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""One friend contacted my girlfriend of seven years, asking whether she would take a stand against “Adam’s role in promoting fascism.” "" That is totally on brand for "progressives…

I am a Principal Engineer in the Open Source Programs Office at Amazon. This is something we are very aware of, and discussions about this cross my desk weekly. One big problem of …

I'm the Principal Engineer for the Open Source Program Office at Amazon. We've gotten much better about being responsive and inclined to open source projects like that. Email me at…

My elisp config file dates back to 1986. It's almost entirely unchanged. It still works. I have never had to remove anything because it stopped working. I just occasionally add stu…

Complaints about "toxic" are a screen to hide the fact that you can't say "incorrect".

About 5 years ago, Hewlett-Packard tried being a paid GSuite customer, paying for tens of thousands of seats, with a path to onboarding the entire company. We could not get support…

Of interest, about that particular NYT journalist: https://medium.com/@garyweiss_86200/cade-metz-pulls-a-deep-c...

I'm the PM for this project, and can answer questions. Don't speculate about this project, ask me instead!

What this tells me that there probably exist deeply weird images that would be recognized as something by one person or by very few people, but would be just an unrecognizable mash…

I wouldn't not hire him for it.

I wouldn't say they "compete", at least, not harmfully. Maria and Percona swap patches with each other, and are drop-in replacements for MySQL. Drizzle is an exploration of the ide…

MariaDB exists because MontyW wants it to. Percona Server exists because Percona has a great deal of deep hands on knowledge about MySQL tuning and internals, and has a live-or-die…

For a long time, that was my email sig. Then I realized the problem with it. Now I still try to do things right, and then try to make sure that a few key people knew what happened.…

A company of about 400 total on-site staff, about 8ish internal IT staff before, and 3 internal IT staff after. FOAD, Hope that Helps, Have a Nice Day.

I'm the OP. The employees were expensive software developers, electrical engineers, RF signal electrical engineers, and microelectronics design engineers. There probably was one pe…

A few years later, the company itself was effectively dead.

I'm the OP. After few years of bad IT hell, the rest of the company was almost completely dead in the water, in part because of the bad IT drag, and in part because of other manage…