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by pickle-wizard 4y ago
I had this happen to me once. Between when I accepted the offer and my start date the company had a 10% layoff. I pretty much got the cold shoulder the moment I walked in the door and it was a pretty miserable experience. I only stayed at t
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
An in house recruiter may be the way to go. Good news is that you don't have to hire them full time. I've worked with a few in house recruiters that work part time for several different companies. As a candidate I much prefer to w
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
As others have said rack servers are really loud. Instead look for a tower server, they are much quieter as they are often used in office environments. Something like a Dell PowerEdge T series. You'll pay more as they are rarer but you
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
Thanks for posting this. I use to do a bunch of AS/400 work when I was at IBM. I do miss working with it. This will be fun to mess around with.
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
On a recent Technology Connection video he said something interesting. 1. You should not take everything you read on the Internet at face value. 2. Google takes what it finds at face value.
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
They now have options to store 1 year or indefinitely for an extra charge.
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
In the early days of Facebook, I really liked it. Like you said it was nice to see what everyone was up to. Then it changed, and the signal to noise ratio went to about 0. I had to unfollow so many people because I got tried of all the poli
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
That's why you see posts like this all around the Internet. They have to keep the new investors coming in.
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
One of my gripes about any agile like process is how the daily standup turn into a status meeting. I feel that is just a waste of time, we don't need to give status daily. It should be a time to identify blockers and identify who is go
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
They are also thinking of that $10K in todays dollars. Adjusted for inflation, that $10K truck that could could buy back in the mid-80s costs the same as a new one today. You just get a heck of a lot more features.
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
Good news, you can buy this car today. It is called the Mitsubishi Mirage. Hardly anyone buys it because it is an absolutely dreadful car to drive.
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
At my last job I used to VDI instance for my development work. I liked the setup as I could access it from my personal computer or my work laptop. It kept me from having to buy a KVM and dealing with switching between computers when I was a
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
If a restaurant is going to online menu thing, they need to offer free WiFi. There are a few places I've gone to that have online menus and there is no data service or WiFi.
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
I spoke with a recruiter from Amazon the other day. They are planning to go back into the office in early 2022.
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
I've never heard of the buyer having to pay a mortgage broker a fee. When I bought my house I didn't have to pay them. The guy used gets a commission from the bank when he sales a mortgage. However when I refinanced I didn't
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
So I've had two work from jobs during the pandemic. The first went great. The team was able to get more work done, and we continued to communicate very well. Unfortunately that company went out of business last fall due to the pandemic
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
I've got an idea for a GUI App that I want to run on both Mac and Windows. I've been researching cross platform GUI Frameworks, but Electron seems to be the best option that I've found.
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
Oh I'm going to give this a try in my homelab. I currently have Tanzu setup, but a storage failure blew it up.
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
Starting with ESXi 6 VMware has disabled the transparent page sharing (Memory Dedup) by default. Back in 2015 or so there was a theoretical VM escape vector that used the shared memory pages. So VMware just changed the default to disabled.
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
This sounds interesting to me. How would one move into this spaces? I come from a Sysadmin/DevOps backgroud. I have done a lot of scripting over the years, but never any software development. Would it be worth while getting a Masters i
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
Timely article. I'm unhappy at my job and yesterday I decided that I am going to quit my job at the end of the year and work on my startup idea full time. This morning I woke up in a panic of what the hell am I thinking. After I calmed
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
What is frustrating is that IBM has a System Z emulation environment for developers called zPDT. It costs $7K/yr and is only available to registered ISVs. Really wish they would drop that cost and make it available to anyone.
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
I have a pair of white box ESXi hosts. The specs are. Ryzen 5 3600, 64GB DDR4 RAM, 1TB NVMe SSD ASRock Rack X470D4U Motherboard Ryzen 9 3900X 64GB DDR4 RAM 2x 1TB SATA SSD ASRock Rack X470D4U Motherboard I have a VMUG Advantage Membership,
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
It is funny you notice a lot of left leaning virtue signaling. I notice a lot of right leaning virtue signaling. I'm going to guess that the geographic differences of our connections are likely the main difference there.
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
I started a job last November. Within the first hour they said here is your Linux Academy account, go learn some stuff. Which I have. Heck last year I paid out of my own pocket to take the two introduction to VMware classes, despite working
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
I run a small Ubuntu VM on Azure. It is like $10/month. I chose Azure because I get a credit with my Visual Studio subscription. However Microsoft does not allow outbound SMTP port 25 from Azure by default. It is possible to get them t
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
I joined an early stage start up once. I was employee number 3. I learned the hard way that just as they do a background checks on you, you need to do background checks on them. I later learned the founder of the company had several persona
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
A couple of clichés I use when I lack motivation. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time is today. Point being that is never too late to start. Anything worth doing, is worth doing poorly. Maybe you don't
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
I don't hate it, but I don't like it either. The company I work for is pretty good. However the team I am on is a hot mess. I've been here 8 months and I'm already ready to move on. I'm thinking I'm going to tr
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
Nope. The one I share with people is first@last.com I have a couple of gmails account that I give to companies I expect to spam me. They are not embarrassing, but are kind of nonsensical.

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