beckingz

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by beckingz 6y ago
This was really good! Lots of useful advice.
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by beckingz 6y ago
The company: Cybersecurity Skills Gap! The job: low pay for unicorn candidates with 30 years DevSecOps on AWS experience.
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by beckingz 6y ago
Reminds me of the nose and bean principle from consulting: https://archive.uie.com/brainsparks/2011/07/08/beans-and-nos...
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by beckingz 6y ago
Yes: you can make solid money as a salesforce admin/developer, especially if you are good at working with non-technical stakeholders. Personally, I think that working with salesforce is the worst of CRUD development combined with the w
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by beckingz 6y ago
enums depend on the database. In general they're better than categorical strings (varchar columns) if the number of categories is below 256. The primary benefit is data quality (no typos allowed), but performance benefits also exist.
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by beckingz 6y ago
no need to label other people's comments as rude. Also, the suggestion to make products more deadly so that they are used less seems like bad policy. Reduction of harms usually does not mean killing the patient.
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by beckingz 6y ago
I agree that a True Agile workplace would not care about making sure that everyone looks busy. So far 2 for 3 of the scrums I've been involved with have degenerated into micromanagement and pointed questions if there wasn't consta
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by beckingz 6y ago
I had a manager who would ask "is that all you're working on?" if you mentioned working on less than 3-4 unique tasks. This incentivized breaking everything up into tiny tasks and getting things out the door instead of gettin
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by beckingz 6y ago
'As part of the settlement Lambda will: (1) notify students that the bankruptcy dischargeability provision language is not accurate (2) retain a third party to review the terms of the school’s finance contract to ensure that it complie
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by beckingz 6y ago
I hoped that getting vaccinated would make me love microsoft more, but the teams UI is just so bad. Not to mention the pain that is moving between office 365 apps.
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by beckingz 6y ago
Or just luck. Plenty of people have also lost money on crypto and oil speculation.
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by beckingz 6y ago
An explosive joke made in poor taste, agreed.
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by beckingz 6y ago
No wonder banks refuse to lend to most startups!
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by beckingz 6y ago
Then you can prosecute them for lying.
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by beckingz 6y ago
Overall the cheapest option is usually to curtail the excess production. Energy storage costs money. Useful industrial processes that need electricity cost money to set up. The lower the utilization factor the less the cost of electricity f
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by beckingz 6y ago
The UI is usually quite snappy, but will get held up if your code takes a long time to run. Just like any other frontend framework.
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by beckingz 6y ago
app.example.com vs api.example.com ?
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by beckingz 6y ago
This is a double edged sword: 1. Expectations are vague in analytics work so most people can't tell if you're doing well or not. 2. Expectations are vague in analytics so if you're not delivering magic people will think you&#
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by beckingz 6y ago
Chaos is a culture, right?
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by beckingz 6y ago
I had a friend who worked for a big consulting company and they told him to become an expert in a topic. So he googled for 6 weeks and became an "expert".
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by beckingz 6y ago
This is what I'm doing right now for my home sensor network. 3 ESP8266's with temperature, humidity, and light sensors sending a reading every second to a python app that writes a row to postgres on a raspberry pi 3. So far the ha
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by beckingz 6y ago
Negative lines of code are a good day's work. https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li...
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by beckingz 6y ago
"But you wouldn’t hire a consultant that only tells you what’s wrong but not how to improve it." People do this all the time.
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by beckingz 6y ago
Using ink without consent is a violation of our 4th amendment rights.
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by beckingz 6y ago
woltswagon? Is that the correction pronunciation now?
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by beckingz 6y ago
The points help abstract away the task estimates from actual time worked. If you estimate that you will do 40 hours of tasks and only complete 30 "hours" of tasks because one of them turns out to be more complicated than estimated
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by beckingz 6y ago
You have to pay the employer's share for COBRA, which is usually thousands of dollars per person per month. Right when you've lost income from the job.
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by beckingz 6y ago
They never specified Chinese dissidents, but they did intend for it to get used by dissidents. And journalists.
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by beckingz 6y ago
Just give it back to the taxi drivers to operate, but hold them to a higher standard of quality.
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by beckingz 6y ago
An aggregator model would be great here if the major and local platforms provided fair access. SmallTownUberCoOp would provide their offerings via standardized API, which aggregator apps could use and display to anyone. Getting the balance

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