bitshepherd

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by bitshepherd 8y ago
I'm going to have to be the dissenter here. Namecheap also does domain name front running and tasting, so it's not really any different.
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by bitshepherd 8y ago
Not really, no. Raising the price of gas negatively affects the working poor more than helps the environment. That subset of society may not live in an area accessible by transit, or their employment requires them to be in a different locat
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by bitshepherd 8y ago
Trinity and Beyond narrated by William Shatner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_and_Beyond
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by bitshepherd 8y ago
This happened to me at Amazon the first time I visited HQ. The interviewer was standing about six feet away intently watching for every mark I made, which made me freeze up and start rambling about stars shining, or something equally nonsen
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by bitshepherd 8y ago
Having deployed and maintained both Confluence and MediaWiki, users like Confluence better. Going from that to MediaWiki would feel cheap to them, or they just wouldn't use it because it would feel "hard".
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by bitshepherd 8y ago
As a former devout Fluxbox user, I concur with this comment. I use a pretty bog standard Gnome now. It's not really an active thought so much as something that Mostly Just Works. My productivity is about the same, since I use the same
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by bitshepherd 8y ago
Coincidentally, some of those same people who would say they don't primarily consider degrees will outright ask about education background when talking to a candidate. The conversation will go generally positive. A month later of no co
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by bitshepherd 8y ago
> That doesn't make sense to me... I think it's more likely that tech workers get higher salaries because they were/are in high demand, not to prevent unionization. The inverse is exactly that, though. Higher wages give ce
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by bitshepherd 8y ago
Sysadmins have guild-style organizations (see: USENIX, LOPSA) but they've not had as much impact on hiring and income as would like to be believed. If anything, they've served as a filter for HR, who immediately tried to weaponize
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by bitshepherd 8y ago
The incentive to come together as a group is not about how much an individual is paid, but to come together over a common ground and influence change that benefits the many over the few. Income is one of the most common things to throw out
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by bitshepherd 8y ago
With such a level of cynicism, nobody would ever be hired. People game the system because a system exists to be gamed.
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by bitshepherd 8y ago
You'd be surprised. :)
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by bitshepherd 8y ago
I was almost there with you until the bit about the gig economy. This reads more like an advert for Upwork. People giving up leverage with labor just gives 'them' the upper hand. Why it's so hard for tech workers to band toge
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by bitshepherd 8y ago
This does not reflect my experience at the >10k employee level of company. I've had a more reasonable work week out of the 150 employee consulting firm than I have the 10k employee public software company. At the >=100k employee,
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by bitshepherd 8y ago
My last 'coding interview' consisted of a debugging a broken live VM, with a Java app waiting at the end of the rainbow. The job was for working on bare metal provisioning using yaml and Python, but I could 'use your favorite
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by bitshepherd 8y ago
Retired In Place is likely what was intended here.
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by bitshepherd 8y ago
Not long ago, I worked for a brand you can find in every Best Buy in America that also sells direct on Amazon. Returns would come back used/opened/filthy by the crate, and they get shuffled right back in with new inventory. Everyo
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by bitshepherd 8y ago
As a senior-level self-taught, I redacted this post because of my views on whiteboard coding. Downvotes are not cool.
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by bitshepherd 8y ago
People like to network. Consider it a business card with words.
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by bitshepherd 8y ago
You're overthinking it a bit, and that's understandable. Records and letters, in my experience, are more doing-motions-to-move than actually doing anything. In general, nobody cares if you had a spotless record, or were employee-o
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by bitshepherd 8y ago
Looks like we broke it.
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by bitshepherd 8y ago
Funny enough, this comes up fairly often. The basicish feel of the site belies its true nature, and it's downright intentional. Also, only brainy smarties would intentionally go to a 90's looking website to talk about technology a
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by bitshepherd 8y ago
When I'm in the employee seat, I try to avoid managers that use blanket statements of people. The 'best' workers, where everyone -- including their manager -- goes when they need the hard questions answered, will usually quie
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by bitshepherd 9y ago
Ad hominem is the best way to get the point across. Don't ever change, sir/madam.
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by bitshepherd 9y ago
Loved Austin when I lived there. I went back earlier this year and it just wasn't the same. The hypergrowth over the past few years has turned moderately annoying traffic into a driving nightmare, which compounds everything because Tex
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by bitshepherd 9y ago
I'm moving for more than cheaper rent, but thanks for playing. There are people that make six figure salaries that can barely afford to make ends meet due to the cost of living, and that is a fact. Try swallowing $4000 a month in rent
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by bitshepherd 9y ago
For a single earner making at least $100k a year, I'm looking at moving away from the Bay Area for any notion of not blowing $50k on rent every year. I can't even touch the housing market in an area inconvenient to my work without
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by bitshepherd 9y ago
Someone has the idea behind challenge/response. You don't have to answer the challenge with a 100% truthful, legitimate, accurate response, because the point is to NOT provide an answer that could be guessed by framing the respons
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by bitshepherd 9y ago
Push at the end of the day and watch as the SPOF VCS server melts from the 17:00 thundering herd. Instead of commit and push at the end of the day, make smaller commits that are easier to digest. Giant spaghetti patches make for sad times i
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by bitshepherd 9y ago
No degree, no certs here. I take that back, one expired cert from years ago. I meant to renew it, but that was a few years ago. It gets you in the door when you have no other in, but not too far. If you go work for a bozo shop, they'll

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