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Thanks - I wasn't aware of yours, last time I looked I just found a couple of abandoned and not very user-friendly versions for AWS. I'll take a better look at the DO version speci…

Paying your full salary is not at all common - though I agree that is sufficient to make a non-compete fair and wish it would become normalised.

I think Nim would really take off if there was a good and actively-maintained SDK for a major cloud provider, or even for one of the larger VPS sellers.

I think I would've tried Pop!_OS by now if not for the name - I know it is totally irrational, but having a ! in there really pisses me off.

Very well put. In that framing, it is often the case that US-led "capitalism-at-any-cost" over-indexes on scaling the magnitude of the vector while leaving the direction free to be…

A lot of early cloud adopters were more "nimble" organisations who didn't have deep ties to MS enterprise agreements. We are now in the phase where those large enterprises have got…

There is zero chance that your career is going to be detailed by sticking withS technology at this point - it just might not be the most interesting. Azure is an inferior platform …

I think most people can thrive in the situation you describe (extreme hard work) as long as they also feel a sense of control. I am at my peak (in productivity and "feeling alive")…

These austerity measures have just gone too far!

Watching people piss into the wind is fun until you get some on your shoes.

Been battling with this mindset shift myself. When I get annoyed with myself for delaying a task I try to remember the concept of "last responsible moment" from the Agile methodolo…

Leadership principles feature in normal employee life in exactly two circumstances: when you are doing interview loops, and when you need to win an argument, eg with some jobsworth…

Think this depends on the amount - my sign-on bonus worked as you described, but some others I know got a lump sum (they were more junior and getting a smaller bonus).

I don't want any hardware designed by Microsoft in my machine. The concept might be good, but I don't trust them not to ruin my experience when using Linux. This will force me towa…

Give a man fluoride toothpaste and he'll have good breath for a month. Give him fluorine gas and he'll have good breath for the rest of his life.

I was trying to decide which of these I am hoping will decline, but realized the answer is actually all of them - even the one I work for. Netflix is the only one I consider "innoc…

In my childhood I remember (perhaps overly- optimistically) having distinct seasons and in particular crisp, snowy winters. The combination of climate change and moving west of the…

Might not be helpful, but at least in some cases it is sincere. Personally, I simply don't think we have the capacity as a species to overcome the challenges of climate change righ…

Well thanks, that's a good couple of minutes of hilarity. You should really use an /s though; I was hoping for a breakthrough in solar concentrators or something similar.

That's a good point - thanks. "Thoughts" rather than "intentions" is definitely more aligned with where I am. Part of the trouble for me and presumably a lot of people is untanglin…

I am increasingly confident I suffer from depression, rather than just being generically miserable. How do you deal with the trust issues posed by that questionnaire? I have suicid…

That was my take-away from the "double empathy problem" too - and I agree that the point was hard to extract from the text.

While I agree that there is some potentially useful insight buried in here, I disagree stongly on "amazingly well written" - the signal-to-noise ratio was dreadful.

People talking about things is good, but people adopting their atypical traits as their whole persona (even if just online) surely can't be healthy?