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by foobarbazetc 5y ago
FWIW, these are classic panic attacks. Usually the stressor is obvious, but sometimes it's not and it's something you've left unresolved that your subconscious gets caught up on from time to time. It might not be the talks th
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by foobarbazetc 5y ago
Well, agree to disagree here as I’ve seen it with my own eyes, but it’s kind of besides the point. Is it a coincidence that the same company that makes Excel is trying to… “democratize” and/or de-specialize programming? I don’t really
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by foobarbazetc 5y ago
That's not really how it's going to go though. Just look at what your average person is able to accomplish with Excel. Your own example of the CEO becoming a CTO can be used in every level and part of the business. Now the recepti
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by foobarbazetc 5y ago
LOL. But you actually make a good point here. GPT-3 can replace most comms / PR type jobs since they all sound like Exec-speak.
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by foobarbazetc 5y ago
Are those developers worried about having their jobs replaced by a code-writing AI? :) I mean... why would 95% of developer jobs exist with this tech available? You just need that 5% of devs who actually write novel code for this thing to l
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by foobarbazetc 5y ago
To add to this: there are people who earn minimum wage doing what some might call menial jobs (or 3 jobs back to back) and they work 10x harder than the average startup programmer or founder. They might not have gone to school at all. Or th
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by foobarbazetc 5y ago
Wait... people run their databases on public IPs?
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by foobarbazetc 5y ago
Luck >>>> hard work. But hard work helps you get a bigger dividend out of luck.
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by foobarbazetc 5y ago
Presumably the Fed/State government people who hand out the DC contracts like the security cosplay. :)
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by foobarbazetc 5y ago
This, but for Postgres…
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by foobarbazetc 5y ago
It's just a Ponzi scheme where everyone is invested in the scheme because they hold crypto of some kind. Then one day someone will wake up, decide they don't want that kind of exposure, and the whole thing collapses.
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by foobarbazetc 5y ago
Why would you completely exit a winning trade that you have more insight into than most people since you’re the sole supplier of the primary component in the thing if you thought it was going to have a higher ROI than other investments? … y
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by foobarbazetc 5y ago
As someone who's spent the last 11 days or so helping debug a bug in a live QUIC implementation, I'm... sort of unconvinced that it's a good idea in general. Every implementation (maybe not Google's?) is just a poorly
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by foobarbazetc 5y ago
Gamification feels paternalistic and almost exploitative after a while, because these things tend to skew towards paying great developers in low wage countries almost nothing to find and fix bugs. See also: Hacker One.
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by foobarbazetc 5y ago
Uh... we already do. By not listing on a store no one uses. :)
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by foobarbazetc 5y ago
Weird Dailymail-as-MSN story...
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by foobarbazetc 5y ago
Dell (and, really, all server providers apart from Supermicro) have crazy markups on storage. It's where they make most of their margin. And then, most of the time, the drives they sell come on custom sleds that they don't sell se
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by foobarbazetc 5y ago
Yeah. We used to pay for GH Enterprise and run Jira/Confluence/Bamboo/etc/etc. Then we switched to BitBucket Server because it integrates better and cost a lot less, plus GH Enterprise was a weird black box VM back the
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by foobarbazetc 5y ago
The problem is once you connect Jira to Confluence to Team Calendars to Crowd to BitBucket Server you're very deep into the lock-in. Nobody has either the time or the will to switch because, while all the software kind of sucks, it d
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by foobarbazetc 5y ago
You would think this -- then you look at their balance sheet and re-evaluate everything you think about software.
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by foobarbazetc 5y ago
Ah, this isn’t true. Ampere is very competitive and Oracle have made huge investments into that platform, with Cloudflare etc looking at it very seriously as well. Arm on servers is just getting started.
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by foobarbazetc 5y ago
I like how something is “auto-healing” when it’s like… has `Restart=on-failure` in systemd. Anyway, it’s always DNS. Always. “Unfortunately, that allowed something as simple as a corrupted file to crash down multiple layers of redundancy wi
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by foobarbazetc 5y ago
Your last paragraph shows a lack of depth in understanding American history and politics. -- an Australian/American living in the US.
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by foobarbazetc 5y ago
This'll be the restructuring that fixes it...
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by foobarbazetc 5y ago
It’s not really only Google though… the entire industry has an air of malaise to it that is papered over by stock prices. It’s all so boring .
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by foobarbazetc 5y ago
Also yes to good accountants. A lot of things you can pay a lawyer for business/tax/etc wise, your accountant can probably do better and cheaper. Accountants are under-appreciated. lol.
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by foobarbazetc 5y ago
As someone who went through a tonne of so-called medical experts for a chronic condition I can say that, based on my experience, most people involved in medicine are incompetent. lol. You just have to bounce around until you hit someone who
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by foobarbazetc 5y ago
Yeah, funnily enough my experience is based on international tax advice. No one actually knows anything about this, save for like 3 people world wide for each country pair. Lawyers will happily bill you for incorrect advice because their li
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by foobarbazetc 5y ago
Lawyers, like any other profession, are 95% incompetent. Finding the 5% that are competent is harder than it looks. And the hourly rate and/or physical location of said lawyer bares no correlation to competence level. And once you find
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by foobarbazetc 5y ago
Also, just to add to that: a lot of the “good” lawyers will just ghost a one man operation or small business. Dealing with this kind of thing is a nightmare. You have to find someone who does EFF type stuff.

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