bowlofpetunias

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by bowlofpetunias 8y ago
You're in a toxic work environment, and you need to get the fuck out of there. In itself it has nothing to do with management, except you're now exposed to it, shielding your people from it. Take it from someone who's been th
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by bowlofpetunias 8y ago
Musk has been acting like a wealthy douchebag on Twitter with Trump-style meltdowns about fake news, especially concerning the (excellent, quality journalism) reports about unsafe practices and union busting at his factories. Basically, he&
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by bowlofpetunias 8y ago
This is what pisses me off the most about all the hysteria and whining: " The law has been in effect for over two years at this point, and the DPD, the European Data Protection Directive has been in effect for over two decades. So no,
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by bowlofpetunias 9y ago
It's not the law that's the difference here. The clue is under the headline: > The GDPR’s premise, that consumers should be in charge of their own personal data, is the right one That's not just the GDPR's premise, th
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by bowlofpetunias 9y ago
As long as Facebook still aggressively and effectively policies its platforms for violations of its reactionary puritanical agenda, nothing they say about the difficulties of policing hate speech and other hateful propaganda is in any way c
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by bowlofpetunias 9y ago
This shouldn't be in the hands of a regulatory agency. Serious privacy violations should be legislated and treated as outright crimes, not just regulation infringements. Violating basic civil rights should not just result in the off ch
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by bowlofpetunias 9y ago
This is the ultimate act of Silicon Valley arrogance, at it will backfire hard. Not just on Facebook, and not just in the UK. This crosses a line all democratic nations in which SV companies have significant interests and even more signific
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by bowlofpetunias 9y ago
> Funny thing is, this would all blow over after a few months, and everyone will go back to the usual habbits. It can't blow over in the UK or the EU, because it is seriously f-ing illegal in those places. Yes, we "knew" i
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by bowlofpetunias 9y ago
Being allowed to do business in any country is "a big favor". Guess which "favor" has the biggest impact...
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by bowlofpetunias 9y ago
Because "globalism" is a misnomer, it's shorthand for "economic globalism". Economic globalism is the exploitation of the masses by opening the borders for trade and desirable workers, whilst keeping them closed for
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by bowlofpetunias 9y ago
> what language a country speaks It starts with assuming country equals language. And even when they figure that out, they still use GeoIP. Try using various online services in the Brussels region for a laugh. It's ridiculous that i
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by bowlofpetunias 9y ago
The primary reason for not providing services in "rest of the world" is apparently "fuck you". The same applies to not respecting your language of choice. But the absolute worst is American companies (it's always Am
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by bowlofpetunias 9y ago
I see this video and have absolutely zero temptation to turn on the sound.
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by bowlofpetunias 9y ago
In my experience (30+ years in all kinds and sizes of companies), the quality of management is the absolute worst in startups. The secret sauce of startups is that in the very early phase there is no management. But once management becomes
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by bowlofpetunias 9y ago
Nope, it's very easy to characterize him as misinformed and unscientific, since he published the evidence in writing. Plenty of bigots have degrees. There are nazis and muslim fundamentalists with degrees. Extremist ideology tends to o
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by bowlofpetunias 9y ago
Saying "the workplace is no place for politics" is basically saying the workplace is no place to be human. All workplaces are political. The politics of founder/owners/executives are in every fiber of he workplace. Denyi
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
As much as we like to ignore it in our ivory tech towers, lack of affordable food is a problem in most developed countries. Also, the production and distribution of food produces a lot a waste that is considerably more problematic than or
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
The requirements are still there, they're just not in writing anymore. Receptionists are rarely unattractive people, are they?
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
Great idea, will certainly give it a try. Not a big fan of pricing plans that mix volume with features, always makes me feel I'm being screwed when I only need one or the other. (Even though I might be perfectly fine with paying the sa
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
Unlike what some suggest here: do NOT use public sources as reference points for salary negotiations. Virtual all of them come up with average salaries that are way, way lower than what most good developers could earn. I strongly suspect th
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
Nope. It's extremely douchey, but totally honest and not unfairly discriminatory in any way. It reflects an immature and pathetic obsession with "cultural fit" by people that mentally haven't outgrown the high school pla
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
Since when is admitting it only after you got caught being "upfront"?
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
Just did something similar with Ansible, the simple task "apt update_cache=yes pkg=bash state=latest" will do the trick. At least it did for me.
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
My most recent encounters with idiotic email validation is that many apps don't accept anything on a recent TLD. Even f-ing AWS SNS web console didn't let me add a perfectly valid address in a notification topic.
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
Ironically, after many years this is still being rejected as incorrect by the Google Apps admin dashboard for Groups...
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
Only two ways are needed: 1. Create a constant state of uncertainty. Make promises you don't keep, and never explain why. Announce stuff that never materializes. 2. Don't give people any chance to successfully complete anything th
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
ExpanDrive is nice (and a quite appropriate plug), but it doesn't quite hit the sweet spot. The issue is that products like ExpanDrive make all online storage drives to which you have to copy first, and upstream is still relatively slo
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
That's also quite low. (When I did contractor work (PHP) in the Netherlands almost a decade ago I already charged 500 euro/day, and up to 80 euro/hour for certain gigs.) And none of that really amounts to much if you subtract
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
35-50k€ is low, even for Western European standards. You cannot compare it to US salaries given the enormous differences in social structure when it comes to healthcare etcetera. But still: tech salaries in Europe are low, and are being sys
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by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
People seem to have completely forgotten how completely nonsensical (and often completely clueless about tech, the internet and business) tech start-ups were in 1999 compared to now. The valuations and burn rate may be too high and up for a

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