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by flurdy 9y ago
I still name all personal and corporate laptops and pcs as pets. But all servers are named as cattle. But these days they may not even be cattle named as they are spun up and down so frequently in cloud environments that names makes no sens
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by flurdy 9y ago
> This is all very standard corporate IT stuff that you need for HR and legal reasons. I doubt that, but it is country dependant. In some of the countries I have worked in it is quite the opposite. You get drilled for legal purposes you
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by flurdy 9y ago
Seems I should add some more to https://github.com/flurdy/bad_usernames :)
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by flurdy 9y ago
> So if you’re enforcing unique email addresses, or using email addresses as a user identifier, you need to be aware of this and you probably need to strip all dot characters from the local-part, along with + and any text after it, befor
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by flurdy 9y ago
One of the reasons I made my own bad username lookup. https://github.com/flurdy/bad_usernames Its a simple json file of usernames to disallow. It does not address many of the other things higlighted in this post but i
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by flurdy 9y ago
That would be very subjective. But probably exists. I am a heavy user of Twitter's List feature, and have columns in Tweetdeck for friends, local, sports, politics, colleagues etc. And try to curate these for my interest as best as pos
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by flurdy 9y ago
Not sure what going public with this benefits anyone. They could have covertly leaked missinformation or gain benefits by being in control what is leaked.
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by flurdy 9y ago
Then again Norwegians have Frokost as breakfast time, whilst Danes have Frokost at lunch..
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by flurdy 9y ago
Pairing. Bouncing off ideas, war stories, snippets, learning and sharing alternative ways to solve problems. Priceless.
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by flurdy 9y ago
So more like Yammer than Gitter. Ie very asynchronous long life discussion, and searchable. Not real-time chat.
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by flurdy 9y ago
It is almost as if they hope the price goes down so they can actually buy more. Then if their share purchases increases share price, maybe selling later to please policy makers whilst still making money... As this seems just at a discussion
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by flurdy 9y ago
:/ The centre driving location, not sure if that is a terrible idea for pedestrian and bicycle safety. Or the opposite as closer to the other side. Guess time will tell if a lot gets squashed against fences like bikers often do in Lond
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by flurdy 9y ago
True, except when there is a virtual near 0% unemployment in cities, then even when it is hard to let people go they still are pretty desperate for candidates. (Speaking from experience from tech industry in Oslo, before I moved on) Also wh
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by flurdy 9y ago
> If you're too drunk to ride the drunk train/bus, there are cheap hotels all over London That may be but getting any at 11pm+ is impossible. I have tried a few times after missing my last train home... Always end up calling a
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by flurdy 9y ago
That is only one avenue to open source contributions. They may contribute via individual commits directly to other libraries such as https://github.com/basho/riak etc
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by flurdy 9y ago
If permanent desks then having a somewhat recognisable but standardised photo and name on the wall or screen will let some people find the right desk without asking. Though to be honest people still asks as that is what humans do. Even thou
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by flurdy 9y ago
The only issue is where the company has gone cheap on the desks and they are not all height adjustable so people can not opt to stand at them. So people bring in their own monstrous (but good) sit-stand desktop risers by e.g Varidesk, Ergot
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by flurdy 9y ago
Office design is different budgets than products and salary. And very different people and reporting lines. The office facilitators job is to save money by e.g. open planning and hot desking and is not measured at all on the productivity of
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by flurdy 9y ago
I used to insist on designated desks and hated offices with hot swap desks, clean desks policy etc. I had drawers full of crap, my own "special" monitors, kit bags underneath my desk, lots of cans of pepsi max etc and dreaded movi
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by flurdy 9y ago
Whenever that happens I enjoy taking someone's "seat" if they are late, and watch them twitch but not say anything when they do come in....
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by flurdy 9y ago
Though as I understood it he was working remotely for a California based company. So not being in the UK is not the problem here. Though I am not sure even if on bail if has access to his computers?
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by flurdy 9y ago
Web Browser: Brave, Firefox Email Client: Gmail web Terminal: Terminator IDE: IntelliJ, Atom File manager: Nautilus Basic Text Editor: Atom, VIM IRC/Messaging Client: Gitter, Slack non-free Office Suite: Google Docs web Calendar: Googl
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by flurdy 9y ago
> High tax. Where's the reward? The reward is being top of the budget per capita: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_... The goverment has $48K to spend per capita, as opposed to e.g th
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by flurdy 9y ago
It is not. Is is a very wide screen. 24:10 aspect. A UHD/4k pixel density that you would find in a 16:9 display would mean a lot more horizontal pixels. Though I would like to see one that is 5184x2160 or 5760x2160 pixels. I expect tha
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by flurdy 9y ago
If you mean tiling window managers: Macos: https://ianyh.com/amethyst/ Linux: http://xmonad.org or https://i3wm.org
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by flurdy 9y ago
2.5h into London is not uncommon. 2 hour is quite common and that is my commute. And many colleagues do similar routes. Recently there was an article somewhere of people living in France and Belgium and commuting to London! My commute is si
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by flurdy 9y ago
Continuously manually disabling syncing of e.g. binary build files, temporary log files etc from my projects. But you can not do it before they exist, only afterwards whilst dropbox is busy syncing megabytes of unneccesary files... Though t
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by flurdy 9y ago
The day dropbox can read and follow .gitignore in my folders I would be happy. If I don't want version control over it I also don't need to back it up.
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by flurdy 9y ago
> 2. You can only sync a single folder, which is really limiting That is easily worked around as Dropbox follows symlinks. E.g on my desktop ~/Dropbox is on a small SSD so on that machine ~/Dropbox/Photos is a symlink to a
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by flurdy 9y ago
So 2FA reset via SMS is bad, which I agree but what are the alternatives to prevent a meltdown when your 2FA device dies? I have had two phones die on me that was my 2FA device, plus OS upgrades, so I have gone through resetting 10-20 2FA a

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