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I have been one of the toxic persons in a workplace. I was young and immature and an ungrateful arrogant prick. Not saying I'm totally reformed now (I still have my moments!). But …

Move to the east coast! We waste water like it's water.

> Is it ok to have if clauses that will basically never be run? Yep. > But when I thought about it more: should it be improved? Nope. If you are an average programmer, you should w…

I never thought I'd say this, but: Thank you, Microsoft, for making useful, user-friendly software.

Make a company that does not suck to work for. A lot of companies talk big about wanting to make their company "a great place to work". They talk about benefits, about inclusion, a…

New Ideas aren't crazy. Crazy Ideas are crazy. That's why people say it won't work, because it sounds crazy . It sounds crazy because the person proposing it hasn't made a good eno…

If you don't experience seeing an American contractor getting decapitated by ISIS, then you may never have the gut-punch visceral understanding of how certain parts of the world wo…

Why can't these people just create a blog post and link to it? It takes 5 minutes. Blogging is free. You can actually maintain the blog post over time. It doesn't include 50 idiots…

You sound like somebody who got exposed for trying to pay people with exposure.

Well, Fuck Netflix.

Can we work on getting real intelligence into Congress first?

Playing Quake doesn't make you a hacker, it makes you rad as fuck. But if they play Rocket Arena, your child is a G.G. Allin-level lunatic.

Which bias, the bias to want to multi-task? It's not a bias, we're just stupid. We think we can do multiple things at once. And we can do multiple things at once, so our stupid bra…

I agree with this post 200%. > Irecently spent some time trying to write a set of general guidelines for what to monitor in a software system Reframe as "Shit That Needs To Run To …

Maturity models are just theoretical constructs designed to tell you what you aren't doing right. They aren't a roadmap, so their utility is about as useful as an academic research…

Mergers & Acquisitions are a foundational part of building any major conglomerate or corporation. Every industry does it. Energy, Media, Technology, Healthcare, Finance, Food, Clot…

1) Switch your bank account, 2) there are apps out there that replace the entire UI with a blank screen with 7 or 8 pre-selected apps (for Android anyway) and silence notifications…

Nit-pick: I don't like the language of wins [versus losses]. I get that people like short words that are associated with happiness and success, but the underlying messaging are tha…

> Are non tech companies really that foolish to think they can salvage a brand that was relevant 10 years ago and revive it? Sure you can, though branding isn't the only way to mak…

In general, for a very large old project that has no major problems with SVN, it's easiest to just leave it. Lots of open source projects are still on SVN (some even on CVS...)

Less-common one-liners that I use for work: # Use jq to craft json documents jq -en --rawfile key some_id_rsa \ '{ "ssh_private_key": $key, "hosts": [ { "type": "EC2", "name": "bac…

Fwiw, every time Chrome claims to fix a security problem their own way, somebody finds an exploit in it later.

Since a lot of people criticize their design, and obviously we all hate their business/legal practices, can we all just develop an alternative that is not patent-encumbered, give i…

I did some digging. There are still people working on it, but the updates aren't going to the front page. All the work seems to be buried in random e-mails on multiple mailing list…