coward123

7 ms·

1.
by coward123 4y ago
Their people pop up in every hiring thread on HN, it isn't just warent and it isn't the first time.
2.
by coward123 4y ago
My experience was the same as tedvim above - it was utterly dehumanizing and there's no way I want that either for myself or for the people I hire. The interviewers were smug little shits who didn't take feedback to ask questions
3.
by coward123 4y ago
Karat embodies everything wrong with the tech industry, and Triplebyte wasn't much better. I've interviewed - and hired - hundreds of people in my career. This robotic approach with a focus on either standardized test type materia
4.
by coward123 4y ago
Lemme share still another perspective that hasn't gotten any media time... my accountant at the time recommended we apply for EIDL instead of PPP, for various reasons. So here we sit now several years later with PPP as free money, havi
5.
by coward123 4y ago
I'm a white dude, and had an incident a number of years ago in which a group of Indian contractors basically didn't want to work with me because I was a white dude. Used a number of slang racist terms in my direction. I didn'
6.
by coward123 4y ago
Hobby beekeeper here... I kinda disagree with her final summary... I get her point, but there are benefits to encouraging more people to keep them: -- Additional pollinators. -- Awareness. I've witnessed for myself in my own backyard t
7.
by coward123 4y ago
There are many that would say Heller was an activist court making up law and completely overlooked precedent in Miller , in the same way the current court is overturning decades of precedent in another issue.
8.
by coward123 4y ago
um... why do you think these conservative judges were named to the court? They know exactly what they are doing and have every intention of ending contraception, sending women's rights back to the dark ages, and screwing over anyone no
9.
by coward123 4y ago
Consider this a bit of code switching. Many of us absolutely are concerned about what this means for women, but we also know that this forum skews male and a particular kind of male. So we are making the argument here that resonates with
10.
by coward123 4y ago
Oh for Pete's sake go back to your mom's basement you troll. Have you looked through your comments on this thread and others? You aren't adding to the dialog here, you are just being a jerk. No, I don't find the opinions
11.
by coward123 4y ago
Am I the only person who has never even heard of half these products, let alone used them? If Apple can do something better than they can or their products weren't compelling enough for Apple (or similar) to buy them up, well... that
12.
by coward123 4y ago
My point is log analysis is noise to the signal. A poor way to discern what went wrong or to proactively monitor to avoid an incident in the first place. There are loads of tools out there, some of which have been mentioned in this thread,
13.
by coward123 4y ago
FWIW: In my career doing this kind of work, I found logs to be archeologically interesting, but seldom of value. Products that claimed to do things with logs gave me skepticism, because they were often like trying to do brain surgery throug
14.
by coward123 4y ago
I give you credit for working in this space and trying to create a more automated approach... I spent many years in the app performance world both as a consultant and working on products, so again - good on you. For what it's worth, my
15.
by coward123 4y ago
The WSJ deserves its own special place in hell. Once upon a time 20ish+ years ago, it was solid business and economic news. Then they decided to do a redesign to be more general news, and then Murdoch came along and turned them into the com
16.
by coward123 4y ago
The editorial / opinion pages of both NYT and WaPo ruined them for me. Thinking people want to read provocative, thoughtful perspectives that may challenge them, but the people and the positions in those pages are by and large, utter t
17.
by coward123 4y ago
My son, also 13, just went through a program at school where they built a basic website from scratch, then did some python, then some java. They had some kind of teaching environment, a bit like a code.org or Swift Playground. When I would
18.
by coward123 4y ago
In this thread there are a lot of people overlooking that even someone who is financially disciplined can lose it all very quickly. Their own health or the health of someone close to them can drain those dollars quickly. A marriage goes sid
19.
by coward123 4y ago
>I think blockchain is an interesting technology that does have some unique qualities. The way I phrase it is, blockchain offers an interesting/useful requirements document, with a poor implementation.
20.
by coward123 4y ago
I've been out of software for about two years...is this test really now a thing or is this a submarine article to promote its use?
21.
by coward123 4y ago
Thank you for this - you put into words very well all of the problems I had with that book. In fact, I found myself very frustrated with the authors, wondering if they had any familiarity with all the rest of the decades of work that had be
22.
by coward123 4y ago
From 2008-2018, I went all over the world handling incidents and attempting to teach companies how to do the kinds of things the author is talking about. It was multi-diciplinary and very demanding, both in terms of technical and organizati
23.
by coward123 4y ago
That's a really interesting observation you make, and one where I'll have to think on it for a bit. One of my thought exercises on this is to think about Glen Gould vs. Simone Dinnerstein's interpretation of Bach's Goldb
24.
by coward123 4y ago
I think most people in this area have a pretty general idea where it is... While I am at best an amateur mycologist, where drdec below has me angry at his/her sarcasm is that as a human being, no, it isn't at all obvious why the w
25.
by coward123 4y ago
May I ask - did you have a previous background in music? When I think of my own experiences and those of not only my kids but other musicians I've observed, two years is really just a starting point (IE: you should not have expected to
26.
by coward123 4y ago
Can you expand on this? Would love more information about what makes it "difficult" relative to another instrument. (Orchestra supporter and string player dad over here, so genuinely curious)
27.
by coward123 4y ago
I wish I knew precisely where in the Blue Mountains the supposedly largest fungi resides... I live near that area, hunt for mushrooms there, and it has never been my observation that there is anything unique about the terrain or condition
28.
by coward123 4y ago
Hello Matt - I deliberately didn't name any tools, as the ones I worked with are no long in the tooth and were $$$. What I wanted to do was bring to the OP some concepts that they might search for in order to identify the right tool fo
29.
by coward123 4y ago
I spent a number of years as a traveling consultant fixing problems... I guess it was aligned with what the cool kids call Site Reliability Engineering these days. Some company would have a crisis and I'd go in and fix it. So basically
30.
by coward123 4y ago
In the 2001+ timeframe, I saw two paths work for people: 1) Go someplace that looks boring but solid like health care. Pay might not be as good, projects might not seem as outwardly sexy, but it will be a solid paycheck. 2) Go someplace lik

More ›