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by natbennett 5mo ago
Article and comments are underrating the impact of reputational risk on payment processors and on Kickstarter itself, for hosting/facilitating sexual content. Some amount of adult comment is CSAM, or otherwise broadly disfavored. Some
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by natbennett 5mo ago
Like most data entry software there’s nothing that unstructured notes (or paper) can’t handle. The main useful feature of the apps (or Apple Health’s tracker which is entirely adequate) is that it sends reminders on the estimated period sta
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by natbennett 5mo ago
A clause like this is pretty standard in software company employment contracts, at least in the California/Silicon Valley zone. There’s sometimes an exception for explicitly named items that pre-date your employment but sometimes they
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by natbennett 6mo ago
Gelsinger is unlikely to be a good source on this question.
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by natbennett 6mo ago
Tim Cook is openly Christian and he has neither written a book about how “Jesus is his CEO” (and should be yours too) nor has he ever (to my knowledge) led his company in singing a hymn.
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by natbennett 1y ago
Not technically a Tracker clone (we don't have points or all of its states) but we're in the neighborhood -- at StoryTime we've been writing about the development process monthly if any of ya'll are curious about what ta
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by natbennett 1y ago
I prefer ytt for templating and kapp for deployments. https://github.com/carvel-dev/carvel
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by natbennett 1y ago
Talk to employees working at Federal agencies.
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by natbennett 2y ago
“Food-motivated” in dogs means something more like “can be induced to listen to commands from a human in exchange for food.” Some dogs are only interested in their own plans. Others are only interested in really good food, or are much mor
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by natbennett 2y ago
The easiest way is to reach out to consulting companies and ask if they take subcontractors. Second easiest is to ask companies that want to hire you if they’ll take you as a contractor instead.
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by natbennett 2y ago
In the United States you can create a company just by operating as one — “sole proprietorship.” A 1099 can also be issued to an individual. It’s useful for a variety of reasons to have an LLC or an S-corp but you don’t need one to get start
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by natbennett 2y ago
Comparative advantage. Even if AGI is better at absolutely all work the amount of work it is capable of doing is finite. So AGI will end up mostly being used for the highest value, most differentiated work it’s capable of, and it will “trad
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by natbennett 2y ago
Docker was a factor but there's no particular reason why VMware had to take the lead they had in on-prem container platforms and throw it on the floor for OpenShift to pick up.
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by natbennett 2y ago
The best combination I know of "weird" and "can build neat things" is Elm. It has some serious problems for industrial use but they don't really apply to side projects. Elixir is less Ruby-like than the syntax looks
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by natbennett 2y ago
Yeah I’m all for engineers knowing about the economics of the business but the people saying “this is ridiculous of course engineers should know what things cost” are substantially undercounting the number of engineers who value their own t
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by natbennett 2y ago
This is all publicly available information but: Advertise prices are not the actual prices that people are actually paying. RealPage doesn’t just show the prices of other apartments around you. It gives a recommendation for what you should
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by natbennett 3y ago
Oh this is very cool. It seems like the takeaway for body builders is “you don’t actually have to time protein ingestion super carefully?”
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by natbennett 3y ago
I’ve worked on a large project that got more reliable after they removed the QA team. Removing the QA team was incidental to the quality improvement though — the QA team got removed because basically it was just producing a nightly report o
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by natbennett 3y ago
Again, if you read carefully you’ll see that the phrase is “as strategic.” I’ll have to take your word for it on his vision/strategy though. I worked for him at VMware and never saw him articulate one.
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Semantle(semantle.com)
1 points by natbennett 3y ago|0 comments
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Please Stop Writing Dockerfiles(simplermachines.com)
5 points by natbennett 3y ago|6 comments
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by natbennett 3y ago
If you read carefully you’ll see the comment is “as technical and strategic.” That’s very different from “non-technical.” He was clearly capable of leading a team to develop a new processor but that’s not the issue here.
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by natbennett 3y ago
Also all reimplementations of proprietary technology. The S3 API is a really good example of the “OSS only becomes dominant when development slows down” principle. As a friend of mine who has had to support a lot of local blob storage say
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by natbennett 3y ago
“Application Modernization” is a huge deal in enterprise. In practice this means some combination of “make it slightly easier to get production traffic to new Java apps” and “deploy a lot of Kubernetes clusters.” Really they want the former
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by natbennett 3y ago
It’s not the “separate” part that I think is ridiculous. It’s the fact that the team is named “quality assurance.” It relies on a metaphor from manufacturing that’s entirely inappropriate for software. If you want to call it “Testing and Ex
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by natbennett 3y ago
I used to play with a guy who had a deck named “Judge Problems.” I don’t know what all was in it (I never played against it) but remember being regaled with tales of what happens when Opalescence and Humility come into play together as part
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by natbennett 3y ago
Strongly disagree with the literal premise of this post. The idea of having a separate team with the mandate to “ensure quality” was always ridiculous. Occasionally it was helpful by accident but it was always ridiculous. “Quality” isn’t so
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by natbennett 3y ago
If you expect 100% and you’re making business decisions based on that expectation, I encourage you to increase your sophistication about reliability before it costs you a great deal of money.
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by natbennett 3y ago
I find the hero-worship of Pat Gelsinger — examples in sibling comments — really weird. My impression of him at VMware was very beancounter-y, not especially technical, and too caught up in personal vendettas and status games to make good t
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by natbennett 3y ago
This is already the case in at least some large, boring businesses. Think like bank IT departments. There’s a whole generation of CTOs out there whose mentors got fucked over when Oracle pulled almost the exact move that Broadcom is pulling

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