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by sqircles 8mo ago
LinkedIn has a wild past. I'm surprised that it seems like no one remembers. Scanning users e-mail inboxes, creating fake users, etc.
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by sqircles 8mo ago
IBM has cut ~8,000 jobs in the past year or so. Sounds like business as usual to me, with a little sensationalization.
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by sqircles 8mo ago
I would assume one major thing here is that many orgs only need a small subset of functionality from what most products provide. Many times, that small subset of functionality is only "good enough" in and of itself, but the org is
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by sqircles 9mo ago
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but does anyone else still work in an environment where they have to do synchronous version control? It's a nightmare and I have yet to find a decent solution. To give an idea, this
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by sqircles 9mo ago
I recently took a job maintaining and extending the functionality of an enterprise Enterprise Asset Management product through its own scripting and xml-soup ecosystem. Since it is such a closed system with a much smaller dataset of documen
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by sqircles 9mo ago
As an aside, have you looked at Zulip?
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by sqircles 9mo ago
I don't doubt that is certainly a motivator, but I also don't disagree that a formal study on the effects of flooding corn fields en-masse is in order. If I put corn in a pond to hunt waterfowl, I go to jail. If I put pond in the
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Kennedy to USFWS: Study crop practices slashing duck migration to Louisiana(kennedy.senate.gov)
1 points by sqircles 9mo ago|2 comments
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by sqircles 9mo ago
My son loves trains. There are a couple of state parks near me that have tracks running through them and I once tried to find something like this / flight tracker for trains and learned their security / obfuscation around that see
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by sqircles 9mo ago
Meeting the misses on a MUD is a true OG internet love story. That's awesome.
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by sqircles 9mo ago
There are a lot of factors that go into achieving success in the workplace. There are usually competing ideas of what success is to you, versus what it is to the one rating you or paying you. You have to, at some level, appear to be good at
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by sqircles 10mo ago
Paper Credentials: I'm going to stack on a masters degree and some more certs. As a kid I was into development and anything tech, but for some reason resisted formal education or even working in the field. I spent my summers and school
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by sqircles 10mo ago
I thought for sure I was going to see an image map when I looked at the source. Pleasant surprise!
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by sqircles 10mo ago
There are entire niches of us that make a living (not at IBM) making certain IBM products actually do what they're supposed to. From my vantage point I see essentially zero maintenance going on with their products. I sincerely don&#x27
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by sqircles 10mo ago
> The Space Jam website is simple: a single HTML page, absolute positioning for every element... Absolute positioning wasn't available until CSS2 in 1998. This is just a table with crafty use of align, valign, colspan, and rowspan.
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by sqircles 10mo ago
Thanks for all of the hootin' n' hollerin' over the past ~decade or so.
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by sqircles 11mo ago
This kicked the memories back to playing Alien Adoption Agency with friends in my middle school computer lab class.
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by sqircles 11mo ago
Just make sure you know your state's laws and regulations very well. I had a friend in a mid-western state that was caring for a couple of babies when a tree fell and killed their mother. They were in contact with a licensed rescue to
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by sqircles 11mo ago
I am an adult with ADHD and have never been able to get past the side effects that I have to drugs such as amphetamines and SSRIs. I was prescribed Modafinil for a short period for "Shift Work Disorder" when I worked shift work as
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by sqircles 1y ago
How are these "engineers" maintaining jobs? How is pushing code generated by someone/something else that hasn't even as much as been looked at before acceptable in any realm? Better yet- why are there orgs that accept th
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by sqircles 1y ago
Labs in general are notorious for having insane food drive to the point where when you run into one that does not, they're certainly an exception. All dogs in general have food drive, as it is a necessity to live, but they're give
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by sqircles 1y ago
Jason is phenomenal. There is absolutely no telling how many hours he has had a deck of cards in his hands. The foundations of card magic are certainly out there, and for me knowing how the fundamental slights work make it that much more ma
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by sqircles 1y ago
The "old man yelling at the sky" part of me can only hope the side effects of something like this gaining traction might be that physical-world advertisements fade away.
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by sqircles 1y ago
> There is very little incentive to produce high-quality software, to not alienate your customers, and to support the thing you already sold. I think some of what I'm trying to portray is that this should be the incentive. Either do
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by sqircles 1y ago
If I never have to have two weeks of meetings around discussing how many vCAN points we will need for the next year ever again, I'll be a happy man.
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by sqircles 1y ago
The state of software companies is pretty terrible. I have been on the acquisition side as well as the development / end-user side and it’s mind-boggling knowing the exorbitant costs with bare minimum value delivered, yet companies jus
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by sqircles 1y ago
This is another "beginning of the end." All eyes are on this situation and how much push back it gets. If there is little resistance, others will certainly follow suit.
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by sqircles 1y ago
People love to talk about management skills and how things should be, but in my experience the autonomy to have that freedom is greatly lost upon the manager. At every level of management you'll be barking down orders as a transitory a
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by sqircles 1y ago
I believe they're the current "cheat code" to the hiring process. If you get called up for an interview after talking to a company at a career fair, there's a good inclination that you have already passed or at least hav
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by sqircles 1y ago
At 2.25% I'm not sure it will ever make financial sense for me to move. Upsides and downsides to that.

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