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pards

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About pards

craigpardey@gmail.com https://www.craigpardey.com

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    Comment #49209782

    > orgs still just aren't really shipping that much more quality features Writing code was never the bottleneck at large enterprises.

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    Comment #49209131

    > people who can't do 2+2 and ones that can't understand the question without rephrasing it three times We resorted to filtering candidates in-person with 5 basic technical questio…

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    Comment #49208959

    > When the cost of building goes to zero Where are they getting all those free tokens from?!? I don't like this rhetoric. It still costs money to write code, only now that wealth g…

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    Comment #48966846

    Same, but with GitLab pages.

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    Comment #48870990

    Every hotel I've stayed at in Hawaii charges one - usually to the tune of $50+/day - even if the hotel has no resort-like facilities. It's a bullshit fee.

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    Comment #48858468

    > a light grey text on a white background This makes the page SO hard to read. Why are "designers" still doing this? Have they no respect for their readers?

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    Comment #48858449

    > Maybe add a dedicated clear button. It's tedious to have to hit DEL 6 or 7 times towards the end of the game. Maybe ESC could clear the whole word?

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    Comment #48697338

    100%. It deserves more detail, too. I've spent many hours explaining how idempotency is supposed to work, and why it's important. Most teams understand the need for it, but very fe…

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    Comment #48685210

    > I’ve been finding most restaurant dishes “low quality” Many restaurants use pre-made components like sauces bought from restaurant wholesalers which explains a lot of the samenes…

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    Comment #48685121

    > > But when 6 people simultaneously tried to pay their share of the bill, chaos ensued. > Hasn't that been a fact of life ? I remember having to split bar tabs at the end of the n…

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    Comment #48637943

    > “We think that all of the platforms, including Meta, need to do more to protect their customers … from the dangers that are on their sites,” she says. If the service is free, you…

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    Comment #48489029

    Ref: https://youtu.be/yujF8AumiQo

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    Comment #48256486

    We recently had an issue with our production Oracle database. Our in-house DBAs spent hours trying to get the AI support bot to assign a real person to join the incident call. It t…

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    Comment #48256472

    > When AWS first introduced a viable cloud to the world, it was amazing. Back in the 1990s when you wanted to implement an enterprise software solution, you first had to take a gue…

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    Comment #48256214

    > I was unable to put clients on both Evidence and Prefect because the former failed to attend a sales meeting booked through their website and the latter failed to book a meeting …

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    Comment #48191920

    > Automation takes a lot of manual labour That's a great quote. https://xkcd.com/1205/

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    Comment #48178897

    I tried this (as a Canadian): 1. It asks you to optionally sign up for a bunch of other services like Spokeo 2. It asks for access to your email via Apple's Mail app which I don't …

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    Comment #48168570

    > He argues that it's important to acknowledge that imperfection and work toward processes that improve results. > One way to do that is to automate the prompting process in a way …

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    Comment #48035059

    For the non-US readers: > COBRA is the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act. It gives workers and their families who lose their health benefits the right to choose to con…

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    Comment #48034944

    This design is perfect irony. I love it.

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    Comment #48026425

    It's scary. Our society is not set up to deal with mass unemployment.

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    Comment #48024819

    Nope. Banking.

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    Comment #48023462

    It's an investment that is not generating returns. It's inventory sitting on the shelf requiring ongoing maintenance costs but generating no income.