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by devonkim 11y ago
I bought a place in 2007 after the start-up I was at exited. That was a very expensive lesson that you didn't have to learn at least. I can't think of an actually positive outcome to this lesson fundamentally that I couldn't
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by devonkim 11y ago
They are conditional with having employment in the first place as well as if the government entity they are under has approval for such forgiveness. My wife doesn't qualify under most programs and given the glut of newer grads or veter
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by devonkim 11y ago
I make nearly 3x the median income of my area but my expenses are far from being in a state of luxury living. Housing is one of the highest in the state here due to price inflation by retirees (cash buyers drive prices up which is counterin
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by devonkim 11y ago
That sounds like the underlying problem at heart and is why I started down the path of being more customer facing (combined with getting quickly tired of all the nerd stereotype personalities as my immediate coworkers). The reward for incom
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by devonkim 11y ago
Amazon AWS is a great example of this to a pathological degree.
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by devonkim 11y ago
The infuriating part is that Taylorist management dogma has made the average (likely mediocre) manager better compensated than the average engineer despite most being demonstrably lower skilled at management than an individual contributor o
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by devonkim 11y ago
There's a handful of Fortune 100s I've seen that are on Oracle Linux. They've mostly gotten deals through their existing relationships with Oracle and/or Sun. These places have typically been heavy on both Solaris /
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by devonkim 11y ago
I suspect a lot of them would pull the same sort of thing as the IRS did with Microsoft and pay millions for continued support specifically for them. Few organizations would stay so far behind the curve without having a business justificati
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by devonkim 11y ago
I can concur with this. I actually have responsibility for two teams at present in a way - one team I can fire all of and the other that even people three levels above me cannot it appears because of contractual relationships that are stron
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by devonkim 11y ago
It's the difference between living on the street homeless like a lot of families experienced in the Rust Belt and getting some breathing room to make a move elsewhere where there may be jobs available. My big concern with BI is that co
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by devonkim 11y ago
Can't upvote this enough. It is very important to recognize that "comfort zone" also means you must have room to fail, which is actually tough for companies to hire for because most companies are actually super risk averse wh
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by devonkim 11y ago
I somewhat have to disagree in that the popularity of Diablo is similar to that of WoW - the underpinnings in pure addiction. Random positive reinforcers are really, really powerful.
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by devonkim 11y ago
I'm not a network engineer and oftentimes have to use tcpdump and mtr on behalf of network engineers combined with Chrome devtools to show application developers that there's nothing wrong with AWS or even the internal enterprise
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by devonkim 11y ago
I think he actually did mean misogynist - women that dislike even other women and try to keep them from positions of power and authority absolutely do exist. Female competition exists, after all, and oftentimes social minorities that climb
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by devonkim 11y ago
I did that before during an interview with a pretty good company overall and the employer refused to accelerate the process or make an exception and just stopped the process.
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by devonkim 11y ago
One thing I'll grant Agile is that there's a great deal more standardized technical topics and standards meaning expectations when using the term. With devops, there's a massive difference between how big companies (old, arch
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by devonkim 11y ago
After dealing with different enterprise systems in AWS for a few years now, I'd say that this is what AWS ELB feature to remove a system out of an ASG as part of its lifecycle exists for. If you aren't using similar horizontal sca
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by devonkim 11y ago
The appraisal value is absolutely important when using lenders. My house appraised for 25% less between two local appraisers within 5 months of each other - the higher was during low housing movement. This forced me to bring in even more mo
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by devonkim 11y ago
A lot of these populations of undereducated are in areas that culturally oppose outside influences. See: cults, extremely rural Appalachia, pockets of immigrant groups opposing assimilation violently in European urban areas. Education = ind
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by devonkim 11y ago
Another important note is how Sid Meier was involved with the newest XCOM games as a co-designer and mentor to Jake Solomon. The marketing and promo for the games are centered a lot around Solomon as the figurehead for the game to the point
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by devonkim 11y ago
I have to disagree with some of the implications of the article. Older people (baby boomers or older) like my parents or mother and father in-law immediately look for a phone number when they encounter an issue because they "don't
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by devonkim 11y ago
Almost everyone working in enterprise software is in your same boat. In fact, I'd argue the great majority of software developers outside Silicon Valley are either working for or with enterprise stacks and products & services. Sure
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by devonkim 11y ago
Isn't this not too dissimilar from the Netflix hiring process (minus the readily giving offers part)?
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by devonkim 11y ago
It's not even that PDFs make it harder for editing, it's that most recruiters will copy-paste from your resume into a standardized template for that company, and the recruiters are oftentimes so bad at technology or so overloaded
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by devonkim 11y ago
Similarly, not every company can hire and pick and choose from a bunch of highly motivated individuals like Google could. Skills are easy to find, but finding people to have any enthusiasm for large corporations' work is incredibly har
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by devonkim 11y ago
As much as I agree with you, successful CEOs tend to be very good at never accepting responsibility for any failure and accepting credit for everything good that happens. Jeffrey Pfeffer's "Leadership Bullshit" expands on thi
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by devonkim 11y ago
Isn't this basically the basis of the so-called American Dream? It's fundamentally measured by social mobility (it does rest upon the assumption that nobody CHOOSES to be poor and destitute or that people do want to become wealthi
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by devonkim 11y ago
This is also consistent with those on food stamps. The last statistics I read that the majority were employed, disabled, or students.
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by devonkim 11y ago
Sounds like basically your usual corporate middle+ manager that marries to there, which seems to somewhat bind rather tightly to the further left. This is really a hard graph to follow. There's probably a reasonable chord diagram arran
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by devonkim 11y ago
Server-less is probably nomenclature that needs to be phased out like "Application Service Provider" or "CORBA." It focuses too much upon the implementation rather than the value. The value of not having a "server&q

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