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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
Last fall I was laid off when the company I worked for went out of business due to COVID. I quickly received two offers. One was permeant work from home. The second paid $5K more, but required an hour commute each way though Austin's m
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
We use Azure DevOps at work. I like it enough that I use it for my personal stuff also. They do have a free tier, but even if you need the paid services, the price is reasonable.
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
VMS Software has released the x86_64 port of OpenVMS recently. However it is not currently available under the hobbyist program. They say that is coming soon.
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
I just took a look at Svelte. I like it. The documentation is good and looks easy to work with. Think I'll give it a whirl. Thanks for the info.
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Ask HN: Easy to learn front end development
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
Austin is the Silicon Hills because it is on the edge of the Texas Hill Country. Silicon Prairie is the Dallas Fort Worth area.
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
This is going to vary widely from company to company. Some companies will allow, some won't.
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
Being in direct sun in the South, I imagine that is pretty easy to hit. Guess there will be a market for air conditioned radomes.
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
Hey thanks for posting this. I'm getting back into weight lifting after being out due to COVID and an injury. This looks handy. I've done 5/3/1 before and really like it. Just installed it, and will give the app a try.
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
I have a membership to the ACM. One perk of the membership is you get a free subscription to the O'Reilly learning platform. Which has thousands of book available. It is a really good deal, as a O'Reilly subscription is $39/m
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
Yes, but sometimes the low interest rate financing is in lieu of rebates or discounts. You have to run the numbers both ways. Sometimes it is cheaper to pay the higher interest rate, and take the discounts and rebates. Before going to the d
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
When I upgraded my homelab last year, I got around this by buying a motherboard with IPMI. It has a cheap little Aspeed video card on board. I also get the advantage of a built in IP KVM, remote power control, and a virtual CD-ROM. Basicall
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
Though I would say, that you shouldn't just quit. You should take your concerns to your manager and give them a chance to fix it. Sometimes they can. I started a job last November, and after about 3 months I was ready to quit. I spoke
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
The location flexibility is big too. I live in Austin, and my parents live in Kansas. I drove up to Kansas this past Saturday and will work from up here and drive back next Saturday. I've worked from home for a few years now, and befor
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
I can't say for sure is causing the crisis in teenager, since I don't have one, and haven't been one since the Clinton administration. However I have a hypothesis. I have seen a decline in mental health among my peer group, m
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
Right before Corona hit, I bought a Herman Miller Aeron for my home office. For the couple of days a week I worked from home it was great. Once I started using it everyday, it aggravated my sciatica. No matter how I adjusted it, I could not
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
Next month I will have been in Austin for 13 years. I was moved here by IBM. I was working at one of their sites in Dallas and my team was relocated to Austin. I nearly didn't relocate, because I thought it would be too hard to find an
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
I think this is beyond the advice that HN can give. I would recommend engaging with a lawyer who specializes in labor law in the state that you'll be operating in.
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
How is Florida law when it comes to non-competes? I personally believe that non-competes being non enforceable in California is what created Silicon Valley in the first place. Hard to have a startup culture when your current employer can bl
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
I've gone both ways. From Mega Corp to startup back to Mega Corp. The biggest lesson I've learned is there is no such thing as a free lunch. I initially moved to the startup because I was bored at Mega corp and I wanted the chance
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
I started a new job last November. When I was looking for a job, a requirement was permanent remote. I enjoy not having to commute. I have an office setup in an extra bedroom. It is so much nicer than dealing with the open floor-plans that
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
If you follow the homelab sub reddit, a lot of people like to run old obsolete datacenter gear. You don't have to do that. Mine is a pair of Ryzen 2 white boxes. They are dead silent and don't put out much heat either. All my netw
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by pickle-wizard 5y ago
I had a similar problem at a past job. Though we only had a PB of data. We used a products called SwiftStack. It is open source, but they have paid support. I recommend getting support, as their support is really good. It is an object store
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by pickle-wizard 6y ago
Hey thanks for mentioning this. I have been looking for something like Cisco Prime Service Catalog, but cheaper and easier to use. This looks to fit the bill. I just set it up this morning in my homelab, and it was very simple to set up.
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by pickle-wizard 6y ago
Most of the time, that is what I'd suggest to do. However this is like the 4 wheel drive on my truck. I usually don't need it, but when I need it, I really in a bind and glad to have it.
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by pickle-wizard 6y ago
I don't like the online conferences. When I go to the in person conferences, it is easy to say I'm out of the office those days, and focus on the conference. With the online ones, I always end up getting pulled into stuff, but it&
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by pickle-wizard 6y ago
Sounds about like Interstate 35, by the time you're done, it is time to do it again.
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by pickle-wizard 6y ago
IBM does have the zPDT for running an emulated mainframe on Intel hardware for development, and education purposes. However it is not free. IIRC it is about $1K/year. Not a bad cost for a business, but too expensive for someone to go l
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by pickle-wizard 6y ago
A few year ago I drove though that area while on vacation with my parents. I commented to my Dad that I felt like I was driving through Windows XP.
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by pickle-wizard 6y ago
My current company is on prem. The reason is cost. Our workload requires lots of big machines, and is fairly inelastic. When we do need more machines, we know months ahead of time. We recently just started the process of refreshing all the

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