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by tachyoff 9y ago
Why must every tech job be SpaceX or Amazon or Boeing? No, really. Most tech jobs are not super sexy, and I’m a little irritated that the prevailing opinion seems to be one of looking down your nose at every tech job that isn’t “prestigious
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by tachyoff 9y ago
There’s definitely a fine line, but let’s be real, Facebook was never really about fine lines and nuance.
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by tachyoff 9y ago
> I think there's something to be said that if you REALLY enjoy what you're doing you'll immerse yourself into it with infinite willpower, and most importantly, you'll be ridiculously happy doing it. There simply aren
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by tachyoff 9y ago
> ...if something costs the company money they will pass those costs onto the consumer... They don’t have to do that, though.
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by tachyoff 9y ago
> But you also have to protect your keys and any machine those keys are installed on, otherwise you're just shifting the weak point to another machine. I’m okay with this, personally. What’s riskier: a public server listening on por
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by tachyoff 9y ago
I know a lot of inexperienced devs who run things as root to try to fix problems. It’s the first thing some of them do (after restarting). I think it’s a lack of awareness due to missing knowledge. When you don’t know much about how your sy
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by tachyoff 9y ago
I beg to differ [1]. I know people at Facebook, and from what I’ve heard, people just kind of... do stuff; there’s very little organization. Maybe that’s not true anymore, though. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=100
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by tachyoff 9y ago
I’m confused. By “this whole thing” I mean “the James Damore nonsense” and “political nonsense in general”. It is super hecka easy to just not talk about politics at work. For decades, people went to work and didn’t talk about religion, sex
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by tachyoff 9y ago
I agree with all of this, and I can’t help but ask: when did we start ignoring people’s environment and their circumstances? I have tens of thousands of dollars of student loan debt (my monthly payment is basically a mortgage payment) and I
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by tachyoff 9y ago
There’s a baby in the house where I live. When he wakes up and is fussy, you can absolutely hear him throughout most of the house. If you’re in the kitchen it helps to have a monitor, just for the distance. Otherwise, do baby monitors help
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by tachyoff 9y ago
I just want to address this: > Put companies out of business that produce or import said goods Good! Good. If you are actively contributing to polluting the earth and making it uninhabitable for future generations, then losing your busin
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by tachyoff 9y ago
How many Googlers have to get fired before people learn to just not talk about this whole thing? Don’t they have, like... work to do instead?
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by tachyoff 9y ago
I somewhat hate winter, but I like seasons; they give a nice tempo to life. Personally, I’d rather have snow than earthquakes, wildfires, mudslides, tornadoes, and hurricanes, which the rest of the country gets some combination of. Michigan
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by tachyoff 9y ago
To be fair, and I don’t know when you were last here, Detroit is somewhat slowly improving. Some of the roads are still terrible, but that’s Michigan in general (I have some friends in the suburbs, and when I visit them, I specifically avoi
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by tachyoff 9y ago
Nothing quite as urban as grapefruit water and side parts, right? ;) I haven’t caught up on Silicon Valley, but I do hope this makes it in. I live in a rather “urban” city and I’m sorry, but other than the zip code, there is nothing urban a
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by tachyoff 9y ago
At this point I’m about to start my own anti-coworking company called MeWork. It’s like WeWork, except every office is private. ;)
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by tachyoff 9y ago
Drunkard here, nice to meet you. I think it’s a bit unfair to pass judgement on such a human tradition as consuming alcohol. All things in moderation, as they say.
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by tachyoff 9y ago
> What is missing from co-working spaces is some kind of housekeeping rules and enforcement... What’s missing is simple walls. Four walls with a door. What’s missing is privacy and silence, which we have apparently collectively decided i
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by tachyoff 9y ago
Precisely this. I escape to a coworking space for some peace and quiet, which isn’t always possible because the high-pitched cackling from our glass-wall neighbors cuts through most building materials. I don’t want to talk to strangers, I w
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by tachyoff 9y ago
There are a billion assumptions wrapped up in those statements. I will address some of them. 1. Every link is NOT compensated fairly. Wages have been stagnant for decades; meanwhile, the cost of everything else (especially housing) continue
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by tachyoff 9y ago
Welcome to the lovely United States. ;) Since 9-11, border security, especially returning to the US, has gotten extremely paranoid. At all three spots between Michigan and Canada (the Ambassador Bridge, the tunnel, and the crossing in Sarni
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by tachyoff 9y ago
Here’s what will happen: Judge: “Well, you signed this contract two years ago, which specifically states that you consent to OTA updates of any kind.” Done. The judicial system is not always the place to fight these things, especially when
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by tachyoff 9y ago
Now I am deeply curious! I’m a Detroiter and Zug Island is a quick drive south. Is it audible from the US side? I have a passport, but “I want to hear the Windsor hum” might not, unfortunately, fly at the border anymore.
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by tachyoff 9y ago
And once they figure out the issues, how many of their billions of dollars will they donate to help solve them? Corporate greed has never once solved inequality, only made it worse. You’ll have to pardon me if I find it hard to believe that
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by tachyoff 9y ago
“I just logged into my server! <Share on FB><Tweet this>” Yeah, that’s frustrating. Mobile app permissions are a gross nightmare.
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by tachyoff 9y ago
To be fair, though, history can be rewritten, albeit sometimes with some difficulty.
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by tachyoff 9y ago
100% this. I’ve been transitioning to doing more devops/admin work for the past several months and it’s amazing the stuff people are willing to put into production. Like no, maybe we shouldn’t be committing that secret to Github. Dedic