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by folkhack 7y ago
> Is there a possibility of ...automating, this kind of automating? Nah - I'm going to be cocky for a second so please take this with a grain of salt... Automation is the only job that's safe from automation ;) That being said,
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by folkhack 7y ago
> telecom That's the industry I'm currently working on... they're generally regressive and have shot themselves in the foot in regards to tech and ease-of-use for a lot of their solutions.
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by folkhack 7y ago
> It's finicky technology that is hard to make sustainable This 100 times over. The only way I've been able to make it work is being one heck of a generalist. I've found that training on what I do is near-impossible and
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by folkhack 7y ago
Anything - green screens, Excel spreadsheets, PDF generation, Docusign, tying 6 web experiences with separate logins into one, simplification of complex auth scenarios, etc. Most of my day is literally just getting one step further and one
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by folkhack 7y ago
> Middle management generally thrives by building kingdom of such minions. I often am not selling to middle management, I ideally sell at the exec and/or product level. Middle managers are a conflict of interest when it comes to wha
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by folkhack 7y ago
My market value is $10-15k/mo USD for just myself (sometimes more if I'm needed in an emergency). If you have a proven track record with a solid reputation you can command that sort of pay without an issue. I also bring a lot of g
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by folkhack 7y ago
> SendKeys Holy cow why didn't I know about this 6 months ago =| VBA is something I have had to reluctantly learn. It's a horrid/ancient language. Sorry if someone gets offended at that but to someone who uses a lot of mod
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by folkhack 7y ago
I work in this field so I'm incredibly biased: automated business solutions that cut entry-level data employees out of the equation. You save TONS on the bottom line, and cut out human-driven process that is error prone and difficult t
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by folkhack 7y ago
I know there's a ton of "where is X?" going on - but one that I would like to see on here is John Resig, jQuery is still practically _everywhere_.
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by folkhack 7y ago
I say this as someone who's had to do a ton of work to comply with this sort of stuff, and as a California citizen: good. It's going to turn into extra work for me, but I don't care in the least bit. Thank goodness someone&#x
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by folkhack 7y ago
Jessa and Louis knocked it out of the park - and the corporate lobbyists kept tripping all over their words. Was a great watch all around but my God that timer beeper was ungodly loud.
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by folkhack 7y ago
They were higher margins for drivers for a while (2012ish) but the market has equalized that all out to the point where I've been told drivers make the same regardless of app these days (by drivers).
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by folkhack 7y ago
It is - if you compare the sites it looks like ipinfo.io is doing a grab for a multi-branded approach by changing the design of the site up JUST enough so it looks like another org.
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by folkhack 7y ago
^^ Also agree on this. I have seen the whole "it has to be RESTful" thing that the parent comment was discussing as a way to justify huge amounts of HTTP overhead too many times however.
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by folkhack 7y ago
Thanks for taking the time to share this - because it's exactly what I feel is happening to webdev as a whole. We're adding unnecessary complexity trying to put everything on the user's browser vs. rendering a sane and functi
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by folkhack 7y ago
> I think some newer devs come out of school not actually knowing how to implement their own, from-scratch application using vanilla JS or jQuery I'll go out on a limb and say that most webdevs (regardless of schooling) can't h
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by folkhack 7y ago
The new Gmail was a slap in the face vs. what they had. The older version was so much quicker and performant.
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by folkhack 7y ago
It's cargo cult development. I've seen it everywhere I've worked, and have been a huge offender myself. It's the engineer interjecting themselves vs. doing what's best for the end-user: KISS (keep it simple stupid).
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by folkhack 7y ago
I was a kid learning programming languages and after QBASIC I struggled to find a language that I could grok as a 10-12yr old right before the turn of the millennium. I shared with my uncle that C and C++ were difficult for me and he gave m
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by folkhack 7y ago
> folkhack is unfairly dissing it for being made by a Chinese company, but given it's completely free software, that fear is unfounded. LOL. I run Linux to keep "Big Brother" off of my systems, Microsoft and Windows 10 to
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by folkhack 7y ago
A Chinese company sponsored Linux distro? I don't care how good it looks - that's gonna be a no from me. Also what a bogus sensational headline =|
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by folkhack 7y ago
Love this video and bless his parents for being so supportive of a outrageous hobby! I'm going to shamelessly quote a comment from YouTube that always makes me laugh: > "This young man has a screw loose. Kudos to his parents fo
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by folkhack 7y ago
I use that word all the time to describe going after someone/something aggressively. I'm not against it, and would "bulldog" anyone that ripped off my brand, open source or otherwise!
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by folkhack 7y ago
Ah - TIL ... thanks for a solid response =) Either way - I'd avoid using someone's brand unless it was changed up in a MAJOR way.
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by folkhack 7y ago
Yeah - they're horrid. My last experience with them was that they couldn't bill a perfectly valid credit card (tested multiple times at other places during the issue with zero problems). NO idea why... called multiple times to s
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by folkhack 7y ago
Incoming DCMA takedown notice in 3... 2.... (seriously though, Lego is famous for being bulldogs in regards to their trademark/brand!)
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by folkhack 7y ago
God this is outrageous - it's just a portrait of people who should never be in the powerful positions (that they don't deserve) screwing over thousands of people. They withheld wages, canceled insurance, etc. ... It's just di
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by folkhack 7y ago
> “One of the best strategies for kids who get bullied is to use self-deprecating humor.” This defuses the bully’s insults, and, potentially, helps the nerdy kid seem a tiny bit subversive. That's horrible advice. The only way to st
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by folkhack 7y ago
Insane amounts of automation with tools like puppeteer.
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by folkhack 7y ago
> Yes you feel bad in both cases, but you probably feel much worse when it's an intentional thing. Of course. I don't want to make people feel bad regardless of intention so my personal SOP is to try not to hurt people in regar

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