jacobian

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by jacobian 8mo ago
> I'm sure you'd agree that the president of the board is ultimately "above" the chief executive if push ever came to shove, at least on paper. That is not true of the PSF, nor of many (most?) other US nonprofits. Not
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by jacobian 1y ago
Not exactly. Development on what become Django began sometime in 2003, before Rails was released. Certainly the release of Rails — and, more importantly, the questions in the Python community about what _our_ web dev story would be — inspir
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by jacobian 1y ago
I’m chuckling at your advice because I tried those things! Went part-time, wrote, lots of local volunteering. (Didnt try picking up trash; that’s a good one!) Unfortunately, didn’t work for me. In fact, the more I cut back my hours and did
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by jacobian 1y ago
Thanks for your perspective. It’s a very real concern I have — am I trading one kind of burnout for another? I do think there’s a difference between approaching EMS as a first career, and coming to it later in life (I’m 43) as a second care
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by jacobian 3y ago
I'm curious: if you hired a contractor to, I dunno, paint your walls, would you accept "I don't know" as a time frame or price quote? If not, what's different about software development that makes "I don't
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by jacobian 3y ago
I think the thing is that it's always been both. The freedom to hack and modify has always been inextricably linked with the $0 license fee. If the early free/open licenses had allowed source access and modification but come with
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by jacobian 3y ago
I drew them by hand on a tablet (a Remarkable)
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by jacobian 4y ago
> Suggesting stimulants as the first line of treatment rather than cardiovascular exercise, good sleep, and a healthier relationship with food is at best dismissive of the body of modern research and at worst introduction of a dangerous
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by jacobian 4y ago
> inconvenient fact most of the time you're fat because you consume too much This is not, in fact, a fact.
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by jacobian 4y ago
If you're a software developer, and your goal is to maximize income, then yeah, don't work for the federal government. If your goal is to do meaningful work that has a tangible positive impact on average people's lives, while
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by jacobian 5y ago
Can you actually buy these? I've wanted to plant them for a while, but as far as I can tell they're not actually publicly available in any way.
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by jacobian 5y ago
This is not true. Growth hormones are not approved for us in chickens by the FDA. All chicken sold in the US is hormone free. See, eg, https://ask.usda.gov/s/article/Are-hormones-used-for-livesto... : “No steroid h
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by jacobian 5y ago
No, there aren't. Knives dull over time; even the most durable steel formulations need sharpening eventually. Those ceramic knives are pretty robust, but they too will dull. More importantly, they're extremely brittle; my experi
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by jacobian 5y ago
I think part of the dynamic here is that when people give advice it often comes from one of two very different modes: 1. There's a piece of advice I want to give, and I'm going to give that advice to some degree regardless of the
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by jacobian 5y ago
Thanks for the pointer - that's a great resource. I'm adding a link to it to the article.
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by jacobian 5y ago
You're right: I was doing my math wrong. I'm fixing the math in the article right now. Thanks for the correction!
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by jacobian 5y ago
> Is this ironic? No.
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by jacobian 5y ago
Hey, thanks for levels.fyi! It makes this kind of accurate compensation math possible in a way that really wasn't before y'all came along. Thanks again!
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by jacobian 5y ago
You're right - I was doing my math wrong. I'm fixing it now. Thank you!
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by jacobian 5y ago
I'm very curious about the "major attack" against Django you mention. I'm unaware of in-the-wild attacks targeting Django itself, so I'd really like to know what I missed. Can you share more details with me? Public
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by jacobian 5y ago
You seem to be saying that Thea isn't a "real" woman. That's insulting, gross, and incredibly inappropriate. It's not "controversy"; it's insults and hate hidden under this plausibly-deniable veneer o
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by jacobian 5y ago
Ha, I'd totally forgotten that Five Dysfunctions talks about MBTI -- I think I'd blocked it out. I completely agree that MBTI is total bullshit. Thanks for pointing it out. I think this illustrates something about business books i
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by jacobian 5y ago
Thanks for the list! The one that I've read (about half) are great, which makes me want to read the rest. (Just Culture and Accelerate, in particular, are so great I think I'm going to consider adding them to my list as well.)
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by jacobian 5y ago
This is so cool, I’m really glad to see someone doing this. Best of luck!
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by jacobian 6y ago
There isn't a hard policy; it'd be a case-by-case decision. If there wasn't rough consensus, it'd be up to the release manager and technical board to decide. So far, this hasn't really happened: there have been a fe
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by jacobian 6y ago
That’s not really correct: beta marks feature freeze for the release. So there will be bug fixes before 3.2 final lands, but no new features.
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by jacobian 6y ago
Author here: weird, I've never experienced that (10+ years doing this silly exercise, on both sides). Various vendors have offered their own compliance frameworks - PCI reports, SOC2, whatever -- and I'm happy to read those instea
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by jacobian 6y ago
(Author here.) Well, you could always use this questionnaire as a starting point itself: ask yourself these questions, and if you're not happy with the answers, do something about it. Another reasonable security practices starting poin
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by jacobian 6y ago
I tried to get at that in the "who this is for" section: > [This assumes that] you have a security person (or team) who can evaluate the answers and is part of the decision-making process. If nobody’s going to read the answers,
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by jacobian 6y ago
You're right to be concerned - it is a red flag. It's something I'd ask about if I were interviewing you. However, it's _not_ a dealbreaker: I've hired people who've been fired, with longer gaps than yours. You

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