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by jonfw 3y ago
Audits can't account for a company acting in bad faith to mislead an auditor. It accomplishes two things- 1. ensure that the company isn't misconfiguring things and accidentally breaking their own policies 2. provide a paper trail
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by jonfw 3y ago
Our app writes json logs and we use a tool (logdna) to centrally query/display those logs, it's a great solution IMO
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by jonfw 3y ago
I work with a guy now who's a mid-senior level (senior is SDE4, he's a 3) nearing retirement. Happiest guy I know tbh
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by jonfw 3y ago
If you're at the point where you're sending out online applications to jobs where you don't have a connection, I would definitely get a linkedin. I'd turn off notification entirely or for all but messages
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by jonfw 3y ago
It's not that carplay is the only good way to build an infotainment system today, it's that carplay is the only good way to build an infotainment system today that will still be good 10 years later.
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by jonfw 3y ago
Certainly not with hummers, they're being resold for well above MSRP if you can get your hands on one.
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by jonfw 3y ago
The constitution was a set of principles meant to extend beyond the times they were written in. As flawed as the founding fathers were, they were probably smart enough to understand that the nature of the threats the country would face were
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by jonfw 3y ago
Keep in mind that the vast majority of the market is driven by institutional investors and the prices are largely set by those big players. Let's say that TA works, but it doesn't scale to that level (i.e. it only provides returns
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by jonfw 3y ago
What is software development if not thoroughly understanding the problem? Implementation is rarely the hard part
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by jonfw 3y ago
I proposed a re-write for a tool that we needed to use in a different context recently. We built an MVP relatively quickly, but ended up throwing out the rewrite. We had two issues- 1. when we did the rewrite, we ran into a lot of the same
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by jonfw 3y ago
the nice thing about levels on the flip side is that you can communicate with your peers about your progression without necessarily having to give your salary. When I talk to somebody a level above, they're very open about when and how
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by jonfw 3y ago
I don't see what ubuntu takes away from arch, alpine, or gentoo. There are many options
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by jonfw 3y ago
Why would a different number of hours constitute a problem which needs to be solved? It could obviously lead to a problem, if that person is under performing as a result, but it's not obvious that there is a linear relationship between
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by jonfw 3y ago
The fundamental problems in construction are around acquiring and developing land, organizing labor and doing quality control Those aren't software problems
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by jonfw 3y ago
chatbots are the future of customer service. The past of customer service is the complex phone system where you select a number from a menu, and they automate some tasks (like paying your bill, etc.) and sometimes you end up talking to an a
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by jonfw 3y ago
Price is even more easily gamed than reviews, i don’t care how bad reviews get, pricing will always be a terrible signal
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by jonfw 3y ago
An important difference is that the US government doesn't have a "god credential", they have to request the data (and there is a process to request the data involving courts, etc.) Meanwhile, govt officials in China appear to
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by jonfw 3y ago
At IBM cloud a terraform service (schematics) is offered as a freebie, I can’t imagine that someone would pay significant cash for it
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by jonfw 3y ago
if you want the free market to work, consumers can’t use price to evaluate quality
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by jonfw 3y ago
MacBook Air m2 just got 100 cheaper yesterday
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by jonfw 3y ago
These kids are cleaning bandsaw blades, not making furniture with them
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by jonfw 3y ago
Par for the course in china, sure
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by jonfw 3y ago
If you have a 100 million dollar CRE building on your balance sheet, and sell it for 50 million, that's a 50 mill hit. Companies just don't want to realize the hit and kill their performance for that quarter
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by jonfw 3y ago
Think of it this way- a company has a CRE portfolio originally worth a hundred million dollars on their balance sheet. If they sell it and take a massive loss, they'll take a big hit on the balance sheet. So, they want to hang on to it
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by jonfw 3y ago
When the interests of the company and yourself are aligned, absolutely! It is easy though to fall into the trap of making improvements for the sake of improvements, without any real visibility of why that matters to the business. That’s whe
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by jonfw 3y ago
I enjoy working for IBM, I’ve been there my whole (relatively short) career and it’s been a great mix of interesting work, opportunity to advance my career, mentorship, and work life balance. It’s a big company and every team is different s
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by jonfw 3y ago
Caring about the product is not good for your career. You should care about your career, and most of the time, that means that progressing the product should be your goal. However, when the interests of yourself and your company diverge, do
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by jonfw 3y ago
I've been able to get it to write functions for me which I can then plug into a larger system. As an example- I have data representing a cylinder defined like so- {radius: x, depth: y}, give me a function which takes this object and ca
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by jonfw 3y ago
The discourse is more like "accountability is good, structure good, deadlines good"
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by jonfw 3y ago
I think that designing the TV layout is not the point, the point is opening yourself to new ideas and empathy, facilitating compromise

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