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by snorkel 12y ago
I blame Java much more than heroku. Corporate drone Java developers have a much greater tendency to only write code (too much code!) and not be interested in learning anything beyond the confines of their comfy auto-completing IDE. It seems
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by snorkel 12y ago
Unfortunately the term DevOps has been diluted in the job market. Now most DevOps job postings are actually just plain ol' sys op roles, where "development" means writing tools for the actual developers. If you want to spend
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by snorkel 12y ago
SoD simply means your systems or processes require at least two different people to make any changes. If your entire tech team is DevOps then it simply means the dev who tests and deploys a given code change is different from the dev who wr
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by snorkel 12y ago
I've been a hiring manager for tech many times, and also a candidate. This article is wrong. Revealing current salary no matter how low it is, loses you no leverage. It's quite simple: If you got through the entire interview proce
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by snorkel 12y ago
The page itself uses the garish late 90's web design gimmicks, but the article has amusing links in the sidebars to other galleries.
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by snorkel 12y ago
The original phaser toting Chief Science Officer
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by snorkel 12y ago
""Bill doesn't really want to review your spec, he just wants to make sure you've got it under control. His standard M.O. is to ask harder and harder questions until you admit that you don't know, and then he can ye
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by snorkel 12y ago
Bachelors. Not as in Bachelors degree, but literally bachelors: They're young, cheap, work crazy hours, and easily seduced by free pizza - the ideal startup employee.
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by snorkel 12y ago
It varies by city in the US: * Seattle: Pedestrians don't even jaywalk on empty streets at 1AM * Manhattan: Jaywalk at your own risk * Boston: Everyone jaywalks all of the time, everywhere. Pedestrians cross streets anywhere at free ra
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by snorkel 12y ago
* Car salesman deliberately waste your time to wear you down. "I have to ask my manager. I'll be right back." is bullshit, they go in the break room and have a coffee. If you want a test drive, "OK let me go find the key
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by snorkel 12y ago
Ah, the good ol' days when all we needed was netcat and vi, none of this fancy graphics hoohah and kids these days don't even know how to spell!! Mind rot, I tell ya! Autocomplete!!! Bah! Use a printed dictionary, you lazy brats!!
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by snorkel 12y ago
We had to get adjusted to not being treated like a rock stars just for knowing unix. We stopped chanting IPO, IPO. We learned the stock market is disconnected from reality. Took a hit in salary, but nobody starved that I recall. Looking bac
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by snorkel 12y ago
Generally it's easier if the height of a hash table is a fixed value (which can be calculated once at runtime based on how much memory the table can consume) so that the hashing logic is: target_row_number = table_height % int_value_of
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by snorkel 12y ago
Agree. The way to answer"do my work for me" is "Thank you for inquiring about Commercial Support offerings ...."
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by snorkel 12y ago
He was hatched by the first chicken.
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by snorkel 12y ago
I don't speak for Microsoft. I can only say there was plenty of willingness to use and contribute to open source but the whole GPL 3 question makes that confusing.
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by snorkel 12y ago
Sure free software has moral agenda, but imagine you work for a big company and you can't use a lot great open source tools at your job because the license is deliberately crafted to scare and challenge the IP lawyers of any software c
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by snorkel 12y ago
There's a strong willingness to adopt open source tools in every large company but GPL 3 is poisoning the well, and that's impeding universal adoption of the open source ecosystem. Sure FSF doesn't care, and that's unfor
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by snorkel 12y ago
I've worked at Microsoft and can attest that while it's OK to use open source tools internally the IP lawyers don't want anyone touching GPL v3 tools to do anything. If you suspect a project might have been even the slightest
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by snorkel 12y ago
If one big customer is demanding you be HIPAA compliant then they probably want to see a certification, and depending on size of customer they may be willing to provide funding for that certification. It takes months but the certifying serv
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by snorkel 12y ago
I much prefer Noun.verb() over NounVerberFactoryInterfaceAbstractInsanityTurtleTurlteTurtleRussianNestedDollSet so this case is just missing a noun such as Catalog, so the Catalog has Products, and Catalog.search(parameters) would return a
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by snorkel 12y ago
Hear hear! A true hacker forum should applaud experimentation not nitpick at it. It helps us all to know the limits of client-side drawing by various means no matter if your site needs a Mario mushroom or not.
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by snorkel 12y ago
You have more freedom than you think to do great and interesting work in the job you have now. Just don't wait to be asked, you just invent without being asked to invent. You just need initiate and bootstrap the idea yourself on the si
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by snorkel 12y ago
I knew of one VP who got away with trashing his inbox while on vacation because he was the boss, but understandable that his email box was full all of the time with stuff that he didn't need to know. The logic is simple though: If your
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by snorkel 12y ago
Unfortunately I was one of those bosses. I was not trained in the art of managing a team with asymmetric talents, so this paper read exactly how my team and I were acting. Eventually I figured out that each person on the team can shine if
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by snorkel 12y ago
... and was I ... the only one ... reading it to myself in the Shatner voice???
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by snorkel 12y ago
Interesting way to use to git to find a bug by process of elimination.
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by snorkel 12y ago
I especially like the recursive "Service As A Service"
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by snorkel 12y ago
Good article explaining some clever techniques. I don't understand all of the whiners here who expected something perfect and foolproof.
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by snorkel 12y ago
One of the daughters has to bring the boat back, then the father and son cross the river, sell the boat, then they use the proceeds to start a company selling IQ testing services to lazy HR departments. Did I get the job?

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