miker64

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by miker64 8y ago
Last 7 days: Instagram 5h 32m (insta has a 2 hour custom limit set) twofold 2h 55m (tetris-ish puzzle game) unread 2h 38m (feed reader) maps 1h 59m twitter 1h 15m Safari 1h 13m Spotify 1h 5m and then it drops off into under 10 minutes on va
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by miker64 9y ago
'Teaching a class at' and 'receiving a degree from' an institution are two very different things. Not sure what these links are trying to prove or disprove?
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by miker64 13y ago
I loved living in San Mateo. I've lived all over the Bay Area, and that still rates as my favorite. It's a reasonable drive to both SF and the South Bay (and not painful to get to the ocean in Santa Cruz either), the downtown is
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by miker64 13y ago
I work in operations. In the Bay Area. In a year or two, I'll be moving my family to the Nashville area, while retaining my Bay Area job, and it's pay scale. One day I'll sleep again.
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by miker64 13y ago
this. one million times. What I do off the clock is of no import to my employer unless it is materially impacting my work on the clock. If you can't trust your employees then you need to review your hiring practices, and your leadership a
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by miker64 14y ago
Yeah, I'm far more worried about the fact that pretty much all the iOS rss readers use Google Reader as a backend. I'm going to be fubar for keeping different apps across devices all in sync...
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by miker64 14y ago
I think you answered the 'why privacy' question right there.
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by miker64 14y ago
If you intend to monetize, perhaps it might be best not to do it in a way that alienates or upsets your user base. That's the take away we should be looking at. Not that Ads are bad, not that monetization is bad, but: If you want a servic
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by miker64 14y ago
We have a paid for google apps for business account. Every time I've called for support (email from a particular domain never getting to us, emails to a particular domain never getting to them, queries about outages) I've gotten a very ple
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by miker64 14y ago
"You are an adult. You will manage your own machine and tools." seems to be almost directly in opposition to "You will not dig ditches here, and we will not ask you to do so." I'm not sure that's inherently a bad thing though. It quietly p
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by miker64 15y ago
If you don't do the basic, fundamental things to maintain your vehicle, it will no longer work. If you are, in fact, unable to grasp that, then you will pay the cost. How is this even a thing?
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by miker64 15y ago
No, the technical interviewers want to know your technical skills, because they advise the people who pull the trigger on your hiring whether you will provide value. Now, it's been a while, but my Google interview involved straight technica
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by miker64 15y ago
He did, you do a rolling update, take a few systems out of active duty, upgrade them, and then begin directing some percent of traffic to them. That, of course, only works if you are of a scale to have that many production systems, and loos