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901.
by fargle 7y ago
I have been hungry. This rings of truth and it brings me almost to tears. Thank you.
902.
by fargle 7y ago
Well, exciting can mean different things. I have a job where I never know what I'll be doing at 2PM when I walk in at 8AM. AND, I am not a sucker.
903.
by fargle 7y ago
See also: Lockheed purchase of General Dynamics aircraft division in 1990s...
904.
by fargle 7y ago
> Autopilot is for middle age ??? I thought that middle age was where you still had the energy and the brainpower, but also had a bunch of hard-earned experience to bring it all to the highest level. Oh, wait. I forgot. You slacked off w
905.
by fargle 7y ago
Well, just involving the Americans, walking a tightrope of diplomacy, not losing the battle of Britain, and basically surviving was quite a trick and kept it a two front war. Otherwise the Russians quite likely would not have survived, at l
906.
by fargle 7y ago
If Raval were smart he’d take a lesson from the Johnsons and Lehrers of the world and go quiet for a bit. Wait until the heat and the scandal die down and he can make a return. While a real apology would probably help, it may not even be ne
907.
by fargle 7y ago
Not sure if you are right or not about him in general. But he is spot on about Y2K. I was a sysadmin for about 500 person site of an engineering company, Solaris, some Windows NT, and storage on some early NAS with a bespoke OS and hardware
908.
by fargle 7y ago
AND, in related news, "Churchill's policies saved millions of Allied lives, helped defeat the Nazis, and preserved democracy..."
909.
by fargle 7y ago
Since 1986, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) requires any hospital emergency room to treat an injury like a broken elbow regardless of ability to pay or whether you were insured. So in the richest country on ear
910.
by fargle 7y ago
Many employers offer health care for you and your family as a benefit. Some don't. It'd be unethical to lie about the terms of employment, for example to claim you'd be eligible and then renege. Assuming the US, typically emp
911.
by fargle 7y ago
> You're definitely still saying and have been saying you believe she's not an engineer. I never said that, nor do I necessarily believe that. I replied to someone else in a one-liner which was to put forward a possible reaso
912.
by fargle 7y ago
> Because you are specifically supporting a narrative that declines to grant an arbitrary status to a woman I'm supporting a narrative that declines to grant an arbitrary status to a PERSON based on a tech certification. It is NOT
913.
by fargle 7y ago
> you have a problem larger than this conversation and you should expect pushback Why is that? Please give an example of what I said that is sexist or any other -ist. > So really, it's just your feelings. No, it's perfectly
914.
by fargle 7y ago
I don't disagree, but you're talking about right/wrong from a moral standpoint, one that many people probably agree with, but it's not an absolute. The right and wrong I was talking about was with respect to the existing
915.
by fargle 7y ago
> "that forces you to use only one programming tool (HTML/CSS/JavaScript)?" - web developer Three. That would be three different things ... - engineer
916.
by fargle 7y ago
No, history has shown about 95% of the time employers prevail in actions like this. The burden of proof is really high for the employee, and the company has plenty of money for lawyers. It can simply run out the clock too. So yeah, 23 years
917.
by fargle 7y ago
Um, there's already a process whereby private contracts, as well as all other company business is approved by a vote. It's called the shareholder meeting. Now understandably the janitor has provided a lot less capital than deeply
918.
by fargle 7y ago
It's not a pretense when she broke a serious rule. Whether or not she claims she didn't, google has determined she did. So therefore it's clearly not retaliation. That's the default position. Now, there would be a high b
919.
by fargle 7y ago
OK, I have to rebut some of this. I have no axe to grind about whether the engineer is male, female, trans, white, black, whatever. Fact is that when I wrote this I didn't know she was a female. Don't care. How insane to claim tha
920.
by fargle 7y ago
if true, hire him back immediately.
921.
by fargle 7y ago
Or we could just use tradition and proper english. And if we don't know, use a tortured "they" or just pick something and move on. No reason to get fancy - if gender isn't an issue, then ... it isn't.
922.
by fargle 7y ago
> in a field which is largely unregulated and not credentialed. That IS why (engineers are credentialed and regulated). And where you got misogynistic is a mystery - simply using someones pronoun of choice in conjunction with something
923.
by fargle 7y ago
A CompTia Security+ cert is actually pretty trivial. It's complete regurgitation, and not even of industry standard best practices, but of CompTia defined "best" practices. It's the lowest and most basic tech cert you ca
924.
by fargle 7y ago
It doesn't matter if it's "political" or not. It's completely 100% google management's choice whether the punishment for a serious (or tiny) rule infraction is anything from no action at all to firing. There is
925.
by fargle 7y ago
Even in california, it's the companies choice what a "fireable" offense is, not the employee, nor what social media thinks "seems fireable". If you violate any company policy, or even if google does not think you
926.
by fargle 7y ago
Um, not disingenuous. See, the company isn't funded nor owned nor managed by its employees. So it's not "abuse" and it is completely legitimate, even a mandate, and a fiduciary duty that compels companies advance their a
927.
by fargle 7y ago
Which is an important advantage to open-source. Abandoned, failed close-source software is almost never available. Talk about wasted productivity... If an abandoned github repo has any redeemable value, it will get found and used.
928.
by fargle 7y ago
Cute title. But wow, this guy apparently does not live in the same universe as, I think, the rest of us. I hadn't read ESRs paper in a few years, but just reread it again now. This author is definitely oversimplifying and mischaracteri
929.
by fargle 7y ago
I think the article is right on and makes a good point. The title does imply that containers are somehow bad for system administration. But the point is not that a container with a nicely installed, maintained, sensible image and applicatio
930.
by fargle 7y ago
What if "well, that's just what everyone does" is just wrong ? I trimmed the word "now" from the quote because lazy sloppy short-term thinking is nothing new. Good configuration management takes a lot of work and p

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