rev_bird

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by rev_bird 11y ago
The issue in a lot of cases seems to be that there is no "regular employee": workers are expected to put in the extra time ("effort"), or they're instantly sub-par.
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by rev_bird 11y ago
I've gotten so, so much out of the archives in the /r/cscareerquestions. It's mostly cultural stuff, but I've learned a lot from there and /r/sysadmin. When I went to Reddit without logging in (and saw the
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by rev_bird 11y ago
The Vagrant files we've been using have been whittled down to almost nothing -- we use Chef to provision boxes, so the vagrantfile is pretty much just "install Chef, forward ports, run role xxx." At that point, it just pulls
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by rev_bird 11y ago
> Jenkins specifically has no business being anywhere near a production deployment I'm curious about this -- what's wrong with using the same deployment tool for running dev _and_ the other environments? Jenkins itself is a lif
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by rev_bird 11y ago
That's actually a much more logical explanation than I've heard before, but it seems to be based on a potential misunderstanding of who is using the service -- maybe it is mostly giant companies, but I bet there are a lot of tinke
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by rev_bird 11y ago
But they make a line of laptops, a line of mobile devices, and some software. There's no iSpaceship or Apple Submarine(TM) yet -- if you told me Google had a sub bouncing around San Francisco Bay, I wouldn't even question it.
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by rev_bird 12y ago
That's exactly what I do too, but it goes against the instructions that pop up on my Paperwhite -- it says turn up the light when the ambient light is brighter.
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by rev_bird 12y ago
"We falcon punched the barge..." https://twitter.com/SpaceXEngineer/status/588075066757361664
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by rev_bird 12y ago
Big data analytics is their bread and butter – if they had a way to analyze Facebook messages for patterns and predictively useful metrics, I'm sure they would.
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by rev_bird 12y ago
This idea got shot down pretty quick, but I love that it was asked. Coming up with potentially disastrous sideways use-cases for new toys is a favorite pastime of mine.
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by rev_bird 12y ago
It's a very similar argument to one of the government's excuses for censoring collections of publicly available information -- sure, you COULD find all the stuff you need to build a nuke at the library and the internet and on micr
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by rev_bird 12y ago
I've found that I pay much more attention to the terms of use for projects supported by smaller teams -- it's hard to feel like I'm ripping off a giant company like Adobe, but I have a hard time telling a small shop basically
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by rev_bird 12y ago
I get why it's hard to trust mail from some random IP from Amazon Web Services, but I'm very wary of taking big chunks of the internet and just saying, "well, people aren't allowed to do that anymore, just the huge corpo
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by rev_bird 12y ago
I'm confused -- are you saying doing your own email hosting is the way to avoid getting stung by Gmail spam filters? Seems like an "out of the pot and into the fire" kind of situation.
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by rev_bird 12y ago
If so, it seems like an uncharacteristically clunky way of doing it -- sure, clickthrough rate has a some effect on PageRank, for example, but there's a ton of content-based filtering going on too. I don't really want my spam fo
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by rev_bird 12y ago
You'd think .gov, of all TLDs, would have a lower spam score.
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by rev_bird 12y ago
Hey, sometimes rejoining the world means shedding the surly bonds of a reasonable caching layer.
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by rev_bird 12y ago
Seconding this. The data is thorough and fascinating, but impossible to compare between any two. Not being able to select two at the same time is fine, but it'd be really nice to at least be able to switch between two without getting s
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by rev_bird 12y ago
My other thought is that even if I liked the bot's content, I'd never be able to follow it. I'd get blasted by the firehose.
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by rev_bird 12y ago
I liked it, if only because it made the text look much more uniform. I imagine it was done out of objection to the "make the link bold and blue and underlined and very different " ethos that even Google was into until recently. W
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by rev_bird 12y ago
I'm on a MBP with OS X, and I was almost distracted by how much I liked the design of the page. The way links worked (on desktop, at least) was really interesting, even though it seems so obvious once it's done.
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by rev_bird 12y ago
In case you haven't heard of it, Trello is another alternative: https://trello.com/ KanbanFlow kind of looks like Trello from the '90s, but it looks like it might have a built-in pomodoro timer and some other neat
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by rev_bird 12y ago
That part made me kind of angry -- "so-called" makes the writer sound like they know something we don't, like "subversion" is some cool trick that smart people know.
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by rev_bird 12y ago
I think the most troubling part was that a huge, powerful company can get a government agency on the phone and have someone locked up based pretty much exclusively on them saying "You won't understand why, but he did really bad s
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by rev_bird 12y ago
But they said the design was copied. Also, non-trivial parts of the design are in the exact same positions in both examples -- it seems to me like the question isn't even if the design was copied, but more of whether we should care
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by rev_bird 12y ago
They won't have to change, Apple will just become Bigger Apple.
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by rev_bird 12y ago
You aren't one of the authors over there, are you? I'd love to hang up a poster of the first link at my desk but the store is down.
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by rev_bird 12y ago
I don't know why, but I'm still consistently surprised that we have the ability to link to the obscure sources of well-known quotes from 24+ years ago.
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by rev_bird 12y ago
Off the top of my head: The back button doesn't work right, saved passwords don't move over, clicked links (if they work at all) keep you in the new application instead of your browser, the places you're taken are left out of
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by rev_bird 12y ago
New Relic is second to none when it comes to being able to do deep dives into finding out which API call is causing slowdowns where, but Datadog aggregates data better than anything else I've ever used -- to me, the monitoring part is

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