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by mberning 5y ago
Great list. Having specialized hand tools and using them to great effect is an intoxicating experience.
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by mberning 5y ago
In the enterprise I see this all the time. Step one of the project is lets look at kubernetes or whatever is hot lately. Even for something stupid with 10k users max. What they actually need is a 30 line terraform script and a preconfigured
603.
by mberning 5y ago
Starting any kind of joint venture which involves money seems like a sure way to end friendships.
604.
by mberning 5y ago
It’s a bit like saying the world would be better off if we went back to pre industrial revolution practices.
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by mberning 5y ago
I spent an amazing 5 years in GE Digital and then GE Corporate. It was chaotic to say the least but I loved it. Great people and insane projects.
606.
by mberning 5y ago
Only if the rest of the world followed suit. And I highly doubt 100% of other developed and developing nations would have. It also doesn’t fix emissions from cars, planes, shipping vessels, etc. If carbon levels were 50% what they are I als
607.
by mberning 5y ago
Agree completely. By all accounts he was a bright guy, bu he did something very foolish. He did a crime and rather than play ball he martyred himself. Yes there probably was prosecutorial overreach and yes our criminal justice system could
608.
by mberning 5y ago
I have worked with many fine people that I liked quite a bit on a personal level, but were not very good technically. It is a very dangerous situation to allow yourself and your employer to go along with. Over time you will have a team full
609.
by mberning 5y ago
Well lets see. It started off as JDK 1.0. The became J2SE 1.2. Then later Java SE 6. That took like a decade. Then they had sporadic releases for 5 years or so. Now they want a release every 6 months. Never mind the licensing/ownership
610.
by mberning 5y ago
The longstanding disaster of Java version numbering and licensing continues. How long until they reverse course on this? I don’t know of any other popular language with a such a sordid history in these areas.
611.
by mberning 5y ago
I think a highly conscientious developer might feel all these emotions. However, I am sure we have all worked with the developer that is absolutely shameless.
612.
by mberning 5y ago
I just spoke to somebody today and their strategy is to hire within a geographic region. Everybody will be default remote but they will be getting the team together 4-6 times a year on site for planning and social stuff. I could see this be
613.
by mberning 5y ago
We need a dramatically overhauled taxation system. We should stop using taxes as a cudgel to promote political agendas or enforce moral virtues.
614.
by mberning 5y ago
All well and good until you find out half of it is written in C or something like that. I like to go out and find the most starred repos on github or just ask around for a library that people think highly of and read that.
615.
by mberning 5y ago
They probably should have consulted that guy. He has made quite a few wooden and cardboard knives that are significantly sharper that what was shown.
616.
by mberning 5y ago
It did’t even cut the steak. It assisted in tearing it apart.
617.
by mberning 5y ago
The video of them cutting the steak with the wooden knife shows extremely poor performance. The steak was torn apart more so than sliced. There is no way the knife in the video is “three times sharper” than a typical stainless steel kitchen
618.
by mberning 5y ago
I agree. As a person that has bought many new cars I try to spend as little time at the dealer as possible. I would assume most savvy buyers do as well. Getting a hard sell or bad information from an aggressive associate is not high on my l
619.
by mberning 5y ago
I would like to see varying levels of dislike. For me personally there are a wide variety of reasons that I might wish to “dislike” something and with something like Pandora I always have to wonder if the impact of dislinking will be approp
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by mberning 5y ago
Speaking of good faith, I think it’s a bit disingenuous to claim that lockdowns and similar actions did not have a significant impact for a year or more. Even if people were not under a strict lockdown mandated by law, many were impacted by
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by mberning 5y ago
Man he is taking one for the team. Hopefully there will be more indictments. I highly doubt there is a singular guilty party on this one.
622.
by mberning 5y ago
It is maddening. Even if the stated goal is to “get off the mainframe” everybody deep down knows it isn’t going anywhere for 10 years. We recently had a discussion about porting from one mainframe “module” to another due to cost. I asked wh
623.
by mberning 5y ago
It is a stark contrast to 5 years ago.
624.
by mberning 5y ago
Exactly. Everybody will have some kind of lifestyle job where they dick around a few hours a week on their muse and magically everything they ever want or need is provided for them by "the system". They don't consider that th
625.
by mberning 5y ago
I’m sure many people dungeon grinding the tech industry feel completely used up and ready for retirement or a career change by 40. As I get older I certainly understand the sentiment more each day.
626.
by mberning 5y ago
Our medical system is completely screwed up from a capacity standpoint. I was sick a few weeks ago and called my primary care doc. No appointments for a week. Do an online appointment which is useless and they say I need to be seen. Go to u
627.
by mberning 5y ago
It’s a mental illness. Imagine somebody saying “I’m just a lowly brown person” or whatever. It’s crazy to think about.
628.
by mberning 5y ago
At the very minimum we should not be funding this type of research. Just the act of going into a cave and looking for specimens is dangerous. Ideally there would be a worldwide ban on it. We should take the money and effort and redouble out
629.
by mberning 5y ago
This is so true. I worked a BI tooling startup and it was a lot of fun. But the big clients all had the same types of issues which ultimately dooms their quest. At some point the CFO, CTO, CEO notices they are spending more on “BI” than mar
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by mberning 5y ago
Cool idea. I have written quite a few command line utilities over the years for certain tasks and this would be nice for distributing it to people, especially less technical or people unfamiliar with the ruby ecosystem.

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