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by iamdave 9y ago
Here in Australia, most people just think "literally anything to do with computers = IT". Stateside too. I used to get asked to fix printers by friends and associates and in general get treated like a help desk by people all the
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by iamdave 9y ago
I'm glad to see someone mentioning this. This has happened the last four years straight, the Ides of January, followed by a massive bullish run.
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by iamdave 9y ago
Ah I understand a bit better now, thank you! Interestingly, I am an IT person with GIS ambitions, heh. Good luck to you regardless!
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by iamdave 9y ago
This helped kill my hopes of having a real career at the company and helped me make my peace with just leaving the company shortly thereafter. Merely curious, was the working relationship between the two of you already strained/tense
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by iamdave 9y ago
If it is a setting where asking is potentially problematic -- like work This is cultural, no? I mean, I have a personal rule of never dating coworkers, but I have friends elsewhere in the world where this isn't such a strange notio
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by iamdave 9y ago
Call me a crazy person, lately I've been thinking long and hard about going back to the BB (BB Bold 9930) and am willing to make all the sacrifices that come with it for a lot of the frustrations with smartphone OSes listed in this thr
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by iamdave 9y ago
In fact my most useful mentor and boss said to me look, I trust you guys to sort this out. I want to hear the plans and ask questions but I only need to be involved when you can’t come to an agreement. And then I can be your tie breaker.
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by iamdave 9y ago
You know, I really appreciate this response and perspective; because it makes total sense. It's human to want to stick to what you know and only natural to be hesitant of the unknown, especially when you have the tenure to have seen it
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by iamdave 9y ago
It is wholly possible to store configuration data in vcs in a way that doesn't sacrifice depth of security when it comes to secrets and passwords. But otherwise yes, storing passwords in vcs is bad. That wasn't necessarily what I
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by iamdave 9y ago
Seriously, get a year or two, then look for escape options. Been a year and a half. Have a 2nd round interview lined up for Thursday to get off this crazy train. I also happen to be reading The Phoenix Project. Which is...strangely therap
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by iamdave 9y ago
Slightly off topic but articles like this make me weep as I look at my infrastructure and think about all the best practices that we by all means should be following, but aren't because of a senior engineer stuck in the 1990's and
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by iamdave 9y ago
Maryland is home to a huge number of defense and intelligence workers. This was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the headline, it's like that common line thrown at stand-up comedians (note: This is not me calling Chels
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by iamdave 9y ago
I can't speak to plumbing and electrical work, those aren't my industries but Or a mid level IT person. They don’t exist. My knee jerk reaction is to say "I absolutely refuse to believe this is true", but I will conced
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by iamdave 9y ago
Still ?
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by iamdave 9y ago
> but at least 70% of the developers, IT workers, and researchers that I know are using prior generation MacBook Pro hardware You can have my 2015 MBP when you pry it from my cold dead hands. But yes. We recently sold off a bunch of hard
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by iamdave 9y ago
It's like we spent 20 years building houses out of wood, and then suddenly someone discovered fire. Goodness you just described my current work situation that's causing me to rip my hair out. This is a deeply human problem, and
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by iamdave 9y ago
Did I read that comment wrong, to think "US Government" literally meant U.S. (United States) Government?
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by iamdave 9y ago
I do wish companies pushed towards more pooling services like UberPool etc. I can't recall their name off the top of my head, but there's a company piloting this here in Austin Texas; they exclusively do poolsharing and have a f
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by iamdave 9y ago
Pardon my ignorance, but why's that?
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by iamdave 9y ago
I genuinely applaud and love reading about the cosplay community and how tech like 3D printers is making it easier and easier for these young men and women to get really creative with their craft, it's so much fun watching these build
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by iamdave 9y ago
People. Unfortunately, I have to say it is definitely people-but possibly less professionally of me I have to say specifically one person. Who, due to situations that had the outcome of our engineering organization no longer having a manage
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by iamdave 9y ago
Don't they already with arbitration clauses?
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by iamdave 9y ago
Is there any background check, nope. Yes, actually there are background checks.
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by iamdave 9y ago
I've been spending the last year unravelling a ball of yarn wrapped in another ball of yarn because of "guy before me" syndrome who believed this. Fully.
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by iamdave 9y ago
This is your default assumption in response to hearing that statement? Every time? That the person who spoke it is speaking down on poor people? Every time?
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by iamdave 9y ago
I'm keen to hear your counterpoints?
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by iamdave 9y ago
Do we work together?? /s But yes, the amount of reversions, refactors and plain jane "we gotta rebuild this" has lead to some real fatigue at least from me.
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by iamdave 9y ago
Agreed and well met. At least for me, if the content generated is truly engaging and substantive enough, I gladly would pay a subscription fee. This may not work arguably for a gif site, but your point is well taken-because it's comp
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by iamdave 9y ago
This is a mere personal anecdote so it doesn't mean much at large, but I'm pessimistic about the advent of sponsored {thing} not necessarily with Giphy. To me this is just another %thing% that advertisers have leached a tentacle i
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by iamdave 9y ago
Legitimately curious, but what about them is objectively "lousy"? ANECDOTE ALERT: I love how easy it is to buy a book from them, my new James Baldwin novel went from "read a review on another site, found it on amazon, ordered

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