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by bungie4 7y ago
https://decentraleyes.org/ Recommended by privacytools.io
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by bungie4 7y ago
The stack is to deep. Nothing is easy anymore. The technology count is staggering. I'm close to retirement. I'm looking forward to pursuing my personal programming interests while I work some mundane, no responsibility, minimum w
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by bungie4 7y ago
True. Northern Ontario here. I was born and raised in Toronto, where a damp -10C + moderate windchill feels orders of magnitude colder than dry -40 and no windchill. The coldest I've been in was -52C (off an alcohol thermometer) and I
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by bungie4 7y ago
Mr. Buffet pledged 80% of estate to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, along with many, many other wealthy people for the betterment of mankind. By all accounts, The Gates Foundation is delivering on their promise by reducing child mort
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by bungie4 7y ago
Granted, I live 'up north' but it still gets hot in my new house. I mounted some exhaust fans in the ceiling to pull the hot air from where it naturally rises too. Combined with the forced air furnace fan to circulate cool air (
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by bungie4 7y ago
Nice to read an article from somebody local, or nearly so, to me. I remember the outage well, I worked at a major telecommunications company with reserve generators. I really didn't appreciate the depth of the issue until I drove home
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by bungie4 7y ago
If I had a gray beard... 30+ years as working dev. I've never taken a 'computer class' while in school, although I've taken some instruction while working. Entirely self-taught. I do this because I like it. Back in the
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by bungie4 7y ago
30+ year programmer here. This is absolutely true. Some days you cause more damage then progress, forcing you to spend still more time correcting it. My supervisors understand that some days I'm not going touch code, instead I'l
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by bungie4 7y ago
Agreed, I combined this with Cloudflare's DNS service (1.1.1.1). A great combo.
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by bungie4 7y ago
I recently had to update 3 db machines with the updated schemas from one, and the data from a third. Then copy the finished version over to the first and finally the third. Turns out Visual Studio has a 'diff' generator for both
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by bungie4 7y ago
When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail principle. Come on admit, you've hammered in a screw before. Good easy read though.
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by bungie4 7y ago
Calvin and Hobbes has been the standard by which other comics are judged by me. That being said Hobbes: Look at the stars! Its as if the universe goes on forever and ever! Calvin: Thats why we stay inside with our appliances.
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by bungie4 7y ago
Reminds me a lot of PT Barnums article on Money written in 1880. A lot is still applicable today. https://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/barnum/moneygetting/
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by bungie4 8y ago
Nothing is easy anymore. The stacks are so deep with millions of lines of code. When it works, its amazing. But it seems not much just 'works' anymore. Compared to the 80-90's. You were very close to the metal. Comparatively
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by bungie4 8y ago
#1 Red flag discoverable during your interview. Ask if this is a new position or refilling and existing position. With some discovery, you'll find if the churn rate on the job offered is high. If so, run. Something is very wrong.
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by bungie4 8y ago
I was in the same boat. Now, one of my Pi's is running PiHole and I couldn't be happier with it.
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by bungie4 8y ago
Membership is voluntary.
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by bungie4 8y ago
I'll be traveling from Ontario to Yosemite and back this summer in my Tacoma. I have exactly the same setup. It works. I've been deeply interested in going nomadic full time for more than a decade, despite it only recently becomin
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by bungie4 8y ago
The only way to win the game is not to play.
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by bungie4 8y ago
The trick is not look for work in a startup/dev environment, but in the institutional and corporate environment. Their are jobs and the payscale you desire, just not in the quantities you desire. For instance, I was at my last positio
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by bungie4 8y ago
I moved from Toronto decades ago. Since then I've rejected offers constantly because, quite frankly, IMO, Toronto is a hole. I now find myself living north of Toronto, with limited career options but much happier near the 'outdoor
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by bungie4 8y ago
A nested if statement approximately 75 levels deep all because the author didn't understand that an ID can be unique. So he manually checked the value (which meant it could never be changed without a code change). He did't underst
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by bungie4 8y ago
I just inherited a .Net core app that was a proof of concept. It's a real pot luck of glued together functionality. I remember working in MS ASP land almost 2 decades ago and I swore I wouldn't invest a single minute learning ano
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by bungie4 8y ago
Living in Northern Ontario, I'm no stranger to Poutine. All sorts of places are popping up selling 'flavoured' poutines. Nothing beats the original. In fact, the best poutine is found at chip stands with suspect food handl
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by bungie4 8y ago
Beautiful. I recently had to implement two way auth over 1.2 and this would have saved much hair pulling. (and who does TWO way auth over an MPLS connection. Turns out, us).
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by bungie4 8y ago
Yup. Hard lesson. The contract between employer and employee is a simple one. You trade skill and time for money [Period].
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by bungie4 8y ago
I believe the issue is the number of ppl affected by change. Remember the population has increased from 38,555,983 (1870) to 328M+ today. Thats a lot of lives affected, no matter the industry, plus the subsequent affects.
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by bungie4 8y ago
The ethics of a technology dont' have to be so lofty. It's a real kick in the happiness meter when some code you have written puts ppl out of work. At this stage in my career, I actively make arguments of why I (we) shouldn'
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by bungie4 8y ago
I'm from Toronto. Congrats to Toronto for its accomplishments. It should be realized that their is a great standard of living available outside of major tech centers all across the country(s). The opportunity is different, but the job
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by bungie4 8y ago
Thanks HN, I didn't realize this phenomena was named. Learn something new everyday. I always just said, expenses rises to meet income, + 25%.

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