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by skyzyx 4y ago
Even Google hasn’t really solved this problem very well. A lot of Terraformer resources are incomplete.
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by skyzyx 4y ago
Software is constantly evolving, so any worldview based on “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is absent of reality when it comes to software. My philosophy on most things is: if nobody else has done it, I’ll go first. I started compiling and
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by skyzyx 4y ago
Never, ever, ever, ever, ever act as your own attorney.
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by skyzyx 4y ago
100%. I have filed so many radars against Music.app and they’ve never been fixed over the years. IMO, It’s gotten significantly worse since iTunes got broken apart in Catalina.
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by skyzyx 4y ago
When I interviewed at Coinbase 6 years ago, the interviewers felt egotistical and borderline incompetent. After I’d interviewed, they decided to change the open req to a different role. By “egotistical”, I mean that the interviewer clearly
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by skyzyx 4y ago
Seattle gets a beautiful 5 non-contiguous weeks of summer. The rest of the time is rainy or overcast. Source: I lived there for 8.5 years in the 2010s.
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by skyzyx 5y ago
Good advice, except for the hipster `&& \` stuff. Use the `—squash` flag instead.
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by skyzyx 5y ago
Similarly: https://snyk.io/blog/peacenotwar-malicious-npm-node-ipc-pack...
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by skyzyx 5y ago
It’s literally a pre-defined legal document. It’s definitely set in stone enough to warrant filing lawsuits and taking people to court over.
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by skyzyx 5y ago
It is astonishing to me how poor our literacy of software licenses is as a community. Also, reading the comments here, there are two wholly independent things happening that most people are conflating as the same thing. Software licenses ar
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by skyzyx 5y ago
Pro-Tip: Get the hell out of US-East-1.
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by skyzyx 5y ago
I was at AWS for 4 years and spent A LOT of time interviewing. We couldn’t find and interview qualified candidates fast enough. Lots of engineers doing the interviewing; few charlatans. At AWS, however, it’s important to look at the well-ro
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by skyzyx 5y ago
I co-founded a company in 2006 which intended to do something very similar to this. We ran out of money when the economy collapsed in 2008. I’m still passionate about the idea, but it’s high-risk for a private corporation in the US to pull
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by skyzyx 5y ago
This happened to me several years ago. My account got locked out and I had no way to contact a human to get it back.
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by skyzyx 5y ago
In any group of people, some problems are social problems. If the leader of the group makes a decision, it is your responsibility to conform whether you agreed with it or not. And if YOU are a leader, social cohesion is important. “A leader
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by skyzyx 5y ago
I agree with the premises, but not necessarily the conclusion. Any team with an attitude of “that’s not my job” is fundamentally broken. The team is responsible for product, development, quality, ops, CI, etc. But you have to adjust your de
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by skyzyx 5y ago
Then what value are you bring to the table? What will keep a company from replacing you? Companies will spend the money to keep top-tier employees. What’s going to set you apart? In California, people complain that “immigrants are stealing
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by skyzyx 5y ago
There are definitely some cities like that — San Francisco, Oakland, and Los Angeles metro all come to mind. And we did waste however many billions of dollars on a high-speed rail system that still doesn’t exist. And we keep catching on fir
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by skyzyx 5y ago
When I went to work for Amazon in 2010, I also encountered many internal policies that were very similar to this. I don’t doubt the veracity of this claim one bit.
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by skyzyx 5y ago
When I worked at Amazon, I learned that search field auto-complete on the web was patented by Amazon. When I wanted to provide a better user experience in some Amazon-owned open source software, I couldn’t because they didn’t want the Apach
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by skyzyx 5y ago
Piping this through NewsGuard has a score of 12.5/100. It’s more _Animal Farm_ than Orwell.
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by skyzyx 6y ago
“Bullying” FSF is free to choose to bring RMS back. Likewise, people and organizations are free to choose to neither fund nor support the FSF as a result. It cuts both ways.
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by skyzyx 6y ago
Amazon has a history of forking open source software and using it to crush the upstream project. I know — they did it to me.
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by skyzyx 6y ago
You’re missing a key point — journalistic integrity. It’s something that can be measured and validated. Second is experience in discerning fact from fiction — not everybody has it. And example is that guy who believed that the earth was fla
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by skyzyx 6y ago
Every language in widespread use today is either corporate driven or corporate sponsored. PHP, Python, JavaScript, Ruby, Go, Java, Swift, Obj-C, Rust… Welcome to capitalism, friend.
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by skyzyx 6y ago
I can’t help but think about that episode from “Better Off Ted“ where they do this exact same thing.
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by skyzyx 6y ago
Yes, the pandemic fatigue is real. Yes, it would be wonderful to hang out with my friends in person, or to drive 100 miles crossing the border to go visit my children. But the reason this is lasting so long, and things are shutting back dow
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by skyzyx 6y ago
I learned JavaScript in 1999, PHP in 2003, Ruby in 2009, Python in 2015, and Golang in 2018. Modern PHP (despite its historical reputation) and Python are pretty much a toss-up to me (both have warts, both are a blend of functions and obj
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by skyzyx 6y ago
Oh, and `aws-vault` from Segment.io.
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by skyzyx 6y ago
We have dozens of completely independent applications made up of hundreds of micro-services comprised from mergers and acquisitions, different market segments, etc. Going from wildly disparate stacks to a unified core, while improving relia

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