wheaties

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Just another programmer, going to a place for programmers to read things that interest programmers and perhaps post a comment or two. I've got a blog: http://staticallytyped.wordpress.com/ but it's nothing special.
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Comment · 1 year ago
So a perfectly good plane that someone could enjoy and fly sits languishing at an airport because the owner, who now can't fly or doesn't want to, won't sell it? I get the attachment and all. However, if you know there's a finite number of these things then please sell it to someone who would use it.

That's a golden age plane and it should be flown. Too bad many people would rather let something rot.

Also, I don't support stealing a plane.

Comment · 1 year ago
Why would they remove Habeus Corpus?

"The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it."

Comment · 1 year ago
I love all the innovation we're starting to see here. AI can't write everything but it can do so many tedious tasks.
Comment · 1 year ago
You just defined the role of COO at most companies. CEO has always been about sales, brand, vision, (capital raises,) etc. It's the COO who keeps the company moving.
Comment · 1 year ago
TL;DR - We think it's essentially gambling and not fit for a long term portfolio.

I agree.

Comment · 1 year ago
National security has always beaten First Amendment (and many other rights.) I love watching TikTok but even i know how this will shake out.

Now the question will be, who will rush to fill in this void? Will Bliesky release short form videos, too?

Comment · 1 year ago
I've been told there are two places which value experience:

1. A large organization where they have enough people with decades of knowledge to recognize what that is worth.

2. A small startup as head or lead on some domain where they need your knowledge to build their products.

It used to be that you could consult but I can tell you from direct experience with this market that it has been flooded with folks who've never consulted but neednwork, e.g. they are charging way too little. The flip side, it's a great time to hire "cheap" contract talent.

Comment · 2 years ago
Good to see this happening.

I remember sitting down with a Google engineer who told us that even though our ad code looked suspiciously like we had copied it from Google itself (we had) that one part of it would only work for Google on Google. That is, the wall between their sell side and buy side had special things no one else could use. This was ~10 years ago and it left us with such a sour taste.

Nothing like market dominance in an "open" market.

Comment · 2 years ago
I feel this. I got the "you look older than your profile pic" comment during an interview last year. That one was fun. Dude wanted to know if I could even code anymore.
Comment · 2 years ago
This is a regulatory issue. There are far better lighting used in EU and from the same auto manufacturers. They have pushed for these in the US but the regulations are slow.
Comment · 2 years ago
No, you might not and here's why. I worked at a place that told us we'd be PiP'ing people on our teams that had been selected for us. The condition was some would be on a 2 week, some 4 week, and some 6 week so it all wouldn't be at once. Essentially dragged out over more than 30 days. It tiptoed right around the WARN act, following the letter but not the spirit of the law.
Comment · 2 years ago
Hedge fund, data analysis/BI, any marketing department of any DTC company (soap, food, etc.) or any research group located in and/or around DC. Tons upon tons of jobs are basically SQL.

For those that don't know, you can ingest damn near any file format with columnar data via SQL. You don't have to write some Python script (although it helps.)

Comment · 3 years ago
I/O, backups, and such. Just having the instances cost money. Using them costs even more!
Comment · 3 years ago
You are prompted to confirm an external group being added as admin. Someone purposefully ignored it.

Good luck. You're trying to do the right thing but if they lawyer you, remind them they added you not you added them.

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