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by bojo 3y ago
I think the point is that California, a sizable and notable state, implemented a law that affects everyone regardless of federal law.
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by bojo 3y ago
Yeesh, sounds like you dodged a huge bullet. What an insanely narrow minded individual. I want to see good engineering practices, I might be curious about your language decision, but I'd never tear you apart for your choice.
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by bojo 3y ago
I wholeheartedly agree with where you were aiming your goals. Other thoughts I've had: - What if access is time critical but your backup people are distributed across timezones? Or they aren't available for some reason? Could be h
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by bojo 3y ago
I had the same idea about a decade ago but never bothered to try to implement it. I felt like it would have suffered from the same problem all other technologies have in security: overly complex user interactions. The concept makes sense, b
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by bojo 3y ago
One must be physically present and eligible to work in the US.
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by bojo 3y ago
Remote is fine. I think that's a consequence of how HR posts it.
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by bojo 3y ago
It means we require people to physically be located in the US, but no citizenship requirement.
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by bojo 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments We use this process to make some of the harder more nebulous decisions that require a bit of research and investigation from the entire team. While it does suffer a li
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by bojo 3y ago
- Tool chain issues. Similar to the blog Nzen posted in a comment here, upgrading compilers could be a pain if breaking changes were introduced - Poor ecosystem fit for an enterprise environment. We weren't willing to write libraries f
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by bojo 3y ago
The short version: The team had no problems with the language when I introduced it back in the day, but after writing over 300k+ SLOC of production code over 6 years we bumped hard into a lot of the typical ecosystem problems that tend to c
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by bojo 3y ago
Matanuska Telecom Association | Software Engineer - Systems Engineer | Full-Time | Alaska (UTC-9): REMOTE MTA is an Alaskan ISP serving the southwest area of the state. The software team consists of 7 devs who support a relatively complex b
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by bojo 3y ago
> The idea behind devops was to be a single team. I assume you are pointing out that split-teams is the insane part, in which case I agree. The philosophy was supposed to define the blurred line between developers and operations, using t
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Ask HN: Dear GitHub the browser memory sucks
8 points by bojo 3y ago|6 comments
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by bojo 3y ago
It's ironic that I am cheering for a small open source team to get more funding in light of a $14.7B for profit company introducing what appears to be developer price gouging?
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by bojo 3y ago
Blueprints are fun to work with, but the amount of time it takes to drag and drop nodes around to make the equivalent of a for loop feels incredibly unproductive. The result does look visually pleasing though!
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by bojo 3y ago
Great news! Given the Unity price changes that dropped[1] I hope we see Godot get more funding. [1] https://blog.unity.com/news/plan-pricing-and-packaging-updat...
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by bojo 3y ago
I think they are referring to channels, which came with the tagline "share memory by communicating."
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by bojo 3y ago
> have kids, develop increasingly esoteric personal hobbies, get into fitness/longevity This is the route I've taken and my mental health is much better for it. I still wonder what I'm missing out on had I stayed on the tr
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by bojo 3y ago
Authorization to work in the U.S. is required, but not citizenship. We can only offer remote to people located in the U.S.
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by bojo 3y ago
This company is an ISP, was a telephone company once upon a time, and has a lot of underlying business systems that it takes to run it. My team writes the vendor integrations and custom software you can't buy off a shelf unique to this
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by bojo 3y ago
Matanuska Telecom Association | Software Engineer - Systems Engineer | Full-Time | Alaska (UTC-9): REMOTE MTA is an Alaskan ISP serving the southwest area of the state. The software team consists of 7 devs who support a relatively complex b
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by bojo 3y ago
> They are kept on because having a lot of people underneath you in the org chart is a status symbol. Can confirm. Worked for two Japanese mobile game companies that drove themselves out of business as they strove for headcount over prod
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by bojo 3y ago
I was trying to make a point about post-scarcity, but sure, let's continue to focus on capitalism I guess.
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by bojo 3y ago
> On one hand, a single country can't just flood the market with a valuable material. Why not? Seems like the start of the path to post-scarcity civilization. Once nothing has value and everyone has everything I'd say that&#x27
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by bojo 3y ago
Sorry for the late reply: absolutely.
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by bojo 3y ago
> embellish your resume and work history. If you’ve read a tutorial on a technology, you list it. I'm going through a huge pile of resumes for a role I have open this week and these are getting thrown out immediately. I have no inte
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by bojo 3y ago
Matanuska Telecom Association | DevOps Engineer | Full-Time | Alaska (UTC-9): REMOTE MTA is a rural Alaskan coop ISP. The software team consists of 8 devs who support a relatively complex business enterprise environment. This role pertains
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by bojo 3y ago
So, are we saying it's unethical for Google and other search engines who make money off of ad revenue to scrape sites like Twitter? Or are they paying a large sum to Twitter to do this?
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by bojo 3y ago
No disagreements there. What's a better answer though? No one wants to do it, most non-tech people don't understand it, yet the standards and procedures need to improve to reduce the attack surface area - especially for businesses
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by bojo 3y ago
Having helped implement NIST 800-171 for a small enterprise company preparing to work prime government contracts I can assure you it costs money either way. Time and money spent working with cybersecurity professionals writing SOG/SOPs

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