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dvtrn

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About dvtrn

will code for cereal. Drives a Honda. Takes Jean Baudrillard way too seriously.

this isn’t my only account. or is it?

No it is. (it’s not. probably.)

Recent public activity

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    Comment #34888433

    who will even notice if you don't show up to the office? They don’t have to “notice” it. They don’t even have to see it. Do you have an access badge to get into your company campus…

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    Comment #34395660

    If I had to justify myself every time I took the basic initiative of fixing errant, problematic or poorly performing code just because it wasn’t ordained and blessed for me specifi…

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    Comment #33262573

    I’m left wonder at what point does the “give a man a fish/teach a man how to fish” method of pedagogy apply in terms of ‘acting like a human’ in this context? Asking as someone who…

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    Comment #33262072

    These are fascinating responses to me, as with the example given my mind first went to someone for whom English is a second language. that group having trouble with this message I …

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    Comment #33261717

    I’m not seeing how what the message already is any less direct or clear than what you’re saying it should be? It straight up tells you it can’t find the var and what to do about it…

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    Comment #32893893

    I have had a similar thought but brushed it off as probably just me going through recency bias, but it does feel like I see their job posts a lot more than many others?

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    Comment #32842687

    Very familiar, I’ve got hard copies of both plus Filler Bunny! Huge fan.

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    Comment #32841361

    Man Invader Zim, haven’t seen that referenced in a long time, that little cartoon was the perfect kind of weird for its time.

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    Comment #32827489

    I made the conscious effort before leaving Facebook to trade phone numbers, addresses and birthday dates from the people I wanted to really wanted stay in touch with, and put them …

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    Comment #32804988

    How about people own up to their mistakes instead of relying on random Joe who happens to be on call to fix it? I have been burned too many times by write only code written by some…

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    Comment #32743002

    Slack? The chat app that everyone has very strongly held opinions on? that slack? It started as an MMO? I never knew this and have got to go read about it now, that IS an interesti…

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    Comment #32704680

    Pardon my confusion but… …what? Is there a laugh being had that’s going over my head? I’m still kinda waking up

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    Comment #32704251

    Welcome to Job boards. It’s not really a secret that this is how many, many, many of them work.

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    Comment #32698056

    Is there some magical keyword or ‘tell’ that you’ve zeroed in on and want to share with the rest of us when looking at a job ad to tell if it’s a “code assembly line” or not before…

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    Comment #32671248

    Not gonna lie, I vastly prefer that. Not to say I bombard people with entire encyclopedias when messaging, but…I dunno. I guess, maybe this is the result of being one of those “eld…

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    Comment #32671007

    I have a few people who send text messages like this. Each stream of thought comes as a separate message which can be incredibly annoying when I’ve turned my brain off for the day …

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    Comment #32638075

    Crazy though, but hear me out: what about an old laptop

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    Comment #32619835

    Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time. Is it still under development? Back in my teens I was really wanting to get into 3D animation and virtualdub was one of the first t…

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    Comment #32599611

    Complexity is inherently problematic I wouldn't necessarily agree, but curious to hear this thought developed some more, if you'd be willing to indulge me? Maybe I'm missing some i…

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    Comment #32598199

    Sometimes it's about having a common deployment platform at different locations, on premise. That’s fair, that’s valid, that doesn’t however strike me as a compelling case to go of…

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    Comment #32597399

    I want someone to check me on a strongly held belief, I promise I have an open mind: There’s nothing wrong with experimenting with k8s in your org. Nothing wrong with k8s, it’s com…

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    Comment #32580340

    Not to mention being able to cancel a streaming membership without going through the eight layers of contact center hell that still exists to this day for many cable providers.

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    Comment #32559167

    Once got a job offer around it (I declined).

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    Comment #32524128

    he told me directly that it was hard for him to know what to do because it was outside his field of specialty and the senior dev had more experience and a long tenure at the compan…