lwhalen

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   by lwhalen 9y ago

   The company who built your motherboard
2. 212.▲
   by lwhalen 9y ago

   THIS. Before Lasik, I was all about the Zenni Optical.
3. 213.▲
   by lwhalen 9y ago

   > Musicians never play notes one at a time. They always use chords. This guy has also obviously never met the strange and rare creature known as a 'bass player'.
4. 214.▲
   by lwhalen 9y ago

   Sixteen _hours_ of testing? I would've disqualified myself after the first hour. That's insane.
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   by lwhalen 9y ago

   Viasat gives their engineers private offices, from what I've seen.
6. 216.▲
   by lwhalen 9y ago

   Remote work is totally a thing, and IME most places pay +/- 10% of 'coastal' wages.
7. 217.▲
   by lwhalen 9y ago

   Depending on your spend, the specialists over at www.quinnadvisory.com should be able to sort you out quickly.
8. 218.▲
   by lwhalen 9y ago

   Check your privilege. While you may have the luxury, political cachet, or just plain old luck at your job to pooh-pooh whatever open source libraries, applications, or frameworks that don't meet your arbitrary definition of saccharine
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   by lwhalen 9y ago

   I can handle a bit of rough and tumble no-nonsense language, personally. I'd like to think most folks attempting to build/repair/maintain systems built by other people can too. Disregarding this document because it's n
10. 220.▲
    by lwhalen 9y ago

    http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html ESR did it better, imho :-)
11. 221.▲
    by lwhalen 9y ago

    "Do you allow remote work?" Anything other than "Yes!" is an org-smell (at least for me, YMMV).
12. 222.▲
    by lwhalen 9y ago

    You know what they call alternative treatments that work? Treatments.
13. 223.▲
    by lwhalen 9y ago

    When can I gene-therapy away my 'seasonal' allergies? As an otherwise-healthy thirtysomething, that's the big one for me at this time in my life :-)
14. 224.▲
    by lwhalen 9y ago

    Every year, the IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by 1.5 points.
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    by lwhalen 9y ago

    Anecdata, but I'm the product of a K-8 charter school in Flint, MI, and I do pretty well for myself. I haven't kept fastidious track of my fellow grads, but the handful I talk to every few years or so also seem to be similarly su
16. 226.▲
    by lwhalen 9y ago

    Don't forget Mattermost - they're the most Slack-like of the free Slack alternatives (and pretty doggone spiffy, IMHO).
17. 227.▲
    by lwhalen 9y ago

    And here I was hoping it would be a reiteration of "Fast, cheap, and good: pick any two".
18. 228.▲
    by lwhalen 9y ago

    pRest pIn Peace, pTerry.
19. 229.▲
    by lwhalen 9y ago

    What does 'inexpensive' mean to you? I am otherwise-supremely-happy with my commercial pfSense router, if Comcast gets their v6 poop in order I'm sure I would be even more ecstatic with it.
20. 230.▲
    by lwhalen 9y ago

    I beg to differ. I've got Comcast in the PNW, and their IPv6 stack on Business class is atrocious. A short list of the issues I've had/am currently experiencing: - Account is registered for a /56, their router only res
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    by lwhalen 9y ago

    I have accepted a long time ago that I will be unable to 'retire' in the traditional sense. I fully expect to be working pretty close to 40+ hours a week when I keel over (hopefully quickly, and without a prolonged illness). &qu
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    by lwhalen 9y ago

    I wouldn't even say that's 2x a 'normal' salary. I'd say that's about the right range for senior talent with a proven history to execute. Pay peanuts, get monkeys. These folks want results, and they know the
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    by lwhalen 9y ago

    This guy gets it. Congrats, and best of luck!
24. 234.▲
    by lwhalen 9y ago

    You are left-coast/euro sensitive. Nothing that he said was incorrect, non factual, or otherwise out of line.
25. 235.▲
    by lwhalen 9y ago

    Why would they have to uproot every 2 years? Many (the majority of?) tech workers are close-ish to big cities with healthy tech scenes, and remote work is very much 'a thing' these days too. Live in Seattle, get paid for work do
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    by lwhalen 9y ago

    And employees will continue their migration outwards to other firms. They'll tell their (now ex) coworkers about how much better they're paid elsewhere, and those coworkers will start to sniff around as well. It's a lose-lo
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    by lwhalen 9y ago

    It's such a small market that there's multiple businesses who focus on it? www.stelligent.com www.reactiveops.com www.fuzzy-logic.org none of these businesses are hurting - in fact, they're growing. $300k, in the scope of an
28. 238.▲
    by lwhalen 9y ago

    High-impact devops consulting. "Migrate me from expensive on-premise hosting to a private cloud running Openstack, because I have regulatory requirements that prevent me from going public cloud. This will save me $1.5M/yr in hos
29. 239.▲
    by lwhalen 9y ago

    A gross income of $240k is just an hourly rate of $120/hr. That's "meh" consulting/contracting rates. The mid/senior folks I know - and I can think of at least a half dozen - don't even get out of bed f
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    by lwhalen 9y ago

    Someone call the internet police, I think we just witnessed a straight-up murder here :-)