meddlin

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by meddlin 3y ago
Anybody want a new Internet yet?
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by meddlin 3y ago
With such a stark barrier to entry, why would I spend much time on there? Also, at the beginning of my career I got much more value from "explaining articles", and much less from ultra-specific answers. Later on when I had more ex
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by meddlin 4y ago
Ask people about 2016 if you haven't already been told. That Amite River isn't one to be ignored, nor the Comite.
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by meddlin 5y ago
In my experience, offices have simply been judgemental, time wasting, lacking in proper equipment/tooling, and quite frankly just uncomfortable. Granted, it's been a lot of mid-size enterprise/corporate places, but it's
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by meddlin 5y ago
Yep, gotta agree. I picked up and moved 500 miles because of money. Sure, ATX is a tech hub and all that jazz. I moved from a place where top-end after 10 years was $80k-100k/yr, and there were few jobs to pick from. I moved and got 2.
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by meddlin 5y ago
I voted company culture, but that's not the whole picture. I was laid off about a month ago (2 weeks before Christmas; "non-performance business-related decision"), but I was job searching anyway. Why? Because nobody freakin&
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by meddlin 5y ago
> 90F to 28F within 24 hours After slowly becoming bored with the weather in Austin (initially, I couldn't believe it)...this type of change sounds refreshing.
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by meddlin 5y ago
I like this one. Reminds me of how I felt moving into software engineering growing up in south Louisiana. I only moved to ATX, and yet others' bewilderment is my amusement.
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by meddlin 6y ago
Right to jail...
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by meddlin 6y ago
I'm just a country-bumkin managing to build and secure software, but uh...someone wants to push me around without having the money to do so? Let 'em, my kind are stubborn anyway. Then again, maybe I just enjoy fire a bit much.
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by meddlin 6y ago
Physics is the language that never ceases to blow my mind.
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by meddlin 6y ago
Thank you for this. What I left out of my question is my desire and admiration for automotive sports. It's so strange to me that I have no problem admiring to one day build a track car, and waste tires, fuel, and endless hours of amate
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by meddlin 6y ago
I'm asking because you seem to speak with experience... Why do we make video games? I've been programming for 10 years, I love games; wanted to make them. But I went into infosec because it felt...justified? Like it's more no
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by meddlin 6y ago
While I'm sure it's a fine app, this oddly looks like a graduation of using Thunderbird in ~2006 as a multi-email client.
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by meddlin 6y ago
What's the difference? And why does executing commands (even if you're actively developing the code they execute) in a terminal need a new name? Isn't this just... using a computer? I don't know; maybe I missed somethin
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by meddlin 6y ago
How long until someone takes them down for Twitter?
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by meddlin 6y ago
The type of corporate-heavy experience the author described is less "directionless" and more draconian. It's just flat boring and borderline useless. You sit through it because you need the paycheck.
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by meddlin 6y ago
Is the author not a team player or tired of the BS? Would you be willing to have a conversation with a team member like this? If I witnessed your type of response (seemingly defensive) within the first hours/days of starting, I would b
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by meddlin 6y ago
"Anonymous" is a bit much to ask for this, yes. I'm really just asking for the company to--for once--lower its defenses so we can have a conversation. Air the frustrations without fear of immediate professional retaliation. I
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by meddlin 6y ago
I really wish companies would start asking for anonymous, unbiased reviews of this process. I've had a few companies come close, but they made it clear the answers were (or seemed to be) heavily filtered. Their onboarding processes all
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by meddlin 7y ago
I'll be opting for a Darter Pro from System76 later in the year. Like others have stated, going with FOSS hardware/software isn't cheap, but it looks to be the best compromise for myself. Dell's XPS "Ubuntu edition&
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by meddlin 7y ago
> Carta is a fun company because the more problems we solve, the more problems we get to solve. So, you're like every other company? I used to work as a Soft. Eng. for a particular Fortune 500 company in the outdoor/pool luxury
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by meddlin 7y ago
> What's the alternative here? Not a popular one, but another alternative is to fundamentally change the service. But that involves possibly losing YouTube. Assuming Alphabet/Google (and most others) won't even consider th
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by meddlin 7y ago
I'll just say it. Google you are being run by fools. Godspeed.
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by meddlin 7y ago
That's just awesome. Glad to see it.
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by meddlin 7y ago
Cool, I won't work for Google. Probably ever if this crap keeps up.
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by meddlin 7y ago
In my limited experience as a developer, managers and supervisors need to first open their mouths before we can determine if the feedback is good or not.
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by meddlin 7y ago
It really depends on the machine.
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by meddlin 7y ago
Yep. This is awfully close to the staring contest between Apple and the US gov't a while back on unlocking iPhones for criminal investigations. I know--different context--but the technical implementation is similar. Which would suggest
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by meddlin 7y ago
Sure did :) and I went back to mention that in a later comment. It's all good!

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