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toddBarkus

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About toddBarkus

Old man coder.

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    Comment #16854136

    We're not accountable for others choices. It's not on the private sector to play parent

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    Comment #16834976

    They chose to accept Uber's deal. Don't strawman

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    Comment #16829917

    A salaried structure is not the same thing as unset hours. This is a pretty standard misconception of people new to the workforce.

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    Comment #16829864

    It's the aspect of personal choice that you're skipping over. Uber drivers made the choice to apply to work as "independent contractors" and agreed to the terms. A bastard child ha…

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    Comment #16810272

    Sure, of course. I was hoping to point out that there's an increasingly overlooked value in having someone question complexity. The "no, you don't need React" of the frontend dev o…

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    Comment #16810260

    That's most "SRE" -- it's a title arms race in that field between the underqualified and those that wish to convey they know how to do more than write system scripts in DSLs

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    Comment #16807216

    I would offer more specifically that it was trying to solve a problem with existing workarounds for where the problem existed, without checking if anyone else cared enough to write…

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    Comment #16807176

    I think this is a case for the return of the traditional "sysadmin" as "devops"/"SRE" is now the role of unblocking deploying a solution instead of questioning it's complexity/fitn…

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    Comment #16807156

    I was going to ask how to optimize the SQL in your post as it seems like the obvious/naive implementation of the query. If you're missing something, so am I. I can only imagine it …