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by dvtrn 4y ago
They tried to discontinue it after the pandemic receded What arbitrary KPI did they point to as a reason for that decision?
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by dvtrn 4y ago
"now use Docusaurus for rendering all pages." Was just coming back here to ask about your stack, as it looked like an obsidian.md notebook. Looking to start a similar project here, thanks for sharing!
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by dvtrn 4y ago
that's an action item for you to make sure your interjections are more visible next time. Takes a certain skill to be tactful and deliberate enough to do this. Yet it takes mastery and wisdom to know when to say your peace and rest
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by dvtrn 4y ago
As long as you do it whilst handing them a salt shaker.
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by dvtrn 4y ago
A good way to fast track security practices in the universities would be to have actual hackathons that attempt to breach cs and it department computers... with extra points if you can make a clown of the head of the it dept or professor o
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by dvtrn 4y ago
This hits too close to home, even as a staff engineer.
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by dvtrn 4y ago
I'm in the wrong daggone field, man.
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by dvtrn 4y ago
Boxes: Checked. I've grown a bit cynical as time goes on about this sort of stuff; not the need for the kinds of controls and checks behind SOC2, but cynical towards the lip service I continue to hear about it from the executives and l
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by dvtrn 4y ago
Which is something I would think someone who assesses people based on how much they know Github.....should probably know How ironic ;)
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by dvtrn 4y ago
> But most people send them after the first filter. I once got sent an automated email after applying to an org with a coding challenge before the first filter . Before even any recruiter/HM or anyone actually at the organization
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by dvtrn 4y ago
I actually refer to mine as my “residential command and control center”, or “RCC”. :)
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by dvtrn 4y ago
I started doing this a few months ago, and the number of spam calls I've gotten from certain area codes that used to call me without fail at least three times a day has dropped considerably .
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by dvtrn 4y ago
DEI is a great system as long as you assume that everyone participates, everyone is completely free of biases Having been on more than a couple DEI boards, I'm really curious where the notion that everyone must be "completely fr
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by dvtrn 4y ago
I used to have a gym membership that I only discovered later on could be canceled by mailing a letter to their HQ four states away. Not an email. Not a phone call to some retention agent in a call center. A signed letter via postage. From t
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by dvtrn 4y ago
It sounds like you've enjoyed a career working for and with some really amazing people. Yes the ideal state is having employers who can take attrition on the chin and root for their people on the way out the door, and yes those kinds o
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by dvtrn 5y ago
I think this is what you’re looking for https://indieweb.xyz And here’s how you link back: https://indieweb.xyz/howto/en (Not my site, I’m just a fan of indieweb)
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Heck, you didn’t even necessarily need a credit card in the earliest of days, when AOL (as well as EarthLink and CompuServe in fact) still let you pay using bank routing details. As long as the routing number was tied to a bank the service
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by dvtrn 5y ago
I wonder if phobias are just easier to share because some of the more common ones most of us share are ones we know are probably not very rational but still powerfully held. Like my other phobia...clowns. Look, I know. Okay, I know. But sti
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by dvtrn 5y ago
I'm constantly barraged with acceptance training, "human connection" training and calls where the expectation is to "share and connect" by telling the group something personal We had a "leadership training&qu
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by dvtrn 5y ago
I know that certain “redditisms” like “username checks out” probably don’t fly here…but seeing someone named “RobWilliams” responding positively to a cat joke just puts a warm smile on my face.
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by dvtrn 5y ago
The only “consequences” as I see them with Elon doing what you’ve described is that I’ve had to deal with are people around me kvetching about the dude. Which is a consequence that’s very easy for me to ignore. As easy as it is for me to ig
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by dvtrn 5y ago
I might test this one day just to verify it did start with zillow, but after an interesting set of experiences* calling phone numbers for rentals on Zillow I started getting some very odd text messages about bank accounts I don't own a
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by dvtrn 5y ago
especially if you already have a credit card. Asked and answered? Majority of Americans have credit cards. An awful lot still don’t, and have shit financial situations that make getting one pretty hard. This is a widely documented phenome
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by dvtrn 5y ago
The main purpose of documenting is to show HR that you are documenting, which may get them to reconsider sketchy behavior. I respect the ideal state you’re shooting for here, but that “may” leaves too much wiggle room for HR sleight-of-ha
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by dvtrn 5y ago
What are your recommendations for those of us who work in "at-will" states, where it's common to see "Offer letter is not a contract" in the offer emails, contracts are often eschewed except for certain key roles, a
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Adding my own anecdote about this: Despite the job ad, recruiter and hiring manager all confirming "yes we are a remote first company", Hybrid-RTO was announced recently with a mandatory minimum of one day in the office for those
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by dvtrn 5y ago
"I would have used other solutions such as....but there were people in the room who had more 'tenure', 'experience' and 'clout' who insisted on mapreduce so that's what my leadership team bought in on
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by dvtrn 5y ago
My friend I’ve got certain members of my own actual blood family that I wouldn’t lend $20,000 to. “Families” can be wonderful. But blood families can be just as abusive, as manipulative, aggrandizing and as toxic as the “work” family.
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Pointing it out once is potentially helpful. Continuing to point it out after you’ve acknowledged it is called “nagging”. It’s annoying. Really that simple.
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by dvtrn 5y ago
I concur. You will note that I said “for a majority of”, not “all”. Even online businesses still, if they intend to register as a business entity and enjoy all that comes with registering a business, like business tax ID or EIN, they must r

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