shantly

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by shantly 7y ago
> How would you write your code today if you knew it would of been your last commit and still in use in 30 years ? Generally: minimize dependencies. External library or API dependencies? Versions can drift, the system can change out from
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by shantly 7y ago
FWIW I've given up on trying to gauge my own performance. I've plainly been disappointing people when feeling like I'm working about has hard as I could. I've (over, and over, and over) been complimented on both the quan
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by shantly 7y ago
Right—that significant amounts of labor (=human life) go into this kind of waste that everyone involved knows is a joke, and that the non-joke variety is rarely treated much differently, both contribute to what's scary about it.
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by shantly 7y ago
I'd put the desirability hierarchy something like this, best to worst: 1) mixed labor (mental, physical) 2) moderate, varied physical labor 3) jobs that are mostly just being present and don't make you pretend to work most of the
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by shantly 7y ago
Good work if you can get it, but all the interview questions plumbing the obscurest depths of Newtonian physics are pretty tough.
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by shantly 7y ago
> In other words, while I considered what the accountant guy did to be a rather low-effort incomplete job, he did exactly what was expected of him by the bank and what I needed to get my deal done. The degree to which everything runs o
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by shantly 7y ago
Aldrin gets mentioned in the same breath as Armstrong often enough I bet quite a few people could pull that one out. You'd lose a bunch with "who's the guy who stayed in orbit?" and almost everyone with "name any Ap
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by shantly 7y ago
Guessing there were drugs in one or more pockets.
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by shantly 7y ago
If there’s a real downturn we’ll see the big boys cut jobs—maybe a lot. Or even just some regulatory changes (especially reigning in spying and fruits-of-spying monetization) without a broader downturn. Wages downmarket would suffer a ton w
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by shantly 7y ago
I eat mostly vegetarian (I'm not a principled vegetarian so I'll eat meat in some circumstances, just way less than most people) and that's pretty easy, but milk is really cheap & convenient (chemically) for so much coo
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by shantly 7y ago
This is kind of what I'm talking about WRT the cloud being more trouble than it's worth if you app sits somewhere in between "trivial enough you can copy-paste some cloud configs then never touch them" on the one end and
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by shantly 7y ago
> Just.... just... no. First of all, nobody's got good backups. Nobody uses tape robots, and whatever alternative they have is poor in comparison, but even if they did have tape, they aren't testing their restores. Second, nobo
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by shantly 7y ago
In practice I see a lot of breakage (=downtime), velocity loss, and terrible "bus factor" from complex Cloud setups where they're really not needed—one beefy server and some basic safety steps that are also needed with the
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by shantly 7y ago
An awful lot of server systems can tolerate a hardware failure on their one server every couple years given 1) good backups, 2) "shit's broken" alerts, and 3) reliable push-button re-deploy-from-scratch capability, all of whi
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by shantly 7y ago
> But even Apple has started using USB-C ports to charge their laptops and tablets now “Even”? I still hadn’t seen a usb-c anything in the wild when Apple switched their MacBooks to it and dropped all other ports.
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by shantly 7y ago
> it's hard to shake the impression that the majority of our bloated military budget is a federal make-work jobs program The majority of it is precisely that. It's the only jobs & wealth redistribution program Republicans
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by shantly 7y ago
Decent (read: donated to by people with money) thrift stores are a great place to find one's sizing. Go in with a few brands in mind and an understanding of how their sizing works (they may have cut variations in addition to just small
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by shantly 7y ago
It takes some combination of time and money. On the high end of the money side you know nothing about fashion and pay someone to dress you well. On the low end you have to learn a bunch and spend serious time so you can buy pieces via thr
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by shantly 7y ago
> Men's fashion is truly horrible compared to women's fashion. Men basically have the choice of either a stuffy suit that look like it hasn't changed in a century and is completely impractical, or baggy pants and a baggy h
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by shantly 7y ago
Could work like an electric typewriter. Keep the little LCD for the current line (or maybe 3-5) and let the E-ink be your “paper”.
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by shantly 7y ago
Could be either, really. 21st century and all that. (Making some assumptions about a screen name beginning with “jimmy”) [edit] oh missed the “she” so you’re right. Probably?
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by shantly 7y ago
I’ve had three, one allegedly from somewhere pretty good, and all were way too sweet for my taste. Only had a couple bites of each, just found them really unpleasant. And I’m American, so I’m fairly desensitized to sugar!
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by shantly 7y ago
Yeah. Up at 7:00, kid morning routine and transport for 2hrs, log in (WFH). And no, I’m not gonna get up earlier, 7’s already inhumanely-early for about half the year.
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by shantly 7y ago
Since he’s up-front that he’s gonna be including opinion, and about his own limitations when it comes to presenting certain philosophies (IIRC for Bergson he was like “look I can’t figure out a way to explain this that doesn’t seem like tot
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by shantly 7y ago
It’s a how-bad-you-want-it filter. Plus a bit of an IQ test (to recognize which solution applies—of course even more studying can help here, too). It’s working as intended.
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by shantly 7y ago
Relative to all software development, I mean. There are tons and tons of places employing anywhere from hundreds to tens of thousands of developers each, in the US, not paying anything like this. And almost no smaller shops are, of course.
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by shantly 7y ago
Same. We've toyed with the idea of moving permanently if only because healthcare here's so bad and doesn't seem likely to get significantly better any time soon (the most "left" ideas beginning to creep into the Ove
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by shantly 7y ago
I think it's more that software development's divided between the maybe— maybe —5% who are looking at comp at these levels, and everyone else who's in the $70K-180K range, with a cap somewhere in lower-leadership positions th
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by shantly 7y ago
It doesn't run or host any part of those? > Azure runs Office 365, Exchange, Bing, and Xbox Live assets as well I didn't take "runs [...] assets" to mean runs the entire thing.
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by shantly 7y ago
Leadership positions like that mean doing a whole other set of stuff that feels like "not-work" if work has always meant personally, directly moving a product forward. Those meetings you always hated because they killed your produ

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