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by helmsb 4y ago
There are many people serving extremely long sentences due to things like 3 strike laws and mandatory minimums. Unfortunately it comes down to perverse incentives. It’s a lot easier to get elected by being “tough on crime” rather than pract
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by helmsb 5y ago
This exact situation happened to another manager I work with. Interviewed a candidate remotely (with camera), everything was great, super nice guy, very knowledgeable, extremely technical. He got the job. First day, he refused to turn on hi
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by helmsb 5y ago
If the medical industry worked like modern web development then I would expect them to use Google more. “Sorry, we can’t do the heart surgery today, turns out our scalpels are made by one guy as an unpaid side project and he’s on vacation a
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by helmsb 5y ago
It also doesn't help that the complexity rules are inversely proportional to the importance of the application. My former mortgage company's password requirements were 8 characters max, no special characters. The app for schedulin
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by helmsb 5y ago
Brilliant. “A website that lets you easily buy the best local daycares.”
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by helmsb 5y ago
I take issue with “Remote Work suits ‘Makers’ over ‘Managers’” I’m a manager and remote work suites me well. I’ve been a proponent and participator of remote work for years. I couldn’t care less where my teams work from as long as we meet o
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by helmsb 5y ago
I worked with someone who pushed out a config change to production and went home. Soon, he got a call asking what he did because all of our credit card processing went down. Shortly after that we got a call from our credit card processor (o
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by helmsb 5y ago
I’ve never understood the logic of firing someone over a mistake like that. They’re now the person least likely to make a similar mistake and they will maintain the institutional knowledge to help ensure it doesn’t happen again.
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by helmsb 5y ago
I once heard that stealing nuclear material from a reactor design like this was akin to stealing a lit bar-b-bq grill by hand. Not impossible but not very easy or practical.
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by helmsb 6y ago
The closest I could find was a reference in the WSJ that said that Gates told them they needed a manufacturing partner which makes sense if you want to get vaccines manufactured and in people’s arms. Doesn’t seem like a nefarious acknowledg
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by helmsb 6y ago
I was a long time developer who became a manager. I chose to become a manager because I enjoy the people aspect of it. I see my primary responsibility to help my teammates be successful and deliver high quality products. I considered taking
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by helmsb 6y ago
Several people here have made great suggestions and I just want to reiterate some of them and add a few of my own. I have been a manager for 5 years and was a full time dev for 12 years before that. I have managed upwards of 40 people durin
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by helmsb 6y ago
I’m looking for some honest answers. A lot of people talk about one of the biggest downsides of Windows 10 being lack of privacy. What specific data are you concerned about and how does that manifest itself in a practical sense. I know the
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by helmsb 6y ago
Also, the chance that a site will refuse a strong random password is directly correlated to the importance of the account. Case and point, the appointment site for my barber happily takes a 30+ character randomly generated password. My old
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by helmsb 7y ago
The biggest thing that has jumped out at me is there seems to be a whole generation of programmers that can't troubleshoot or debug. Some of the requests for help from devs that I get is troubling to say the least. Talking with people
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by helmsb 7y ago
I explained Liskov substitution like this: Nicholas Cage is an actor, Tom Hanks is an actor however you can’t substitute a Nic Cage performance for a Tom Hanks performance. Therefore Nic Cage is a Liskov Substitution Violation.
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by helmsb 7y ago
I’m one of the few people who actually like and prefer email. Because it is an open standard there are is a whole ecosystem of tools to help with managing it as opposed to be locked into a single vendor’s default experience. The thing I’ve
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by helmsb 7y ago
I’m always wary of the hip companies that offer all the perks and try and seem cool. It’s not altruistic. They expect in return to work you like crazy. I would much rather work somewhere boring where I work a solid day and go home, don’t ha
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by helmsb 7y ago
I don’t really think there is any intended malice. I could see this being a way to remove an entire class of support issues. Having run a number of software services I could see them getting a ton of support requests that are “my computer d
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by helmsb 8y ago
I had an Uber driver who was watching an extremely graphic and violent movie in his phone setup directly in his field of view. I had him drop me off early and reported it to Uber. Apparently it’s becoming more and more common talking to fri
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by helmsb 9y ago
I cofounded a meetup a little over a year ago and so far we've seen a lot of success. When we started it we actually made a list of things similar to this article that we wanted to avoid. Here are a couple of ours: 1. We only allow 3 s
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by helmsb 11y ago
I would try to stick to one if at all possible. If you have to go to two it wouldn't be a deal breaker for me. The biggest problem is now days staffing firms and recruiters pad and keyword stuff resumes so much that most of the ones I
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by helmsb 11y ago
The thing I always liked about the concept was buttons. These days buttons on a device are out of style but they can make certain tasks easier or more enjoyable. Look at the guy playing the game. Games that try to emulate buttons on screen
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by helmsb 12y ago
My whole fascination with computers and ultimately my career in programming started with QBasic. When I was 7 years old we had a 286 with DOS and running Norton Commander. I knew all the games I played, ran by selecting the ".EXE"
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by helmsb 12y ago
I was a diehard Mac user for nearly 15 years and just recently switched back to Windows (bought a Surface Pro 3). Couldn't imagine going back at this point. I'm one of the few people that actually likes Windows 8 and it sings on t