throwaway823882

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by throwaway823882 5y ago
I have been one of the toxic persons in a workplace. I was young and immature and an ungrateful arrogant prick. Not saying I'm totally reformed now (I still have my moments!). But every so often I see a little former-me running around.
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
Move to the east coast! We waste water like it's water.
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
> Is it ok to have if clauses that will basically never be run? Yep. > But when I thought about it more: should it be improved? Nope. If you are an average programmer, you should write your code first to be legible and maintainable.
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
I never thought I'd say this, but: Thank you, Microsoft, for making useful, user-friendly software.
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
Make a company that does not suck to work for. A lot of companies talk big about wanting to make their company "a great place to work". They talk about benefits, about inclusion, about a lot of ancillary things other than the wor
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
New Ideas aren't crazy. Crazy Ideas are crazy. That's why people say it won't work, because it sounds crazy . It sounds crazy because the person proposing it hasn't made a good enough case for it. Getting people to agre
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
If you don't experience seeing an American contractor getting decapitated by ISIS, then you may never have the gut-punch visceral understanding of how certain parts of the world works. Aside from actually getting kidnapped by ISIS, you
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
Why can't these people just create a blog post and link to it? It takes 5 minutes. Blogging is free. You can actually maintain the blog post over time. It doesn't include 50 idiots' snarky comments. (That's what HN is fo
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
You sound like somebody who got exposed for trying to pay people with exposure.
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
Well, Fuck Netflix.
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
Can we work on getting real intelligence into Congress first?
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
Playing Quake doesn't make you a hacker, it makes you rad as fuck. But if they play Rocket Arena, your child is a G.G. Allin-level lunatic.
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
Which bias, the bias to want to multi-task? It's not a bias, we're just stupid. We think we can do multiple things at once. And we can do multiple things at once, so our stupid brains have proof that we can multitask. The prob
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
I agree with this post 200%. > Irecently spent some time trying to write a set of general guidelines for what to monitor in a software system Reframe as "Shit That Needs To Run To Make The Customer Happy" and you get closer to
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
Maturity models are just theoretical constructs designed to tell you what you aren't doing right. They aren't a roadmap, so their utility is about as useful as an academic research paper. Don't target what your organization s
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
Mergers & Acquisitions are a foundational part of building any major conglomerate or corporation. Every industry does it. Energy, Media, Technology, Healthcare, Finance, Food, Clothing, whatever. Big Anything can be measured by this,
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
1) Switch your bank account, 2) there are apps out there that replace the entire UI with a blank screen with 7 or 8 pre-selected apps (for Android anyway) and silence notifications. Helped me a ton, my phone doesn't grab my attention o
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
Nit-pick: I don't like the language of wins [versus losses]. I get that people like short words that are associated with happiness and success, but the underlying messaging are that if we're not winning, we're losing, or that
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
> Are non tech companies really that foolish to think they can salvage a brand that was relevant 10 years ago and revive it? Sure you can, though branding isn't the only way to make a successful business. Kleenex knock-offs thrive e
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
In general, for a very large old project that has no major problems with SVN, it's easiest to just leave it. Lots of open source projects are still on SVN (some even on CVS...)
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
Less-common one-liners that I use for work: # Use jq to craft json documents jq -en --rawfile key some_id_rsa \ '{ "ssh_private_key": $key, "hosts": [ { "type": "EC2", "n
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
Fwiw, every time Chrome claims to fix a security problem their own way, somebody finds an exploit in it later.
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
Since a lot of people criticize their design, and obviously we all hate their business/legal practices, can we all just develop an alternative that is not patent-encumbered, give it a permissible license, and release it? That would put
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
I did some digging. There are still people working on it, but the updates aren't going to the front page. All the work seems to be buried in random e-mails on multiple mailing lists, and this GitHub repo https://github.com&#
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
We can probably bring back The Linux Documentation Project ( https://tldp.org/index.html ) from its slumber with a fresh coat of paint
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
Very hard to read this website.
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
I mean the corporation, not individual managers.
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
> What possible upside could there be Taxes? Could be that municipalities gave them huge tax write-offs assuming they would bring lots of jobs to the area, and now they may have to write all that off if they don't bring people back.
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
And once you are out of sandbox mode, it scales pretty well. We regularly send millions of mails in 24hr periods. Some gotchas come in when you need to set up DKIM/etc and other providers may need to handle mail for the same domain.
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
Something is potentially wrong. Saying "we only have 100-200 engineers, we can't get around to making a website" is a terrible excuse that points to mis-management. It doesn't take more than a couple developers to put to

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