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by not_real_acct 7y ago
> Exactly a good model is puppet labs. They have a enterprise version and a go to consultancy They seem to be surviving. I hope in this age of the cloud Their CEO stepped down three years ago: https://www.oregonlive.com/s
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by not_real_acct 8y ago
The printer had a public IP and the printer was open to anyone who cared to use it. It was available from the Internet. The big question is whether you could exploit that to get to the rest of the facility. This particular facility was acqu
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by not_real_acct 8y ago
One afternoon I was doing some consulting work at one of HP's oldest offices. I needed to print something, so I had the printer produce a configuration page, so I could get the IP address. Lo and behold, it was a public IP. As in, th
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by not_real_acct 8y ago
> I recently interviewed a lot of fresh grads to hire on as junior developers. I was taken aback a few times. I had a candidate with a “computer science” degree that didn’t know what a linked list is. This was something that infuriated m
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by not_real_acct 8y ago
I imagine this had a huge impact on the drug trade too: In the 1980s, the US and the USSR were fighting numerous proxy wars in countries like Nicaragua. When the USSR collapsed, you had thousands of trained soldiers who stopped receiving a
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by not_real_acct 8y ago
> The media is in attack mode against facebook. Everything from the media about them will be exaggerated and negative. So I'd take anything the news about facebook with a grain of salt. It's shocking how heavy-handed it is. Lit
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by not_real_acct 8y ago
I started a software company out of college. By the time I was 25, my car had been repossesed and I'd been evicted from my condo. I had $400 to my name, that I'd intended to use for rent. I bought a bicycle and got a day job doing
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by not_real_acct 8y ago
Everyone that I know hates my wife and I, because we're just so ridiculously happy with each other. It's just sickening, we're that super annoying couple that finish each other's sentences and act like teenagers in love,
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by not_real_acct 8y ago
> Unless he's working for a javascript tool builder, why does his name add any extra value to the company? For the company that I worked at, employing a published author was a method to seal deals for the sales team. Basically creat
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by not_real_acct 8y ago
For a couple years there was an author on my team. She didn't contribute anything to the team itself; she largely sat in her cubicle and wrote books. It felt as if the company had hired her so that they could trot her out at sales pitc
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by not_real_acct 8y ago
It's a catch-22. Here's an example: Right now, my earning are in the top 5% of my specialization. Realistically, I'm probably overpaid by about 25%. I'm currently employed and I've gone on a bunch of interviews. I g
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by not_real_acct 8y ago
When I was 40, I'd get a job offer from about 40% of the interviews I did. Now that I'm pushing 50, it's about 10%. I blame a number of things: * The biggest one is salary. I'm just not willing to work for what I worked
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by not_real_acct 8y ago
He'd LOVE Hewlett Packard /S
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by not_real_acct 8y ago
Yep! IIRC, Carmack learned a lot from Abrash, and then eventually hired him at ID Software. They've been working together for ages.
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by not_real_acct 8y ago
Agreed, these prices are ridiculously low.
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by not_real_acct 8y ago
I couldn't agree more. I have a friend who's pushing fifty years old and he's been trying to make money with the same product for nearly thirty years now. I see his friends on Facebook constantly encouraging him, and telling
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by not_real_acct 8y ago
If you wrote a book, I would buy it. Great post, very succinct.
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by not_real_acct 8y ago
In my opinion, the market must crash before we'll know who "the next Google" is. For instance, Amazon and Google became huge between 2000 and 2005. That was a stretch of time when great engineers were a dime a dozen. Tons of
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by not_real_acct 8y ago
The smartest dude on my team was hired by Google a year ago. On my team, he was a subject matter expert and he routinely contributed to open source projects. Google hired him to be a salesperson. I definitely wonder if he could be happy in
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by not_real_acct 8y ago
As I understand it, Microsoft's success is largely because they poached an operating system contract. Basically the CEO of their competition was on a two-week vacation and there was no way to get in contact with him. So the contract we
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by not_real_acct 8y ago
Michael Abrash paved the way for Carmack. Carmack is great, no doubt, but Abrash wrote the book (literally.)
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by not_real_acct 8y ago
Ten years ago, I moved to a state I'd always dreamed of living in, and I bought a home. My timing was atrocious; every single month my home was worth less and less and less. I absolutely bent over backwards to keep my job. Worked sixte
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by not_real_acct 8y ago
> I don't think it's merely boredom alone. Being bored / doing nothing at home doesn't feel the same way. Back when I was in college, I used to go to raves and do drugs. At some point, I started to chaperone my friend
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by not_real_acct 8y ago
In my experience, there's very little correlation between salary and longevity. There definitely seems to be a correlation between salary and "demand." For instance, Kubernetes is really hot right now, and there's a li
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by not_real_acct 8y ago
I used to work in engineering at one of the big wireless telecoms. The impression that I got was that many of the outsourced services were compromised. For instance, we had zero control over our voice mail systems, they were outsourced to A
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by not_real_acct 8y ago
I like working in finance. I get the impression that they treat their employees well because nobody wants to work for Evilcorp.
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by not_real_acct 8y ago
I'm thinking the same thing. I've never met a 25yo who complains about making $145K a year.
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by not_real_acct 8y ago
I'm a software consultant so I've had the opportunity to work at nearly a hundred different offices. I've seen employees driven to tears at two companies, and both of them were wretched to work for. It became my barometer of
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by not_real_acct 8y ago
Yes. I turned one laptop into a virtual machine, and then I loaded that vm onto the other laptop. So I had two jobs, one office, and one laptop. One job was remote, one was onsite.
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by not_real_acct 8y ago
Basically I handed in my resignation because I got a new job. The next day my wife lost her job. Then my OLD boss gave me a pay bump to stay at my OLD job. So I did both jobs, the old and the new, simultaneously. The initial plan was that I

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