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by lasereyes136 5y ago
The pandemic is over because we as a society have decided it is over and most people accept the number of covid deaths as part of being in society. Numbers and science matter less than what we are willing to live with. People that don'
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by lasereyes136 5y ago
While I agree with you, some managers micromanage and freak out for any change that isn't directly related to doing or fixing X. They will reject the change and it becomes painful to keep working like that because they hold it against
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by lasereyes136 5y ago
I have written a good deal of Java as a professional Java developer for over 10 years. The core truth the article gets right is that Java is meant to be a language Enterprise developers can use and be reasonably sure other people can pick i
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by lasereyes136 5y ago
There is very little case law (settled cases) that we could use for guidance so it is hard to say if this is good enough or not.
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by lasereyes136 5y ago
> and power users are who Windows Pro is targeted for. Nope, Windows Pro is targeted to businesses. I agree that this will be a frustration point some power users don't need and while make some relegate Windows to a VM. Many power u
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by lasereyes136 5y ago
Off the shelf vs. build your own is a trade off. Most organizations don't think through this trade off very well and hence both are anti-patterns because the result of the tradeoff can be bad either way.
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by lasereyes136 5y ago
It is not illegal to fire workers without a cause. All layoffs are letting people go for no cause (with their work or behavior). Many states are "right to work" states where you and or your employer can decide to part ways at anyt
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by lasereyes136 5y ago
This person's base premise is wrong. Agile can help you build software that has high quality. I know that it isn't always used in a way that can improve quality and, yet, many of the engineering practices (that are often ignored)
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by lasereyes136 5y ago
I get a flu vaccine shot every year so I expect a Covid shot at least that often. It is my understanding that the flu vaccine changes every year based on the projections of what flu will be the most common in the upcoming flu season. There
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by lasereyes136 5y ago
It isn't the NFTs that are bad per se but how they are promoted and sold that can be bad. Using an NFT for concert tickets makes sense. Using an NFT as a "certificate of authenticity" makes sense. Using NFTs in a video game
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by lasereyes136 5y ago
Sounds like a group that didn't understand the tool and just put it in place. Metrics and tools make good servants but poor managers.
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by lasereyes136 5y ago
Welcome to corporate America!
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by lasereyes136 5y ago
All software needs to be maintained much like food needs to be grown every year. The environment, need, situation, and security around the software is always changing so static software rots. Some rots quickly and some rots slowly but witho
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by lasereyes136 5y ago
There has been location arbitration in IT for decades in the form offshoring and near-shoring. There is no reason for that to not be a thing within the US. Many companies will value (whether it is really valuable or not) people who come int
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by lasereyes136 5y ago
The implication is that WordPress sites don't represent what people are using to build software these days. This may or may not be a valid point of view depending on what you really want to know.
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by lasereyes136 5y ago
If you go almost anywhere in a developed nation you are being recorded by a large number of cameras all of the time. The number of public and private surveillance cameras in the world is large and you are most likely covered the whole time
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by lasereyes136 5y ago
> I wonder what the end game is for some of those businesses. The end game is often an annual bonus for a decision maker at the business that doesn't think they will be there in 2 years when there might be fallout. The incentive is
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by lasereyes136 5y ago
There are some really good low-code tools. For the most part programmers and IT professionals will use them. We have scene this before, look at the history of Visual Basic for direct comparisons. Low-code is here to stay. Most business prog
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by lasereyes136 5y ago
> developers are reportedly severely limited in the amount they can actually use. When did 5 GB of RAM become severely limited?
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by lasereyes136 5y ago
The lesson here is Always backup your data on a continuous basis! Computers break in unrecoverable ways all the time. While there is a low chance of your computer doing that, it happens. Macs come with Time Machine just for this reason, use
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by lasereyes136 5y ago
I disagree, I did some Postscript programming, and it was very much oriented around printing documents so I don't think it would be great for a DOM in a browser.
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by lasereyes136 6y ago
I think it has gotten worse since most software vendors want to sell you a subscription to spread your payment out over time. As long as you want to use the software you have to keep paying. In the long run the software will cost you more.
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by lasereyes136 6y ago
I think it has only gotten worse in the sense that now most software vendors want to sell you a subscription that spreads your payments over time and literally never ends as long as you still want to use the software.
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by lasereyes136 6y ago
Burn out can be situational. 15 years at one place in IT is a long time. Moving to another part of the business or another company all together might help you recover. I know I only started to recover after I left that place that burned me
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by lasereyes136 6y ago
Indeed, I have two of them. They don't always work correctly. Meaning they don't always charge depending on the device and cable you plug into them.
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by lasereyes136 6y ago
Irix was my first Unix, I used it in a lab at school. It was wonderful and much better, at least from a visual point of view, than the other Unix flavors at the time. I learned X-Windows programming on it and really loved using it.
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by lasereyes136 6y ago
Where I live in the USA, you verify the voter to get a ballot, go to a private area to fill out the ballot, go to a new area to scan the ballot, and leave the paper ballot that is filled out in the scanning machine to have a paper trail of
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by lasereyes136 6y ago
No one said employees are commodities or fungible. That doesn't mean that a negotiation doesn't happen.
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by lasereyes136 6y ago
That is the whole point of information asymmetry in negotiation. The party with more information has an advantage. All salary discussions are negotiations.
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by lasereyes136 6y ago
Legacy is contextual. It means different things in different context so it might be more helpful to understand what legacy means in this context.

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