mdickers47

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by mdickers47 1y ago
It is pretty funny to be able to dial an extension from your desk phone to get the IVR of paultag's Christmas tree, but man does managing asterisk suck.
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by mdickers47 1y ago
I'm one of the people whose home LAN is completely exposed to TPL. There's an amount of "screwing around" where I wouldn't care. If you want to print an xkcd cartoon to my desk, fine, lol, a minor surprise in my d
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by mdickers47 1y ago
That is correct. IPSec sucks but we have already paid the price of being forced to figure it out in big organizations, so, not much motivation to figure out another thing.
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by mdickers47 1y ago
It is as small as it says. BGP/IPSec might be silly at its size, but it was also the path of least resistance given the background of the people in the Bureau of Lan Management. I guess it was also for lolz to see if these things cou
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by mdickers47 3y ago
nope it was exactly that; transactional customer state in giant xml documents in an xml-document-storing database. Bugs would cause them to grow to 10, 20, 100MB.
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by mdickers47 6y ago
cool story bro. I have no idea what you think I "sold" Washington, but anyone who has kubernetes never talked to me.
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by mdickers47 8y ago
Ok. The United States isn't one.
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by mdickers47 11y ago
(Member of USDS) - I'm sorry we gave you a bad experience. It is not something I want to have happen to anyone. If anyone asking "why is it so bad" actually genuinely wanted an answer, here is part of one: There's some
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by mdickers47 11y ago
(Member of USDS) - The answer is no, sorry. We prioritize assignments based on their potential to do the most good for the largest number of people, and do not pressure anybody to work against their conscience. But we can't reconcile
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by mdickers47 12y ago
You might like to read about the powers of OMB (Office of Management and Budget): http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/organization_mission/ It is not obvious unless you spend your time memorizing government org charts,