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by twunde 6y ago
Here's at least one reference to it: https://www.informationweek.com/database/the-man-who-torture... And it looks like earlier versions of the github project looked more like this: https://github.com&#x
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by twunde 6y ago
An oft-cited HBR article, https://hbr.org/2016/06/ma-the-one-thing-you-need-to-get-rig... , states that 70-90% of acquisitions are considered failures.
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by twunde 6y ago
I'd take a look at https://github.com/brunopulis/awesome-a11y as a starting point. In particular take a look at the Tools section to do some simulation as well as the Development Testing and Validators for more pr
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by twunde 6y ago
Seconded, although to be fair the choice of IDE doesn't really matter as long as it's relatively good. When I moved from vim to Jetbrains, one of the biggest things was seeing all the small errors including spelling mistakes. Bein
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by twunde 6y ago
Tangent: For anyone who wants to learn more about the history of instutional racism in the US, in particular the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, The Color of Law ( https://www.amazon.com/Color-Law-Forgotten-Government-Segreg..
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by twunde 6y ago
Workers on vias, H1Bs aren't really affected by remote work too much. They are affected by the rules that the administration has put in place around them. Visas are not being issued currently (I've got one co-worker stranded in hi
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by twunde 6y ago
In the US, internships have very specific laws around who is eligible for them, especially for unpaid internships[1]. This has been coupled with a large number of allegations about unpaid internships being abused for free labor and much mor
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For Github Actions, the product launch has been a major success and has become a new monetizable product. Anecdotally, I've heard of some companies moving their Jenkins/Circle CI/Travis CI workflows over to it, better proof i
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by twunde 6y ago
Similarly Github Actions is reusing a lot of Azure Pipelines under the hood. One of the most impressive parts about Microsoft's recent acquisitions is how quickly essentially two separate companies are now sharing code. It's hard
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by twunde 6y ago
To reiterate NO! Something that's not talked about enough is that the coronavirus is causing neurological issues[1]. The full effects aren't known, but examples of neurological diseases are MS, Parkinson's and cerebral palsy.
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It typically does. Most people are used to communicating in-person, often by chatting in casual interactions. Once you go remote, especially on a distributed team, individuals who are used to chatting in-person often don't have the dis
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The strongest argument against remote work (generally speaking, not specific to the current coronavirus) is that a company is not disciplined enough to communicate well, especially across teams. This may be the case if a significant number
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by twunde 7y ago
For cloud-based systems, configuration management is really used primarily for configuring kubernetes hosts and more traditional run-your-own services like SFTP (these may be things that your cloud doesn't offer, are cheaper to run you
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by twunde 7y ago
It's not just for-profit hospitals, non-profits are very focused on elective surgery as well. Why? Because elective surgery is the money maker for the business. Healthcare systems typically have profit margins between 1-4% with 4% bein
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by twunde 7y ago
Some of this is truly on terraform. The for construct (and looping in general) was only added in TF 12, released in May 2019. Older codebases didn't have a real way to support looping so there's more copy paste there. TF supports
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by twunde 7y ago
Look layoffs are always shitty, and Yelp in many ways is not an ethical company. However if you read the actual post, the leadership is at least trying. The CEO is taking no pay, execs are taking pay cuts. They've cancelled projects. M
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by twunde 7y ago
Macs have a fairly large share of devs, especially in the startup centers like SF and NYC. Most startups end up with macs as the default computer because of the developer experience as well as the ability to manage them for a consistent use
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by twunde 7y ago
There's actually a fairly famous case in the Boston area of an American museum being robbed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Stewart_Gardner_Museu... In general it's pretty rare for museums to get robb
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by twunde 7y ago
The federal government is in charge of managing interstate commerce under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution, so legally CA probably doesn't have the right to close its borders (this was used in Katzenbach v McClung as legal just
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by twunde 7y ago
Cloudflare's blog posts about COVID-19 impact on the internet is a good starting place: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-during-the-coronaviru... and https://blog.cloudflare.com/covid-19-impacts-
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by twunde 7y ago
Most MFA have backup codes that you can download during first setup. This is typical for the MFA using QR codes. For things like banks where they email/text you your temporary code, many already have processes in place for when someone
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by twunde 7y ago
They were big brands if you went to the movie theater frequently in the 90s and early 2000s.
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While people have been using version control for decades it only became the norm for all projects since github became popular. 2010-13ish I would regularly meet senior/mid-level engineers that weren't familiar with Git. In compani
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Something you can do is send them beer/wine prior to the celebration so they can join in remotely. Other options is sending them cookies/candy or potentially gift cards to something nice in their area.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/18/there-are-now-175-online-mat... mentions that most of the online companies outsource their design and production to one of 4 producers.
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Yes, it's pretty much that they don't need a Google account. This is actually a big barrier, especially when sending to corporate accounts since the registration process involves a weird and confusing flow to sign up without recei
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If you're running a small business which involves sharing files such as a photographer, or a designer then this is cheap. If all you want is to backup your files, it's expensive, especially since Google and Microsoft both offer fr
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Devops/InfraOps/SRE - Engineer/Sysadmin with infrastructure experience focused on reliability. May have some security knowledge but not a security expert. SecOps/Security Engineer - Typically focused on responding to sec
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by twunde 7y ago
So at least in NYC, once you've hit 100ish employees you're required to track diversity to some rough extent (I'm not sure if this is federal, state or local law). One thing that my company has done is to specifically engage
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Regarding the social impact, while likely overstated it has the possibility of making a real impact. Rural communities in upstate NY (Catskills, Adirondacks) have had their tourist season drop to ~6 weeks in the summer, basically because pe

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