bpchaps

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by bpchaps 11y ago
Sorry - didn't meant to come off as aggressive or combative.. There's just a surprising amount of hostility from those who like Rahm or think Rahm is a built-in in Chicago. "Why don't you just move?" and calling me
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by bpchaps 11y ago
At the past two office I've worked at, sliding a belt through the glass door to activate the motion sensor works pretty well for when you leave your badge at your desk. ;)
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Not sharing information gets in the way of progress and established laws. Politics really shouldn't have anything to do with it, honestly. But since it does, collectively as a group, we should be doing more besides just voting and wal
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Yep. (This post got a lot longer than I was hoping. Hope you find it interesting!) That ticket data is actually managed by IBM, so that even adds an annoying translation dynamic. This current suit is because the city thinks it's '
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by bpchaps 11y ago
A few things - 1. Definitely a lot of laziness from the FOIA officers. Some are really great, but others not so much. 2. There's no standardization in how it's handled within the city. Departments in the same buildings have very d
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by bpchaps 11y ago
For Illinois, two big things - 1. They can't reject the FOIA with "unduly burdensome" anymore, which is an incredibly common and frustrating response. 2. They can be sued for not complying, which then becomes a slow drawn out
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Heh. I submitted a FOIA request two weeks ago for code for a $100M system used for storing parking ticket data. They have 5 days to ask for an extension, but they haven't even responded with that. Guess I'm going to lawyer up agai
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by bpchaps 11y ago
It's expensive. I think when my last company bought it, it was 15k per license or something astronomical like that. They bought 20 or so licenses and never actually used them in prod - mostly because of the effort in building up a sane
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Man, it's really weird to see this after just installing Debian after using arch for about a year. And sure enough, that message popped up, I tried to update it and the repos were outdated. Brother.. My worst experience with their re
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Yep, and to add - interviews are almost never as reciprocal as they should be. I've been to 20 interviews or so in the past two months and the common pattern with the worst companies is a near complete lack of reciprocal respect and al
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by bpchaps 11y ago
You sound unnecessarily angry and your interview style seems far more formal than it needs to be. Think their issue might be with you? ;)
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Google -scheduled an interview -forgot it -scheduled another -forgot that one, too -after a few annoyed emails, they scheduled another. -they remembered the next one, but the guy seemed stupidly disinterested. -never heard back. What the fu
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Hah, yep! I'm now doing freelance remote Linux work for HFTs because of that fact. :) Another guy I know wrote a hugely profitable HFT equity system without a degree at 20 years old.
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by bpchaps 11y ago
It's much worse if you don't have ANY sort of degree, despite having skills. I once applied for an internal job at a major options exchange to go from NOC to app support and managed to get an interview with HR. When I got up ther
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Ultimately it doesn't. They're effectively useless. What does help is getting a small group together to simply solve a small problem over time. Complete one project that should have a small improvement within a city, then do anot
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Last time I inherited a project that used prefixes like this extensively, it was the most frustrating and productivity draining coding time of my life. Sure, it could work, I guess. If there was actually any consistency to it. So many hour
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by bpchaps 11y ago
What I'm suggesting is that there are many, many ways to untie gordian knots. Building bigger * is already happening - it's probably why your expectations are so low! Solving enormous social problems using complexity is a meme t
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by bpchaps 11y ago
And yours are too low! :) The end result isn't necessarily software - why does it have to be? For example, data collection/structuring is something that a lot of programmers are very interested in and can be used for others'
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Yes, I think that's exactly the reason. Which is also why I'm a critic of SV. There definitely are great things that come out of the ability to quickly identify and create helpful apps/sites, but these days I'm wonderi
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by bpchaps 11y ago
I love this. Nothing really groundbreaking here, but it's still true from my experience. A few weeks ago, I went to a hackathon for domestic violence. It was.. interesting. Lots of cool designs and products came out of it, but none of
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by bpchaps 11y ago
+1 I used something like this before a presentation in front of a crowd recently. It almost felt like I wasn't giving enough room for any of the anxious thoughts that would've forced me into anxious mode. Any time I thought any an
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Tell that to my boss. I personally don't give a shit.
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by bpchaps 11y ago
NSFW warning.. there's a catheter/penis combo.
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Ah, 100% fair enough! Didn't really mean to come off as critical if it came across that way. The problems are so systemic that it's worth mentioning, I suppose. Do you work in finance? These problems you're describing are all
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Eh, yes and no. You're too focused on the idea that those generalist are a bunch of skill-less dipshits. As one of those generalist skill-less dipshits, my calloused perspective is that DBAs are the absolute most obstinate, narrow mind
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Yeah, no. This is 90% of the reason why I stopped using Debian based distros. There's a complete lack of consistency with how they do their package management to the point that I eventually started to build most things from source. T
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Indeed. My own examples: 1. Accidentally restarted a bank's FX platform when troubleshooting a failed cron. I copy/pasted/returned, "vi source ~/.bashrc ; ~/scripts/restart_env.ksh". Nobody noticed, b
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Genuinely appreciated. I feel you, man. When I spoke to HR, it was a very serious conversation. Essentially, the conversation was essentially me asking for help in avoiding distractions. There were tons at that place, so my request was jus
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Agreed about not worrying about being bipolar. It is what it is, and the only thing you can do is plan around it and develop heuristics that make the most sense, considering. That said, the problem isn't with the overall thinking patte
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Incredibly unfortunate. I have to constantly keep myself in check to make sure that I don't reveal too much about my mental health. The biggest example I can think of is one from recent times where I left a company for what amounted t

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