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by beh9540 5y ago
I worked for a company once where IT Desktop Support had to install all software, even for teams who worked in Technology. I was tasked with starting a whole new program and needed a bunch of new tools installed, and needed to supply them w
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by beh9540 5y ago
I interviewed with Wikipedia a year or so ago, and right from the start the recruiter said “since we’re a donation based organization, we have to pay below market” and it was definitely below market. I politely turned them down, because I c
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by beh9540 5y ago
One of my favorite resources on 1:1s, I was just sharing this in a management class I had to take. I highly recommend his book “Managing Humans” to anyone who’s looking to be in Engineering Management.
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by beh9540 5y ago
This and the glee of executives over systems that increase the potential for overdrafts or charge backs is why I’m glad to not be in banking anymore. One of my most memorable conversations was with a rep from one of the core processors abou
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by beh9540 5y ago
I noticed the same thing - Nissan and Infiniti models that are basically the same chassis but with fancier features going for the same price. Infiniti was lower than MSRP but Nissan was above.
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by beh9540 5y ago
I always dreaded talking to support - AKS would routinely break in weird and ways, and it was always super frustrating waiting for support to fix things that shouldn’t have happened. We once had an error with Azure MySQL and AKS, where it w
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by beh9540 5y ago
What I don’t understand about this is they were most likely an at-will employee. So the company could have just said “new policy, sign it”. I had an employer do this - I was working there a few years, owner came in and said “we’re doing bac
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by beh9540 5y ago
My biggest mistake was not accounting for the ethics of what the company was doing. I was young, and super excited to have a job in software while still in school, building things. Only much later did I realize that multi-level marketing (p
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by beh9540 5y ago
This reminds me a lot of work I used to do in the controls world. We had a large amount of equipment all with proprietary networking to embedded systems that were basically Intel 386 systems running DOS. The big issue we had was they had sp
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by beh9540 5y ago
This is pretty much exactly how I got my first job programming. The only student job I could get at college was working for the HVAC department: organizing filters in warehouses around campus, taking out the trash, etc. I got a very similar
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by beh9540 5y ago
I think the big reason for this is most dealers know there's little maintenance cost on EVs, which is where they make their money. With our Nissan Leaf, it's a struggle finding a dealer that even has an EV mechanic, and the ones t
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by beh9540 6y ago
Qventus | Senior Full-stack Engineer | Full Time | REMOTE Qventus is a real-time decision making platform for hospital operations. Our mission is to simplify how healthcare operates, so that hospitals and caregivers can focus on delivering
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by beh9540 6y ago
Keep the Apidistra Flying is one of my favorite books. I first read it in High School and I remember distinctly relating with the scene when he's counting how much money he has left in his pocket during the date.
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by beh9540 6y ago
We tried this on a b2b SaaS product I worked on where we had a lot of "third party" users (volunteers for a customer) who were only going to use the application once a year at most. One of the biggest hurdles we had was explaining
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by beh9540 6y ago
When I bought my router table, I remember reading a lot of articles about lifts not being worth it due to lack of repeatability / slop in most of the DIY and cheap mechanisms unless you bought the $500> lifts. I'd be curious if
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by beh9540 6y ago
The VA sort-of does this, at least when I worked for them. The issue they had when I was there was depending on where you went, you may or may not have access to the record, because the VA didn't use a central system, it used many syst
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by beh9540 6y ago
Maybe instead of an image, both parties could use an ODB reader that signs the mileage cryptographically, and pushes it to the blockchain? This way both parties could verify the transaction was completed as contracted (IE no joyrides). I&#x
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by beh9540 6y ago
I'm fairly astonished how few duplicate applications are here. I work for a company the same size, and we have many more applications than this, with lots of overlapping and competing products. Kudos to management at Github.
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by beh9540 6y ago
SARs are required to be reported for all daily cash deposits greater than $10K by the Bank Secrecy Act.[1] Cash heavy businesses could easily hit this level, as well as large transactions that are perfectly legal, so you wouldn't want
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by beh9540 6y ago
I agree with you, in most cases, but unfortunately in some regulated industries, more and more auditors are putting WAFs as a requirement for secure architectures. No amount of explaining why it doesn't make sense changes anything, as
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by beh9540 6y ago
This cannot be stated enough. The company I worked for purchased "the leading gartner SAST testing solution" before they even started a project and had a framework chosen. It turned out the SAST solution didn't support the la
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by beh9540 6y ago
I can second this - our mainframes average response time is 2-5 seconds based on the call, with 99 percentile responses in the minutes per transaction. This is after a fortune was spent moving us to a "faster" platform. Also, at o
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by beh9540 6y ago
I ran into a great "where's the code" on a "lightweight API" ruby project once. Opened up the codebase to fix an issue, and there were no .rb files at all. After opening every file in the repo, it turned out the dev
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by beh9540 6y ago
Waterfall is certainly a thing - although it's taken most of my career to run into it. Where I work currently (banking) some of the projects are waterfall, some are agile. The waterfall group has requirements gathered for them by the s
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by beh9540 6y ago
I was really surprised docker or kubernetes wasn't one of the items on here. While I use both, they definitely both could use cold showers to make sure they provide value.
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by beh9540 6y ago
I applaud them for using open source software, and contributing back their findings, but my first thought reading this was "isn't it a little odd a security appliance vendor who actively markets a "Remote Secure Access"
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by beh9540 6y ago
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who has experienced this. Only thing I'd add is the lack of understanding about how hard backups are at some of the scales of data in research. Trying to explain to researchers who run the dep
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by beh9540 6y ago
I argued against this pattern and left shortly after the owner of a company I worked at made me implement this pattern. As the head of the department I actually refused, but he went to one of the engineers on my team and had the push the ch
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by beh9540 6y ago
When I was in school for Microelectronics, we were told very early on that experiments needed to be designed for the least number of runs, because of the sheer cost of taking a production fab down for a short period. That and the design bet
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by beh9540 6y ago
I'd be interested in seeing the data on this. My wife's a teacher, and in her school district there is no maturnity leave, you need to use sick time. So we were trying for the opposite - to make sure our child is born during the s

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