balabaster

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by balabaster 4y ago
There are plenty of use cases for consultants: 1. Experts in their field often reach a point in their career where they've run into enough road blocks and solved enough major problems in their field that they can see some benefit in he
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by balabaster 4y ago
Agreed!
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by balabaster 4y ago
I will tell you, having been approached by Accenture a number of times that the rates they offer their consultants are far below what a decent consultant expects to get paid. You get what you pay for. You're mileage may vary.
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by balabaster 4y ago
In the U.S. maybe those options work, but in Canada they don't. If by chance the goods were shipped via a courier that will scan the barcode to return, that works - UPS for instance, but 90% of the time you need to print a return label
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by balabaster 4y ago
I haven't had a printer for the past 3 years and I refuse to buy one because of the disgusting economic and environmental practices of the ink mafia. Their behaviour has been beyond despicable for decades but somehow the world has just
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by balabaster 4y ago
Well I can't speak for everyone else obviously, but I find traditional notation much easier to read than Clairnote's alternative. Even with the description, I find it harder to glance at the Clairnote notation and see what it mean
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by balabaster 4y ago
Along with a host of other server side "languages" - ASP, PERL/CGI... all this has been done before. Just as we've come full circle on infrastructure where we were trying to eke every ounce of performance out of memory a
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by balabaster 4y ago
If I recall rightly, this is why VHS beat out the higher quality Betamax back in the day of video tapes - it was cheaper to produce using VHS so everything was on VHS. Because everything was on VHS, that was what people bought and the highe
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by balabaster 5y ago
Having spent half a decade working in Oil & Gas flow control systems directly, I can confirm that 10 years ago when I left that industry, cyber security was still not even a consideration. Light years behind wasn't an accurate stat
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by balabaster 5y ago
I just had that request from my girlfriend in the Netherlands to bring back an iPad mini in this trip because they're $100 less for the 256GB model here in Canada than they work out to in the Netherlands once exchange rates and taxes a
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by balabaster 5y ago
I love the Reuters app for my phone. I can listen to the roundup once in the morning while I'm getting ready or in 10 minutes on my way to the gym. It's all the basic headlines with a little blurb. Read to you with very little in
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by balabaster 5y ago
My main point still stands - subsequent generations always thinking they know better until life bites them in the ass and delivers them a new order of humility. Life has a way of teaching us all a lesson or two when we get too big for our b
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by balabaster 5y ago
They did build a better alternative - Slack, then Teams came along and tried to rebuild Slack and then Skype and then Bluejeans came along... and then Zoom... and then Discord and the comms environment keeps evolving and the rent keeps goin
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by balabaster 5y ago
Are you familiar with spoon theory? https://www.healthline.com/health/spoon-theory-chronic-illne... I have from 25-50 or maybe more things I need to get done in my normal everyday life - most of which either improve my
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by balabaster 5y ago
As a software engineer that spent a great deal of his life embedded in UI philosophy, I'm still so lazy when it comes to learning other systems. My cell phone for instance - the iPhone, there are still things that my girlfriend shows m
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by balabaster 5y ago
Having children allows child abuse - do we ban people from having children? Of course we don't...
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by balabaster 5y ago
What if we look at ideas such as encryption requiring licensing such that there are valid use cases for it and invalid use cases for it. Things that automatically qualify as valid use cases would be things like login systems, payment system
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by balabaster 5y ago
The amount of times I do the same, only to think that everything I've written sounds so self centred that it's not worth posting, so then I think to myself "there's my therapy on the subject, delete." Sometimes just
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by balabaster 5y ago
I don't miss the net splits though :D mIRC... those were the days. Good times, indeed!
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by balabaster 5y ago
I've had RegexBuddy installed on my computer for so long. It's been part of my basic dev setup for years: https://www.regexbuddy.com/ I used to use it a lot, although I've not used it in quite a while. I don&
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by balabaster 5y ago
Your long-hand isn't quite the same as your regex...it should be remember -> one_or_more -> digit; In regex parlance, \d+ explicitly allows for one or more digits. Multiple tacitly implies 2 or more which would be \d{2,} Also, yo
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by balabaster 5y ago
Interesting in this instance is also somewhat sickening.
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by balabaster 5y ago
Agreed. I liken it to the census in Germany prior to World War II which asked religion, people gave it thinking they were doing nothing wrong. 1939 came around and it was used as a register for genocide. "Oh that would never happen tod
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by balabaster 5y ago
It depends very much what your tech stack looks like, but I use Git, CircleCI and Octopus Deploy to Azure for my stack. It's cheap in terms of maintenance and because I know them all like the back of my hand it's quick and easy fo
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by balabaster 5y ago
Or when security actually becomes profitable in itself.
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by balabaster 5y ago
You didn't recognize that there are plenty of European developers capable and willing to work on the US time zones. I presently split my life 50/50 between Toronto/Netherlands so I live half my life on Eastern Time and the ot
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by balabaster 5y ago
I would wager your codebase, tests and development environment reflects this. Any product of any significance requires a day of setup at least before you even get as far as cloning the repo and opening your first user story.
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by balabaster 5y ago
So I can only speak for myself personally. But my perspective is that all the stuff on the exams, I already learned long before the courses became current and have moved onto the next thing. So by the time the course arrives, I no longer ca
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by balabaster 5y ago
This is how I interview as well. Though I usually have a fairly good idea who I want based on my network before HR ever get involved.
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by balabaster 5y ago
Nobody can be 100% efficient from day one, because even with all other things being equal, the new guy still has to learn all the idiosyncracies of your existing codebase (which is quite likely full of technical debt and poor decisions), yo

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