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by rickspencer3 5y ago
It's important for the condo to build up a substantial amount of cash in case there is a necessary high capital outlay needed. Sit on a condo board for a while and look at all of the expenses, and then also imagine saving up enough bec
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by rickspencer3 5y ago
This does not match my personal experience. I live in a 10,000 person neighborhood that is covered by an HOA, and it is a very diverse place. In fact, one of the things that I like about living here is that there are people from all over th
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by rickspencer3 5y ago
I like our HOA. They do a good job maintaining all of the common property, including the pool, the shuttle system, and the copious grassy areas and parks that are part of our neighborhood. There are rules here that are related to maintenanc
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by rickspencer3 5y ago
New Orleans?
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by rickspencer3 5y ago
That's not what I meant, but congrats :)
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by rickspencer3 5y ago
From what I have seen, if you can be well paid, and put a significant portion of your salary into index funds, over the years, you will generate a modest nest egg, and have choices in your late middle age or retirement. This is a different
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by rickspencer3 5y ago
It's been a pretty rough year for DC residents to be fair. Between BLM protests, the gangs that drove to the city literally to fight with them, then a literal insurrection, I think it's possible that for this group, it's up t
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by rickspencer3 5y ago
I am not eating Burger King for the nutritional profile.
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by rickspencer3 5y ago
For my part, I enjoy fast food burgers (think Wendy's, Burger King, etc...). These burger patties are not exactly rare Kobe beef. Once you put that thing on a bun, add cheese, slather it in sauce, etc... I don't find the differenc
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by rickspencer3 5y ago
"Nothing of value was lost." What a boss. This is what often happens when you have community management report into marketing instead of engineering. A good MVP program is about having a tight feedback loop with engineering, and t
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by rickspencer3 5y ago
I remember about 20 years ago, I was working at Microsoft, and Visual Source Safe won the best code Source Code Repository from Visual Source Safe Magazine. Quite the surprising outcome.
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by rickspencer3 6y ago
I was involved in these discussion for Ubuntu ... back in 2011. You can see some discussion here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-desktop-... and even more here: https://bugs.launchp
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by rickspencer3 6y ago
My wife teaches basic computer skills to older people (think 65+). I hear her teaching sometimes, and I find it remarkable what "basic" actually means to these people. She takes a lot of pride when her students are able to reply t
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by rickspencer3 6y ago
The assertion that humans are unable to stop themselves from completely depleting the resources that they depend on rings true to me. I think Jared Diamond wrote a whole book about this.
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by rickspencer3 6y ago
Forget where I read it, but it always makes me laugh: The "S" in IoT stands for "Security"
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by rickspencer3 6y ago
This is a good point. If someone is willing to look at the git history of an issue, they can glean a lot of information about the progress.
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by rickspencer3 6y ago
I answer this question a lot. For me, a summary version of my model is as follows: EM is a technical role in the sense it includes managing technical projects. However, it is not an engineering role. I hold Engineering Managers accountable
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by rickspencer3 6y ago
I manage managers and managers of managers, so have years of seeing this play out over dozens of teams. At this point, I prefer my engineering teams to "locally optimize" their process. I tell them that I care about the following
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by rickspencer3 6y ago
We use this heavily at InfluxData to manage multiple clusters in multiple regions of multiple clouds. One of the maintainers of kubecfg recently joined InfluxData as well.
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by rickspencer3 6y ago
How many years has it been in the USA since a cohort graduated college into a functioning version of capitalism?
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by rickspencer3 6y ago
InfluxDB has a template to aid with monitoring a postgres instances[0]. I wonder if the Telegraf Plugin[1] could be enhanced to use more of these metrics, and then the template could be enhanced as well? [0] https://github.com&#x
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by rickspencer3 6y ago
A classy move here would be to make a bunch PRs to fix bugs in the codebase, inspiring Nat and Co. to just Open Source it all :) I know nothing about their revenue model of how it relies on proprietary code, of course, but it's fun to
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by rickspencer3 6y ago
I can't wait to replace my rpi 4 that I use for my Arduino projects with one of these.
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by rickspencer3 6y ago
It's also Linux based on a properly supported distro that is maintained specifically for the rpi. You can do real hacking, not "try to get this to run" hacking.
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by rickspencer3 6y ago
Honestly, I agree with this. Your ethical standards should be encoded in the license. OTH, if you treat people like a jerk (for example by forking their code and not involving or crediting them) there are practical social repercussions from
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by rickspencer3 6y ago
I know Matt. I'm impressed that AWS hired him for this. That's a promising sign.
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by rickspencer3 6y ago
> The downside of this model is that developers who want to ship their new software or feature updates without waiting for a new distribution release get stuck into dependency hell and have to operate outside the normal packaging system.
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by rickspencer3 6y ago
alright, thanks!
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by rickspencer3 6y ago
I tried it out, and immediately regretted it! I didn't come up with any matches, and then realized I provide a lot of personal details, and got nothing in return. I can't find any information requesting how to delete my data, thou
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by rickspencer3 6y ago
I use Geany as a code editor on my rpi hobby projects. The editor has been around long enough that it is reasonably fast on under powered hardware. I really appreciate having the option.

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