geggam

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by geggam 8y ago
I have had to walk away from several hundred thousand like this. Sickening
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by geggam 8y ago
They used to use the cost of creating copies as a threshold to prevent folks from getting things. We just need a lawyer to take the time to point out that cost is negligible and the hosting costs would be nothing if they would do something
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by geggam 8y ago
Yet FM radio is still free and no one can tell if you turn the radio down during ads
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by geggam 8y ago
Maturation is a process one learns by experience. Faking the result skips the reasons. Granted it makes people more palatable to be around but the lessons why are lost. Some things can only be learned by experience.
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by geggam 8y ago
It isnt unachievable, it is achievable by just enough you think you have a chance. Like lottery :)
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by geggam 8y ago
Yet evolution teaches us that humans are hardwired to learn from negative events. In fact positive events tend to create addictions... or religions.
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by geggam 8y ago
Teaching someone to act socially mature without understanding why is like teaching someone to pass a test without understanding the material. Seems like schools are becoming experts at creating fakes.
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by geggam 8y ago
BSD still loves you long time
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by geggam 8y ago
Computer "engineering" is the only unregulated engineer I am aware of because of the damage they can do to society. It is time we started doing that
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by geggam 8y ago
Linux has been on my desktop for 20 years. Not my fault you dont run it there ;)
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by geggam 8y ago
Very likely you do have the control. You simply haven't taken the time to learn how to configure things.
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by geggam 8y ago
This is not a problem. This is the design. It makes things completely controllable and you know where to look for configuration files.
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by geggam 8y ago
Regulation has killed small business.
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by geggam 8y ago
You will notice the children who grow up to be the most productive tend to get the most support from their parents. I guess it depends on how much you want your kids to succeed vs how much you want to keep for yourself.
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by geggam 8y ago
Typical income is 50k a year and it takes ~250k to raise a kid you are looking at 13,888k a year for the kid, after taxes Children are extremely expensive. I have raised 4. You are broke the entire time and can always spend more on them. I
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by geggam 8y ago
Problem is finding actual talent vs talent on a resume that doesn't work well.
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by geggam 8y ago
Near as much doesn't change the fact the half life is the same. From what I was taught anyway.
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by geggam 8y ago
You speak like you could quickly educate me on something that would take me quite a bit of time to learn. Why is it that everyone says the area will be unusable for such a long time when the Nagasaki and Hiroshima areas are usable. Is there
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by geggam 8y ago
This story should be shown to every manager who ignores engineers recommendations.
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by geggam 8y ago
Yet OpenBSD has Gnome without systemd. So it is possible.
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by geggam 8y ago
Not everything runs well in a container. In fact with the lack of network understanding in most container implementations I would say there are many issues. Additionally this concept of stateless container design and state kept in containe
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by geggam 8y ago
What is your scale and how do you implement automation ?
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by geggam 8y ago
Heh.. forgot that startup I worked at and ended up at Rackspace because of that :)
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by geggam 8y ago
If you are using containers I would argue GCP is the place to be. If you are still using full VMs AWS is the place to be Azure is what I am running into when I get contracts in the midwest and I am really not sure why they are using it :)
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by geggam 8y ago
Automation, the twitter team is full of SV veterans who have run into many problems at scale years ago. At least it used to be.
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by geggam 8y ago
If only we got to choose what to pay taxes for...
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by geggam 8y ago
Some folks don't like it others do. To your point Offices are for work I simply call bullshit. Every office in the valley is a damn open floor plan and the antithesis of productivity
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by geggam 8y ago
Single guy would still be ok with that.
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by geggam 8y ago
Don't knock it until you try it. The SV culture is something to be experienced.
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by geggam 8y ago
Startups by definition bleed money. They measure it with this fancy term called burn rate

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