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I’ve been more “devops” then SA for the past 10 years and some of us can code and at a very decent level. Having said that author states they’re the first to admit they can’t code.…

I'm a casual watcher of his show (maybe 1 show every few weeks). Spotify has made no investment into their platform to support podcasts. No notification system for new episodes, no…

I was just looking for a site search solution three days ago for a side project I'm working on. I found Elastic's offering but found the lack of a free tier(no 14-day trail crap) o…

I heard some economist call Uber "the greatest transfer of wealth in a very long time". What Uber is doing is taking investors money and subsidizing your Uber ride to a restaurant.…

I've had something similar happen to me once. I'm DevOps, very systems focused. I was leaving Cisco and got on an interview panel with 4 network engineers at some place. I caveated…

We gloss over them because: 1. Your first point about "unproven cancer treatment" has an overly narrow focus on the edge of medical research. These cases are yes something that nee…

> I'm a little disappointed in the final "conclusion" of the report, though. The end of the executive summary basically chalks the breach up to two things: "Equifax's IT management…

Not OP, but I spent 5 years at Cisco. It wouldn't be terribly hard to hide opex in a company that size.. there's a good deal of discretion given to middle management with their bud…

Ex employee of 5 years here. It was open secret that the system was being abused. What they would do is post a notice of intent to hire an H1B by posting the job listing in break r…

I sold my house in the bay area a year and half ago. Mine was bought by a young Indian family and funded by their parents who were both fancy doctors and 1+ million in liquid asset…

My current indie web app is still in development so final numbers for prod are TBD. However I'm using it for * Storing time counters on user actions (timestamp of last time a user …

Currently been working on a web app for about 8 months. Python for the backend under the argument of "build using what you know". ReactJS for frontend development because Python fo…

"Hackers broke into the computer systems of the Barack Obama and John McCain campaign teams during the US presidential race and stole a ''serious amount of files" in an operation t…

Come on man.. there's mountains of evidence and countless stories indicating foreign involvement to help R's in our election system. Your logic could have held some circumstantial …