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Something a tad irksome in the way a corporate behemoth is praised. We all use Amazon, but we all used to shop at Wal-Mart. Difference seems to be everyone always seemed to at leas…

At your company are new engineers included in current or future projects from day one (projects that have a clear focus and lifecycle)? Or, are new engineers left to their own devi…

Multipass

All of this greatly depends on the teacher. While I have never specifically seen a debugging class offered at university, some professors do a good/decent job ensuring that you hav…

I know a lot of companies have ancronyms, bullet points, or a list of company culture principals. What's everyone's reaction to all of this? Do you take it seriously? Pretend to? R…

Linda Tripp approves

I would've imagined Netflix had their own hardware, both compute and storage.

What tools/software do you use (or are used) to monitor storage systems at your business or company? Which of the following use cases are they good for: large vendor frames, commod…

It's been a while since I read that short story, but the message I took from it wasn't that there was a seed of evil in the society, but that no matter what society or system exist…

How I miss digouyou

Product is the stock price. Cost out so executives keep bonuses. Solid tactics

The pale blue dot will

An interesting perusal: https://www.itdashboard.gov

The father goes around apologizing for his son's behavior? I'm pretty sure that's not helping anyone.

For me, Blue Apron is more something to do every once and a while, as a treat. First, to me at least, the 6 to 9 dollar meal average isn't cheap. Second, like others have posted ab…

"Come check out our data center". Tape robots. Compliance's friends.

2nd copy is in tape though

He goes to physical therapy during the week, because he had to pretty much relearn almost everything. The doctors told us, considering how bad the stroke was, it's amazing where he…

It's been really hard seeing my dad after he had a stroke. Someone who used to be so physically active, now seems so fragile when he walks. The hardest part for him is how drastica…

How I miss my shard over 56k

I remember applying to Verizon when I was still in school. I had to give up because their application kept throwing readable database errors and wouldn't let me continue to the sub…

I lived in China for a few years as well, and most expats you run into are usually teachers. This doesn't mean they are all low skill or lost perse. Many are young and come there a…

It will be interesting to see what happens when machines and algorithms really start coming for jobs on that level. I wonder if far down the line, will there be one sole human at t…