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Sounds great! I totally understand the motivations behind the decision to leave it out, but it's a great candidate for a compile time flag. I would love to throw out gnome-terminal for this!

It's also a deal breaker for me. I use a tiling WM instead of tmux.

That said, I really wanted to build this exact same project at some point, so maybe seems like a feature that could be added in a fork :)

Distill whiskey.

I hate the smug attitude of things like this. I get they're trying to raise awareness of a thing, but maybe take a moment to educate, instead of just smugly dunking on people about how much more you know about a thing that they don't.

Yep, I've been 100% remote for 5 years now (wow, it feels weird to see that number!) and am never going back, for the same reasons.

The only caveat is that it's important that you work in an organization that is aligned with remote work, if not remote-first. Just scoring 'permission' to work remotely somewhere not used to it, is probably a recipe for a pretty bad time.

The premise that cheating is a major risk or issue in job interviews is .... nutty.

No. Or maybe, for an awful recruiter. Just bounce.

Weightlifting is definitely injurious -- but also provides you with a lot of strength and physical fortitude that prevents injury doing other random things/sports. Like other physically taxing activities, it's a bit of a double edged sword.

What is the point of this comment?

It's really saddening that thinking beyond first order direct effects of something is considered rare or revolutionary.

It's preposterous other people want to live in different places?

Provisioning the cluster should of course be automated. Does that mean you'll never need to ever access a node for any reason? Of course not.

Yes, exactly. Remote is incidentally a way to save some money on salaries, but mostly it is a great way access a much larger pool of talent.

Most federal loans are at like 6.5% or something silly.

Thinkpads are the Linux analogue of MacBooks.

I'd argue that while containers have been attractive for that reason, they're actually really bad at it (layered binary blobs?) -- and good at the other stuff. It's pretty unfortunate that's been one of the main propelling forces behind containerization, I think we've ended up with subpar tools because of it.

'Bringing up an app' is the easiest part of ops work. Everything that happens after that is hard and immensely complicated. These tools do not exist for their own sake.

When I worked at a big corp, we talked about this issue at some point.

We started literally putting up a cost clock, that ticked off the running cost of a meeting. It was surprisingly convincing and motivating for everyone, even (especially?) our external customers who were previously happy to sit and chat for hours.

That said, there's a reason I don't work at a 'big corp' anymore :)

Very different set of customers. Rackspace's self-service cloud has always kind of sucked, and they knew it -- they'd much rather work upmarket with companies that want to outsource infrastructure engineering as part of their hosting bill.

Oh awesome, thanks for the info. I'm watching a CBC stream and it's CBC branded -- but I know NBC and BBC show the same footage, and at least BBC the same commentators.

I watch weightlifting pretty closely, and most of the globe's networks seem to stream the BBC feed. It's one of the better broadcasts out there -- really knowledgeable commentators, completely neutral, just there for the joy of the sport and competition.

Nevermind all the sports that don't get any TV coverage I guess?

Yep, exactly. Same with the mountain west.

That's fine with me though, I like the peace and quiet that I'm afforded -- and can do without hysterical urbanites as intolerant as the imagined middle america they fear.

Or "How much are you making? That's just as relevant..."

This sounds crazy, and is, but following those instructions verbatim with a 16.04 install I managed to brick a new laptop. Yeah...

Why would it be criminal? The general principle of high taxes in an extremely dense urban area seems fine. All the services and infrastructure cost quite a lot.

That thing every time a 'startup' that never actually had a monetizable product makes headlines for not doing super awesome.

Furthermore, all companies are different. They all value different things and strengths and types of people. Getting rejected by Amazon doesn't mean you are "not the top 1%", it doesn't even mean you aren't Amazon's top 1%. It means that on that specific day, those specific people didn't think you were the specific top 1% they were looking for right then.

You might be Amazon top 1% tomorrow. You might be Facebook top 1% right now. You might have been Uber's top 1% yesterday. You might be everything a founder somewhere is looking for right this second.

Hiring is not an objective game, never read anything personal into it.

There is no objective top 1%. 99th percentile for one job might be 9th percentile for another.

Also teaching programming is more about technical skills and literacy than making literally everyone employed as a programmer.

The US and the EU are really different entities.