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by xemdetia 9y ago
I agree with this simple analysis as well, for whatever reason it became accepted to not reach consensus as just a political strategy. It's hard to tell if this is an expected outcome of the churn and burn design of the US political sy
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by xemdetia 9y ago
There is rarely a situation where you can't slip a printf or log message into a piece of code and observe how it's working in production. Depending on the complexity of the problem the debugger can also hide a lot of problems- is
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by xemdetia 9y ago
I generally clear my head by reading mailinglists and looking at how projects of my interests do things and keep their commits in order, especially around bugfixes. OpenBSD is a fun one to read through as well as others. I also go to/w
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by xemdetia 9y ago
Another thing here- you are having exit interviews right? You aren't just letting people walk out the door in a huff? If people are genuinely unhappy and are leaving because of it there's an obvious signal here that you can get so
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by xemdetia 9y ago
Not understanding that fundamentally a whitelist is safer and better than a blacklist. I have gotten into many fights about this in my work about this because it always leads to a hole later when something new or unknown sticks its head out
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by xemdetia 9y ago
I just wanted to mirror this because often the entry points to various parts of the application is what defines seniority with the particular codebase. The challenges for building how the thing starts and stops as well as the build is somet
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by xemdetia 9y ago
A lot of the Northeast coastline acts like this from New York to Maine. You have to remember too that this area has a long and firm understanding of what overfishing does (Nantucket, whaling industry) and chose to try and find the most stab
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by xemdetia 9y ago
The biggest problem I have seen is people can get into situations that instead of just owing the government the debt starts getting passed around like a hot potato and it becomes increasingly difficult to get a hold of who owns your debt ri
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by xemdetia 9y ago
news.google.com, HN, reddit, arxiv (just pick a random category and see if there is something I can read), springer (to see if there are fun books coming out that I can google hard and lift papers from .edu websites/elsewhere), digikey
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by xemdetia 9y ago
I think the worst part of this is the fact that there is a lot of people who have to travel with laptops with potentially sensitive data (myself included), and it is just fundamentally wrong to let the laptops get out of your sight. I can&#
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by xemdetia 9y ago
Just imagine the number of people that would immediately reject craigslist if it got a clever 'redesign.' It has worked the same way is forever and there are people who are not incredibly computer literate who rely on it. If craig
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by xemdetia 9y ago
While not for Microsoft I work for another organization in that size class and this is effectively my entire job. Customer opens a ticket, we engage, resolve, bug fix and deliver. It does cost a pretty penny but the problems go away no matt
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by xemdetia 9y ago
From what I hear it's more of a staged rollout of who they are dragging back to the office. So waves of people are being disrupted and often making the obvious choice that seeking other employment is the best option. Or worse people th
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by xemdetia 9y ago
GPDR is actually GDPR in case you are trying to read up on what that means and don't know already.
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by xemdetia 9y ago
There are similar programs that are used in the UK where kids do a ride-along at a tech firm and then after a year they disappear forever. It's frustrating because it is unwise not to shop around and all you get is a warm body for a ye
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by xemdetia 10y ago
One of the things I would always recommend if you are working in the Microsoft stack at bleeding edge I would start trying to talk to the evangelists sooner than later. It feels on the outset that this is how their product cycles work so ma
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by xemdetia 10y ago
I wish they did a better job describing where their gains were. I tried to pull something interesting out of the changelog but it wasn't obvious.
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by xemdetia 10y ago
For me who is comfortable in inkscape or illustrator my issue has been a library thing when it comes to using SVG. You end up having to try and strip out half the rendering engine of something way too big (Skia, Cairo) for your one off thin
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by xemdetia 10y ago
My favourite was a slide deck pitched to me where they had 9 people on their 'team slide' with not one of them being a technical person. They were trying to build a phone/fax social database to compete with facebook. It still
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by xemdetia 10y ago
I am not really claiming containers are the future, but from someone who is actively working on a network appliance I have people asking me at least twice a month about containers to put my product in (from people who are already managing 1
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by xemdetia 10y ago
From someone not very invested in the OpenStack process it feels like all the momentum of the recent push of the project just withered away all at once. I am not sure if the container crowd ate it's lunch, where containerized appliance
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by xemdetia 10y ago
This blog post needs proofreading. There is obviously something interesting they want to talk about but the language is all over the shop!
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by xemdetia 10y ago
If you've never lived on freenode or one of the other support networks the community that develops open source is often very remote from the people that end up 'supporting' it. People sharing expertise is why databases like M
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by xemdetia 10y ago
I think the most frustrating thing for me as someone from the United States is the number of people I talk to that want a 'better paying job' where the job is exactly what they are doing right now just with a bigger dollar amount
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by xemdetia 10y ago
I kind of like this simple explanation 'because I like money.'
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by xemdetia 10y ago
I think there is a lot of value to what is said here with regard to external expectation. Use the people around you to ask after your side project to make sure you don't stall. If having a recurring bill for a node on EC2 is enough to
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by xemdetia 10y ago
I agree but if you get enough books in the same area you can start to figure out the mapping. Even books released in the same subfield at the same time can have wildly different notation and only by having enough references can you have a c
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by xemdetia 10y ago
It is also important to look for primers from multiple decades because what sometimes can be confusing is the current state of the art, thesis papers (PhD students are struggling to learn it the first time too, but often they hold the compl
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by xemdetia 10y ago
Where does DragonflyBSD win right now? I haven't looked into it and seen a place where it fits.
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by xemdetia 10y ago
There is also something that the OP didn't mention in the market of kit planes/experimental class. If you are already trying to cut cost on a buyer level a kit plane can often make more sense then buying something already built. T

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