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901.
by indymike 4y ago
> Isn't there an even simpler answer? Nope. There's a lot of writing about this issue from various founding fathers. There was great desire to avoid the President appearing to be a king or turning into one.
902.
by indymike 4y ago
> That makes it sound as if Putin attacked because an opportunity presented itself. The west still appeared to be disrupted by COVID. The US and allies sent mixed signals on Ukraine which were interpreted as the US and West will let natu
903.
by indymike 4y ago
> The president's authority over the military is a legal fiction Having served in the US Navy, this statement could not be more wrong. All command authority is delegated from the President, full stop.
904.
by indymike 4y ago
> It's why I don't understand why in the US, the president is also the top military commander. Simple: the founders of the US thought it would protect our democracy to ensure that a elected civilian was in charge of the militar
905.
by indymike 4y ago
I for one totally trust an organization that can't operate a "pick a number" machine correctly to get my official ID and driver's license right on the block chain.
906.
by indymike 4y ago
I've used both Meteor and Amplify. Amplify has been fantastic for SPAs that don't need a backend database and require zero SSR. You get nice deployment tooling (especially for jr. devs) and CDN for very little money. When we start
907.
by indymike 4y ago
I had three different palm phones (a Palm and two Kyoceras) and a WindowsCE based MDA before I got my first modern smartphone (A Tmobile G1). I think the final nail was simple hubris. Everyone thought their established market position and s
908.
by indymike 4y ago
> This sort of myopic, self-important, holier-than-thou perspective is why the open source community is so rarely successful in anything it tries to do for itself If the goal is to share code, between just BSD Unix and Linux, open source
909.
by indymike 4y ago
Wow, I remember the first exposure I had to the term DevOps was not at all about working closely, it was about replacing admins with code. This made sense at the time because Puppet, Chef, SaltStack and other tools made it seem like you cou
910.
by indymike 4y ago
> To me this is just free enterprise and private property rights. Capitalism is just a system which allows private citizens to own the means of production. Everything else is just people trying to overload a word to create a savior or bo
911.
by indymike 4y ago
> What were SVB customers getting in exchange for encouraging every company to keep their $ in uninsured deposits earning low interest? Sometimes the issue is that there is nothing better, that is known to be available . I can't re
912.
by indymike 4y ago
Right now I'm in the second year with an LG Gram 17, and it's easily been the best laptop I've had in a long time. The only thing giving me pause about replacing it with another Gram is Framework. The idea of serviceability a
913.
by indymike 4y ago
> It’s just what capitalism is designed to do. Capitalism is simply allowing private citizens to own, in part or full, the means of production such as farms and businesses. I'm not sure that capitalism is responsible for a decision
914.
by indymike 4y ago
It felt that way back then, too, but at least you didn't lose your forecast when you synced with the home office and it went sideways.
915.
by indymike 4y ago
Things have improved, for sure.
916.
by indymike 4y ago
Very few buyers for large amounts of office space right now. Commercial vacancy is high.
917.
by indymike 4y ago
I was in the CRM business at the time - VP of sales for a CRM integrator and Salesforce was an earthquake when it hit the market in 99. By 2001, Salesforce and competitor Upshot (which got bought by #1 CRM vendor Siebel and put out of busin
918.
by indymike 4y ago
When I need to destroy a hard drive, I use 1TBSP of Thermite (or stump remover if you go to the local ag supply store). Of course, the drive isn't very useful after, but it's so much fun.
919.
by indymike 4y ago
> It seems like the process of populating the top tiers in large orgs routinely sifts out people who know how to cooperate, and promote the people who only know how to dominate. I don't think it's that simple. As you move up, y
920.
by indymike 4y ago
Salesforce has spent an insane amount of money on real estate. I think the return to the office has nothing to do with productivity or even management style and everything to do with the big towers with SalesForce on top. The irony in this
921.
by indymike 4y ago
I think my kids, if left to their own devices, would survive on a diet of cup-o-noodles, air-fryer cooked pizza rolls, pop-tarts and wash it down with Monster. This also reminds me of the diet of many junior developers.
922.
by indymike 4y ago
Add about 200°C to the filling temperature and you capture the difference.
923.
by indymike 4y ago
> My advice from experience - if the advice you're receiving is wrong and you know it's wrong, explain why it's wrong and if you're pressured to go against your advice, then that person is not a fit for you and you sh
924.
by indymike 4y ago
> Whenever I see interviews with YC advisors, they blame mistakes of founders of not taking their advice as the biggest as mistake. This is normal human behavior. You did X and failed. If only you had done Y as I had suggested... Monday
925.
by indymike 4y ago
> Wait was it or wasn’t it? Doesn't really matter. The problem is the choice for the employer is really: A risk of paying 3 x whatever (sometimes crazy) number the employee is asking for versus Certainty of paying 1 x whatever we se
926.
by indymike 4y ago
Lots of people have pointed out how entitled this article is. There's another problem with this article. The author assumes that his plans for the future are in alignment with or superior to the vision of the authors / ip owners o
927.
by indymike 4y ago
I agree with you - health and burnout aren't incompetence.
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by indymike 4y ago
> Employers in the US don't care about giving people the opportunity to improve, it's more about documenting the underperformance so there is an airtight case against the employee - nobody can claim a protected reason if the un
929.
by indymike 4y ago
This article, and the one it was written in response to are both about the scenario where someone is under-performing because they are incompetent, not capable of becoming competent and really nice and likable. What both articles missed is
930.
by indymike 4y ago
> but the need for real LTS releases is stronger than ever Actually, I think the LTS mentality is one of the bigger problems in security right now. The hardest problems I've had to deal with in tech all stem for LTS: * Getting an no

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