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anon987on Comcast gets big tax break that was designed for Google Fiber

Oh, so your suggestion is to just wait it out and good things will come?

anon987on Microservices with Go, go-microservice-template and Minke

Yep - yet another half-baked project that someone is using for internet points. I'm really getting sick of people re-inventing the wheel poorly.

The number of available tools is really getting out of hand and I wish projects like this wouldn't suck away resources from established, functional projects.

anon987on Ask HN: Losing Vision – What remote IT jobs are possible?

I worked at at place with a couple blind computer programmer types. I never talked to them to ask them how they did it, but they did it somehow, so I'm sure you can too.

I wish you the best.

anon987on Ask HN: Is this recruitment tactic shady?

Scraping and saving resumes is a common tactic. I know recruiters from Companies You've Heard Of and even their big, well known company scrapes daily.

As for selling the information later, that's a different issue (and one that I agree is not ethical).

anon987on Ask HN: For those that are developers what are your favorite brands/products?

I love how Ask HN has turned into a place to take surveys.

anon987on Bernie’s Army of Coders

So far: 51 comments and so far zero comments about the technical aspects of this article - only political bickering.

Yet another thinly veiled political story that somehow make it to the front page because it has the word "coders" in the title.

anon987on China’s Island Missiles Can Effectively Shut Out the U.S. Air Force

How the fuck does this story have 28 points?

What is happening with Hacker News?

anon987on Best Enterprise Scheduler

I like all of the spam in your submission history.

anon987on How to do distributed locking

"When used as a failure detector, timeouts are just a guess that something is wrong."

I send a packet over the network. I configured the timeout to be 10 seconds. 10 seconds passes. Is the packet truly lost? Or, maybe the packet was received, processed, and and a response is on the way back, but it takes 20 seconds instead of 10! Or maybe it takes an hour instead of 20 seconds. Or a decade.

We don't know if the packet is truly lost or is just taking >$timeout_timer and making assumptions is dangerous.

anon987on Docker Official Images Are Moving to Alpine Linux

Ehh I wouldn't worry about it too much. The whole idea behind these skinny distros is there are few if any packages. Distros can also consider using something like rpm-ostree[1] for making skinny, RPM-based immutable file systems where you only update the "master" image then push it out.

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/OSTree

anon987on Docker Official Images Are Moving to Alpine Linux

Red Hat's Project Atomic "installer ISO" is ~630mb and the uncompressed qcow2 is >900mb.

I was impressed with Atomic's size, but seeing how much smaller Alpine is, I can't help but wonder what all the additional size is in Red Hat's images.

anon987on Automatic bug-repair system fixes 10 times as many errors as its predecessors

That makes me think of the amount of satisfaction one will receive pushing MIT's autofix-it button as opposed to those seconds or minutes when you've caught the fucker and go in for the final fix.

Those moments of updating the files: That little euphoria of finding the fix but needing to focus to get it done correctly and finally hitting enter for the last time...ahhh.

I'l take that instead.

anon987on Ask HN: Job honeymoon is over, now what?

Be a tech grunt if you want to be a tech grunt. I've done it for years because it's much funner than management or architecture.

Give your company the first shot at making you happy by asking them to let you step down and back into your former group.

anon987on Reddit in 2016

http://www.slideshare.net/reddit/reddit-brands-of-the-year-2...

I assume that's the official Reddit SlideShare account.

anon987on A Traffic Cop’s Ticket Bonanza in a Poor Texas Town

Off-topic and not appropriate for HN.

If you want to circle jerk about how terrible the police can be, do it somewhere else - this isn't the place.

Flagged.

anon987on Laid-off IT workers muzzled as H-1B debate heats up

How does someone sniff out companies like this during an interview or pre-screen?

anon987on Update on 1/28 service outage

Yep, I think most of these post-mortems from any company are pointless from a technical perspective. It's 4 paragraphs that boils down to "someone did something wrong and we'll make sure it doesn't happen" with zero specifics.

There's no point in reading these because there's no technical information. Stuff like this is something you sent to your customer because they want root cause.

anon987on Ask HN: How do I fire someone who has sensitive data on their personal laptop?

Please, PLEASE tell us the name of this place so we never have to work there.

anon987on Ask HN: Could a digital collectible be as valuable as a physical collectible?

Magic: The Gathering has a full online game where you can buy boosters, trade cards, etc etc etc.

anon987on Ask HN: Books that altered your view of reality

I had to put this one down but I plan to pick it up later. His ideas can be super dense at times and it makes fun reading feel like work. It definitely doesn't "cool down" my brain at the end of the day.

/r/printsf always has good suggestions

anon987on Ask HN: Books that altered your view of reality

Everyone on HN should read this book - 11/10

anon987on Chef Software Raises $40M in Series E Funding

Sure, but expand out and try stuff like "chef cookbook" and "chef knife" or try to find Chef jobs on Indeed.

anon987on GitHub: Scaling on Ruby, with a nomadic tech team

/r/digitalnomad

anon987on Ask HN: Tools of the trade

https://github.com/cjbarber/ToolsOfTheTrade

Last merge was 2 months ago but it has 32 outstanding PRs so maybe he abandoned it.

anon987on Ask HN: Time to update my skills. What should I do?

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends

Type in a term and go

anon987on I have no idea what I'm doing

Yep, VirtualBox + CentOS and go nuts. Don't waste your money buying a separate computer, and don't waste your time trying to dual boot or removing Windows and using Linux full time.

anon987on Ask HN: I'm stuck on the Microsoft stack – help?

Google "free microsoft ebooks" (no quotes) and you will see a bunch of links for official Microsoft sites - not pirated ones. Several years ago Microsoft started giving them away free to, I assume, encourage platform adoption.

Dig around and I'm sure you'll find a few that are useful.

anon987on Ask HN: How to get rid of tech support/IRS Scam calls?

Consider working directly with the FCC to catch them. It would take time, and it might be a pain, but that sounds like a great "honeypot" for analysis.

anon987on Ask HN: Do you work with dogmatic, stubborn developers/sysadmins? Are YOU one?

This has been posted and discussed several times on HN and I consider it to be the best approach:

http://www.kitchensoap.com/2012/10/25/on-being-a-senior-engi...

I'm not here to "win", I'm here to implement the best technical solution.

anon987on Lies Employers Use to Get You to Work with Them

Oh I understand that.

To be more precise: Let's say I will be working on a team of 5 people. They send the manager and the smartest guy and things look great, but how do I gauge the skill level of the people who aren't there along with the skill level of other teams. For example, maybe my team is great, but I'll be working with other teams (infra guys, networking guys, legacy systems guys, whatever) who are obstructive and unskilled.

How do you get outside the "interview box" to see more of the company?