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"Your experience with AWS support is generally correlated with how much you pay" Can't say I've found this to be the case. We spend a minor fortune each month, have premium support, and get really poor help. I thought mo
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You don't suppose this has anything to do with Uber's announcement that they are doubling down (or more!) on the Bay area with the Sears building in Oakland? http://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article&#x
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Jira is okay. Confluence is okay. I find the installation and management of each okay. We don't use Hip Chat but I imagine with all the focus on Slack lately, chat is not a big portion of Atlassian's growth story. What is strange
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This makes me realize my long multiplication above 100 really sucks.
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Taken aback by the assertion that recruiting would ask to see W2. I'm an engineer and have no idea how things work in sales but to me that would be a deal-breaker request. Do companies actually ask to see W2s? That seems really forward
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Yes, handwritten with a pen. Bonus points for nice stationery. Extra bonus points for using a fountain pen.
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"I'm not mad, I'm proud of you. You took your first pinch like a man and you learn two great things in your life. Look at me, never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut." -- Jimmy Conway, Goodfellas
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I get the whole leaving on good terms, really. But this whole "hey, we just want you to keep the code and answer questions for our other engineers" aspect really ought to have set off red flags. Pro-tip, hand write a nice letter t
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"Mark wanted an amicable departure with Smule, and was more than willing to help his former boss and co-workers after he left." Rookie mistake Mark. Clean break, and go do your thing. Good luck but you need to understand where you
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Standing still on a bicycle with both feet on the pedals. The term comes from track racing where jockeying for starting position by moving at a snails pace and/or frequently stopping signals the start of the race.
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What about those of us regularly consuming 22oz "bombers" of wonderful 10% beers like Ballast Point Victory at Sea? I feel like the lower alcohol content session beers are working against you. More time drinking, more raw volume,
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Agree, ya. I have a hard time kissing ass but I realized what I needed to do to advance was a little different. In my case, the key was to stop actively pissing people off. Maybe just a change of perspective but it has helped me a good de
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"Amazon hires intelligent people, and they retain the sociopaths" That is a damning statement that unfortunately has the ring of truth to me.
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Same feedback. Cloudformation has many advantages including idempotency and ability to tear down what it created. Also, see terraform from Hashicorp: https://www.terraform.io/intro/vs/cloudformation.html Still, a
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I enjoyed the tone and the piece. His assessments of brute-forcing and SQL injections were quite accurate.
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I count 10 graph paper notebooks at arms length as I type this. I use the wonderful Japanese Maruman Mnemosyne notebooks and a fountain pen. People think I'm nuts, maybe I am but the combination brings me great joy. http://w
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" VMware is by far, not even remotely close, the most widely deployed hypervisor in the mid to large enterprise market segment" Citation? Depending on how you count AWS, I'd say Xen is much larger than VMware. https:/&#
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Yup. Sitting in my mom's basement. I'm sure it still works.
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My first Apple was a IIgs. We ran a bulletin board system (BBS) on a 2400 bps modem hooked up to a second phone line in the basement. The hard drive was 20 MB and was seriously the size of a large shoebox. Good times on that machine.
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For negotiation, I can recommend: Getting More, http://www.amazon.com/Getting-More-Negotiate-Succeed-Work/dp... The author, Stuart Diamond, gives workshops at my company. I was able to attend one early at my tenure the
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Thanks for sharing. Sent this to my team as we were talking about this problem just this afternoon. Points for sudo nano in the install guide.
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This story could have easily ended much worse if the Iraq vet had armed himself against the intruding police as suspected home invaders.
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I didn't know you were moving on. Thanks for Ansible (and Cobbler).
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Loyalty is a two-way street. As an employee, I'm loyal to people, not companies. If those folks I'm loyal to in a company are loyal to me, we are all good. If I don't feel loyalty from anyone in the company towards me, I&#x27
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Two things. 1. The decision making process here was unsound. You need to follow the one, some, all approach of rolling out changes. Jumping in on multiple thousands of users was irresponsible. 2. Slack should provide some guidance earlier i
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Your written english is outstanding. I wouldn't have guessed non-native. I found two errors in the last sentence (advice instead of advices, a lot instead of lot) but these are minor ones. Set yourself up for success. If you do better
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I'm guilty of workplace incivility. I was oblivious how much I was negatively impacting my colleagues. I read No One Understands you and What to do About it and the No Asshole Rule. Both helped me to improve.
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Cool, I found two LFLs in my neighborhood. Thanks!
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He said that libraries in France are not usually open to the public. Read the article, please, before being so flip.
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I read that as Apple "I" (as in me) discarded...

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