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if you know you know: thinkpads do make for happy compute.

fwiw, thinkpad/lenovo isn't the only team* can assemble a pc properly. its just that they tend to keep working even after you drop them and spill coffee on them and come with an escape key. <.<

*] it's really the sub-culture/team behind thinkpads that we appreciate, which ironically isn't normally distributed throughout all of Lenovo.

heres the archive.org link for those just loking to read the article, cheers:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230519170640/https://www.newyo...

*NIX is the only viable choice for mission-critical desktop stability in 2023. But that isn't to say Windows isn't feature complete. It is still king when it comes to gaming.

Desktop stability and reliability hasn't been a top-level OKR at Microsoft for many years. The company has been growing more product driven for years and falling victim to roadmaps being driven by muggles.

The only place where you can actually design a truly stable and reliable desktop is with open-source kernels and user software.

"Make yourself useful unto the World and Human Kind will give you Bread" - Emerson

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Sad to see that were going to have to start using throwaway accounts to post anything on glassdoor. Next up: Blind.

or hotel brands that offer consistent hospitality services all over the world. Each of which requires a 24x7 multi-skilled staff..

or the piles of humans feeding the internet, tech and social media 24x7

I have less problems with stereotyping than with the hum of a million managers patronizing remarks, like this article from PG.

I've grown accustomed to negs' (microaggressions) like these, but they do a greater injustice to actual genius. Mutual respect in a team will never be achieved when people treat others in this manner.

disclaimer: former uber engineer

we ran the numbers continually and like others mentioned, it was a no-brainer to build on-prem. that said, there are a few use cases where aws/gcp are a great fit. people selling cloud without putting in real engineering work to enterprises generally make my life harder than it already is.

plausible.io looks to be a one-developer show. pretty impressive.

my new company just withdrew their offer (I started in a couple weeks) and I just left my previous gig (AV startup). backend+infra full stack python/go stuff

the new company's revenue went from 7 figures+ a month to 0 because of the virus and they are rightly freaking out

> "I had to say yes" and "I had convinced so many talented people to participate" and "How could I let their magnificent work go to waste?" and " and "I wanted him to see me as an artist [not only as a prop for sex appeal]"

as a Dad with daughters I am horrified by this evil. Coercion and oppression to obtain debasing sexual content makes me sick: "There was no room for negotiation. I had to say yes."

Why do people go to such great lengths, even to compromise their personal ethics, to please others peoples imagined sensibilities or expectations?

gwern you are amazing, thank you.

Contracts are for when a relationship breaks down, not the other way around. The "contracts" offer protections to parents offering a legal path for enforcing access to their children as well as financial protections.

It also seems to offer access to additional social and cultural collateral than just cohabitation and has several inferred expectations in various social spheres.

Parties in a relationship sometimes have wildly different experiences, expectations and motivations "in love" and marriage provides a way to reduce this complexity.

There aren't many things that test your will and resolve more than having to sign a big contract on something. What people will commit to verbally is often vastly different to what they will actually sign to when it's in writing.

Having used both from the prototyping stage to very large scale my answer: It doesn't matter.

They are both plenty feature complete to work well for relational data type problems. Grab the one you have more exposure to and you'll be fine.

That said, I'm still using mysql-innodb (latest percona) because the built-in replication has had more time to bake and its concurrency model (think 100k qps+) is plain better. For further reading see:

https://eng.uber.com/mysql-migration/

1) Learn one thing really well and stick with it until you master it. Human confidence isn't wired to derive satisfaction from breadth of skills. The stronger single skills you develop, the easier it becomes to develop context and understanding as you add to your skillset.

2) Get solid on the basics and stay current: data structures, algorithms, computation and basic operating systems. Without these you'll never reach high levels of competency.

3) Develop boundaries. I've seen stellar developers reduced to a pile of depression and anxiety by poorly trained managers getting them to overcommit. Learn to know what you know well and what you do not know well. Push the rest back onto your manager and make them do their job.

4) Take time to enjoy and savor this time. We're in an age of technology that has never before existed.

Story: As an engineer that enjoys fashion but has limited time for the hobby I would like an app that can help me self-evaluate fashion choices and arrangements so that I can have more fun and look better.

how'd I do?

Yeah that is low compared to the major tech hubs but sounds calibrated to the area you are living in.

It only takes one person to set a price provided they honestly believe in they value... and that person can be you.

one from the devops/sre trenches...

> (devops guy) hi, im here for the lead devops role > (CTO) awesome, you'd be a great fit here. can you write a sudoku solver in ruby real quick? > (devops guy) [writes solver in ruby] > (CTO) wow looks great... when can you start? do you have any questions for me? > (devops guy) I do have a question: how do you shard your bigdata installations and what is it built on? > (CTO) oh I wrote my own, we call it redisbigtable -- its the worlds first CAP compliant data store. oh, and we shard by customer. > (devops guy) thank you for your time.

You have to store data on the client endpoints in realtime logistics applications; its just how it's done.

If you don't, networking failure scenarios will destroy your user experience since you'll end up with frequent irreconcilable data gaps with cellular networking being what it is.

tags + notebooks + cross platform + rich text + search + clipping + images + shortcuts. I don't know of a offering that rivals it. Google keep is for kids, not for real work.

good reminder to back things up.

Was hoping to gain some insight to improve interview cycles here but instead just have agita.

Jobs come and go, great work is always great work, but friends are what I remember most.

Don't beat yourself up too much. Diversity means having an honest full-spectrum cohort of people to grow with, not a curated one. If I removed people like you [us] (typically genius+passionate+outspoken+intellectually-arrogant) I would miss you. People might avoid you because they are weak, but you probably help tow the bottom line at fb more than you know.

I've struggled with similar in my career (eng@uber) to a lesser degree and these are some of my findings:

- in terms of long-term survival; friendship, connection and investing in humans brings much more satisfaction than any technical part of my work and will outlast the business every time.

- when I'm arguing a solution or iteration that I've designed, the harder I hold onto that solution the tougher it is to sell.

- every time I instruct an engineer rather than let them figure something out on their own it seems to not go in my favor.

- the best designs and implementations [at scale] in engineering [sadly, for my ego] always seem to require multi-faceted perspectives (a team) to simulate adequately and vet impact (business+social+tech).

- promotion and progression in an organization is a subjective mess, all biased, and largely driven by non-technical markers namely social proof, liking and perception.

I analyzed their JS math library (2013) and was pleasantly surprised (optimized, lean object design).

Love what PlayCanvas is doing. They seem committed to the community and their people.

I'm as guilty a generalist as any, yet I'm happy straddling several disciplines.

There's a broader argument for and against "specialization" i.e. studying other disciplines yields perspective etc.

At any rate, I'll share the ways I'm solving it presently:

* reduce the number of disciplines required to be effective * confront human resource management problems * build funnels to save time or improve process

I suppose I'm advocating tackling fundamental leadership problems in an organization :/

If you have any advice or ideas you can share I'd surely love to hear them.

could you elaborate on what you mean precisely by "talent waste" and "misdirection"?

good article. haven't seen it mentioned before, so props to the author for noticing that html5 is a distinct platform.

my response: http://eleventymedia.com/

shitballs people are making more than 200k sterling in the UK?

We've lost one of our own. May the oculus team benefit -- not suffer from his passing. Makes me sad.