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by gtaylor 4y ago
Different car, but I've been super pleased with my Ioniq 5. The build quality and comfort are much better than the Teslas we were considering.
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by gtaylor 4y ago
I switched my personal laptop (Dell XPS 17) from Ubuntu to Fedora about a year ago and have been pleased. The GPU situation is more polished, suspend and resume works with less quirks, and I like the more recent versions of upstream softwar
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by gtaylor 4y ago
Had some issues on recent Ubuntu with my XPS 17, but it runs wonderfully on Fedora.
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by gtaylor 4y ago
As one point of data, I've been trending towards remote-or-bust as I've aged. My tolerance for time wasters (like commuting) is low and my desire for flexibility is much higher. I’m sure some prefer in-office more with age, but
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by gtaylor 4y ago
X4 and any other titles in the X series. It’s single player spreadsheets in space.
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by gtaylor 5y ago
I've seen background checks at most of the mid-to-large sized tech companies I've worked at.
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by gtaylor 5y ago
I feel like there are two minutes of ads for every ten minutes of content on Hulu. It's ridiculous that you have to pay even more for an experience that is similar to the flat rate on Netflix and Disney+.
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by gtaylor 5y ago
The debugging and profiling features are excellent, too. Love the thread visualizer on PyCharm.
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by gtaylor 5y ago
I've found Unifi to be a pain to set up just right. But once you've got things just right, it's generally pretty fast and reliable.
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by gtaylor 5y ago
Our southern border is over 2,000 miles long. I doubt that the relatively few miles of wall that were built made much of a difference.
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by gtaylor 5y ago
Opinions on this vary wildly, but you can be very productive with any of them. Pick what makes the most sense to you and get to it!
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by gtaylor 5y ago
re: Django, it continues to chug along but is at this point a very mature ecosystem. There are larger things in the works (like the async support effort), but they tend to be gradually rolled out. It's not going to score points for bei
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by gtaylor 5y ago
Right there with you. Used to want the same, now I've got the drive to do other things with the time and headspace.
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by gtaylor 5y ago
One of the software engineers that I respect the most was bussing tables a few years ago.
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by gtaylor 5y ago
Not everyone has the same goals or mobility as you. What you described is especially tough for families with kids.
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by gtaylor 5y ago
Turned my MUD addiction into a MUD development addiction. Learned all kinds of stuff (Linux, SQL, a little PHP) while building those games. Eventually went to school, didn't do well in Comp Sci, changed majors to an unrelated degree. G
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by gtaylor 5y ago
This. And there are plenty of high paying companies that will respect your time better than FAANG.
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by gtaylor 5y ago
I'd not bat an eye at someone saying this. Some of the most productive engineers I've worked with weren't pulling 50+ hour weeks.
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by gtaylor 5y ago
Oh my. I'm not sure that I'd use Python to make a point about easy interop with distro package managers. It quickly descends into a nightmarish hellscape if you have more than a few dependencies or, different versions of python, o
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by gtaylor 5y ago
What happened to them?
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by gtaylor 5y ago
No, not that particular outage.
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by gtaylor 5y ago
We pushed a CDN config that triggered a CDN provider bug. Took down the CDN's entire presence on one continent. Broke a whole bunch of recognizable sites for a bit.
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by gtaylor 5y ago
And it's crushingly expensive even in better times.
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by gtaylor 5y ago
Most seat-mounted units have retractable nozzles that keep them out of the splash zone.
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by gtaylor 5y ago
The companies that I've been a part of that employed this non-negotiation strategy ended up only shifting the negotiations from compensation to title. The same negotiators still come out on top, since they'll request higher titles
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by gtaylor 5y ago
No, it's about DHH using politics as a stand-in for the actual issue: they mishandled this issue with the name list, they got called out and held to task for it, and they don't like that behavior. The politics thing really amounts
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by gtaylor 5y ago
Someone want to tell this commenter how expensive daycare is?
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by gtaylor 6y ago
They've had plenty of time to change their behavior. The issues are well known at this point.
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by gtaylor 6y ago
I do whatever I can to best support the team. It is practically never coding at this point. My team would likely end up frustrated with me (and rightly so) if coding comes at the expense of other things like sourcing, hiring, coaching, dist
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by gtaylor 6y ago
Those were fairly short and did not take out the entirety of the Bay at once.

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