bpchaps

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by bpchaps 11y ago
I recently got rid of my cell phone. There are a lot of benefits and just about as many negatives. Overall, I think the benefits outweigh the negatives. For context, I've been on-call for the past 7 years since the start of my career,
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by bpchaps 11y ago
This is really, really awesome. I have a long train ride coming up, so I just put together a quick wget script to get all the pages for when I have zero internet. :)
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by bpchaps 11y ago
What about it? I just went there and saw mostly fluff pieces.
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by bpchaps 11y ago
I actually deleted a rant that completely says what you just said. I 100% agree. It's mind boggling how much intuition is available to explain maths. It oddly just... makes visual sense. It's "simply" an explanation of
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by bpchaps 11y ago
These have been a great help in my self-learning already. They definitely fill a huge void in intuition building that rote-style-learning generally ignores. Thanks! :)
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Got me on the ruby part. Meant to say JVM. My point was more to the fact that their site's incredibly short on examples. FWIW, I inherited a thrice-removed infrastructure in a latency-sensitive environment. It was fun ;) Logstash was
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Agreed. I stopped using Logstash for about a year and used it for a bit about a month ago. Awful experience. Awful documentation. Deprecated shit everywhere. Inconsistent stackoverflow information and TWO external websites too help make l
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Yes, but when that "strong weakness" impacts others' thoughts of your validity, it becomes a problem. As in, "You don't seem comfortable in what you're saying, so you're probably wrong." It's de
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by bpchaps 11y ago
I actually practice out loud, sometimes in front of a mirror just to practice my mannerisms. It doesn't tend to work very well. At the time of speaking, you just go completely blank. Preparation doesn't help when the only thing yo
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by bpchaps 11y ago
This happened to me recently at a contract job I had about 6 months ago during a phone call to introduce myself to the team. In the middle of my sentence, I just lost every ounce of thought and suddenly became hyper aware of my exact scenar
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Because /etc/nsswitch.conf exists to do exactly what's needed here. Now there's an extra layer of need-to-know that adds confusion. I can almost guarantee that there's going to be a major outage somewhere, somepla
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Love the idea! Don't see any upcoming dates, though :(. Do you guys do anything in Chicago?
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Probably something along the lines of, "If you call them fools, you probably deserve the alienation." Edit: Read that wrong, but I'll change my answer: I feel that a large amount of the issues in science and "exclusive k
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by bpchaps 11y ago
To me, 'nuance' is just a word to describe "the sub-surface stuff that has no immediate and apparent effect within a local system." So, when I say "ignoring the nuance ignores the larger problem", I'm sugg
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Because these areas are part of the nuance that allows SF-like mentalities to exist. Ignoring that nuance ignores the larger problem on how these bubbles can happen.
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by bpchaps 11y ago
"We can solve all of the world's problems!" - Bay Area "What about us?" - The world rant. Maybe I'm a bit naively bitter on the subject, particularly after spending some time at Chicago's opengov hack nigh
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by bpchaps 11y ago
We like to call out politicians and such for who sponsors them. What's wrong with calling out our information sources in the same way? (serious question)
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Rose tinted glasses much? Have you ever been to a poor area in your life? Even mentioning Uber, organics, bad engineers and mediocre engineers ignores places like the south side of Chicago and any gradient between. It's not as pretty o
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Yeah, okay. Until you hear stories like this..... https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131012/02124724852/decad...
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Been looking through it for a bit - found pretty much no mention in here except for a few vague legalese. Found this gem, though: Would you send me the AVL info. Our Chief has indicated to us, not only can he track our locations from his h
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by bpchaps 11y ago
I don't understand comments like these.. He's pointing out a legitimate attitude problem which I, and many others, also agree with. There's absolutely no need for the flippant attitude. If the users of your framework are cons
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by bpchaps 11y ago
If you consider command line as an interface, the number of people who just don't "get it" is huge. POSIX compliance and similar exist for a reason, and yet we have garbage utilities where help, --help, -help, ?, -?, "&
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by bpchaps 11y ago
I love this sort of non-intuitive research. My neighborhood built a fancy public-funded park last year. It's amazing and all, but it cost an absolute fortune to build, especially when considering the park two blocks down! It's c
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by bpchaps 11y ago
BJ&JG was a bit different, though. ;) It's hard to say that two guys who were new to management at the time are entirely representative of the entire small company market. Inexperienced small company market, sure, but not the mark
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by bpchaps 11y ago
As an innocent bystander and without commenting about the parent post, yeah. You need to lay off the ego.
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by bpchaps 11y ago
>The problems you describe are problems anyone would have with an unfamiliar system, and it's not Ruby's fault. Way to reduce what he's saying into the classic, "He can't be depressed! There's starving kids
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Honestly, I feel you're making a much larger abstraction than what exists in reality (or maybe what SHOULD exist). Not to say that the abstraction doesn't exist, just that you're a bit too far in the othering-realm for my ta
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Sure, except when your architect has some sort of contention, whether it's time, patience, or ego. Last time I had a decent idea to pitch, I pitched it to the architect twice - first time, it got completely thrown down. Second time, pr
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by bpchaps 11y ago
I don't know if "debt" or "procrastination" are really the correct words. It seems to be somewhat in the middle of the two, where the problem comes from "We'll take care of that in the future." where
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by bpchaps 11y ago
You'd be surprised. Most places I've been to initially say that they aren't, but as soon as anything goes mildly south, that mentality changes in a heartbeat. I'm generally "the young rockstar", so a lot of it

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