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by geekbird 4y ago
LOL. My employer has this blocked as a phishing site.
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by geekbird 4y ago
All I see is the display of the egos and so-called philosophy of a bunch of rich "libertarian" punks who's basic MO is "I've got mine, screw the rest of you." They are as altruistic as a hungry bear. If one of
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by geekbird 4y ago
IME it's arbitrary criteria - either last hired, first fired, or most expensive people, or older people (illegal, but they use other proxies for age to hide it), or most of a division because they're pivoting/no profitable, o
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by geekbird 4y ago
I'm less than ten years from retirement. I still need to work for those ten years, and probably afterward. Yes, I get a lot of ageism, ableism and sexism in my job searches. I don't look my age, fortunately, but having over 20 yea
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by geekbird 4y ago
I get interviews with "coding challenges all. the. time. IDK why, I'm a Linux systems engineer, not a programmer. But I constantly keep getting jerks wanting btree sorts that are like a college exam or take home challenges that as
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by geekbird 4y ago
I've had bouts of unemployment lasting a year and a half. It's really hard to focus on side projects when you are worried about being able to pay the rent and health insurance and your pittance of unemployment insurance has run ou
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by geekbird 4y ago
IMO it's partly a problem between sales and the "sprint" based development. Everyone wants fast, new and shiny and a 2 week sprint. No one wants to do tests, maintenance or even any architectural planning for their software b
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by geekbird 4y ago
IMO it's just new for the sake of newness. Apt and dpkg work fine, but some folks feel they have to reinvent the wheel, I guess to beef up their resume or be more like MS or Apple. If they want to write MS or Apple style software, they
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by geekbird 4y ago
Or just get the .deb binaries from Firefox, and install them with apt/dpkg. There is no real need for "ancillary package managers", and all they do is complicate system maintenance.
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by geekbird 4y ago
IMO dnf is ridiculous newfangled garbage too. Why do people keep reinventing the wheel when it comers to package managers? Apt for .deb and yum for .rpm work fine, manage dependencies, and Just. Plain. Work. without f'ing up the system
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by geekbird 4y ago
That's why I hate Snap. In Linux, unlike Windows or Mac, I should not have to fight my tools in order to configure a system the way I want it. Yet Ubuntu makes me do it every goddamn time for anything on the desktop, between snap and t
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by geekbird 4y ago
IMO Snap is nothing more than bloatware designed as a resume building project by newby programmers.
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by geekbird 4y ago
Not everyone needs bleeding edge.
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by geekbird 4y ago
Worse, they lock down and make their standard UI not able to be customized, and keep "deprecating" standard UI tools and configs in favor of some junior intern's idea of how real users "should" work. This sucks, and
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by geekbird 4y ago
As a sysadmin, I loathe "Snap". There are two main packaging systems for Linux that are well known and usable. You can also use standard config management software to roll out configs for each package. Snap is a solution in search
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by geekbird 4y ago
I would put it as "Tell me about a time when you had to take an ethical stand or make a choice based on ethics."
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by geekbird 4y ago
Seriously. His initial premise is so far off base that the whole article reads like some sort of conservative straw man pretending to be intellectual discourse. Are there issue with some DEI initiatives? Yes, but they are often minor, and u
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by geekbird 4y ago
And, IMO, a total waste of time for a bunch of cargo cult nonsense. Scrum is waterfall micromanagement dressed in the verbiage of worker empowerment, and merely shortens the time between death marches.
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by geekbird 4y ago
Seriously. One job I was at had four of us working in one room. A guy from a completely different department would wander in with his cup of whatever and talk at us for at least an hour. He was both dodging actual work and interrupting us
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by geekbird 4y ago
IIRC Amazon does stack ranking too.
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by geekbird 4y ago
"If somebody wants to pay me $300k to work 4 hours a week, I'll happily take the deal." Oh, you're bucking for CEO! A lot of companies could have cut out four to eight hours of meetings a week and still maintained the sa
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by geekbird 4y ago
I had root on my Linux desktop box at my university job, but I was in IT, administering a Linux service. Most of my coworkers were using Macs only.
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by geekbird 4y ago
Pro: Forums can have much more granular moderation than public places like reddit or discord. The making of a new login and having it accepted keeps a lot of the crap out. Con: PHPBB is a pain in the butt, but is one of the most popular for
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by geekbird 4y ago
Seriously. One discord that I am unfortunately on has one person who just drivels on and on and on. But I can't mute him, and he does this even on channels that are the whole reason that I bother with it. Apparently there is little or
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by geekbird 4y ago
I hate discord for its threading, spaminess, and now its weirdness with multiple identities. It's also hard to sign up for without them deciding that you are a bot and arbitrarily banning you.
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by geekbird 4y ago
IMO, the rights of the child only exist after it is not wholly dependent on the mother's life to exist (ie. an actual child, not a fetus.) Which means that a dead fetus has no rights, and a fetus that would kill the mother isn't e
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by geekbird 4y ago
Yeah, IME that's what the anti-choice folks say about the pro-choice folks, but I've never heard it from actual pro-choice folks. Yes, there is some joking about "post natal abortions" for certain extremist politicians,
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by geekbird 4y ago
Decentralized social networks of the past: UseNet and IRC. No one owned all the servers for either of these. The problem came with moderation versus spammers and trolls. The problem still exists with the centralized social networks, althoug
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by geekbird 4y ago
Are you talking about different DBs, or just different tables? If it's just different tables, they can operate sufficiently independently if you design them that way, so you can change the schema on one table without messing up the oth
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by geekbird 4y ago
Seriously! I think there is a good space for the concept of "mid-services" - cluster similar and interdependent services and service fragments together, so they split in logical groups for updating. It would be sort of like "

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