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by pbecotte 9y ago
AWS came in here and asked us to stop swarming their status page during the S3 outage
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by pbecotte 9y ago
I have hired or at least interviewed directly from several bootcamps in NYC, including the Flatiron school, and was never asked to pay a referral or acquisition fee.
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by pbecotte 9y ago
In the US at least, there is a hard cutoff at a certain price point. Beyond that price point the only legal way is to run through the procurement office with all that entails- written specs, detailed contracts, long term execution, etc. Bec
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by pbecotte 9y ago
That's the thing. In the Air Force (at least)- there is no thought of cost/benefit analysis. A single machine fails once because a bolt wasn't torqued and causes $5000 of damage ... So they add the checklist item, and the sec
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by pbecotte 9y ago
If you are selling your clients those types of guarantees, then you aren't going to be able to rely on a public service with less reliability than your guarantee. Which probably means you are out of luck... I can't imagine it is
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by pbecotte 9y ago
Come now, you believe that more people don't found companies because of the stress? It seems far more likely that most people don't have the capital assets for that to be an option, except three groups... 1. The very young who h
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by pbecotte 10y ago
This statement makes no sense. If you feel that the company doesn't pay enough, there are two possibilities. 1. You get paid way more then your teams rate, proving the CEO is not being truthful (there is more money if people negotia
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by pbecotte 10y ago
Is this something anyone has done? Seems like you would need lawyers to draw that up, but it appeals to me on a philosophical level...
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by pbecotte 10y ago
He did it correctly... Except he didn't account for the time value of money, which would have made the salary side even stronger.
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by pbecotte 10y ago
It matters. The floor is how easy you are to replace. The ceiling is the marginal value that you provide to the company. Considering how incredibly high that marginal value is, there is a lot of upward pressure at the top of the scale.
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by pbecotte 10y ago
That's... not true. I was in a unionized software development shop at L3 communications in Camden. It was... different. Having a published document showing how the "top performers" were going to get a 3.5% raise this year
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by pbecotte 10y ago
Well... Not really. The company going bankrupt doesn't really motivate the worker bee... His downside is limited to his potential bonus for this year.
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by pbecotte 10y ago
That article is terrible, please do not use this to make decisions. Just about every "downside" he lists could also apply to an option grant. All equity grants will come with an agreement and restrictions on whom you can sell th
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by pbecotte 10y ago
The set of shareholders who would prefer a company return profits / invest in existing products vs risky investments in non-core-competency areas is certainly not empty. If I wanted to invest in a dogfood company I can- I invest in At
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by pbecotte 10y ago
Same for me, website works but git pushes do not.
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by pbecotte 10y ago
The problem with this article is it is the kind of thing I could see myself writing after about three weeks of playing with the tool, when I did not yet understand the best ways of using it... but it is written from the POV of someone who d
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by pbecotte 10y ago
With a database, the data itself is the important part- using something like Kubernetes combined with persistent volumes (GCE or EBS) lets you easily move a running database between VMs with minimal effort. You run the program however you
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by pbecotte 10y ago
Scale IS the most important factor, because it controls the "demand" side of "supply and demand". So long as hiring someone makes the company more than they cost, the company will be willing to pay that price. Because
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by pbecotte 10y ago
My personal blog is basically an example of deploying a simple app using docker. HTTPS://GitHub.com/pbecotte/devblog ... The makefile wraps up the actual commands.
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by pbecotte 11y ago
But it doesn't really, it is just another tool to learn like your configuration management software. Honestly, learning Docker to a high level was WAY easier than getting my Chef knowledge to a mediocre level. Further, it has other b