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by janstice 2y ago
> SOC2 stuff (which we all know is largely theater) SOC2 is only theatre if you (a) you already have good practice, and (b) can demonstrate that you have good practice. If your practice isn't good enough (like the whole notion of se
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by janstice 2y ago
The other factor is that it’s just a job - you are not getting married! You can take their offer, and if it doesn’t work out or if something better comes along, you can just resign.
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by janstice 2y ago
It seems nuts to me too - MS Defender has this out of the box. From looking at sysadmins on reddit, it seems that CS has a tiered update mechanism, but didn’t use it for this change.
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by janstice 2y ago
To be fair, thousands of microservices in a monorepo sounds better than thousands of microservices, each with its own repository (but sub-repo’ing common libraries so everything jams up in everything else).
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by janstice 3y ago
One of the things that bit one of our teams of developers for about 6 years was the Docker Hub pull limit -- poor configuration (established in the early days of the project), and no caching would occasionally break our builds for a day whe
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by janstice 3y ago
Why not? Being the new guy/gal sucks - all the institutional knowledge that you have accumulated means that you’re much more efficient that when you move to a new place, plus you know everyone and you’ve got relationships and likely fr
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by janstice 3y ago
Make sure they keep on top of getting sight & hearing checked, and encourage getting things fixed - my MIL has quite considerable cognitive decline, and with a bunch of ableism and anxiety resisted things like cataract surgery and heari
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by janstice 3y ago
Do fewer things! If you have your days so full that you finish all your stuff at bedtime, you have too many things happening. Find a way to categorise into important/somewhat-important/not-important, and just give yourself permiss
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by janstice 3y ago
Plus - I don't know about your area, but every so often I try to staff a Django project, and people with more than superficial knowledge are like hens' teeth, so maybe lean into that.
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by janstice 3y ago
I've hired a maybe 10 devs in the last couple of years at a variety of levels, and this CV doesn't help much - it might get to a maybe pile, but there are a bunch of relatively small changes that I think would help: 1. Where are y
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by janstice 3y ago
“Piracy” has been used in relation to IP since the 1700s. It’s not a new thing (think pirate radio, pirate buses).
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by janstice 3y ago
It's an OpenStreetMap routing engine, and the link is to a transcript of an interview with the key developers.
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by janstice 3y ago
I was interested to read (WSJ so I won't link - I read on reader mode...) that Microsoft was earlier this year losing between $20 - $80 per user per month on Github Copilot, due to the expense of running the thing. It seems like LLM-ba
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by janstice 3y ago
Lulu was worth a go on the strength of “Rock ‘n’ Roll Animal”, which is and always will be a top 5 live album - play it really loud. Don’t bother with earbuds or headphones.
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by janstice 3y ago
That and you’d have to correct for undiagnosed ADHD which suddenly improved with a course of amphetamines.
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by janstice 3y ago
Not in Denmark (or even UK), but if we hire perm HR get involved, while contractors are just procurement, and can be directly attached to a project which will be funded differently to BAU - when I hire a perm attached to a project I need to
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by janstice 3y ago
I agree with all of this - and the skill that leaders need isn’t demonstrating (intermediates can do this), but coaching - this will help develop the team to be able to solve the issues themselves.
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by janstice 3y ago
That sounds like someone who will make a four-page fizzbuzz solution, which was at one stage a highlight for us. What I try to get candidates to do in interviews is find the project they are most proud of, and get them to talk about it at a
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by janstice 3y ago
Oddly enough, the quote is from a legitamate terrorist organisation following a bomb attack on a UK political conference, that wasn't that far off killing the PM at the time (and killed 5 others). The IRA statement following the bombin
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by janstice 3y ago
I work for a uni which is rolling out the MS modern auth - we have a FIDO2 option (Yubikeys I guess) for contentious objectors to the Authenticator apps.
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by janstice 3y ago
And yet there is a town called Scunthorpe - I wonder if the inhabitants have trouble getting things delivered?
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by janstice 4y ago
As a hiring manager who has a number of contractors, having a handful of vendors we work with, with a limited number of timesheet approval systems, invoicing, etc makes life easier for me. If we can bring another contractor on the same term
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by janstice 4y ago
Can you sell the whole things as a ready-to-launch product to a funded org that’s either in the market, or wants to be? If neither you nor your co-founder have the multiple millions to launch, if you drag the runway out by self-funding (and
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by janstice 4y ago
In my neck of the woods, eventually your insurance will not cover you for damage caused by out of spec electrical wiring, which then endangers a mortgage…
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by janstice 4y ago
Improper abstraction does usually lead to significant technical debt, but if you are lucky you can bank your short-term successes and leave the tech debt to someone else.
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by janstice 4y ago
Disagree on the no need to make a ticket transferable part - this is the place where NFTs make the most sense - there really is only 1 seat 22B at the Lakers game next Saturday, but in an untrustworthy secondary market I want to know that w
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by janstice 4y ago
I’d have a look at something like an Udemy CCNA course, but stick to the generic stuff, and skip the Cisco-specific things - this should get you enough of the basics that you can pick up the rest. Udemy is good here in that you can pick &am
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by janstice 4y ago
I spent a decade parsing text-with-angle-brackets with regexes, and it sucks. It’s always tempting to try an html parser but if the code is written by a human (or worse, a mixture of human and machine, especially if the machine involves MS
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by janstice 4y ago
+1, it’s a blockchain search engine with a GraphQL interface.
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by janstice 4y ago
Not GP, but an idiosyncratic data model that reflects a non-reality really encumbers momentum by introducing integration friction, arguments on the “right” way forward and generally causes a lot of noise. It can also make the team look like

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