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by wyclif 3y ago
I've seen it too. Actually, I'm in SE Asia right now and the ISP I'm using routinely deletes tickets that haven't been resolved.
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by wyclif 3y ago
Are you allowed to say what company you work for?
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by wyclif 3y ago
That is correct, which is why the hiring atmosphere reeks of ageism. There's a lot of people in this industry that are over 40, healthy, of sound mind, and have a tremendous amount of knowledge and experience that are being overlooked
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by wyclif 3y ago
Man, do I feel this reply. This pretty much describes exactly where I'm at right now, except that I'm still searching. I've tried everything, including dropping everything except the most recent roles off my CV to accentuate
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by wyclif 3y ago
Oh yeah, I hate that. I know a guy who is a network engineer. He got burned out by the workload at his old company, quit, and took 6 months to hike the entire Appalachian Trail because old company wouldn't let him take that long of a b
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by wyclif 3y ago
There's a startup in the latest HN "Who's Hiring" that flat-out asked for recent grads (past 2 years) or not-yet grads. Ageism is probably the last frontier of job discrimination.
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by wyclif 3y ago
Sure, how about some classics like: The Didache Anselm, Cur Deus Homo Anselm, Proslogion Augustine, City of God Augustine, Confessions Augustine, On Christian Doctrine William Law, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life Luther, The Bondag
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by wyclif 3y ago
Not a felon, but this is a valuable reply. I'm finding it tough breaking into security operations and DevSecOps even though I have a clean record, but because of the fact that I'm a US citizen living offshore now. Seems like a lot
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by wyclif 3y ago
It means that having that kind of background isn't necessarily a negative.
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by wyclif 3y ago
What do you think are the most worthwhile Pragmatic Bookshelf titles? I just looked at their publications list and there's a lot more of them than I had thought before I checked.
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by wyclif 3y ago
It's a comparable situation, I tend to agree. I wouldn't make a 1:1 comparison but Packt is not known for publishing well-edited and written books.
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by wyclif 3y ago
Just a thought: if I were a decision-maker at O'Reilly, there's no way I'd allow my brand to get diluted by Packt with these oreilly.com joint publications. Reputation is everything (or almost everything) in the publishing wo
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by wyclif 3y ago
The intended audience is the legions of people grinding Leetcode and going through our industry's ridiculous interviewing process.
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by wyclif 3y ago
That's because Packt, unlike O'Reilly titles, are the shovelware of the programming textbook market. They have a pretty sorry business model. Lots of copypasta-style content slapped up into a book, then sending free copies of the
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by wyclif 3y ago
We're looking for remote engineers that have finished school within the last 2 years or will finish in the next 6 months My heart sank when I read this. I'd like to apply for one of these roles, but this makes it sound like I&#x
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by wyclif 3y ago
It seems like most of the Christian books on SE are Roman Catholic in orientation (Belloc, Chesterton, etc.) Pilgrim's Progress is a Protestant work, but it would be good to see a better representation of both pre-Reformation and Prote
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by wyclif 3y ago
It is true that for it to work you need to have enough discipline to not get distracted by the other books, sticking to one title until you finish it or at least extract the optimal value out of it.
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by wyclif 3y ago
When you say "the Intel manuals", what books are you specifically referring to?
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by wyclif 3y ago
I have a gigantic Dropbox folder with hundreds of PDF tech books that I am slowly working through. The focus is on the canonical and classic over the hippest or latest new thing. There have been a number of books that I read when they were
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by wyclif 3y ago
In India it's crazy because culturally they focus so much on the credential. It wasn't that long ago that if you were an Indian engineer and you weren't a graduate of IIT, you had no chance of working for these companies. The
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by wyclif 3y ago
I take a middle position on this having seen it all at Twitter since 2006. The site does still work, but not without outages. Of course, Twitter had major outages during the Williams/Costello/Dorsey period as well. What happened w
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by wyclif 3y ago
More like, "Congratulations, pick two!"
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by wyclif 3y ago
True. The badness is almost always incremental.
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by wyclif 3y ago
I remember the same thing with the door desks. I was impressed at the time (I was young): "Wow, this company not only uses Pine for email but they're smart enough to know that fancy desks aren't necessary." That was obvi
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by wyclif 3y ago
As a huge fan of '90's Hondas, I agree.
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by wyclif 3y ago
Almost the same trajectory for me, except BASIC first then C and K&R on an Amiga. Also switched to PCs in 1994 and installed Linux.
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by wyclif 3y ago
It's been common knowledge in the industry for years now that Amazon routinely and periodically PIPs employees to cull their herd when it's convenient for them. Point is, don't let getting a PIP get you down, just move on and
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by wyclif 3y ago
Other than becoming an actuary, how do these people become Excel gurus? What Excel books do they read?
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The Math for Buying a Home No Longer Works. These Charts Show You Why(wsj.com)
3 points by wyclif 3y ago|3 comments
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by wyclif 3y ago
Is "platform engineering" the new buzzword for DevOps?

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