stcroixx

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by stcroixx 4y ago
It does stand in sharp contrast to the more personal and direct efforts one could make to show their appreciation to say, their family.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
Wow, what’s the secret to being so awesome? A whole generation just gets it.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
Professional programmers simply get paid to write code. Any further illusions one may have about them are personal and subjective. Also, server side JS is an absolute hard no for many, many server side devs who became server side devs afte
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by stcroixx 4y ago
Just one more thing to break. I’ll take a standard manual door any day.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
I’ve done it twice. Mass migration off Oracle and before that DB2 and Sybase. Current system is also occasionally sold on premise to customers who have their own db preference and we can support them all.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
I've never worked on a system where we didn't make an effort to make sure we were NOT dependent on a specific DB vendor/implementation and avoiding SP's has always been a part of that.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
I don’t know, I’ve seen maybe 10 in my 25 years in the industry and they were mostly all at the start of my career in a mainframe shop. I ‘taught’ them AIX as we moved a critical system off the big iron onto a RISC system. I don’t think I
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by stcroixx 4y ago
25 years doing dev work, also never used anything more than basic arithmetic. I barely passed my college math requirements - still don’t understand what calculus is for, never came up writing CRUD apps.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
Do yo see many 55-65 year olds doing technical work at your company? Or any company you’ve been at in the past?
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by stcroixx 4y ago
That 73% number sounds fudged. I’m sure they have some justification, but they’re proven liars.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
I’m American and I’ve enjoyed every country in Europe I’ve been to. As far as know, none of those countries would allow me the freedom to work as I do here and I doubt I could find a house large enough for my family of 6 or the 20 ac
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by stcroixx 4y ago
This is the norm from my perspective over the last 25 years. I was a contractor once and while I sat at a tiny desk in a hallway and wasn’t invited to the ice cream parties I know I was paid better than all the FTE as they tried recruiting
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by stcroixx 4y ago
Never heard of booking.com until today, never used it. I sometimes book directly with a hotel or use Expedia or whatever else returns the cheapest price.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
3 of the 4 closing would be rampant shoplifting.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
It's at odds with prevailing modern attitudes. The majority of talented devs of the millennial generation are excited to work for FAANG and don't have the innate distrust/hate of big corporations the previous generations of
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by stcroixx 4y ago
So the company doesn’t train their employees to properly explain required forms - totally legit thing to complain about, but you can’t? Back in the day, the employee would expect the complaint, likely agree with it and not take it personall
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by stcroixx 4y ago
They’re some weird millennial idea that’s taken hold over the last ten years that when you get terrible service somewhere it’s in bad taste to voice that to the representative of the company you’re currently with, to save them the hassle.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
But it’s not the preferred protocol for the reasons explained - that’s the lesson you can learn here.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
So the government will get to decide whose business is defined as a 'platform' before they enforce this requirement of maintaining an API suitable for 3rd party clients? Do they also decide what features are required to be in tha
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by stcroixx 4y ago
Not everyone voted for or agrees with the current DA’s opinion. As a taxpayer, I don’t mind keeping cops doing nothing on the payroll as I know when the backlash begins and we get a new DA they’re ready to start work again with no delay.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
I’m guessing it could be because every time they go out in public with the uniform on they risk their life, even more so when they engage a criminal. It’s a sacrifice they’re probably not willing to make if they don’t believe it’s for a go
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by stcroixx 4y ago
How do avoid all the needles? They’re everywhere in the parks and can be very hard to see sometimes.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
Seems oddly secretive. Very strange mission. Could be some kind of front funneling money to a rebel group for as vague as it’s written. What does any of it have to do with hosting repos? Please, just do the one thing.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
Outside of FAANG, roles aren't guaranteed to be this specialized. If you can't adjust and expect it to be done like they did it at your FAANG, you're going to have a tough time being productive.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
My preferred size of company would not have the resources for a team dedicated to infrastructure. In companies this size, there would be multiple developers skilled enough with the tech to support it fully from installation, configuration,
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by stcroixx 4y ago
We don't train people on or write our own documentation for any widely used open source tools. We use them as they're provided and don't expect any unique knowledge beyond that. That's a large part of the value in choo
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by stcroixx 4y ago
Empathy doesn't seem particularly valuable in a work context. Wether I empathize with a non technical manager who creates more problems than they solve or not doesn't change the impact that person has on the people around them.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
We might be unique, but here's no situation we're using Kafka where someone unfamiliar with it would be able to design and support production level systems to the standards we do after a couple hours. That would result in a time
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by stcroixx 4y ago
I'm running into this with increasing frequency, particularly people coming from Amazon. For example, they know nothing about something like Kafka because they've been using some Amazonified version of something similar instead.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
I wouldn't bet on it. Innovation takes hard work, sacrifice, low pay, etc. - exactly the opposite of what one does in big tech. They might try out of hubris until they burn through that nest egg and retreat.

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