503 karma · joined March 24, 2008
Every time I see a dev trying to parse HTML with a custom solution or regex or anything other than a proven OSS library designed to parse HTML I recoil reflexively. Sure, maybe you don't need a parser to see if that strong tag is properly closed but the alternative is ...
* Admit when you don't know something and then rectify it (if it's interesting to you).
* A stable solution is better than the bleeding-edge solution.
* Smaller (simpler) is better. (KISS)
* Learn how to gauge technical ability in a conversation with someone and compensate for that on the fly. Non-techies will love you.
* 80hr weeks will not make the company love you. They will only make everyone else in your life dislike you. And eventually, the people at the company.
* Shop around. You don't have to take the job offers but keep interviewing. You learn as much about yourself as they learn about you.
* Find a problem-space you love and develop it. Tech is tech but business is business. Finding an area that you like to solve tech problems in will make you happy.
* Don't make technical arguments personal. Make your point, with facts, let them make theirs. Agree if you're wrong.
Just accept that you're not going to make a touchscreen Mac. Accept it. That's fine. I don't want one anyway.
Give me a quad-core newish processor with 32GB of RAM, the fastest SSD that I can imagine, and ten hours of battery life.
If a 15" laptop weights between 2 and 3.5 lbs I don't care. I'm carrying it in a backpack 99% of the time. I'm not going to notice the difference. I will notice the difference when it stops working because my 2.257lb laptop stopped working after 2hrs because it's thin and light.
The devices, once configured, run independently of the UniFi Controller. It's just needed for configuration changes or monitoring outside of snmp. (or apparently the guest portal)
I know a lot of it is corrupt and aiming for a target but good scientists will tell you that they're basing their findings on studies which may have flaws and they'd want you to try and reproduce their studies to tell them if they've gotten something wrong.
The way to fix it is to force anyone that broadcasts a video signal over cable or the airwaves or the internet to have a few hours a night of commercial free news. If they publish something that's patently not true then the government should revoke their license to broadcast on every medium. The only problem with that is that it would be very easy to get state run media in that situation.