beckingz

18 ms·

181.
by beckingz 4y ago
I have an exceptional ability to fix things: often I can fix things before determining why they are not working. This is immensely frustrating because I like to understand mechanical and electrical devices and take pride in my craft, so if
182.
by beckingz 4y ago
These days the DBAs I see most in demand are really database optimizer consultants: people who know how to scale databases and deal with all the junk that rushed developers set up.
183.
by beckingz 4y ago
bad press is free marketing for the enemy.
184.
by beckingz 4y ago
Yeah I'd say it's a fairly sturdy PR piece. I appreciate the content.
185.
by beckingz 4y ago
Lower total cost of ownership? For an iPhone? That does not check out unless you're buying the extra fancy android phones.
186.
by beckingz 4y ago
What kind of product management do you want coaching in? At it's core, product is the art of finding viable solutions that work for business and customers. Looking for win-win solutions that are actually buildable. The details of the s
187.
by beckingz 4y ago
Sounds like a right hand.
188.
by beckingz 4y ago
"Overall employment of software developers, quality assurance analysts, and testers is projected to grow 25 percent from 2021 to 2031, much faster than the average for all occupations." Job Security. As long as you learn whatever
189.
by beckingz 4y ago
Can partially confirm. I hiked to Everest Base Camp and the air at 5300 meters was significantly thinner. It's no surprise that at the top they use oxygen.
190.
by beckingz 4y ago
The Data Exhaust approach is simultaneously bad and justifiable. You should measure what matters and think about what you want to measure and why before collecting data. On the other hand, collecting data in case what you want to measure ch
191.
by beckingz 4y ago
Hard to confirm that your ads are converting, and wild daily/weekly fluctuations in return on ad spend.
192.
by beckingz 4y ago
It's really hard to configure FB to target actual locations as opposed to people interested in those locations. You've been to NY, so you're interested in NY, so FB will make money fleecing restaurants in NY wasting their ad
193.
by beckingz 4y ago
Layoffs time: move quickly and break people.
194.
by beckingz 4y ago
The screen scratches so fast! I expected better from Apple.
195.
by beckingz 4y ago
Sounds like it's time to quit your job and find a new one.
196.
by beckingz 4y ago
Classically very Greek in that regard?
197.
by beckingz 4y ago
Netflix was famously "All in" on AWS for quite a while.
198.
by beckingz 4y ago
He had his chicken it was time to go!
199.
by beckingz 4y ago
$50k by end of month is a sales goal with a deadline?
200.
by beckingz 4y ago
Technically incorrect: ammonium nitrate on its own is not an explosive.
201.
by beckingz 4y ago
You mean salesforce's stock price?
202.
by beckingz 4y ago
The Iron Triangle: pick at most two. Most likely pick one. End up with none if you're unlucky.
203.
by beckingz 4y ago
University system is an export. We can't export it if they stay.
204.
by beckingz 4y ago
I love Charlie Stross: "And feel free to use the comment thread to discuss what's coming next for the UK as the vector sum of Brexit, COVID19, the energy crisis from the Ukraine war, and the worst inflationary bubble since 1980 pu
205.
by beckingz 4y ago
Larry "paperclip maximizer" Ellison
206.
by beckingz 4y ago
Fred Brooks observed that all successful large software projects were grown, not built.
207.
by beckingz 4y ago
Just get a really really nice screen to display deepfakes on before photographing them
208.
by beckingz 4y ago
Sure you can rename things easily, but NAMING something CORRECTLY is hard, in an ontological sense where you may not know what the thing's name is until you truly know what it is.
209.
by beckingz 4y ago
Sneakernet! “Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.“ -Andrew Tannenbaum
210.
by beckingz 4y ago
Remember that global productivity usually does not scale with headcount! Each employee adds some overhead, which requires more employees... which requires more employees.

More ›