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I'm not going to lie, the comment about "if they can use git" is the core of my problem with the arctic storage. I'm still wondering what the point is other than to make some meta …

The market is reactive to relatively short-term inputs. I'm looking at a few things that are causing the jump: - Some of it is inflationary as others have pointed out. There's a lo…

I'm just not counting on should at this rate...

I'm not an expert, but most government agencies are allowed to charge reasonable fees for access to their data. I don't know if this qualifies, but it at least seems like a possibi…

New York is very quickly rolling out OMNY, which does support apple pay. It makes me happy, and I can't wait until I can buy my monthly that way

The fundamental truth of software. Your system is only as good as its worst component. every. single. time. Deployment is a component. Monitoring is a component. They are also OpEx…

At one job we actually had to give up on take-home challenges basically because a good, humble junior was indistinguishable from a good, clearly-thinking senior

he's running for senate in Maine. The blog post is probably a part of his campaign

This 100% this. I run my teams via "Kanban" (I don't know how kanban it actually is, but that's what I call it). The only question I ask around prioritization is "Is it worth doing…

My personal favorite are the bosses that poll the group and pick the lowest estimate

I read the book years ago in college, and that's exactly what 10k hours is about. The whole point of the book, as I recall, is that you can master anything, but being successful is…

Depends on your definition of highly-skilled. Compared to an au pair? Very highly skilled. An H-1B requires application of specialized knowledge and a bachelor's degree or the equi…

In my experience with most Enterprise software, the problem isn't the number of features it's the total lack of discipline in deciding what features are actually needed. Jira is th…

Actually my read on Wasserman's quote (reproduced in another comment) is that superdelegates exist to promote the seating of grassroots delegates, the implied logic being that if t…

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