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by ecf 5y ago
The pessimist in me thinks that global supply chain issues were self-imposed as a justification for raising prices.
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by ecf 5y ago
> “Organizations are now in a race against time to figure out if they have computers running the vulnerable software” As a client platform engineer for the last couple years, patch management / versioning is one of my primary job du
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by ecf 5y ago
> How the West invited China to eat its lunch Their MBA programs focused on teaching new executives that the easiest way to increased shareholder value is to fire Western workers and outsource for pennies.
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by ecf 5y ago
Noita - https://noitagame.com Over 200 hours in and I still haven’t discovered everything. In my opinion, no game in recent memory has had such an amazing core gameplay loop where you can spend either 40 minutes or 17 hours on a
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by ecf 5y ago
I’m resisting the urge to vomit after seeing that keyboard layout. The trackball-esque thing, the arrow cluster, the numpad… So many questions.
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by ecf 5y ago
If forced to chose a location to do business, I have a feeling Hollywood would opt to pack up and relocate to China. Their leaders don’t see anything other than the number of humans they can get in front of their movies, and 1.4 billion peo
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by ecf 5y ago
Me. Computer science background, but I had to get a job really quick post graduation and with no SWE internships, I had to fall back on my experience working part time in my university’s IT department and get an IT consultant job so I could
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by ecf 5y ago
I believe elementary school cafeterias in California used them back in the 90s and early 2000s. Not sure if they still do or not.
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by ecf 5y ago
> experienced software engineer I’m an associate-level engineer. Why would a company, many of which are increasingly proud of their diverse team, pick a white engineer when there are hundreds of equally skilled junior applicants that won
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by ecf 5y ago
> Another positive side of the US is that there seems to be more opportunities, particularly if you are white or Asian and work in tech. Excuse me? If there’s anything I’ve learned in about two months of applying is that no company wants
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by ecf 5y ago
It took me about half an hour of constant retries for the rented Apple TV movie I downloaded for offline use to play. Each time, for some reason or another, was blocked with the error message “This movie can only be played on displays that
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by ecf 5y ago
I’d love to find a SWE position. My non-traditional background in IT/SWE always seems to dissuade people in the end and I’m passed up for better candidates. 4-8 hours of interviewing for each eventual rejection is so soul crushing.
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by ecf 5y ago
The blame for this is purely on the shoulders of business leaders coming out of MBA programs across the US. It seems the only thing those places are teaching is how to join a company, strip it to the bone, hype up the short-term 5% growth,
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by ecf 5y ago
> Any telco people here that can explain the technicals of how or why it’s still possible to spoof a phone number? Because couriers offer spoof calling as an under-the-table service to spam caller organizations. I have no proof of this,
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by ecf 5y ago
Create a repository with the result of one of those setups and use that as a base for any new project? Not sure why this needs to be something developers can’t fine tune for themself.
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by ecf 5y ago
At the risk of sounding extremely negative…people need to evaluate if existing YC advice is applicable for them. Recent YC accepters have been less-than-exciting, to put it mildly.
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by ecf 5y ago
Unfortunately the political risk for dismantling protections and then having a new attack occur is something politicians won’t accept.
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by ecf 5y ago
I’m getting bi-weekly letters from the dealership asking to buy my 2017 Mazda 3 hatch for only $3,000 less than what I paid for it back in 2018. It’s crazy out there right now.
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by ecf 5y ago
> Let’s put things in perspective here. The chair came up with an absolutely idiotic idea…” Put your money where your mouth is and start regularly insulting people in meetings when they have a bad idea. I wonder how long it’ll be before
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by ecf 5y ago
> - Generating types for API response data has removed so many runtime errors. We generate types from GraphQL schemas. This setup with codegen reading from a gql schema and creating typed react components/hooks that can be immediate
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by ecf 5y ago
> These blog posts that suggest asking candidates to spend a few hours working on a take-home problem is unreasonable are getting to be out of touch. On the contrary, it seems the growing sentiment regarding tech hiring is that the peopl
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by ecf 5y ago
> People reply way too much on improvising when communicating, specially in high stress environments There first exists a requirement to have codified everything that can be codified. If that was possible at your average startup helpdesk
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by ecf 5y ago
Social media only exists for the benefit of high-follower count individuals or large corporations. Become unlucky enough and your large corporation finds you negatively tweeting about a high-follower count individual? Straight to HR.
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by ecf 5y ago
Nobody cares what the CEO of Intel thinks. They can’t come in and start spewing nationalist ideology after they were a primary factor in the outsourcing of a chip manufacturing to begin with. Out of 10 of their fabs, only 4 are in the US.
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by ecf 5y ago
> Let work be work and let people recharge with family and friends if they prefer. Instead of that, you’ll get HR peddling their Modern Health subscription that they’re paying unknown amounts for.
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by ecf 5y ago
> Non Technical (IT and Infrastructure) people making technical decisions is what may destroy the pentagon. Care to elaborate on what you mean? Surely you don’t consider all IT and Infrastructure employees to be “non-technical”.
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by ecf 5y ago
Judging by the reputation of the new Mailgun owner, I wouldn’t be surprised to find out this is a feature for scammers, not a bug.
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by ecf 5y ago
It’s been over a year and Strava hasn’t implemented iOS Home Screen widgets, so I made my own. https://www.tangey.app
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by ecf 5y ago
> But working with other lawyers/parties could be a challenge. I am not certain how Libreoffice could handle a 500 page memo being worked by 50+ people including thousands of track changes/comments. Other industries have figure
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by ecf 5y ago
This highlights my number one frustration with applying for associate level software engineer roles. Recruiters see “IT Engineer” as my previous job title and don’t even bother looking at the day to day tasks I was performing to see if they

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