bpchaps

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by bpchaps 10y ago
I actually really like salt, just not its documentation. Like you said - it was a breath of fresh air. :) Last time I used it a few months ago, it was while helping out another admin. He had a lot of confusion on how to do certain things, a
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by bpchaps 10y ago
They're different problems, but the the feelgood intent with large, unintended consequences is what I'm referring to, rather than the contexts themselves. I totally think that we should be using what we've learned from employ
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Building a school in a far off country without any prior experience in doing so can be good in the short term, but disastrous in the long run. These sorts of initiatives feel good and do what they're supposed to do, but just because it
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by bpchaps 10y ago
That's not what I'm saying at all . Change that to: "Why can't someone with bipolar/schizophrenia be more like someone without?" and you'll find that the two things should be treated similarly, but they
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by bpchaps 10y ago
That's good, yes. The containerization of self is the damage I'm talking about, though. One step forward and two steps back.
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by bpchaps 10y ago
"Design flaw" might not be right description. Maybe, "Naive implementations with nearly useless documentation" is better. When I first started using puppet, I would go home absolutely exhausted every night. Their desig
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by bpchaps 10y ago
That wasn't how I meant it to come off, and apologies if it came out that way. I'm not suggesting that we don't acknowledge the problem. I'm more suggesting that the problem is completely elsewhere, so locally addressing
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by bpchaps 10y ago
It's gotten so bad with these sorts of tools with their incredibly annoying design flaws that I've been debating creating my own using rpm and ssh on top of bash with some python. I get why it's important to have a lot of the
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by bpchaps 10y ago
"..except when I blog" My favorite and most technical women coworkers in the past never, ever mention gender and actively avoid discussions about it. Professionally, it's irrelevant and their quality of work and attitude comp
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Could you? Tons and tons of companies are forced into using outdated versions (for tons of reasons) where point release updates are still possible. I'm sure it's a lot of work, but a lot of your core and original users would appre
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by bpchaps 10y ago
There's definitely a middle ground, though, and regulating FOIA to prevent abuse would do well in avoiding situations like /r/floridaman. It's not what the spirit of FOIA is for, so penalties (eg, requests are handled sl
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Thanks :). What's absurd is that they released (redacted) numbers for phones outside of government, but claimed that even redacted government phones were exempt from release. Because of privacy reasons, and because they'd be inter
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by bpchaps 10y ago
This kindle can't load socrata right, but that timeframe makes sense. After the initial request for the mayor's records directly, I did another to the FOIA officer to see if it was just the mayor without records. I actually got th
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Thanks! These are just outbound calls. I get the data from their billing system through their IT department, and I don't think they get charged for incoming. I submitted two requests earlier to get that info and hopefully more. "U
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by bpchaps 10y ago
And yet, through all of this, it's still easier and takes less time for them to violate our privacy rights than it is for private citizens gather similar data about elected officials and information regarded as "public". I&#x
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Neat. A few months ago (before I had to watch money extra carefully), I was looking to make something similar to the Core by removing the strap of the pebble and dremmeling a hole into the mount and making it into a keychain. It seemed like
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Bug report - the email registration doesn't like nonstandard fqdns like .io. :)
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Two years ago.
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by bpchaps 10y ago
A lot of the large java projects I've worked with (at a large bank, on the branching/release team) would sometimes go on for ten minutes. That's ages as far as concentration is concerned.
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Would available living spaces in downtown areas reduce congestion in some way? I could see it going both ways.
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by bpchaps 10y ago
My guess is that the lure of cash is so deep that it clouds original goals. I get a waft of it every now and then and it takes every ounce not to fall into that lure since getting out of that mentality is really, really hard.
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by bpchaps 10y ago
I've been working on something like this for over a year now for Chicago. Most of that time's been spent just simply doing data cleanups. My most recent update from Monday: https://plot.ly/~red-bin/6.embed P
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Yeah, both definitely happen. A majority of it feels like it's the former, though. Usually it's the same crowd that has huge knowledge gaps and gets offended at being corrected. (Btw, do you have any links to your books?)
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by bpchaps 10y ago
I apply at a lot of places and have a lot of interviews since I prefer to do contract work nowadays. For a while, a lot of that included practice interviews for places I wasn't really interested in, but wanted to get a better feel for
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by bpchaps 10y ago
In interviews, the second most common question I get asked is, "Why don't you have a degree?" followed by "Are you planning on going back?". More than often, the questions have a strong No True Scotsman feeling to t
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by bpchaps 10y ago
edit: sorry for the rant! Yep, I've been there a few times. Meant to go there today, actually. Cool crowd, but I have some general criticisms of the way they do things. I'm almost to the point of thinking that their work is an ove
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by bpchaps 10y ago
What worked for me was finding a civic problem that was annoying just enough to want to fix, no matter how large it is. You learn a lot from it, but it also gives you a chance to get more involved in civics, particularly from the projects t
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Right. I'm just sharing my experience at this point, though. Can't get caught if I'm not doing anything to get caught. And again, I went through the proper, ethical channels to get this raised.
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by bpchaps 10y ago
I'm well aware of what the risks are. It was something from github, so it's not like I was doing anything crazy, anyway. During my disclosure, I told them the kinds of port scans I did, and the types of individuals I shared the in
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by bpchaps 10y ago
The thought crossed my mind. ;) But being able to say "$GOODTHING happened because of me" felt so much better. It just means in the end that 50% of my meals are lentil based :P.

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