covermydonkey

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by covermydonkey 3y ago
I was asked to "find reasons" to get the teams under me back in the office.
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by covermydonkey 4y ago
A colleague of mine discovered his air monitoring device companion app was uploading to their website along with a map pin on his precise address. He wasn't too happy about that
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by covermydonkey 4y ago
At my Big Corp (tm) we just let someone go because he offered a service to coach vendors on 1) How to get on our supplier list and 2) our internal criteria for vendor selection. He also charged for the service and as IT Ops head had a great
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by covermydonkey 4y ago
This. Lost access to my business on Google infra / services after leaving a positive review on a bakery while on holiday to Paris - for "violating Google Maps policy".
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by covermydonkey 4y ago
I went on holiday to Paris over two years ago and reviewed a number of places on Google Maps while there. I had a lovely experience and never left a negative review or did anything unusual on Google Maps. I received an email a day after I g
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by covermydonkey 5y ago
Triple vaxxed and I refuse to work with anyone who is anti-vax or anti-mandate or anti-science. You shouldn't be allowed to buy food or leave your bedroom until you're fully vaxxed.
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by covermydonkey 5y ago
At my Big Corp (tm) we've had HCL and TCM send one candidate for interview and drop off different people entirely. HR caught on when HCL started dropping off men when we had specifically selected several women.
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by covermydonkey 6y ago
A big part of why I felt unwelcome was their unwavering commitment to American political activism. I don't live there. Why do I need to hear about some countries politics in my favorite programming language.
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by covermydonkey 6y ago
I can second this. We had a database growing by around 200GB of relevant data per month. While I'm not a fan of Oracle having worked there long ago, that database was unbelievably fast. They moved to MySQL years later and it required a
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by covermydonkey 6y ago
As a South African all of this is fascinating. Especially the shift of where the "center" is. It seemed every American not on the left is called "far right" from where I am sitting. Half a dozen of my friends have moved
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by covermydonkey 6y ago
I have quite the adblocking setup for my network and browser. Every now and then I get a glimpse of what the bulk of humanity has to endure on websites. I can't believe the difference. Those of us who enjoy an ad free Internet experien
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by covermydonkey 6y ago
Wouldn't Google censor the effort in it's news feed and search results?
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by covermydonkey 7y ago
I wonder what timezone the containers think they're in?
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Why Nations Fail (2011)(youtube.com)
1 points by covermydonkey 7y ago|0 comments
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by covermydonkey 8y ago
Not only tiny on disk (startup time, pulling etc) but also tiny memory footprint. I'm comparing to a Java Spring app and Golang is absurdly light on memory.
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Tinder leaking personal details in API(devrant.com)
2 points by covermydonkey 8y ago|0 comments
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by covermydonkey 8y ago
As someone who works for a large asset finance company I can tell you that the plan is to ensure a car with missed payments cannot be started. We do offer payment holidays and finance restructuring as to those that miss a payment.
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Blackmailer extorts kid by using YouTube's DMCA process [video](youtube.com)
4 points by covermydonkey 8y ago|0 comments
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by covermydonkey 8y ago
Quotas have been a disaster in my country. Instead of hiring the best people so that we can compete better we've had to optimize for this variable q and often those seats have been kept empty as we haven't found that special perso
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by covermydonkey 8y ago
It has been flagged again
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by covermydonkey 8y ago
Agreed. > U.S. intelligence officers were also able to identify digital links between the covert communications system and the U.S. government itself, according to one former official—links the Chinese agencies almost certainly found as
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by covermydonkey 8y ago
Well that is not confusing at all [1] [1] https://www.zapper.com/
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by covermydonkey 8y ago
I've had to do the same with suppliers and software vendors. A quick one-on-one with the "tech person" has often been far more informative & accurate than anything I've heard from the execs or senior managers.
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by covermydonkey 8y ago
Don't waste your life - John Piper
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by covermydonkey 9y ago
Having a child introduces a stubborn force that presses hard against our own selfishness.
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by covermydonkey 9y ago
Perhaps you could factor in something about cold-start? I know that in my context, this has been a key issue. Another odd one is that our organization has only certified RHEL and Cent OS running server-side code.
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by covermydonkey 9y ago
Well, all we need to do is check which cost center paid for the implementation. If it was Sales & Marketing, we have our answer ;)
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by covermydonkey 9y ago
It's funny seeing this. I work in one of those big corporates and maybe I can share a little about how they work. From what I've seen this could be completely normal or a huge red flag. We recently looked at partnering with an ana