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by dvtrn 4y ago
Conversely: "Slow to hire, fast to fire" is something I've heard a few times in my career, and usually within organizations that turned out to be truly toxic and absolutely burnout inducing places to work. Operating on either
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by dvtrn 4y ago
DO NOT put minikube in prod. I'm watching this happen in real time at the current gig. I brought up my concerns to the senior in charge of this. He's doing it anyway. Let you know how that goes.
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by dvtrn 4y ago
> There needs to be a third party regulatory agency with real teeth The CFPB could probably use sharper teeth
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by dvtrn 4y ago
Dierya makes an assortment of multi-device (switch devices via a key combo) BT keyboards that are pretty close to your price range. The DK63 was my first mechanical when I fell ass backwards into the hobby.
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by dvtrn 4y ago
I've found myself holding a bit of chagrin at the term 'technical debt' lately as well, mostly because it feels like saying it, pointing to it, quantifying it, and shoving 'it' under people's noses and proving
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by dvtrn 4y ago
Similar story, except instead of 98 for me I held on to Win2k (and the laptop running it, the first laptop I ever bought with my own money) as long as I possibly could. Absolutely loved that release.
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by dvtrn 4y ago
Static site generator for man pages? Sounds like a fun “just because” thing to do actually.
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by dvtrn 4y ago
Let's just end the simulacra and embrace the absurd, take a video of yourself walking into the room, acting surprised that someone's on a call and awkwardly backing out of the room, if your platform supports animated backgrounds,
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by dvtrn 4y ago
"What makes me a good Demoman? Well if I were a bad Demoman, I wouldn't be sitting here discussing it with you, now would I?" One of the silliest, hilarious but on point thing I've ever heard uttered from a video game
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by dvtrn 4y ago
as much so as "combat vs logistics". First time I've ever heard these two things talked about as a matter of "this versus that" and not "combat and logistics". I'd hate to be a CO or NCO under a
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by dvtrn 4y ago
Chesterton's fence is a real bitch, ain't it?
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by dvtrn 4y ago
A stock trading company, IT stuff are support for the real employees, the traders. You have a trader, you have a trading company. The programmers are just support for them. Not the norm, but I suspect it probably happens more than it shou
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by dvtrn 4y ago
Yes but saying it out loud forces people to think about what goes on outside of their own cozy, financial situations.
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by dvtrn 4y ago
I mean Ron Wyden of Oregon stands out by a country mile when it comes to actually trying to grok and pass common sense tech laws. Ain’t enough Ron Wyden’s out there sadly.
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by dvtrn 4y ago
That's the phrase I was trying to think of writing that comment, thank you
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by dvtrn 4y ago
I heard that the military sometimes has the requirement that a given command shall be repeated verbatim by the person who received the command in order to make sure that it was understood correctly. Air Traffic control as well, though not
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by dvtrn 4y ago
While I agree with others that remote does not necessarily imply asynchronous, there's a nugget I do agree with from the author's POV: Video calling, chat tools and screensharing alone aren't really a great infrastructure for
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by dvtrn 4y ago
I'll throw $100 towards your travel costs for you to come fly in and tell this to my employer. Not necessarily the difference between DBA and DE, just what a flipping DBA even is .
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by dvtrn 4y ago
Once. What made it stand out? The pitch letter from the recruiter wasn't the bog standard "I saw you have these skills, can you hop on the phone?" email: the recruiter didn't just rattle off a list of 'roles and r
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by dvtrn 4y ago
> but how would I know it had I not read about it here? Presumably you’ve been a windows user long enough, or at least exposed to Windows enough times to have figured out you can double click a title bar in that operating system and ma
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by dvtrn 4y ago
Keeping with the arrival time estimate, and I’m not sure if this answers your question But I live in a very dense city (Chicago), it’s become almost “set your watch to it” reliable that not only are estimates more reliable from friends who
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by dvtrn 4y ago
I would probably fail this test as someone who has been accused before in professional settings of being an 'asshole' due to my speaking method. When the reality is far far less interesting: the combination of a pathological speec
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by dvtrn 4y ago
I was thinking about this yesterday as it relates to infrastructure and hosting systems, then I stumbled-via a semirelated article-the phrase "cloud repatriation". https://deft.com/blog/cloud-repatriation-isnt
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by dvtrn 4y ago
I think we can too. I just don't trust....90% of the people, platforms and providers who claim that's what they're doing via crypto.
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by dvtrn 4y ago
Because the system you're passionately defending via the "personal responsibility" angle has so far demonstrably shown itself to be susceptible to the same externalizes of greed, avarice and "fuck you I got mine" mi
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by dvtrn 4y ago
It's up to you to either trust it without any due diligence or read the source code yourself. I suppose so, but given that your entire conceit started off with a defense of people in under-developed nations, and their access to capit
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by dvtrn 4y ago
or the government simply coming and seizing your assets for an arbitrary, amoral reason. You mean people don’t like it when the large amorphous and powerful body that asks its constituents to trust it pulls the rug , and all of their cur
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by dvtrn 4y ago
At least with regards to one person I previously thought was someone who would otherwise “know better” after an incredibly confusing conversation about their NFT Group “recruiting” people from poor communities (their definition of recruitin
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by dvtrn 4y ago
Yep! I love my city for a lot of reasons but stuff like this are some of my favorite bits of Chicagoland trivia.
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by dvtrn 4y ago
Boston as well, iirc. And parts of Chicago (a city that was built ontop of an actual swamp)

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