jasonpeacock

Here's "hospital stress" data for the US, showing where COVID patients are overwhelming the healthcare systems: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020&…

When hospitalization rates are down. In many metro areas the ICU are still full of un-vaccinated COVID patients, which means people with normal emergencies can't get a bed. Thus, COVID precaution…

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New collars are already on their way: https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/145289814620013363... …

Is this a desktop app, a hosted solution, or self-hosted? For work use, we need on-premise only and can’t have internal tools exposed/captured by external tools.

"Slow is smooth, smooth is fast." Alas, the fast hacker gets recognized for their hustle, despite them spending twice the effort to get to the same place, and others having to go back and fi…

Let's say that the day you update your dependencies is after this malware was injected but before it was noticed. Now you have malware in your local repo :( Having a local repo does not prevent m…

And what happens when you need to update those dependencies? Software is a living beast, you can't keep it alive on 4yr-old dependencies. In fact, you've cursed it with unpatched bugs and se…

This is the modern, post-ASCII computing world, we should no longer be willing to settle for the lowest-common-denominator of ASCII-only strings. There's no excuse for actively supported, paid …

And yet it's one of the simplest things to add non-ASCII chars to your tests to validate their handling. It's like not testing if your calculate application can handle negative numbers or de…

Same here, my org has it locked down. Your Slack display name must match your official name (which is also your email display name). And your Slack handle matches your official login. There's no …

Yes, and ?

I've run into that too. People attach a lot of value to version numbers, even for internal projects/releases, and it's hard to get their perspective shifted to just accept it as communi…

I want the opposite: mandatory PTO. Every employee gets 4wks minimum. Each quarter, if you have not taken or planned (reserved) any PTO, then PTO is automatically scheduled for you. Then, during your …

And who do you think are members of those standards boards/committees? Employees of corporations! Influence is not always overt or malicious, but it happens. For example, a corp wants a new featu…

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> She would culturally fit What does this mean? This is a very loaded term, and without qualitative data it results in biased hiring. Usually, it means "she's young, white, and college …

> I've found that without a tool to handle the format for me, I am simply too lazy to sustain that format for more than a few days. That tool is Git, it's already built-in. You can create…

I don't get it? It's just a weak summary of Conventional Commits without any context. https://www.conventionalcommits.org/ …

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Those remote workers are still on the company healthcare plan, and their un-vaxxed status and higher risk of illness/higher cost of treatment definitely creates risk for the company. Some compani…

The hardest is part is keeping all the onboarding tools, docs, etc updated as the product, infrastructure, and process changes. You really need a full-time "onboarding" engineer, or make a r…

So...Conway's Law :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law There is also the "reverse-Conway maneuver": Structure the org to produce the results you want.…

I have Mon/Tues/Friday blocked like this. If people can't find an open time on Wed/Thurs, or they have to schedule on my blocked days in order to coordinate with others, then they …

One's education level/degree does not correlate strongly with anything other than one's desire to achieve that education level/degree. I wouldn't make any inferences beyond th…

Everything is testable, if it's not then it was designed poorly. I've seen 100%+ code coverage on cross-compiled bare-metal C++ embedded code. If that can be tested, then anything can be te…

Business logic goes into the code, data goes into the database. Sometimes business logic is implemented as rules, in which case the rules (configuration) can go into either configuration files or a da…

You can install the CWAgent on any host, they don't have to be EC2 instances: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitori... …

How are the people who need the product going to pay for it? End users can still report on the value of the product even if they received it for free, there are many ways to evaluate effectiveness bey…