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by lwhalen 8y ago
Agreed. For even a small tech business, $650 should be in the 'lol whatever' category of purchasing - especially if there's compliance regimes mandating some kind of HSM in the stack.
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by lwhalen 8y ago
What's wrong with trying to get the attention of the CIO at a regional widget-factory? Do we not have C-levels of all locations and stripes in this community?
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by lwhalen 8y ago
Don't forget "raid 0 on your hand rolled ec2 db instance". A lot of the other stuff is forgivable, that right there is downright dangerous.
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by lwhalen 9y ago
Great. Can we get > 16GB RAM while we're at it? :-)
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by lwhalen 9y ago
if they were prone to revolution, you'd think "get a danged job" would be the path of least resistance (pun fully intended).
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by lwhalen 9y ago
Is it bad if they just fall by the wayside? If one puts forth zero effort, they should get zero reward.
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by lwhalen 9y ago
So, here's a question. I'm a small self-hoster, US-based. If the "London police" come calling asking for my data, what repercussions do I face if I just say "No"?
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by lwhalen 9y ago
LLC/S-Corp/whatever, if you're doing this, you're going to want to make friends with a CPA, and an attorney. Everybody's needs on this front is going to be highly individualized, the couple hundred bucks spent on a
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by lwhalen 9y ago
This is why a documentation culture is so very important. Even on the best terms, the average tenure of a tech employee is two years. That's just today's economic reality. As a leader, a project should not be considered 'd
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by lwhalen 9y ago
OP should register himself as an S-Corp, hang out a shingle, and market it as a consultancy. Now the pay triples, your short stay at various companies is downright expected, and everybody's incentives align - OP wants to do the best w
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by lwhalen 9y ago
I'd be curious to know roughly how long the disturbance lasted. Did it dissipate/recover in minutes, or did it stick around for the better part of a day (or two, or three)?
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by lwhalen 9y ago
Come hang out in #lopsa on Freenode, we never left ;-)
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by lwhalen 9y ago
I know in general there's the whole "the company pays for it, the company owns it, the company can audit it" corportesse oblige, enshrined in case-law yada yada, but one of the things I always liked about Slack was it seemed
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by lwhalen 9y ago
Home-schooling, and/or private schooling
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by lwhalen 9y ago
They do what they say on the tin. It's just that easy. If you're a small business owner, go get ignored by ADP for a couple of quarters (and pay them 2x Gusto's rates), send the late-filings notices to your increasingly-exa
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by lwhalen 9y ago
Thirded. Struggled with payroll through three other (terrible) companies, have been DELIRIOUSLY happy with Gusto. Please oh please, don't ever change (or lose focus)
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by lwhalen 9y ago
This "You were born into implicit bias/racism" shtick sounds an awful lot like religion's "You were born into original sin" shtick. The fix is almost identical too: give us money, attention, and spread the wor
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by lwhalen 9y ago
Having been with Samsung since the S3, my current S7 will be my last. It is THE most fragile phone I have ever owned - replaced 3x already, at $150/pop even with the insurance. I've never had to get a case for any other Samsung
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by lwhalen 9y ago
And this is why I use gandi.net for all my domain registrations. As their tagline says, "0 bullsh*t". Such has been my experience with them for the last ~20 or so years.
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by lwhalen 9y ago
"AR" comes from their original manufacturer, Armalite. The "Armalite Rifle 15" was a downsized version of the AR-10, chambered in 7.62.
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by lwhalen 9y ago
I've said it before and I'll say it again: GODS I love living in the future! I don't even care that I don't have a jetpack.
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by lwhalen 9y ago
We have cured cancer in mice many times. The trick is getting it formulated for humans in ways that are similarly effective and non-lethal. Put another way, signs of efficacy in mice is necessary, but not sufficient, of a human-applicable
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by lwhalen 9y ago
I think I can approach a layman's explanation to this (feel free to correct me if this is offensively inaccurate). My understanding is that 'observation', at a quantum level, isn't like "watching something with you
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by lwhalen 9y ago
Chalk this up to 'things I wish I didn't know', but it's a neo-nazi slogan/concept of 'fourteen words' (something about 'saving the future for white children', yada yada) and 'heil hitler&#x
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by lwhalen 9y ago
https://www.theboxotruth.com/the-box-o-truth-1-the-original-... Handguns are handguns. Rifles are rifles.
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by lwhalen 9y ago
Nice broem, broheim ;-)
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by lwhalen 9y ago
I have a $job-provided MBP with the touchbar, and I find it actively evil. I am _constantly_ resting my fingers in the general vicinity of the top row, which triggers F11-type behavior, volume changes, esc-key hits, etc. It is a _damnably
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by lwhalen 9y ago
Are there any data centers up that way, by chance?
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by lwhalen 9y ago
I greatly appreciate the comment giving further context to your downvote. That is all too rare around here! Big criticisms I have around the recent Microsoft server offerings: - Opaque and uncommon/needlessly-unfamiliar command-line
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by lwhalen 9y ago
Not trying to start a Slashdot-class flame war or anything, but why are you on a platform that is so... belligerent to being on a network? Microsoft has been dead to me in the datacenter for at least ten years, for reasons far beyond the p

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