markbnj

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by markbnj 11y ago
Hey, thanks for the twitter:description that showed up when I shared this in slack. Not nice, especially given that nothing in the piece is about the intelligence of bosses. Someone needs to grow up. <meta name="twitter:description&
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by markbnj 11y ago
Extremely well done. Good job guys.
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by markbnj 11y ago
Suggestion: deploy your GM server as Docker containers on kubernetes and auto-scale while you enjoy some fine wine in a casual atmosphere. :). Seriously, good luck. Success hurts sometimes.
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by markbnj 11y ago
Of course, they could have fooled the compliance department using the same techniques used to fool regulators in the U.S., i.e. the exact same capability they'd built into the software. And they could probably have managed to trick eng
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by markbnj 11y ago
Also a long-time Skype user. I pay for the $29/year plan that gives me an inbound number and outbound calls anywhere in the U.S. and Canada. I agree that the UI has been getting worse, but I don't see those ads, which I presume do
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by markbnj 11y ago
I agree with your feelings about the article. It read like an exercise in denial. We also use Concur and it works quite well, and therein probably lies part of the author's problem: many people who care regularly about capturing expens
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by markbnj 11y ago
Potential hidden motives aside, it seems to me pretty ineffective to focus on the different characteristics of internal combustion versus electric motors. We've known all this for a century. The only difference between the two that has
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by markbnj 11y ago
Here's the status section from the top. Don't want to post the whole mess so if you want anything else let me know and I will cherry pick. Also, installed extensions: ABP 1.9.3, Evernote Web Clipper 6.7, rest console 4.0.2, xpath
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by markbnj 11y ago
That test was on Windows 7 Professional, with a GTX 660 and latest nVidia drivers.
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by markbnj 11y ago
The author seems to be mixing some valid observations regarding the difficulty of stateful containers with some paranoia about the growth of cloud deployments and ownership of data. Or maybe it's not paranoia. I don't know. But it
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by markbnj 11y ago
Just FYI I get a blank black screen in Chrome 45.0.2454.101. Two javascript errors in the console. "Error creating WebGL context THREE.WebGLRenderer @ 3.js:421" and then "Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'getExte
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by markbnj 11y ago
In my own case absolutely not. I think if you want to see those kinds of increases year over year you have to climb the corporate ladder. If you stay in engineering in a hands on role you're going to peak. My own salary probably peaked
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by markbnj 11y ago
Not everyone is in it because they love it. If you are then there's no reason not to be able to continue at it well into the "golden years." It's not like we have to swing a pick or tote a bale. I think the work itself k
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by markbnj 11y ago
>> but it does take more effort than when I was younger. Absolutely true, and it's also fair to say that I have to work harder now to remember things that I could recall effortlessly twenty years ago. Fortunately the development
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by markbnj 11y ago
So I turned 55 years old last Monday, am employed as a senior software engineer for a startup in the voter education and civic engagement space, and I guess I'm qualified to comment on this. I read this same refrain over and over, and
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by markbnj 11y ago
>> Adhere the label to the side window or windshield. Once stuck onto a window, the warning requires scrapping or a razor blade to remove. Vandalism, basically.
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by markbnj 11y ago
This is a great project and a fascinating archive to browse in.
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by markbnj 11y ago
That's understandable, but I guess if you're staying for that reason the title of the article might better have been "What it feels like to finally get fired from Google after a couple of years of barely hanging on to my job.
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by markbnj 11y ago
I hope things have worked out for the author, but I can't help thinking he would have been so much better off leaving on his own terms. I understand not being able to walk away from a salary, but when you get to the point where you kno
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by markbnj 11y ago
Really outstanding article, OP. Well done. Slacked to the rest of our engineering team. We're using Google kubernetes to solve some of the fail-over/self-healing challenges you noted, and some of the other ideas as well (proxies,
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by markbnj 11y ago
In Chrome I am running ABP, which can't be very uncommon, Evernote web clipper, rest console, xpath helper, and a bunch of Google's own shims. I will file a bug later today if I can repro the results.
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by markbnj 11y ago
I hit the page from Chrome 45.0.2454.101 and it literally did not get a single site that I regularly visit. It did make a hit on Reddit, I guess, but I have only visited the site two or three times, and you could probably say that about 2&#
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by markbnj 11y ago
>> This appears to be simply saying that version numbers are misleading; what is important is not what version number is being used, but what contracts that version number corresponds to. Indeed, the version number is just an attempt
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by markbnj 11y ago
Great post, and aligns with many of the practices we're following now. Also links to two other great posts from Segment and Joe Beda, and taken together the three are quite valuable. On the subject of kubernetes and heterogeneous envir
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by markbnj 11y ago
I suspect this works essentially like that, if you have the psty proxy companion program running so pigshell can get around COR restrictions.
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by markbnj 11y ago
Insights into manufacturing processes that most of us know nothing about, and the output of which we take for granted on a daily basis, is always fascinating to me. Thanks for the post.
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by markbnj 11y ago
There have been times in my career when good recruiter was my best friend in the world... at least for a couple of weeks. These days I get spammed or called by five or six of them a day, most of whom haven't even read my resume, and ha
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by markbnj 11y ago
Well yes, but I am thinking on a more meta scale... or do we believe there is an endless supply of hard problems? At some point, assuming we continue, will we not have figured it all out?
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by markbnj 11y ago
Just taken at face value there is nothing surprising about the article's premise. As we continue to increase our knowledge more problems move into the "solved" category, and what remains is the harder stuff.
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by markbnj 11y ago
Agreed, it was particularly hard to read the text when it was positioned over the dark pencil drawing used as a background on the right.

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