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by devonkim 6y ago
There's another bandwidth limitation at play - public wi-fi in airports, hotels, and even conference centers is atrocious by default. The best bet for improving video calling resolution in the US appears to be hardware h.265 encoders b
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by devonkim 7y ago
Not an OS but I have to note that it's not supported in some older versions of Jenkins and wasn't officially fixed until fairly recently https://issues.jenkins.io/browse/JENKINS-30319
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by devonkim 7y ago
Virginia, DC, Maryland have similar cost of living but VA, MD, and DC have drastically different governments, tax rates, rights, and laws despite people working in roughly the same 40 square miles. Even a federal employee graduating and wri
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by devonkim 7y ago
Eh, USDS and 18F jobs are kind of contract-based and do hit past six figures last I saw. However, they were defunded a lot since last I saw by POTUS45 so it's not clear what the state of comp is. DC area tech is a mish mash of rather e
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by devonkim 7y ago
Yep, USDS and 18F folks would have to agree with you here. The arcane crap that we have to deal with in payment and government information systems is beyond frustrating and makes it extremely tough. I read an article about having to fix a m
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by devonkim 7y ago
I realized how much of a scam standardized testing was when I used to do the PSATs and increased my score mostly by using a different strategy rather than getting smarter or anything. The SAT prep class my high school offered for like $40 w
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by devonkim 7y ago
At one point “simple” was not really a fair assessment of Java, especially if you had to do multithreaded / concurrent code back when we had broken primitives in the Java 3-5 days. It’s moving along a lot faster now thankfully but if i
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by devonkim 7y ago
Every other F100 was outsourcing IT like crazy in the mid-2000s because of that Harvard Business Review article that talked about outsourcing everything non-essential to your primary business. Meanwhile, Werner Vogels (Amazon CTO) thought t
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by devonkim 7y ago
Furthermore, people asked Jack Welch about the GE Capital spin-off and he said he agreed it was the right decision for the business. So I find it contradictory how Welch could feel bad while agreeing with major strategic decisions. Was it a
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by devonkim 7y ago
Wish there was a non-insane costing 12 bay Thunderbolt array but because the market mostly consists of video professionals the math in cost and noise works out better to build a more traditional server anyway. 8+ drives won't be quiet.
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by devonkim 7y ago
"Selling" is what I was getting at. When looking at the tail end of the funnel every other vendor is giving away drugs to hook kids when they're young. Tail distribution dealers can't afford to do this in contrast. Anoth
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by devonkim 7y ago
Sure, but there's a fun catch with this strategy. I'm familiar with some companies that refuse to work with vendors that use AWS for production hosting of their footprint because it would be funding their competitor. There's
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by devonkim 7y ago
This kind of attitude, while totally relatable IMO as we grow frustrated with massive piles of crapware, is also how we wind up with NIH problems as organizations scale beyond just a few people. There is a very consistent theme by their cre
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by devonkim 7y ago
And when you're among the top most respected and authoritative persons in the room, it is usually a sign that you should be moving on to a different room or company to get better experience / skills.
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by devonkim 7y ago
AWS hasn't been selling itself as a competitor to other clouds for like a decade compared to in-house IT because their market entrance _is_ technology lagging companies. The first demo use cases for, say, SQS back to 2008 were literall
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by devonkim 7y ago
For any start-up that is expecting to work with enterprise customers there is no choice and has been this way for at least 3 years now but to support AWS. This doesn't mean you must use AWS (with Azure close second and GCP irrelevant e
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by devonkim 7y ago
Upon reading this article, I came to the conclusion that there is nothing particularly special about these points except arguably the second to last point - don't these points apply for anyone in any corporate job? For the exception po
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by devonkim 7y ago
I’ve seen this shared responsibility model only work when feature development is traded off with reliability as a business level guidance on top of empowerment of developers to own their systems fully. Oftentimes by the time things get bad
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by devonkim 7y ago
I dunno, the reality is that we have mark to market accounting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark-to-market_accounting
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by devonkim 7y ago
Virginia just made it a state holiday, yay for progress. Too bad half the people that should vote will still be working on that day or don't even think about voting because they're too stressed to care.
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by devonkim 7y ago
Voter intimidation at a local or institutional level is absolutely massive but giving people the _choice_ of voting in various ways hopefully negates the bad. I'd love to understand the data and anecdotal stories on this as well if any
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by devonkim 7y ago
UW being University of Washington? I transferred into UW CSE from N Seattle Community College as did many others! We had maybe 3.7+ GPAs in community college and intro courses overall. Private like ivy leagues didn’t make sense for me then
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by devonkim 7y ago
Sharing the gains in some manner is the right goal, no question. The question is what approach will be most effective. Bernie’s corporate accountability plan is thus the perhaps more direct set of proposals instead of something like the FJG
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In a survey done by a social worker of n somewhere around 80 nearly all people on public assistance programs preferred the cash instead of public assistance. Arbitrarily set and legislated into oblivion means testing thresholds and the admi
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by devonkim 7y ago
VAT is usually much higher in the world. 10% ish would put the US in the lower quartile. So not worth dodging the VAT and then to transport over still
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by devonkim 7y ago
You could replace banking with any other large enterprise vertical like healthcare, telecom, government and be very correct. The problem is that IT is a cost center, and cost centers are as a rule terrible to work in regardless of industry,
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by devonkim 7y ago
In SRE and DevOps land we’ve mostly had arguments over continuous deployment vs continuous delivery and have mostly let feature engineers decide how they want to use the possible approaches and options available
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by devonkim 7y ago
I usually argue against conservative colleagues that are primarily business minded that climate change is demonstrable risks to our private sector economy and national security. Is there a private sector solution towards a global problem th
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by devonkim 7y ago
I’m getting this sinking feeling that it’s not the tech companies that are inflated as much as sectors like retail, manufacturing, and perhaps shipping because of the trade war going on.
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Not the only presidential candidate for it. Not sure if Bernie is for it but I think he’s mostly reasonable and would be for it https://www.yang2020.com/policies/reviveota/

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