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The scary part of journalism is when it’s about activism vs. the truth. Activists can lie if the truth isn’t important.

Lying for ratings, though, is also very bad.

Activists lying for both activist causes and ratings is extremely bad.

And so does growing massive amounts of pot and mining bitcoin.

Will these things stop? Probably not.

Not lucky- just deceptive. Deception is what scammers do, and they do it because it’s guaranteed to make money, not because they hope to get lucky.

I’m not advocating this. Doing this was wrong, and it’s not some black hat exploit. It was a scam; pretending to be someone to make money off of an unwitting victim.

The argument made is seemingly harmless, but historically has been proven incompatible with morality.

For example, one could argue those that are poor or uneducated are that way because of nature, their IQ, their race or ethnicity, but we know this to be false and immoral.

I use junk drawers, which scale to available drawers, after which you buy more storage or a larger house.

If your boss is in your house using your shitbowl.

Sharding is not really scaling for many, and I think despite your good intentions you may be misleading others. I’m glad you like the setup but people flocking to SQLite scares me.

It’s a prediction based on its continued meteoric rise and given its net worth.

It’s a great idea, but your company is going to be a serious target. You not only will have the ability to control authN, but you’ll own authR also if you’re managing users and groups. You’ll also own all the conference rooms, printers, servers, etc., since you’ll be hosting Active Directory for the Windows folk... at least that’s how I’d understand user management for auth.

Easy is not the word I’d use. Lucrative maybe. Not easy.

> Linux is fragmented

It’s actually quite an astute observation. I read recently that there are over 600 Linux distros and only about 500 are actively maintained.

> Web developers who use Google Analytics are stupid.

The adjective is wrong, but it’s also fair to say that there are free solutions for analytics, and some may go straight to using GA when they don’t need to.

I worked at a company where we interviewed frequently in teams of two.

The pairs were chosen mostly at random from the large development team, except that at least one would be more experienced with the company, typically.

The first team of two would get to know the person.

The second team would do a technical interview.

If the candidate did well by getting four thumbs-ups, they would often be invited to have lunch with members of the team they could be joining. Unless lunch went horribly, they would then meet with a director for the final interview.

Eventually the lunch part was skipped, but it was a helpful way to expose potential culture or tech fit problems that were missed earlier.

This process worked really well, with the exception of the candidate often having to explain some part of their background three times.

I’ve never been part of an interview since that I liked as much, and we didn’t wear out.

Thanks! The PDF didn’t have one.

Is FreeBSD still used to as great of an extent in US Government / Military / Intelligence as it used to be?

There seemed to be some talk of Linux I noticed in past years, and I’ve been thinking about trying to out again, but I’d feel better if I knew that it was still well-used.