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Using M4 as an Ansible Preprocessor (For Science)

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Show HN: What does that Principal Engineer job role mean?”

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Microservice Herds, Cliques of Services, and Flocks of People

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Show HN: Learning just enough Groovy to read a Jenkinsfile [video]

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Show HN: Git squash with confidence with Git squash-check

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Tern: Code Analysis / Autocompletion for JavaScript

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How to install xctool: the comprehensive documentation

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What Have We Learned? (from Vesper)

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Retro Mac Computing: MPW: The Long View (2010)

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9개월 전discuss

To jog people's memory about Sky: yes this is the app created by former Shortcuts/Workflow.app people

I use a USB-C hub with DisplayLink to drive my setup. This means MacOS thinks I'm recording the screen.

I'm a bit worried Team's solution will use those APIs will be used (ie I'll have a choice: see a Teams meeting video OR be hooked up to all my monitors).

What I think is a related side effect: I also can't watch video (streaming via web browser or via Apple TV app) with this setup either.

3년 전discuss

oh and use File -> Workspace -> the workspace you want.

Vs having the list of workspaces on the left with the current one highlighted-with-a-border

3년 전discuss

Ummm how do you know what Slack workspace you're in?

Use case: I'm in #general. Can I ask a clarifying question about $DAYJOB's (currently private) Q4 plans... or did I accidentally leak that private information because no I'm _actually_ in the #general for _Javascript Geniuses Slacking Together_ community?

4년 전discuss

This is very cool. Two things I wish: * can it be a sidebar, instead or in addition to this popup? Then it could be up all the time, or how wide I want * I wish it did tabs across windows - this only finds tabs in the current window, but I have multiple windows of multiple tabs open on my machine. (So of course I can't find anything, yes...)

But this is very neat and exciting!!

4년 전discuss

coooool thank you!

4년 전discuss

I am interested to see how this compares to https://highlightsapp.net/ but it looks neat, especially if it starts at a place of integration with other platforms.

5년 전discuss

Kodak was a wild place: trying to use a different calendar system internally (the International Fixed Calendar), the nuke reactor in the basement... just wild stuff.

5년 전discuss

What was the worst was the constant rejection, honestly. (I interviewed a _lot_ so it does track that I'd get 1-3 "thank you for your consideration but..." emails a day. But that didn't make it easier...)

5년 전discuss

I'm going to do a blog post on my job search in the next month or so, but for me it's been a _grind_ (that finally ended up with something, thankfully).

But sneak preview:

  * 100 applications
  * 54 first round interviews
  * 24 second round interviews
  * 10 third round interviews

Something like 94 total meetings (brief numbers here don't include 4th-6th rounds...), maybe 10 (?) "virtual onsites" of 3-6 hours, maybe only 4(?) takehomes, maybe 6 (?) Hackerrank projects.

I got a lot of at bats, and a lot of "swings and misses".

In general at least one place said that while they are hiring like nonsense (average desired growth at companies was 211% in the "forseeable": because I asked then aggregated them all in my spreadsheet) they apparently have a lot of candidates in the pipeline. So if you're kind of confusing because you're super senior and have done everything ??? maybe they get confused, and just say, "next!".

Out of the 4 external recruiter places I used, 2 were good at finding me excellent potentials that seemed to be enthusiastic about me and have short hiring funnels. By then I was wrapping up later stages with a place I found myself, and got a verbal offer, but I kind of suspect if I had leaned into external recruiters earlier I would have had a better experience / not feeling like I was spamming places with my resume.

5년 전discuss

Yes thank you. I know what I'm going to say goes against the millennial / Protestant Work Ethic hustle pr0n... but not _everything_ needs to be monetized. (Given a comfortable base salary. Hustling side projects or side gigs because you're not making enough money is another thing...)

7년 전discuss

Rash, the Racket Shell, does something similar to this: https://docs.racket-lang.org/rash/index.html

8년 전discuss

I bet it was a small business where someone ("Todd Packer") did all that stuff once, when it was 3-8 people, a garage, and a bunch of leased equipment.

Now they're 50-100 people, Todd burned out, and they're trying to find another Todd.

(Maybe Todd explicitly burnt out and everyone knew it, maybe Todd implicitly burnt out, went job hunting and surprised everyone... I don't know! But that's what it smells like to me).

Or maybe the CEO is trying to carve off their non-CEO duties. Okkkkkkkkkk.... but owning a company makes you motivated to work unsustainable hours, and... it's unlikely you'll find a $40/hour contractor willing to give 40 hours/week + 40-50 hours "gotta get this done at all costs" free labor. Eventually that contractor is going to run those numbers...

But, yes, disregarding all that stuff, superjobs are becoming a problem...

8년 전discuss

If by "modern devops" you mean "they say it's appropriate in a Cloud Native environment" here's some I like or are on my reading list:

  * Seeking SRE

  * Database Reliability Engineering: Designing and Operating Resilient Database Systems

  * The Essential Deming: Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality

  * Infrastructure as Code: Managing Servers in the Cloud

  * Cloud Native Infrastructure

  * the Scuba Paper from Facebook Research

  * Kubernetes in Action

  * Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

  * Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment
 
  * Cloud Native: Designing Change-tolerant Software

  * Understanding The Linux Memory Manager <-- kind of old (ie references the coming 64bit memory transitions), but super good

  * Spring Microservices in Action <--- read even if you're not a Java or Spring head, asks questions like, "maybe you should think about service discovery, routing, tracing, etc"

9년 전discuss

> Any job where a person can argue a clear, direct, measurable link between their work and profit is a job that can be paid based on financial results

And anyone who can't will be, and should be, outsourced.

Know. Your. Value. To. The. Business.

9년 전discuss

I'd venture less into Common Lisp territory and more into Racket, myself...

10년 전discuss

I would ask the inverse: anyone around here have a pension account?

When I joined my current company I was given an option to join the pension (maybe the last year it was offered to new people??). I didn't take it for a couple reasons:

  1. figured I probably wouldn't be here for 30 years (!!!!)

  2. Stories of rampant pension mismanagement scare me off. (Reasonably sure it wouldn't happen with my employer, but...)

10년 전discuss

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code is also an interesting site for similar problems

10년 전discuss

I think you're somewhat right. Anecdote != data of course, but here's mine.

Grew up in a rural area, of about 3K people. Lot of farmers, and this was the '90s so lot of broke farmers. (Family farming economically collapsed in the mid '90s and is hard to make work even today).

(Big alcohol problem. County next county over had a huge _huge_ meth problem. Got the impression they were a former logging/mining town, then things got Bad.)

Heard a lot of stories about folk whose pride wouldn't let them use welfare, and some "avoid charity of any kind" people. Kind of folk where it'll be a hard pill to swallow to use charity to feed your family. (They'd do it, but only when things got bad and then only once or twice)

I'm not sure what would happen to these people if you said, "Hey, here's $30,000/year for free (avg income, today, of that area), for nothing, when you broke your back for $15,000/year last year."

It's going to be an interesting day when these people want to work, NEED to work to earn money (because elsewise it's charity, and you've failed as a man (woman?)), but there are "no" jobs for humans. Unless suddenly magically employers start paying good money for 6 hour/week blue collar minimally training positions (so probably not robot repairfolk, although maybe). But this is a dream because (late stage) capitalism.

10년 전discuss

This is very interesting. Thanks for this data.

I've been using the StackOverflow Careers RSS feeds for a small script I've been writing, which gives a good view of Now... maybe I can find something interesting in your data for the Past