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That's why I internally push to use Bedrock. If AWS flakes or bans the company account I've got bigger problems. Putting more eggs in the same basket is a counterintuitive solution to the problem of someone else holding my fate in their hands, but at least it's a platform that's been around > 5 years.

I have 3 modes of redditing in order of importance/frequency: 1. custom fp with many defaults removed, 2. r/all, 3. rarely, but sometimes default fp.

I find that it works. r/all is a lot of memes and time wasters, but can be fun for a quick look at what's going on outside of my bubble. I've found things(like rick and morty) that I wouldn't have found if I hadn't punched up r/all once in a while.

spez talked about how a lot of users(myself included) do in fact browse r/all. And yes, it has been fixed which is a good thing.

That's all well and good when it was subs like FPH that were easily ignored. The thing that threatened to chase me off of reddit was the_donald. Not because I was "offended"(the new code word for calling someone a pussy), but because it was shitty content that pissed me off. And they figured out how to jack the algorithm to make their sub the most prominent content. I joined reddit for the science and tech, not to be a hit count on some shill's advert campaign.

Losing your target audience is a problem for any company. Free speech is a right insofar as the government cannot ban speech. Private property is a right. Reddit cannot ban me from saying what I want in real life, but they totally have the right to not allow me to say it on their property.

I'm in the middle of the spectrum myself. I'm happy to say hi, shake hands, but I need my alone time. I have plenty of friends and they all get it. I could disappear off the map and be a hermit if that's what I really wanted to do. But in the interest of not being without friends I make time to do both.

My son is in college and it's a struggle for him. He wants friends but doesn't want to gladhand to meet people. I get it, but you can't have met friends without meeting people.

I'm the youngest senior where I work at 36. Our leads are approaching or past 50. This may be a localized problem.

I thrive in the small group office. You get the flow of ideas that are trying to be achieved with the open plan, but without as much of the noise. And it's easier to call out one or two people for being difficult to work with than it is many. I hated a private cube(big effin cube with high walls and all) because I felt like I was in solitary. Sometimes I want to bullshit about what I did over the weekend, or discuss a philisophical question about what I'm doing. Seems weird to pop into someone else's private space to do so.

From my personal experience: It's the first thing off the island when my schedule gets pinched. I can't cut back on work, don't want to cut out family or rec time. The MOOC suffers first, particularly the deliverables. I've started with the intention of turning in all assignments only to end up only watching the lectures.

Work related: Inspired by Mary Cagan, The Innovators by Walter Isaacson

Non-Work related: The Supreme Gift and Warrior of Light by Coelho.

In my personal experience there's no way to truly blunt the sting of failure. If I go in optimistic and fail unexpectedly or pessimistically and fail as expected the pain is the same. I don't see the use in torturing myself in the meantime.

I'd say that's a much more fair way to go about it. If you're going to ask someone to do work for you, that should be a paying gig, and it should be a task worth doing. If you're looking for a free sample a public repo or a task that fits within the parameters of a normal interview time would be better alternatives.

The problem with a hardware token security is that it relies on every user having one or not leveraging the security. That's something that can be difficult for an IT department to coordinate across an organization, thus would be herculean for a Google scale company to legislate across its user base.

Not a mac. Mouse buttons and a windows key. I imagine that the QR code is to facilitate transactions.

I like the prop 8 ruling for the fact that it bars interest groups from fighting constitutionality rulings in the future. This basically eliminates the possibility of 'Citizen's-united-ization' of the court system. Otherwise interest groups could dump hoards of cash into fighting court cases that they would otherwise not be a party to. While I would have liked to see a stronger ruling on Prop 8, I'm even happier that the court provided an avenue for keeping money out of the last government institution that has a fighting chance.

I don't have a problem at all with the volume of stories, I just think that we need to honor Snowden's wishes. He explicitly asked that focus remain on the content of his leaks rather than about him personally. Let's talk about his leaks and how we are going to create a future without the need for them rather than about the man himself.

If the FISA court was transparent in any way having them issue warrants and provide oversight might be valuable. But it is not, thus that court is meaningless.

This teacher is as middle America as it comes. I actually went to that school although I had a different teacher for history unfortunately. Some of this is a personality conflict as Mr. Dreyden was always a boat rocking kind of guy. Some of this is ineptitude by the school district. They weren't always the most organized bunch, and certainly not accustomed to the level of scrutiny they have now.

I don't think that the district was looking to harm to any student, but there is definitely a culture of paranoia in that particular town and within the schools. The town is located next to a small city that has had drug and gang problems in the past. As such, they've taken (often misguided) measures for years to try to prevent problems from creeping over the town line. This would be one such attempt.

The real root of many of Batavia and really all of America's internal issues are uneducated attitudes towards drugs and the drug trade. There is a huge black market going on all over the nation because of the drug laws and it fuels petty crime on up to organized crime. It brings about new 'Education' initiatives as well as a focus on school security that makes for untrusted environments. It also makes it quite easy to put children in jail for profit. All the while more and more parents call for more and more laws because they hear horror stories of loosing Junior to a drug habit. These problems will continue to pop up until we change the underlying problem.

When weighing the balance between even through the lens that this article presents, the driverless car is still a net good. Google potentially knowing if I have cancer is an ok exchange if it reduces the very real chance of death, injury or legal problems that my commute presents me every day.

Thank you for the heads up. I'll forward that to our site maintenance guy.

Loves Park, Illinois. Cleo Communications Inc. Java shop doing MFT. We're hiring Senior Software Engineers, Junior Software Engineers, QA, and Sales Engineers. If you're talented and in Northern Illinois(or Southern WI for that matter), we want to hear from you.

We offer competive salary, health insurance with company HSA contribution, dental, good PTO schedules, and all other manner of niceties. Company info: We're a well established company with many big clients. The company has been around for 20+ years in various iterations with the latest product cycle about 10-15 years old. We've recently been acquired by a couple of Silicon Valley backed gentlemen who see our potential and want to compete toe to toe with IBM in the Managed File Transfer domain. We're revamping products, spinning up marketing, staffing up and taking over the world. It is a startup atmosphere in an established company. If this sounds interesting to you, contact me @ jorr@cleo.com. I'm just a Senior Engineer, but I'll get you to the right people.

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As a Java programmer I see no problem with this.

So the counter side to that is basically Biogen is bilking the hell out of the insurance companies. While it is noble of them not to screw over poor MS patients, they're screwing over the rest of the healthcare system instead.

Northern Illinois Shoutout! Loves Park here. Didn't think I'd see anyone else from our area posting.

Loves Park, Illinois. Cleo Communications Inc. Java shop doing MFT. We're hiring Senior Software Engineers, Junior Software Engineers, QA, Sales Engineers, Sales, HR, and Marketing. If you're talented and in Northern Illinois(or Southern WI for that matter), we want to hear from you.

We offer competive salary, health insurance with company HSA contribution, dental, good PTO schedules, and all other manner of niceties.

Company info: We're a well established company with many big clients. The company has been around for 20+ years in various iterations with the latest product cycle about 10-15 years old. We've recently been acquired by a couple of Silicon Valley backed gentlemen who see our potential and want to compete toe to toe with IBM in the Managed File Transfer domain. We're revamping products, spinning up marketing, staffing up and taking over the world. It is a startup atmosphere in an established company.

If this sounds interesting to you, contact me @ jorr@cleo.com. I'm just a Senior Engineer, but I'll get you to the right people.

Job Descriptions: http://www.cleo.com/company/careers.php

SEEKING WORK -- Java/Python developer, full time employed looking for small remote jobs for more diverse experience/fun/networking/beer money. I'm located in Northern Illinois. I would also be interested in teaching intro programming, intro IT, as well as talking to students about CS on a paid or volunteer basis.

I Specialize in database IO and networking protocols. If you need a POC network interface, bug squashing, or any other kind of small time work, I'm your guy.

I understand the premise of the article, and I think that one should take pride in creating great work. However, this kind of absolutism makes people difficult to work with. I've worked with absolutist engineers and things rarely ship and the team hates themselves by the end. Lighten up, make things work when the chips are down and move on with life. You have to take pride in the imperfect because all software is flawed, some of the flaws just haven't been discovered yet.

I have a lot of experience with this. I'm just pulling through the other side of this regret.

I am in my early 30's as well. I opted to work right out of high school and take 10 years getting my 2 year degree. I worked for a very long time with a decent employer, and I built up great skills along the way.

In the past couple of years though things started getting bleak. I was hitting the boundaries of what this employer could offer, and I could even say that it was a bit of an abusive work relationship(probably mutually). My mood started getting foul. People who I was good friends with I was having trouble getting along with. I was drinking a lot to smooth things over. My family life suffered. Things were a mess.

One day I just had enough and got into counseling. I took control. I changed jobs, and stepped away from friends for a while and worked on family. I doubled down on education(I had started on my bachelors a while back, but I recommitted). Things got a bit better.

Then things went down a bit again. I started reading more HN and r/programming to build up my professional chops. I started feeling inadequate. I felt like this new job I had wasn't cool or startuppy enough. Doubt crept back in.

So I had conversations with a lot of people. There was a guy on HN that was taking stories and giving advice. He helped me a bit. I have a pen pal kind of friend who has had cool experiences. He helped me a lot also. I talked to family and friends of all stripes about my concerns. Basically everyone had the same thing to say, that I was living a good life. That the kind of things I felt I should be doing have their tradeoffs as well. That I should focus on what I am doing instead of always looking for major improvements.

And then I came to the realization that I was trying to live up to someone else's yard stick. It took me 10 years to get an associates degree because I was raising a family. I lost my startup because I didn't want to spend my entire life at a keyboard. I was beating myself up about my job because I was trying to measure my career as an engineer against that of the internet's best and brightest entrepreneurs. I was trying too hard.

So take it easy on yourself man. I am sure that you have some pretty awesome stuff going on in your life. Take time to appreciate the things you enjoy. Discard things that don't work for you anymore. Put down HN for a while if you it is making you feel like you aren't doing enough(I had to for a while). Make a change if it is smart for you to do so, and don't beat yourself if it isn't the right time. But above all else, just cut yourself some slack.

To everyone objecting to GoDaddy being involved with the suit, this is how the US Civil Courts operate. If you are going to sue someone whom you believe is responsible for causing you harm, you have to take into account that they may blame the issue on a third party. It is better to bring in obvious possibly liable third parties at the beginning of the suit to save time getting to a conclusion of the case. Otherwise the case thrashes around in counter claims, cross claims and all other manner of pretrial non-sense. I'd bet a nickle that GoDaddy gets absolved fairly quickly on in the process, but I'd bet a dollar that texxxan would have tried to ascribe blame to GD later in the case had they not been in the initial filings.

Dustin's article was worth a read. It was as enlightening to his perspective as this article was to it's author.

Everything fails, but poorly made things fail in less predictable manners.

Really this is a false dichotomy. Anyone who always buys the best everything or the worst everything is missing a whole lot of nuance.