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by lasereyes136 4y ago
Keep in mind that it be be true that CI/CD engines are an awful idea (for some people and orgs) while at the same time that CI/CD engines are needed (for some people and orgs). Not everyone can spin up Jenkins on a cheap VM, write
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by lasereyes136 4y ago
Layoffs are cruel and are often done poorly. It is really hard to say if they work or not since there is no consistent reason why they are done and picking some external measure doesn't prove much.
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by lasereyes136 4y ago
You are overthinking it. Unless someone has a problem with you, they most likely don't notice how long your take if you are quick. They also notice if others speak too long, whether they say something or not. If you are getting your wo
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by lasereyes136 4y ago
> When you don't know what you're doing, dazzle them with bullshit. 100% because most people don't know what makes good security so it is easy to get them to mistake volume with quality.
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by lasereyes136 4y ago
> The problem is that the more automation we push, the fewer people know how to use the “old school” way to administer stuff. Yes, that is the irony of automation, when something goes wrong you need a higher level of understanding to fix
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by lasereyes136 4y ago
You can hire a consultant to explain Git to you. Depending on where that consultant is in the world and their career, their hourly rate could vary a great deal. The hard part will be figuring if they actually know Git well enough to teach y
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by lasereyes136 4y ago
Visual Basic is an example of an older "Low Code" solution that was used a lot of applications that were used for years. Low Code will evolve so you have to evolve with them. That said, there will be some widely successful Low Cod
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by lasereyes136 4y ago
If you employer pays for Teams, assume they can monitor it and MS facilitates it. In the US, I believe, this isn't considered legally wrong, meaning it is OK to monitor employee use of company assets.
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by lasereyes136 4y ago
This is classic burnout. I would set timers like start work a 8:30 AM, take 10 minutes breaks every hour or two, eat lunch away from your work, and stop working at 5 PM. Set boundaries and stick to them.
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by lasereyes136 4y ago
What problem is this meant to address? How is this making OSS better?
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by lasereyes136 4y ago
Everything or almost everything stated in the article is true. That said, it doesn't matter. All software and software ecosystems are ephemeral and you can't know what you might need or want in the future, especially years down th
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by lasereyes136 4y ago
Failure to plan on your part does not make an emergency on my part. I have been part of too many projects where the people in control of the planning didn’t do their job or didn’t do it on time and they just expected those after them in the
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by lasereyes136 4y ago
What is compelling about a Chromebook to get me to spend $999 on one? I have always viewed them as low cost computers. That said, I have used a Chromebook as a secondary computer so I have experience with them.
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by lasereyes136 4y ago
> Some common responses by companies include: Yes and I would say I often see the responses come out in that order.
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by lasereyes136 4y ago
Many will justify it as we will be lucky to survive and grow to a point where a security incident will be a problem. AppSec is never the most important thing on any product manager or product owners list. No one says AppSec isn't impor
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by lasereyes136 4y ago
> This kind of pendulum like, tick-tocking back and forth between things like fat clients/thin-clients, dumb termials/PCs, centralized vs. decentralized (well, cloud-based [i.e., someone else's computer]) applications, and
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by lasereyes136 4y ago
Contrary to Betteridge's law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline... I would say the answer is maybe. Sure there are cases where it might make a big difference. Most cases it will not. The
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by lasereyes136 4y ago
AI is the computer science term for some magic we will discover in the future. Once an AI technique becomes something real and useful it gets it's own name and is no longer AI. If we could all agree that AI just means something we don&
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by lasereyes136 4y ago
I don’t know if you will need microservices or not. I can tell you that many developers and teams will do microservices poorly and will not get an advantage out of it and will have an even more complex ball of mud to maintain.
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by lasereyes136 4y ago
The cost of most commodities varies by location. This includes Coke. It is called price discrimination. The whole reason DVDs had regions was to price the same DVD differently based on location. As long as companies can, they will price and
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by lasereyes136 4y ago
> I kinda feel like VR is still in the "Should I get an Amiga? Or an Atari? Or a TRS80? Or a ZX81? Or an Apple II?" stage. Exactly, we are still in early days for VR. Many of the annoying things will get better.
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by lasereyes136 4y ago
I don't think most people realize that to be successful you have to have the right combination of people including a great development team, great salespeople, great marketers, and great management. Any hole or negative value people in
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by lasereyes136 4y ago
Good luck, I hope it works out. It is hard to be in between two of the largest and most established tech companies in the world. If Apple or Microsoft wanted it, they could make it happen. I assume neither want it, at least not right now, s
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by lasereyes136 4y ago
And it will be good for the Crypto ecosystem in the long run. Too much of Crypto is a scam right now.
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by lasereyes136 4y ago
Don't use your work computer for non-work related things, especially looking for another job. Get another computer for your personal use. The company owns those company assets and can do with them what they want. You don't have an
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by lasereyes136 4y ago
Good technical people are critical to success. Most technical people aren't good so pick them with care.
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by lasereyes136 4y ago
Good sales people are critical to success. Most sales people aren't good, pick them with care.
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by lasereyes136 4y ago
I think there will be a good deal of useful software created using NoCode and LowCode tools and almost all of it will be created by software developers. Very few non-technical people will learn enough to be useful software. Some non-technic
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by lasereyes136 5y ago
SGIs were the first Unix systems I used. We had a lab of them in school. They worked wonderfully for me and I never lost any files on them. There was also a really good Unix Sysadmin that maintained them and was available if you had any que
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by lasereyes136 5y ago
I would add that for many people that try to change the Government from within end up becoming what they start out fighting against just to be in the process.

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