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LOL. My employer has this blocked as a phishing site.

All I see is the display of the egos and so-called philosophy of a bunch of rich "libertarian" punks who's basic MO is "I've got mine, screw the rest of you." They are as altruisti…

IME it's arbitrary criteria - either last hired, first fired, or most expensive people, or older people (illegal, but they use other proxies for age to hide it), or most of a divis…

I'm less than ten years from retirement. I still need to work for those ten years, and probably afterward. Yes, I get a lot of ageism, ableism and sexism in my job searches. I don'…

I get interviews with "coding challenges all. the. time. IDK why, I'm a Linux systems engineer, not a programmer. But I constantly keep getting jerks wanting btree sorts that are l…

I've had bouts of unemployment lasting a year and a half. It's really hard to focus on side projects when you are worried about being able to pay the rent and health insurance and …

IMO it's partly a problem between sales and the "sprint" based development. Everyone wants fast, new and shiny and a 2 week sprint. No one wants to do tests, maintenance or even an…

IMO it's just new for the sake of newness. Apt and dpkg work fine, but some folks feel they have to reinvent the wheel, I guess to beef up their resume or be more like MS or Apple.…

Or just get the .deb binaries from Firefox, and install them with apt/dpkg. There is no real need for "ancillary package managers", and all they do is complicate system maintenance…

IMO dnf is ridiculous newfangled garbage too. Why do people keep reinventing the wheel when it comers to package managers? Apt for .deb and yum for .rpm work fine, manage dependenc…

That's why I hate Snap. In Linux, unlike Windows or Mac, I should not have to fight my tools in order to configure a system the way I want it. Yet Ubuntu makes me do it every godda…

IMO Snap is nothing more than bloatware designed as a resume building project by newby programmers.

Not everyone needs bleeding edge.

Worse, they lock down and make their standard UI not able to be customized, and keep "deprecating" standard UI tools and configs in favor of some junior intern's idea of how real u…

As a sysadmin, I loathe "Snap". There are two main packaging systems for Linux that are well known and usable. You can also use standard config management software to roll out conf…

I would put it as "Tell me about a time when you had to take an ethical stand or make a choice based on ethics."

Seriously. His initial premise is so far off base that the whole article reads like some sort of conservative straw man pretending to be intellectual discourse. Are there issue wit…

And, IMO, a total waste of time for a bunch of cargo cult nonsense. Scrum is waterfall micromanagement dressed in the verbiage of worker empowerment, and merely shortens the time b…

Seriously. One job I was at had four of us working in one room. A guy from a completely different department would wander in with his cup of whatever and talk at us for at least an…

IIRC Amazon does stack ranking too.

"If somebody wants to pay me $300k to work 4 hours a week, I'll happily take the deal." Oh, you're bucking for CEO! A lot of companies could have cut out four to eight hours of mee…

I had root on my Linux desktop box at my university job, but I was in IT, administering a Linux service. Most of my coworkers were using Macs only.

Pro: Forums can have much more granular moderation than public places like reddit or discord. The making of a new login and having it accepted keeps a lot of the crap out. Con: PHP…

Seriously. One discord that I am unfortunately on has one person who just drivels on and on and on. But I can't mute him, and he does this even on channels that are the whole reaso…

I hate discord for its threading, spaminess, and now its weirdness with multiple identities. It's also hard to sign up for without them deciding that you are a bot and arbitrarily …