javier_e06

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by javier_e06 4y ago
GNU: GNU is Not Unix. Or Linux for that matter.
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by javier_e06 4y ago
scripts will be break. Strange outputs will appear. Devops will rip the gowns and douse ashes on their heads. Patches will arrive and a years later someone will make a joke about fgrep like the jokes about ed, the GNU ed line editor.
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by javier_e06 4y ago
Leaders are competitive and brandish individualism. Workers are helpful and brandish collective trends. Axioms of the western culture. Meanwhile human resources wants leaders and workers to be: "More human". Pretty psychotic.
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by javier_e06 4y ago
I need an ELI5 here. From the article: "For example, our business unit and design teams will be able to consider the potential impact on their margins if they want to run an additional product stepping, while the manufacturing team wil
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by javier_e06 4y ago
For C Code UML is sort of moot. UML shines outlining object oriented designs and transactions. Management loves it along with Power Point and large conference rooms. I don't know who in their right mind think that is possible or useful
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by javier_e06 4y ago
At CVS and Walgreens the pharmacy is at the back of the store. To pick up your obesity, sugar intake related prescription you have to walk through aisles filled with Milky Ways, Cokes, Lays Chips and Oreos. Viva La Freedom!
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by javier_e06 4y ago
The story falls on the category of "it won't happen until it happens". Testing is expensive and even with all the testing in advance we observe emergent behaviors that make us run to the reams of logs to ask the very simple q
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by javier_e06 4y ago
Rust covers an infinitesimal footprint of the C/C++ code out there running the world. Rust won't replace anything substantial or meaningful in the embedded world for the time being.
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As an employee of a large company, is working from a hotel Hybrid Work?
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by javier_e06 4y ago
The operative word is value: Many conventions and activities have value, some don't. I once met a senior developer who created in c++ the Class Byte for our codebase to tackle portability with it. I was a noob and I really thought that
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by javier_e06 4y ago
You'll be reliably tackled and body-searched walking around the data center floor with a usb drive in your pocket.
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by javier_e06 4y ago
What is this rotary encoder you are talking about willis? Imagine an end to end functionality that when 2 users running this keyboard rotate the switch every keystroke between the 2 keyboards is an encrypted channel? Ooooh!
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by javier_e06 4y ago
Yes, RAID is all that. It's interesting to see such established technology shine and shine again.
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by javier_e06 4y ago
The logo of the cute squirrel was replaced by some airplane clip art? Where is marketing in all this? Bad choice. A re-redesign is in order.
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by javier_e06 4y ago
It makes sense to go the emoji way. We already get emojis on our IDEs with lightbulbs, lightnings and the dreaded red x mark.
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by javier_e06 4y ago
With better unicodes I wish computer language could use fancier characters to express loops, conditionals and in general without using the english language. goodbye to [if, else, switch, break, lastly, each etc..] let us crate a language t
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by javier_e06 4y ago
TV had a similar grip to society back then. I once entered a circular argument with a roommate who insisted hi liked Sprite better than 7UP. My retort was the fact he, like me, where already indoctrinated with thousand of hours of tv commer
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by javier_e06 4y ago
Look at my latest gizmo...on a drone! Look at my latest data crunch app...on the web! Yep, smells like management all over.
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by javier_e06 4y ago
I just listened to Hidden Brain: Origin of money https://www.npr.org/2020/01/10/795246685/emotional-currency-... It based on human relations. But not relations among us the but rather our relation betwee
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by javier_e06 4y ago
I have the ipod nano 7th gen with a radio tuner! I also have the 1st gen apple shuffle, that one that looks like a usb stick. I hate all things apple (The Disney of Story Telling) but those 2 gadgets I keep in the kitchen crap drawer.
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by javier_e06 4y ago
Those who stayed later Fridays and logged in to work on the weekends, those who rattled some cages and when yelled, yelled back, where promoted. The rest of us who enjoy our evenings with our families and married feasibility with sustainabi
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by javier_e06 4y ago
Do you have to pay $40.00/month to use the streets to go to work? No. Do you have to pay $40.00/month to use fiberoptics to work from home? Yes. ISP's love this. Internet is infrastructure. ISP companies get paid handsomely f
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by javier_e06 5y ago
In one exit interview I said to HR: "Working in this project is like watching a bad movie. I wouldn't watch a bad movie even if you pay me because I cannot un-see it." She responded: "Like watching Sharknado" "
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by javier_e06 5y ago
My laptop belongs to the suits. My pc (ASRock + GTX + Ryzen + Corsair) belongs to me. Sure I have a chromebook to toss around the living room to browse the web, but me owning a laptop? Ha!
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by javier_e06 5y ago
My Tai Chi mentor faces us and lifts her left arm. Most of us lift our right arm. I lift my left arm. "It does not matter" She said. "Show intention" She reminds us.