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by zippergz 10y ago
I'm generally much more pro-recruiter than the crowd here at HN, but I filter anything from Cybercoders directly to the trash, both as a candidate and a hiring manager.
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by zippergz 10y ago
I can afford it, and there are other things I'd rather be doing with that same amount of time. It's exactly the same reason I hire someone to clean my house and take care of my yard. Seems pretty simple to me.
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by zippergz 10y ago
Hiring is hard. We have to use all the data points available to us. If someone seems to have thrived in a culture that is counter to the culture we're trying to build, that's a valuable data point.
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by zippergz 10y ago
The first part of a credit card number is called the BIN, which stands for Bank Identification Number. With that, you can tell which bank issued the card (aka the issuer).
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by zippergz 10y ago
Remedy is one of the worst software packages I've had the misfortune to work with, so saying something is better than Remedy is damning it with faint praise.....
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by zippergz 10y ago
I have my home automation stuff hooked up to Alexa also, and no, it's not always easier to do it with my hands. Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. I am often baffled by this "I'll just use the light switch" respon
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by zippergz 10y ago
I don't get this rant. Alexa is still bleeding edge. But it's being sold to relatively unsophisticated consumers, on the front page of the world's largest e-commerce site. This is not a bleeding edge release like Google Gla
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by zippergz 10y ago
> That's trivially fixable. You can rename her to "Echo", "Amazon", or "Computer". In my experience, this just changes the times that it accidentally triggers. It doesn't actually reduce how ofte
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by zippergz 10y ago
For me, both were terrible. The restrictions were a huge pain in the ass, and annoying to my wife. But I'm REALLY not at my best if I don't get a good night's sleep, so every night that I got paged during the night basically
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by zippergz 10y ago
Depends on the project. As a swe I got paged zero times.
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by zippergz 10y ago
My problem is that I enjoy many aspects of SRE work, but I absolutely despise being on call. I've since transitioned into onto a different career track, but I have long wished to find some way to use my combination of unix sysadmin and
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by zippergz 10y ago
I don't disagree with this, but very small teams (or sometimes just myself) is exactly what I use Trello for. We use it at home for shared to-do lists, idea boards (way better than Pinterest for us), etc. I realize this doesn't ma
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by zippergz 10y ago
And also that project management (or product management) are not "management" in the normal sense of the word.
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by zippergz 10y ago
Make sure you have a very clear understanding of the difference between a Project Manager and a Product Manager. I've found that lots of developers think they're the same thing....
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by zippergz 10y ago
I know I'm weird around here, but I view OTA software updates on a car to be a huge downside, not an upside...
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by zippergz 10y ago
There have been a few late nights where I found myself searching eBay and other places for a used BeBox. Sadly, they're hard to come by (and expensive). I used to have a bunch of NeXT hardware and it is indeed cool. I got rid of it in
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by zippergz 10y ago
If you don't care about the electric drive, there are MUCH nicer cars available at the same price as a Tesla. It doesn't even compare. This is why I don't have a Tesla. I could afford one, but I have spent a lot of time in
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by zippergz 10y ago
Thanks for this. It's some really good insight for me. I've had a few ideas bouncing around in my head for SaaS products to serve a few different small business niches where the existing software sucks badly. I think all of those
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by zippergz 10y ago
I don't think that most families I know could get by for a year on 55% pay. How do people do that?
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by zippergz 10y ago
I ran the controller on my own machines, for a while in AWS and for a while in my closet, for a few years. It's fine. But I've been happier since I switched to the Cloud Key. The functionality is the same, but I find the maintenan
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by zippergz 10y ago
For every car I've bought in the past 15 years, at some point I've received a letter from the dealership telling me that my car is in "high demand" and that they'd pay me a premium price to buy it from me (of course
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by zippergz 10y ago
If you ever have aspirations of having one of your side projects turn into something that gets outside investment, or gets acquired by another company, you need to be more careful. Having legal ambiguity (or even the chance of legal trouble
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by zippergz 10y ago
I certainly would prefer that my employees not get burned out. What they do after work is none of my business, but I definitely hope most of them aren't living and breathing work 24/7.
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by zippergz 10y ago
Hi. Not a green comment, though admittedly I'm not using my real name here. I worked at Amazon for many years and enjoyed it. Nice to meet you. It's a huge company with a wide variety of teams and experiences. It's not for ev
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by zippergz 10y ago
Obviously it depends heavily on where you live and who you are friends with. Here in a major city in the US, virtually all of the people I exchange messages with are on iMessage. For the tiny minority who aren't (I just skimmed my mess
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by zippergz 10y ago
I use the UAP-AC-PROs in my house (and also an Edgerouter Lite at the border). Great stuff, especially for the price.
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by zippergz 10y ago
There will be very soon. They announced it today during a session on ELB.
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by zippergz 10y ago
They just announced during the ELB session that ALBs will be supporting full IPv6 also.
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by zippergz 10y ago
I think you may be confusing profit and revenue. Amazon's revenue is higher than Google's.
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by zippergz 10y ago
I use a combination of DNS Made Easy and Route 53. Both have worked well for me.

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