jdbernard

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by jdbernard 2y ago
Parent's point was about lay-offs, not firings. I'm very comfortable with their suggestion. Make the company be explicit. If it's a firing ("they are underperforming") then sure, that doesn't affect H1B eligibi
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by jdbernard 2y ago
> You likely again have never seen a true high performer No one has. ;) > [You] are confusing them for high output. Not really. I agree that high performance is more than just high output. When I said this: > My job is to make sure
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by jdbernard 2y ago
That's a straw man. The actual argument is about the danger of applying "best practices" uncritically, not about doing away with leadership. "Do X because it's best practice" is very different than "do X b
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by jdbernard 2y ago
That's only true if you expect managers to control the people they lead. Another approach is to empower them instead. As a manager my expectation is that each of my direct reports eventually grows to be better at their job than I am at
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by jdbernard 2y ago
I think the original poster's intention was to be somewhat inflammatory as a way to draw attention to the very high level of trust you are granting to CloudFlare in this model. You are effectively giving them whatever privileges you yo
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by jdbernard 2y ago
Different responder, but I imagine they are referring to CloudFlare's stated ability to: Provide command logs and session recordings to allow administrators to audit and replay their developers’ interactions with the organization’s in
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by jdbernard 2y ago
> I would work for myself, following my own philosophy. Sounds like he understood it just fine. He owns the means of production.
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by jdbernard 2y ago
Not OP, but another visual aphant. Navigation - I'm doing the same thing, but without "seeing" it. I know Georgetown is N-NE of Austin, Liberty Hill is due W from Georgetown, IH-35 runs N-S but actually slightly NE-SW through
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by jdbernard 2y ago
I'll add another data point as I believe I'm on the extreme end of complete aphantasia: Dreaming: Hard to describe without using words that imply too much here. It's the same as my imagination when reading. Meaning, I am awar
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by jdbernard 2y ago
No. I replied in a sibling comment, but even in the few dreams I remember there is no visual image at all.
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by jdbernard 2y ago
I have complete aphantasia. I do dream, but rarely remember them. The dreams I do remember have the same quality as my imagination when reading a book. Meaning, I don't see anything when I dream. I know the story, I can feel the place
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by jdbernard 2y ago
At this point we're going to need to provide sources if we want to get further value out of this discussion because I disagree with your definition and don't believe your characterization of the history of incorporation. Profit sh
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by jdbernard 2y ago
Sounds like a skill issue. Joking aside I know, personally, business owners who have consistently acted with integrity and managed to maintain a successful, profitable business over the course of 30+ years, adjacent to the real estate marke
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by jdbernard 2y ago
I think ISPs are actually a great counter-example to your point. The major ISPs are not dominant because they are the only ones able to stay profitable given the tight margins. There are several examples of local, for profit, ISPs that are
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by jdbernard 2y ago
No, it's not, or at least, it doesn't have to be, and it wasn't always. It's amazing how our modern society has so completely lionized and internalized greed. Maybe the core concept of a corporation could be, for example
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by jdbernard 2y ago
Yes, I think broadly we agree. Thanks for the discussion. > What does that have to do with abstractions or the lack of physical constraints? Someone like Steve Jobs becomes a forcing function to maintain a high bar of quality. He's
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by jdbernard 2y ago
> But yes, sometimes the phone doesn't stop vibrating. I failed to communicate clearly. Yes, I agree, the scope of human achievement is amazing, software included. However, the issues with software go far deeper than just the trivia
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by jdbernard 2y ago
The thing that is unique about software is the lack of physical constraints which serve as a natural forcing function or filter on quality. With a bridge, for example, at some level it must meet a minimum bar of structural integrity, qualit
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by jdbernard 2y ago
I didn't read it that way. I read it as an introduction to a counter-cultural paradigm shift away from the "move fast and break things" and "abstract over it" mindsets. I'm very interested in the path they are
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by jdbernard 2y ago
The idea of a multi-lingual programming language is so interesting. The fact that there is a lingua-franca for programming is, ironically, both a huge boon for accessibility and a large hurdle. With a single programming language any program
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by jdbernard 2y ago
If this was the first time they were packaging keepassxc, this would be fine. If they instead chose to remove the keepassxc package and provide two new packages, keepassxc-minimal and keepassxc-full, it would be fine. It's the fact tha
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by jdbernard 2y ago
The fact that they are customizing the software is not really the issue. The issue is that they are making a change that will remove significant functionality and in some cases completely lock some users out of their password database, whic
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by jdbernard 2y ago
If you read the GitHub discussion these features are usually compiled in but not actually exercised until the user enabled then in the UI. The debian packager has changed the compile-time configuration to disable them at compile-time, makin
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by jdbernard 2y ago
Particularly of features that users depend on. It really leaves the impression that he thinks very little of debian users.
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by jdbernard 2y ago
Let's say that I had the previous version of keepassxc installed and used a Yubikey to protect it. Now when the distro updates, through no actions of my own, I will be locked out of my password DB because the Yubikey extension is no lo
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by jdbernard 2y ago
Or maybe just fork the project instead and let users who want these features use the package the way the authors intended. There are multiple KeePass implementations. The people using this one are doing so because they want its features.
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by jdbernard 2y ago
The most secure system is the system with no features! Let's delete everything. #nofeatures #securityonly
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by jdbernard 2y ago
The problem is that this will break all existing users who use those features when they update. One of the comments in the GitHub thread has a better path, IMHO: ship two new packages, a -minimal and a -full, and the user to choose, rather
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by jdbernard 2y ago
it's hard to argue that it's incorrect. That is my argument though. Dominance hierarchies are one foundational lens through which to view the world, yes I agree. However, it is not the only one, and if you were to use that lens
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by jdbernard 2y ago
Lol, this is laughably far from my lived experience, and I imagine that of many others. Child has ego → wants to be important → demonstrates a certain talent → identifies a dominance hierarchy predicated on that talent → consumes the mytho

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