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How does the touchpad perform? I'd love to move away from Apple, but don't want to spend the money on a laptop to be disappointed with that aspect. My experience with non-Apple tou…

Location: Oregon Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes (Oregon, Washington) Technologies: Python, JavaScript, OOP, ServiceNow, Selenium, Jenkins, Linux, Teradata, Ansible, git, Perl…

If you're interested in CSNY history, I highly recommend checking out the Best Show side podcast, "So Far," which recaps CSNY and related albums year by year. As someone who was aw…

A few years back while working as a Linux admin I sent this to a newish co-worker who was struggling. They were an older Windows/DOS person and had little familiarity with UNIX. I …

The NCR/Walmart relationship was fairly strained during my tenure. Given the sheer number of stores/sites that Walmart had and NCR's own problems, it was not always possible to pro…

In the early 2000s I was working as a field engineer installing/replacing/fixing network equipment for Walmart at all hours. It's pretty neat to hear the other side of the process!…

I've been told that NOAA uses tape to stream time series weather data into long-running simulations.

Our failure rates were consistently much higher compared to Backblaze, usually 25-30% higher. I never did any detailed analysis, but I'd chalk it up to a couple items. First, the s…

I concur - I used to work with a set of clusters totaling ~45k drives and it was always fun to compare failure rates (especially on a per model basis).

Once I became aware of Newegg and other online retailers, and trusted shopping form them, it was the end of Fry's for me. The Fry's close to me always had terrible products - off b…

Congratulations! It may not seem like a big accomplishment, but it is. It's one thing to toy around with a language, but creating a fully realized product is a big deal. There's no…

Any time management uses the phrase 'other duties and responsibilities,' and anytime management is suddenly willing to implement an idea they previously fought against. A few days …

The company I now work for does something similar. We sell our product at what is essentially max capacity, capping memory/disk space/CPU per the contract. When the customer needs …

Former NCR tech here. I can confirm the parent’s comment - we’d routinely have to validate/ensure jumpers based on entitlement. As for recovery, I worked for NCR once they regained…

I work on a large, legacy codebase (the oldest modules date from the mid-nineties) that's slowly being rewritten from Perl into Python. A handful of developers have been involved w…