hoborama

5 ms·

1.
by hoborama 8y ago
See David Malan @ CS50 https://youtu.be/y62zj9ozPOM
2.
by hoborama 8y ago
"You don't always geeeet what you wa-ant..."
3.
by hoborama 8y ago
I work for one of the biggest (non-tech) companies in the world, and in many countries we've been storing user data in spreadsheets all over the place and often without consent. So it's been pretty frantic.
4.
by hoborama 8y ago
..s. Maths.
5.
by hoborama 8y ago
Reading your comment is reassuring, as I sometimes feel like I'm the only sane one at work. Farcical training sessions, management-speak with zero content..I could go on. I don't so much mind all that - I accept it as part of wor
6.
by hoborama 8y ago
I would put security experts and networking experts in the "technically-skilled" category. However, my experience of most people who have something like "IT security" in their job title, is that they're just the guy
7.
by hoborama 8y ago
Yeah, it works both ways. "No, Auntie Susan. I have no idea how to fix your printer. Never call me again."
8.
by hoborama 8y ago
> "I hate being called 'IT'" Oh man I hate this. An "IT" job to me just means an admin job where the subject of the admin tasks happens to be computers. It's worse when "IT workers" try to lum
9.
by hoborama 9y ago
You think he should build it for free? How is he supposed to pay his bills or eat while he's making it? Profit is not necessarily a dirty word.
10.
by hoborama 9y ago
Slightly off-topic, but I can't believe the long hours you guys in the USA work as standard. In the UK, most jobs these days are 37.5 hours. Only a few do 40. Of course there may be (rare) occasions where you need to work overtime, but