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by bgribble 3y ago
That would be old news! My first job as a programmer, in the early 1990s, was working on a tool that was used in one of the last US underground nuclear tests. It was a finite-element electromagnetic effects simulator, designed to help get o
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by bgribble 4y ago
It's just a different kind of fun. I have an audiophile friend (I generally change the subject when it comes up) and there's this huge tell: he says he is "listening to his system", not "listening to music". I
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by bgribble 4y ago
I'm conflicted about this. Definitely am a fan of "leave it better than you found it", refactor as you go, etc. But when it comes to bug fixes, the "absolute minimum" is often the best approach -- it can be explaine
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by bgribble 4y ago
At least in the US, skyrocketing college costs aren't really due to excess demand. They are a side effect of the torrent of student loan money that the schools have captured over the last 20-30 years. The lenders and the schools worked
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by bgribble 4y ago
For me, personally, my goal is not just to maximize lifetime income. It's much more important to me to have a workplace with good collaborators and meaningful work where I feel like I am contributing something unique and valuable. I ha
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by bgribble 4y ago
That’s true for some people but not everybody. I like little companies and am willing to take less salary for the enjoyment of building the product from the beginning, knowing every single person you work with, and playing different roles
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by bgribble 4y ago
> “I got this wrong and I take responsibility for that,” This has always bugged me. Yes I get it you don’t want to put it in some passive-voiced “mistakes were made” kind of thing. But what does it mean to “take responsibility” if there
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by bgribble 4y ago
Seraghina is great, the sourdough crust is sooo good. I like Speedy Romeo a lot too but I think it’s on the wrong side of Classon to officially be Bed-Stuy.
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by bgribble 4y ago
I was the big customer, I was just powerless as a cog in the machine to make my employer pay on time. As the scrappy vendor, landing those big accounts is so important that you will take the risk even if it kills your business :(
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by bgribble 4y ago
This was a painful learning for me when I worked for a megacorp: the bigger the customer, the less likely to pay on time. For me as an engineering manager at the “big customer” it was a constant embarrassment. We worked with small scrappy v
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by bgribble 4y ago
I try hard to avoid red meat for reasons but I do like a burger. I tried the Beyond when it was new and I was really impressed. I thought it tasted great and held together as a patty in a way that a lot of "traditional" bean and v
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by bgribble 4y ago
On urban US supermarket shelves virtually every bottle of olive oil advertises itself as "virgin" or the "even better" varieties ("extra virgin", "first cold pressed" etc). I have read that many of th
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by bgribble 4y ago
You're right, for a basic single user license that's a reasonable price. The thing that is making my team consider alternatives is this: https://www.docker.com/pricing/october-2022-pricing-change-f... We were
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by bgribble 4y ago
My team is being hit with really extreme pricing changes for Docker Desktop. I have never been clear on why we even wanted DD (I guess right now it’s the easiest path to getting x86 containers running on M1 Macs?). Alternatives like Podman
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by bgribble 4y ago
As a very nearsighted programmer suffering from increasing age-related farsightedness, I often fantasize about a VR headset that would allow me to comfortably focus (say 6 feet away while wearing contacts) on a huge virtual tmux session for
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by bgribble 4y ago
There was a period of time (00's) when it was hard to get out of an episode of medical treatment for any kind of injury or pain complaint without a script for Vicodin in your hand. You had to actively refuse them at every turn. This wa
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by bgribble 4y ago
"You screwed up" is a tricky one. Yes, individuals do screw up. But that's actually not very interesting; a true individual screwup (with no one else contributing) has a very small blast radius. The bigger the screwup, the m
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by bgribble 4y ago
There's a lot of focus on the corpspeak vocabulary, which is definitely ridiculous... My current employer incessantly refers to the recent layoff as "ETP" for, I guess, Employee Termination Program, and the laid off workers a
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by bgribble 4y ago
Same story. At about 40 I shaved my epic beard, took graduation dates off my resume and limited it to about the last 10 years of work. Fresh shave and haircut for any f2f interview. So far so good. Now I'm 51 and lucky enough to be abl
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by bgribble 4y ago
I've read the Tiffany Aching books aloud to both my daughter and my son and they both loved them. Partly (mostly?) for the spectacle of me trying to read a Nac Mac Feegle accent :) FWIW I only recently learned that "crivens"
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by bgribble 4y ago
Not bug-free, but I have used the Jabra Elite earbuds for a while now (75t and 85t) and they manage multiple-device connections pretty well. Up to 3 (I think) devices can be connected to the buds at the same time.
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by bgribble 4y ago
I've been a full-time developer since about 1993. I switched to 100% standing at work in 2014 sort of on a whim. Before that, I had a significant episode of back pain (enough to leave me unable to function normally) about once a year.
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by bgribble 4y ago
As a schoolkid in 1970's Lubbock, TX we got to visit Reese AFB where they did jet training on the T37 and T38. The simulator room had a set of enormous landscape dioramas, my recollection is that they were something like 20 feet by 20
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by bgribble 4y ago
> Remember, I purposely withheld detail and evidence in my filing, and yet I was offered a quick settlement. I would love to see the math that goes into this strategy. I've never done arbitration, but I did pursue legal action again
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by bgribble 5y ago
It’s definitely not as featureful as Evernote, but Simplenote is working well for me for my day to day note taking.
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by bgribble 5y ago
To me, the point of "blameless" PM is not to hide the identity of the person who was closest to the failure point. You can't understand what happened unless you know who did what, when. "Blameless" to me means you a
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by bgribble 5y ago
That was the only thing about the video that disturbed me. Duct taping the dude to the seat was fine, but putting duct tape over his mouth is super dangerous. He could easily have barfed and been in real trouble.
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by bgribble 5y ago
I read the article as a critique of “root cause of failure”, making the point that failures are always failures of systems, not individual elements. I agree with this basic premise… if a single fat-fingered SQL command can bring down a serv
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by bgribble 5y ago
Getting you to come in for service is just an excuse to get you to come in to look at cars. Service is usually a break-even business for dealerships, but it’s a good source of sales leads.
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by bgribble 6y ago
Very similar ideas are foundational to the practice of meditation/mindfulness and teachings of Buddhism generally. Popular teachers such as Jack Kornfield, Thich Nhat Hanh, Sharon Salzburg, Pema Chodron (among many others) have great b

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