pragmatic

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by pragmatic 6mo ago
Lot of SMBs run sql server and .net lift and shift into the cloud used to be the path of last resistance on Azure.
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by pragmatic 6mo ago
I still remember the day the disks dissappeared on the prod db running on gcp.
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by pragmatic 6mo ago
What is property tax?
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by pragmatic 7mo ago
The stock is tanking. Their moat is small to non-existent. Kind of crazy considering how while teams (even dev) were forced into using it be the designers. I haven’t even seen it mentioned at work recently.
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by pragmatic 7mo ago
It’s manager speak for “less than.” The manager class sees worker units as fungible.
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by pragmatic 7mo ago
Should Accounting exist? Should Legal exist? Should Facilities exist? Surely your average employee could own each of these functions.
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by pragmatic 7mo ago
And the worst job market maybe ever for that age group?
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by pragmatic 7mo ago
But that decade includes the first Trump administration also. I don’t think that supports your argument. What is probably happening is the job crisis for young people. The army is once again an attractive job.
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by pragmatic 7mo ago
Is Deno a classic second system syndrome project? Seems so. All the breaks from the first system in the name of “we’re doing it right this time” probably killed the momentum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_
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by pragmatic 7mo ago
How is a mechanical engineer a “trade worker.” Most engineers have to take at least one programming class in college.
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by pragmatic 7mo ago
I don’t think the web output works with c# currently. Be happy to find out I’m wrong.
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by pragmatic 7mo ago
Why would you even have a classical music station? What is public radio even doing?
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by pragmatic 7mo ago
Exact opposite. We are in the midst of the COVID hangover. So that govt money went to the wealthy to buy up houses (Californians bought real estate in the Midwest as investments and it drove up housing prices along with small immigration to
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by pragmatic 7mo ago
But you’re stuck with MacOS. I can’t stand it and every update makes it worse. Been running popos abs everything I can and it’s petty nice. Installed it on a new LG Gram and everything works including fingerprint reader. Is my favorite lapt
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by pragmatic 7mo ago
Billions not millions
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by pragmatic 8mo ago
Maybe they are right to block these institutions then? If this is the quality of product produced what’s the point? Our Harvard/Stanford etc management seemed less capable than products of state schools. It kind of shocked me as I thou
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by pragmatic 8mo ago
Interesting. I don’t think he was particularly kind to any proselytizing religion. Did you read the Cantos?
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by pragmatic 8mo ago
They are already doing that. They are just firing up natural gas portable generators. https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat...
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by pragmatic 8mo ago
You’re missing the true value, the network. Wide spread internet access turned expensive toys (PCs) into useful assets.
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by pragmatic 8mo ago
Every DBAs nightmare. Please use this with caution. There’s a reason client task libraries exist and you aren’t using the most expensive hardware, central point of contention for this type of thing. Under the right conditions this could be
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by pragmatic 8mo ago
They're the least incompetent in the space. Big companies are handcuffed by Innovators Dilemna etc.
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by pragmatic 8mo ago
It's bundled with office and no serious business can live without excel.
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by pragmatic 8mo ago
How in the world would you have thought that? Genuinely curious. It was obviously DOA and waaaayyy outside G'scompetence.
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by pragmatic 8mo ago
We’ve got repos full of 90% complete vibe code. They’re all 90% there. The thing is the last 10% is 90% of the effort. The last 1% is 99% of the effort. For those of us who can consistently finish projects the future is bright. The sheer am
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by pragmatic 8mo ago
Listening to Jensen glaze Trump churns my stomach.
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by pragmatic 8mo ago
https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/heres-how-much... What's your source?
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by pragmatic 8mo ago
"I like that Omarchy treats web apps as first class citizens" PWAs in loonix are a thing not limited to malarchy.
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by pragmatic 8mo ago
These are the blog posts we need. This is the siren song of llm. "Look how much progress we made" Effort increases as time to completion decreases. The last 10% of the project takes 90% of the effort as you try to finish up, deplo
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by pragmatic 8mo ago
Your assuming that scrum/agile/management won't take this over? What stakeholder is prioritizing any of those things and paying for it out of their budget? Code improvement projects are the White Whale of software engineering
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by pragmatic 8mo ago
How would it improve skills? Does driving a car improve your running speed?

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