tossaway44

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Ask HN: Getting back to engineering in an ageist industry?
3 points by tossaway44 8y ago|2 comments
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by tossaway44 8y ago
They do. Usually to very large corporate customers.
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by tossaway44 8y ago
Actually, most of Microsoft is still a huge sales organization. Any technical role that is part of a subsidiary and isn’t in support is under sales, and they have been relentlessly driving Azure because that’s their top priority.
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by tossaway44 8y ago
That looks awesome. I do have personal concerns about GPL, though (which is why I avoid Qt - everything I do these days is either MIT or Apache licensed).
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by tossaway44 8y ago
The other day I saw someone commenting on aMLC SD cards and their increased tolerance to sudden power loss and generally rougher conditions. Can’t find it, though. Anyone have a link?
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by tossaway44 8y ago
I use Remote Desktop to work on my Windows machines from my Mac on a daily basis. Although the official client works fine, I prefer to use Jump Desktop due to its built-in SSH tunneling, and switch between my Surface (which sits underneath
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by tossaway44 8y ago
I thought the ARM version didn’t have a GUI yet...
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by tossaway44 8y ago
It depends greatly on which part of a company you’re at. At Microsoft, senior ICs (IC4 and above) make more than managers (typically M3s) in engineering teams but often the tables are reversed in services and sales teams, because managers i
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by tossaway44 8y ago
There are similar egregious bugs in the ML Server packages (if you apt autoremove to clean up old stuff, apt removes the ENTIRE stack because they have no install checks whatsoever and dpendencies are not handled correctly). Other teams ao