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by zerkten 7y ago
That's true, but like many human endeavors we can reach a point that is good enough, or the process of implementing the benchmark leads to useful discoveries. It is not going to be perfect for all situations, but that doesn't mean
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by zerkten 7y ago
It's unlikely someone in the know will post answers here, but this is Japan - and it has totally different work culture. The idea of an employee leaving before their boss is still unthinkable in many cases. Many people are employed in
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by zerkten 7y ago
There is also the situation that someone gets hired for their tech skills, but the thing that keeps them in a job is their ability to pick up the domain. The tech choices are often point in time decisions which are irrelevant to any outcome
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by zerkten 7y ago
What was the level of effort to remediate that?
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by zerkten 7y ago
Could the Bazel folks better define the composition of their blob? That way they can distribute their blob, but someone could substitute for another instance of the JVM. I'm assuming ownership of this lies with Bazel and this is more o
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by zerkten 7y ago
Ironically, the security of the data is probably higher when controlled and operated by Google. That protection is at the cost of linkage with the other data which Google has.
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by zerkten 7y ago
> I've always felt we don't appreciate history very much in our industry. FWIW Chris Harrison ( https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chris_Harrison2 ) taught a compulsory history of computing class at UMIST
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by zerkten 7y ago
XAML, but it Microsoft-specific. While not completely uniform its use does extend across desktop and mobile. I wouldn't make the argument that it's intuitive or simple, but it is powerful.
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by zerkten 7y ago
> Not being snarky, genuinely curious as to what benefit I could derive as I've always seen as something that I'd eventually pursue. Very little unless your company grew to a huge scale. MBA courses don't help that much wi
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by zerkten 7y ago
I think Sinofsky was still in Office when this was happening. He comes into the picture with Windows 8 since Microsoft wanted Windows to be as successful as Office had become. Jim Allchin ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by zerkten 7y ago
> So many apps are not DPI aware. This is something that Microsoft were highlighting to Win32 and WinForms developers long before HiDPI screens became commonplace. Unfortunately, it's only recently that the API support has been fles
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by zerkten 7y ago
> Are SaaS businesses really customizing for high paying customers? They may build new features which are then made available to other businesses but I would be surprised if there are separate source trees. They are often using the same
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by zerkten 7y ago
> In reality, we're stuck in the equilibrium where companies cling to baroque workflows for everything, and vendors compete to support those workflows, sacrificing ease of use, implementation time, and agility. Enterprises are setup
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by zerkten 7y ago
Product managers also need to stop living in idealized bubbles and actually understand their users and customers. What they want can at times can be dirty or ugly, and require PMs to challenge engineering stakeholders. There needs to be giv
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by zerkten 7y ago
> 1. Python core dev pretended Python 3 was good and ready by, like, 3.1. It wasn't. IIRC the messaging from Guido and Python core dev circa PyCon 2008 and 2009 was that it was good enough for people to start thinking about how they
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by zerkten 7y ago
Plenty of these measures are just basic professionalism. Some are relatively inexpensive (enabling MFA everywhere by default given the number of MFA options.) Other changes are mildly annoying to developers, ops, and support (e.g. re-reques
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by zerkten 7y ago
> Most, if not all, companies do the bare minimum security they believe is necessary; anything beyond that is a waste of money and computing resources This why we continue to have incidents and vulnerabilities which could have been preve
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by zerkten 7y ago
I feel a similar way, and I'm a little bit older with a fairly strong desktop/web/mobile dev background. My focus was heavy on Microsoft technology before moving 50/50 to Linux. I look at industry as a series of differen
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by zerkten 7y ago
It is something that gets attention when you have a defense-in-depth approach. Look at https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0551/ and https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0578/ f
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by zerkten 7y ago
This has changed for many large US companies when it comes to their 401k plans which are often the main vehicle for retirement savings ( https://www.thestreet.com/story/13151412/1/how-your-retireme... ). There
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by zerkten 7y ago
I wasn't familiar with Bruce Gilden, but the first YouTube video I watched was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkIWW6vwrvM . My take is that this is a very different kind of "obnoxious" than what was described
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by zerkten 7y ago
From a fellow Northern Irish person - thanks for volunteering! I'm a photographer and it really horrifies me when I see people acting like this. I research what is appropriate gear and technique for shoots. I try to influence situation
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by zerkten 7y ago
See Mike Mueller's tutorials from PyCon at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGrS0uwMuHY . That's the 2018 one, but I'm guessing there is a similar one. There always seems to be a high perf tutorial of some kind
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by zerkten 7y ago
> A basic windows license, sql server express, and iis should work fine though. The point is that the partner was incentivized to not do something simple like this. I think many would, but many did not especially in the mid- and enterpri
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by zerkten 7y ago
How do you do that? I normally use the keyboard preferences to change the capslock on my MBP to control. I'd like escape there too, but I'd like to avoid running additional software to enable it.
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by zerkten 7y ago
> There is very little investigation into which situations can support remote work/teams and which ones don't. One possibility for the lack of visibility is that the companies don't want to be known for failing at their su
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by zerkten 7y ago
> Deciding when a piece of information should not have been forwarded is the job of the workplace or law, not the e-mail client. You seem to misunderstand who controls the workplace. Within limits, the employer has significant control wh
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by zerkten 7y ago
How do you know this? Enterprises have archival/deletion policies automatically applied and emails you forward to outside parties are often tracked in legal hold platforms. It's not unusual for whole sales organizations in particu
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by zerkten 7y ago
Doesn't Linode have its own backup which lets you restore onto another Linode VPS? It'd be nice to use provider-agnostic tools, but this seems like the most pragmatic option. I'm guessing other VPS providers offer something s
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by zerkten 7y ago
> A different solution, and possibly better, would be to run Unix/Linux in a VM rather than worrying about it being native in the system. Just like WSL 2.0 ( https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/announcing-

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