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by stephenboyd 5y ago
This is some progress but it's not as much transparency as it sounds. Companies will just list their low-balled official salary ranges for each position. That's just what the employee gets if they don't negotiate. The officia
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by stephenboyd 5y ago
Oncall shifts shouldn't be so burdensome, even for neurotypical people. That sounds like a real systemic problem. What is happening that regularly requires all the emergency tickets?
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by stephenboyd 5y ago
I get what you're saying but a doctor's patient list contains PII and patient health data. The fact of a patient seeing a certain doctor, especially a specialist, reveals some private health information of a patient.
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Twenty-year truck driver: America’s “shipping crisis” will not end(medium.com)
96 points by stephenboyd 5y ago|72 comments
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by stephenboyd 5y ago
The price the users pay to Facebook is their privacy and attention. What would a price cap for that look like?
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by stephenboyd 5y ago
Which country are you in? Which country is your client in? Your salary would be low in most markets for software developers.
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by stephenboyd 6y ago
I was a truck loader for UPS for one holiday season. They always maximize the truck space with boxes wedged up to the ceiling. But if they are short-staffed they will have too few loaders for too many trucks and the packages won't be a
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by stephenboyd 6y ago
Legislators aren't especially influenced by big tax contributors and the same taxes would be paid by the manufacturer-owned stores anyway. It's just that once the dealer network is created they become a large and highly motivated
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by stephenboyd 6y ago
The keyword you're looking for is "cross-functional", which is used to describe teams where everyone is expected to be a jack of all trades. I'm on a team like that and my responsibilities range from system architecture,
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by stephenboyd 6y ago
I hope the author and the 200 upvoters find better employment soon. The tone of the article suggests that this is assumed to be the universal way of software development, but it's basically the opposite of how things are done at my wor
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by stephenboyd 6y ago
By that standard, this article would not be about a legacy system since it turned out to be easily maintainable.
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by stephenboyd 6y ago
Would a close-up cctv display of the bedside monitor have worked for this kind of remote monitoring? I write enterprise medical software for a living and if a hospital had told me they were desperate for a solution in 3 days, I would exhaus
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by stephenboyd 6y ago
Patient vital sign monitoring has been a regular practice much longer than server monitoring.
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by stephenboyd 7y ago
We use DataDog. We run their logging agent in a container which tails the log file and syncs with their cloud service.
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by stephenboyd 7y ago
The solution is to have the engineers make the engineering plan. It leads to a more effective and enjoyable plan and execution.
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by stephenboyd 7y ago
What permissions does the app request when it's installed?
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California Bill Makes App-Based Companies Treat Workers as Employees(nytimes.com)
3 points by stephenboyd 7y ago|0 comments
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BMW ReachNow car-sharing service shuts down following joint venture deal(geekwire.com)
3 points by stephenboyd 7y ago|0 comments
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by stephenboyd 7y ago
In healthcare, the most common EMR systems (Epic, Cerner, Allscripts, etc) use IE11 in iframes as the platform environment for 3rd party applications embedded in their UIs. So convincing a few large vendors to upgrade would make a huge diff
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by stephenboyd 8y ago
Good point. I've noticed that risk, but it hasn't been a problem so far. Maybe it's not much different from the risk most developers have from being less familiar to their boss's boss and higher ups.
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by stephenboyd 8y ago
At my current company, I've had two managers in the 10 months I've been there. Neither of them has directly been a big part of my employee experience, which has been great and is certainly to their (and the company leadership&#x27
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by stephenboyd 8y ago
This has more of an explanation: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/02/subaru_suvs_overwhe...
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Subaru Recalls Cars to Fix Glitch Possibly Caused by Fabric Softener(wsj.com)
4 points by stephenboyd 8y ago|2 comments
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Crypto CEO dies holding only passwords able to unlock millions in customer coins(seattletimes.com)
4 points by stephenboyd 8y ago|1 comments
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by stephenboyd 8y ago
The Senate unanimously passed a budget bill to extend current funding levels into February. It had a good chance of veto-proof supermajority support in the House, but the outgoing Speaker of the House refused to bring it to a vote.
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by stephenboyd 8y ago
Legally, Brexit was more like an opinion poll. The proper response would have been to recognize the slim majority's interest in leaving, negotiate a Brexit deal before committing to leaving-no-matter-what, and then put that detailed de
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by stephenboyd 9y ago
That's amazing. He screwed up and lost so much of the customers' money the company so much they had to go into bankruptcy, which pegged the company's debts at the bitcoin-to-yen rate of 2014. The company has over 200,000 bitc
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British 15-year-old accessed intel operations by pretending to be head of CIA(telegraph.co.uk)
10 points by stephenboyd 9y ago|1 comments
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by stephenboyd 9y ago
There are already walls at the border where it makes sense. Do you want a wall separating Texas from the Rio Grande?
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by stephenboyd 9y ago
How often can you use Bootstrap components unaltered? I'm either working on things where aesthetics are important enough that I'd have to write custom CSS for every component, or where aesthetics are so unimportant that stylistic

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