markbnj

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by markbnj 8y ago
Do people still check references? My last two gigs they didn't even bother.
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by markbnj 8y ago
All of these arguments are well-aired, and the tone of the article doesn't make this particular presentation of them more useful than any of the others. I would guess a large portion of the developers actively using containers are well
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by markbnj 8y ago
I'm very sympathetic to the idea that employers started this crap, and are basically getting a taste of their own medicine. That said, I will ignore spam from recruiters I have no conversation with, or if the recruiter shows signs of a
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by markbnj 8y ago
Good point, hastily written and deserves the down votes :). I really meant to say that some people want natural vanilla, and will pay for it.
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by markbnj 8y ago
Sure, most natural flavorings have artificial substitutes, but there is a market for the natural products even if nobody could really distinguish them by taste alone.
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by markbnj 8y ago
If you let yourself get that specialized then you're always going to be one or two innovations away from a layoff. I kind of feel that anyone who inhabits a niche like that for a long time is going to be in danger of becoming a victim
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by markbnj 8y ago
Or you've already read the details of every story on the net hours earlier.
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by markbnj 8y ago
This is quite cool, nice work! I'm a self-taught player and only in the last five years or so have I managed to punch through the fog and begin to understand what I'm doing. This is a great tool for visualizing scale positions and
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by markbnj 8y ago
As I said, I get why this might in fact be necessary. I simply find it dehumanizing and arbitrary and so I choose to avoid such situations. At the hospital where my wife works their review categories are graded from 1 - 3. So yeah you have
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by markbnj 8y ago
> If you're a VP and suddenly someone asks, "Hey, can you promote or fire Person X?" What are you to go off of? Just a manager's recommendation? And you think perf reviews are biased? This is why I don't work for
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by markbnj 8y ago
It's kind of a cynical position, actually, because embedded in it is the underlying contention that all of the attention the platform has gotten since 2015, the startups it has spawned, the resources being put into it by every major sy
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by markbnj 8y ago
Not "always." I started working with Microsoft dev tools in the late 80's and early 90's after Borland's sun began to set (in no small part because MS poached a lot of their best people). There was a time when MS wa
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by markbnj 8y ago
You could debate this all day long for various values of "sophisticated." I think the author just meant some variation on "amazingly devious."
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by markbnj 8y ago
You're using a statefulset? Here's a tip: you can delete a statefulset without deleting the pods with `kubectl delete statefulset mystatefulset --cascade=false`. The pods will remain running, but will no longer be managed by a con
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by markbnj 8y ago
> It seems like the hope is, just ignore it all, and the docs are good, and just follow them, but I don't live in any kind of world I can do that. Yep, agreed, we've used very few charts from stable, and in some cases where we
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by markbnj 8y ago
After three years of running it in production I don't really have any horror stories, but we have definitely run into odd and puzzling things. For example, when we were experimenting with auto-scaling node-pools on GKE, and the cluster
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by markbnj 8y ago
> What you're saying is pretty much the result of my biggest gripe with Kubernetes, though it's one I don't have a lot of ideas of how to fix; there's too much damn boilerplate. 1000 lines of YAML to store maybe 100 r
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by markbnj 8y ago
It's a gazelle, 4 core, 16GB, purchased just short of two years ago. Since you asked for feedback I'll be more specific: the touchpad plastic cover curls up at the front and has a sharp edge, the buttons are very thin, don't
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by markbnj 8y ago
My S76 laptop that I use for work has been solid in terms of functionality and reliability. I can't complain about those things. The overall build quality of the laptop is terrible. The touchpad is terrible and has poor fit and finish.
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by markbnj 8y ago
I was in the Boy Scouts and did orienteering, but I don't remember using a sextant, chronometer, and sight reduction tables :).
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by markbnj 8y ago
I buy this, in a general sense. If you're able to fully understand the problem and plan out the solution before starting to make changes you should be able to pause and pick up again more easily than if you are designing on the fly. Bu
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by markbnj 8y ago
We do this, with Mondays and Fridays being commit/celebrate days respectively (work still gets done on those days but the meetings that set/review the sprint goals are held on them), and the three middle days of the week being &qu
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by markbnj 8y ago
Pretty harsh lol. If you don't like electron apps then don't run them. It's hard to describe the actions of developers who use those frameworks as "inconsiderate" when they are a) providing the fruit of their labors
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by markbnj 8y ago
I didn't read the Forbes reference because ad block, but I'm willing to bet that is a pretty common expression among _observers_ of the tech startup/financing scene. Coming from a founder who's been cashing the "foo
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by markbnj 8y ago
Wasn't that hoard located on their own property? I think that simplifies the provenance issue significantly.
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by markbnj 8y ago
Well I think it is far from boring. The growth of cloud platforms, containerization, orchestration, there's a lot going on.
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by markbnj 8y ago
I'm not a lawyer, however I know that anything of value like this that is found on public land can have some complications, and if the land is private that's another whole ball of wax. If it is Fenn's land and he's livin
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by markbnj 8y ago
Interesting to consider what you would do if you found it? Presumably you're in the wilderness with a 40 pound chest. Your car might be fairly near, as Fenn makes clear when he notes he was 80 when he made "two trips from my vehic
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by markbnj 8y ago
Also 58 and working as an SRE at a company I love. Greybeards unite!
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by markbnj 8y ago
It's possible that the process didn't permit much back and forth clarifying of concepts or questions. It does seem that way reading between the lines. I've had some similar experiences over the years (not with Google) so it s

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