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by nanoscopic 7y ago
ITA: OMG! I'm required at many huge sites to register for the site to view content! Some of them aren't even free, I have to pay! If you don't like those sites, don't use them. Sites as described do not constitute the &q
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by nanoscopic 7y ago
This reminds me of my "war" to get an article for my parser XML::Bare. There was a time when there was a comparison page for XML parsers, and many parsers had articles. Still existing parsers on Wikipedia that should be removed; i
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by nanoscopic 7y ago
#! exit 42 bytes: 10 :D
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by nanoscopic 7y ago
Co-mingling of books is a huge problem. I can't/won't buy books from Amazon any more because the last time I bought some tech books I got counterfeits. The text was blurry and gave me a headache; the counterfeits were that ba
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by nanoscopic 7y ago
Additional story: https://amazonandmykid.com ( my own ) Suffice it to say Amazon does not care about employees, neither at the warehouses nor at their corporate headquarters. When I was there a guy jumped off a building because
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by nanoscopic 7y ago
This article is spot on in many ways. It is also very pessimistic. It does a good job of pointing out how we seem to be making very little meaningful technological progress compared to the past, and that the main reason seems to be that soc
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by nanoscopic 7y ago
While this is crappy, it is the default behavior of most large companies when it comes to copyright. As people have described I mistakenly said that copyright must be enforced or it is lost. Agreed I was confusing it with trademark. Despite
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by nanoscopic 7y ago
Amazon has a team called "Amazon Profitability Group". I used to work for said team, albeit only briefly. The purpose of the team is to calculate the proper price to sell items for, the "discount" to vendors, and the ite
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by nanoscopic 8y ago
I admin a number of different websites. The majority of them are static. I have forced https redirect on some of them. On others I do not. The only benefit of https I perceive in the case of static public content is that ISPs cannot easily
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by nanoscopic 8y ago
I actually wrote a solution for this exact problem for SUSE Hack Week 2018. I made a small job tracking / state tracking system using Perl and nanomsg. See https://github.com/nanoscopic/galear/blob/master
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by nanoscopic 8y ago
I have thought about the whole thing a lot since it happened and considered it from many perspectives. I saw with my own eyes the process of my wife bleeding out. I have to live with that. Obviously I have thought about this. Yes, I conside
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by nanoscopic 8y ago
The entire argument happened in front of the larger team. The manager did not pull me aside to have the heated conversation. Many people witnessed it. I talked to several of them about it afterwards. I asked if they felt that I was being th
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by nanoscopic 8y ago
I was given authority and encouraged to push back against people who are wasting company time. I made careful judgements and fought requests only when it made sense. Nearly all requested changes, even if they were ridiculous, if they had an
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by nanoscopic 8y ago
I cried multiple times at work at Amazon. This is not surprising for me to hear either.
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by nanoscopic 8y ago
I agree that an employer can fire anyone they choose, but if they do list a reason that reason has to be in a legal subset of possible reasons. That is why most states are "at-will", meaning that they don't need to list any r
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by nanoscopic 8y ago
As a full time employee I am not paid for hours worked, I am paid for the work performed; for results. As such, it is common and typical for employees like me to be allowed to engage in any number of "non work" activities to help
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by nanoscopic 8y ago
I did not actually threaten anyone. I said that I feel like I want to kill the person. It is not the same... I did not communicate it to the person being talked about. I also in no way stated that I intended to, was planning on doing so etc
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by nanoscopic 8y ago
As stated, I did continue to work and do what I was asked despite the extreme stress. I did not walk out the door when refused to be allowed to leave for the day. I do agree that as an employee my job is to do what I am directed whether I l
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by nanoscopic 8y ago
I didn't personally like the manager in question, but I do believe he was trying to do his job accurately. He attempted to follow the process of things as best he could. He simply did not understand me or attempt to be close to me in a
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by nanoscopic 8y ago
I think it is worth knowing and adds perspective to the article. The pivot process had just started when all this happened, and I was not offered pivot. At Amazon it is encouraged to strive for the highest quality despite the tension create
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by nanoscopic 8y ago
I never refused to do anything of me; I carefully following the Amazon principles. I also worked closely with another senior mentor at Amazon. I talked with him weekly for months before and after the events mentioned to make sure I was doin
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by nanoscopic 8y ago
I worked at Amazon developing various portions of the core software that drives their website. Code I wrote runs billions of times per day... While there, I was told to do many things that I think are not a valuable use of my time. I pushed
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by nanoscopic 9y ago
Not explained in the repo is how to root the Retron 5. That information is available at http://www.chromableedstudios.com/techninjutsu/rootron5howto...
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Retron 5 hacked to dump ROMs(github.com)
3 points by nanoscopic 9y ago|1 comments
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by nanoscopic 9y ago
Spent the last 9 months on a startup I co-founded, https://carbonstate.com We are producing an ECM system aimed at the SMB market. The short feature list is: - Configuration driven; no coding required to create management system
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by nanoscopic 9y ago
This explanation clarifies a lot about what the problem is with the particular engineer. Thank you for explaining in more detail. I do agree that it is important engineers work with others and see beyond their own small sphere. It is not a
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by nanoscopic 9y ago
I've found that many of the best engineers are quite terrible at interacting with other human beings. What matters to me is only if they deliver. If the bottom line is met and the work is getting done and done well, then it doesn'
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by nanoscopic 9y ago
Let me tell you a short story. I worked at a company for almost 2 years. One day my manager calls me into his office. He asks me: "Do you like working here?" I pause for a moment, then respond "No. Not really." He then s
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by nanoscopic 9y ago
Are you suggesting that Troy Hunt is involved in illegal pentesting ( pwning their db )? I really doubt that. He is an industry professional. The problem is not pissing off Troy Hunt; but more that they are advertising that their website is
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by nanoscopic 9y ago
The layman clicks on links that say "you have a virus; download this tool to remove it". They then click 'Yes I authorize' to verify that the downloaded program should be allowed to corrupt their machine. I fail to see h

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