general shoe for that is the "camp moccasin", or "camp moc". Similar, but tends to have a tad less secure fit, and the sole's usually a little lighter (not specially designed to grip well on a wet wooden
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by bamfly 3y ago
> IMO, for men, there's a handful of main looks, and they're all pretty different for each other. "Nerd", "scruffy hacker", "fitness bro" are the ones I see most frequently. Oh, for sure, some are
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by bamfly 3y ago
Fashion leather "work boots" or jump boots (e.g. Red Wing, Danner). Oddball, usually lightweight, sneakers. Selvedge jeans with the cuff roll (maybe hipster, maybe tech hipster—need context and other clothing cues to tell the di
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by bamfly 3y ago
This is the first time I've encountered the term. Had to search to find out WTF it means. Seems like it's mostly a joke?
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by bamfly 3y ago
I don't mind the impending death of the suit, but I hope it doesn't get too weird to wear blazers and sport coats in informal settings, in my lifetime. They're so very nice. Wish I'd started wearing them years ago. Lik
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by bamfly 3y ago
People who've seen YouTube written down a couple times tend not to get it wrong. Twitter is a common dictionary word and I'd bet had a pretty low misspelling rate, if you'd asked people to spell it before the service Twitter