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by iamdave 8y ago
Anyone else find themselves assessing office space when on interviews? Not things like looking for the pool table or seeing what craft beer they have on tap, or how fancy the giant wallboard behind reception is. I'm talking about going
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by iamdave 8y ago
From what I've read, (I haven't followed it too closely as I'm not from the US) the issue is that repealing NN enables an ISP to throttle Netflix for users who don't pay more for (for example) a 'Media' plan W
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by iamdave 8y ago
Is Diebold still around? Gimme five on Diebold by decision.
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by iamdave 8y ago
I don't think anyone is really meant to apply to something with such a friction-less application process. Seems like a vacuum to suck in resumes and pad pipeline. I'm either jaded or more experienced than I was before but I almost
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by iamdave 8y ago
Agreed. I hadn't really thought of that either and consider me convinced of the point made.
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by iamdave 8y ago
I thought the hand drawn windows were well done for what they were, but for a beginner audience I wonder if real screenshots do more or less to help with the "aha" moments of connecting the tutorial instructions with output the us
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by iamdave 8y ago
I recognized the style, it wasn't until said manifesto that I even learned it had a name. Or rather that I learned what the name was . Would you say the manifesto is missing concepts and explanations of the style or are there inaccura
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by iamdave 8y ago
I'm inclined to say if that article/manifesto on brutalist design that hit the front page yesterday is even remotely authoritative then some of these sites are breaking what I assumed to be fundamental tenents of brutalist web des
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by iamdave 8y ago
Those are some shallow and some honestly awful reasons to pick on one's choice of headphones and the people who buy them considering it's not your money being spent buying a pair of Beats headphones. It's theirs. They worke
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by iamdave 8y ago
I don't see any of these training challenges being any different hiring someone who job hops, these sound like very common things a team would likely encounter onboarding just about any contributor...and I think we're drifting off
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by iamdave 8y ago
Maybe you've lost me, and I misunderstand your post. Initially I replied thinking you were talking about getting training in a specific set of tasks or platform, you mentioned "Product X". But it seems, now you're talk
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by iamdave 8y ago
I'm having a similar though tangential reaction: is this trend saying something about the four year degree against changing demands for talent? I don't know but if I've long argued that if the Associates degree in the US was
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by iamdave 8y ago
I fail to understand how repeatedly asking someone to cancel my service is being malicious, beyond depriving the company of the revenue they'd benefit had my membership continued. It's not my job to go out of my way to help these
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by iamdave 8y ago
A company uses x that no one else uses and you're blaming the job seeker for not having that particular skill?
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by iamdave 8y ago
That may be the best description of the phenomenon I've described. I lived that. It was unbearable-stayed around way longer than I should have because I did genuinely and truly believe in the mission of the company. They gave us reason
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by iamdave 8y ago
Is there a word or a phrase whereby the Peter Principle takes such a hold in the structure of management that it no longer becomes possible to even promote? The 'Peters' get to a position and create an artificial ceiling where pot
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by iamdave 8y ago
Thus, if you've had 5 different jobs in the past 5 years I would look at that as a real negative Why? Because the only way to for a working professional to accumulate a "reasonable lifespan" of product knowledge is to ancho
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by iamdave 8y ago
Heh, you probably read my post and thought "darn kids" to yourself, eh?
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by iamdave 8y ago
I like having a bit of fun with cancellations once I catch on that they're not gonna make it easy. "Please cancel my service" "We'd like to retain your business is there anything we can do?" "Is my service
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by iamdave 8y ago
I ask this not with snark but with fond(ish) memories, but does Microsoft providing open data like this make anyone else think of that Northwinds sample database that used to come with SQL Server? Not sure if it still does or not, as I&#x27
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by iamdave 8y ago
My last job was 100% WFH and I tell people this all the time who ask how I do it. "Dedicate a work area for work and nothing else". All I have on my work desk (which is an actual desk in a smallish room I converted for the purpose
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by iamdave 8y ago
They sometimes don't, which is why many cities delegate that out to agencies like local Convention Bureaus/Tourism Boards where the requisite brainpower is concentrated and applied-they do the numbers, make recommendations and pro
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by iamdave 8y ago
I've come to loathe this about social networking sites. Twitter (which I use for sports buffoonery and hot takes from the community) is the absolute worst about this. "Hey your friend did a thing, go congratulate them" "
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by iamdave 8y ago
Why would anyone of above average ability become a journalist anymore? You have better, long term salary prospects as a public school teacher. If you're looking for a genuine and authentic answer: I took up a part-time job writing lo
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by iamdave 8y ago
I like that. So many times I've looked at a peer's code and had a hard time reconciling what the comments and wiki articles said with what their code was attempting to do. This mindset is probably a godsend to QA teams.
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by iamdave 8y ago
I think they're describing your applying a mental disorder to someone when there's no evidence of that anywhere in the article-to justify your position against the comment you responded to-as being a strawman. Because it is.
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by iamdave 8y ago
I watched as a Lack of emoji support took down a critical production database for over 100 non-profit organizations in 2015 and made ripples across the charitable giving sector. All because someone included a smiley emoji while making a don
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by iamdave 8y ago
This is it? I've often considered the abuse of 1099 workers to be the thing that one day catches up with tech as a precursor to its own "Enron" moment. Maybe it'll be both.
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by iamdave 8y ago
Even phone confernces (using VOIP conference providers) have awful quality. VoIP, especially multi-tenant voip like conferencing is 70% dependent on YOUR local network connection and 30% the provider's infrastructure. Having a high b
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by iamdave 9y ago
I know, I know, it was just a few of those mythical and rare "bad apples".. but until the good apples who supposedly outnumber the bad start cleaning house, and stop standing up for those "bad apples" to protect the ima

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