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I'm sorry - but this is just bad personal opsec regardless of what event you're attending, or who you're rubbing elbows with. Sorry, but my opinion on this is different than yours.
Cheers.
There is exactly zero chance I'd be leaving my device with these people. Trusting your phone to strangers when you can just silence it and leave it in your pocket is a fool's errand - this whole thing is just silly. It's unnecessary risk - everything from auth, to payments, to my career is piped through this device. Leaving it with absolute strangers is leaving someone with my most significant and risk-prone tool that I own.
Sorry to be pedantic but common folks - let's use some common sense here. This is so silly.
It can be - but it is also isolated to pockets/individuals within a company which doesn't necessarily define the culture.
> Maybe not of the entire company
Absolutely agree, and that's not well captured in my comment on second read. It can be at the company level, at the team level, and all the way down to the individual level - obviously in any configuration/mix. Sometimes it's not on the company that they had a hypothetical bad hire as long as they take corrective action, just to give an example.
This reads a bit weird so I'm interpreting it as "what kind of workplace causes you to not trust your colleagues to be reasonable?"
Lots. There are many places where developers will play outright power games in order to posture and preserve their position. The PR is a big spot where this can shine through in black/white. As a manager, I really have to police GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket to ensure that this isn't happening.
I've had juniors, equals, and seniors hold up months worth of work for arbitrary reasons, purposefully pushing past deadlines. Some even admit to it behind closed doors/in meetings. Toxic work places surely exist.
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To be clear, I am 100% in support of peer reviewed work as a SWE (PR's, external auditing, etc)... I'm just expressing that I've experienced the check/balances of peer reviewed work weaponized, typically to feign importance or as an unfair attempt to advance someone's career. I feel like it's just the human condition that some people will just take advantage.
Sorry to play devil's advocate, but pair programming is literally two people doing a job that has traditionally/historically been done by one person. There is no surprise this is going to cause raised eyebrows with management. Two devs sharing a keyboard is 100% going to be seen as two people fulfilling a single person's job to nearly anyone external to the role for obvious reasons.
Anecdotally, I'm a hobbyist and I've had to use higher price tiers throughout my entire time with Linode. The low-end VPS instances are insanely limited if you're looking to accomplish any sort of real work.
End of an era for me - I've been with Linode for over a decade due to their pricing and positive customer support experiences. And, truth is I haven't used their support for 4-5+ years so... easy decision.
Silver lining here - Hetzner's US datacenters couldn't have opened at a better time!
People are often really chill and kind about answering questions and love to help people who take a genuine interest in their work!
Also planning for my passing, I think it'll be easier for my SO to get into a simple web-based solution with my TFA scratch code if they need to handle any of my affairs vs. tracking down my KeePass file that would be behind disk encryption etc.
Like I said - used KeePass for years, and I love it to death. I have just moved on in my usage and needs =)
It was always in moderation. Typically only one drink, maybe two spread out over lots of time if we were fishing. He talked openly about keeping drinking in check. He even addressed alcoholism in our family history, admitting to keeping a close eye on his consumption due to those predispositions; stressing that I'd have to watch it too. Since I was a young kid who felt privileged sippin' on a Highlife I listened closely taking a lot away from those conversations.
Fast forward to HS/college... never drank in HS because it was primarily only losers who would drink at the time... and in college I was always the party nurse or DD because I wouldn't drink to get drunk - I just didn't see the point. Dad had took all of the novelty out of it for me.
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Kids who come from overly strict or controlling parents often have behavior and moderation issues once leaving the nest. Your #1 goal as a parent is to engage them and teach them how to navigate life in careful and healthy ways vs. trying to outright control their behavior. Hard truth is you're not always going to be there - my dad died when I was 14. Being an authoritarian doesn't give your kid a healthy mental framework to help them through life's complexities, you're only teaching them to be afraid of punishment and consequences.
The UIX of Bitwarden can be a bit meh at times but it's also boring, predictable, and solid. I'm just saying this as someone who hates save buttons in the upper-right hand corner of things - just... small nitpicky stuff like that. Sometimes I have to look for a button or their use of iconography confuses me a bit.
I would do my own hosting for a distributed password database but the older I get the less I trust myself to keep that stuff locked down and patched. Given the number of users I feel Bitwarden has more skin in the game to keep their solutions tight.
If you're not looking to self-host I can't recommend Bitwarden enough!
The line "because people don't often act on their beliefs" is what I found most egregious in regards to the automotive industry because, yeah - I think lots of people do purchase vehicles based on their beliefs (ideals). I shared some learned history and lived experience around that topic to rebut.
Not looking to change anyone's world view with my comment here. I don't think I'm too far out-of-line with I'm saying: many people do buy cars based on their ideals (beliefs).
In America, car culture is strongly correlated with identity. Ford said "They can have any color as long as it's black." His competitors capitalized on this mistake - people wanted colored cars. Since the 1920's colored cars are the norm.
Large trucks are often seen as an ideological alignment to the point that people advertise affiliations (political or otherwise) with bumper stickers, window stickers, tailgate wrappers, bed flags, etc. When I was looking for a Honda Accord my own brother pushed me to get a truck instead because it aligned more with "who I was as a man." Needless to say I rolled my eyes out of my head and bought my Honda Accord.
And, with Tesla. Many EV adopters I know get satisfaction from not needing/burning gas - it's why you get an EV. Very often part of that satisfaction is that they're choosing a more environmentally sustainable option, and there's a correlation with climate politics there.
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In my anecdotal lived experience, and with my limited understanding of automotive history, I really think there's a correlation with what car you drive and what your ideologies are, political or otherwise.
I think that any prudent CEO (or hell any other employee) would publicly shut the hell up right now. Part of Tesla's success is people ideologically hitching themselves to the EV bandwagon (and subsequently Musk). And, I think Musk getting spicy in the public forum is a bad thing for this all around... and apparently so do the shareholders.
It's a logistics and resources problem - libraries are: shelter, safety, heating/cooling, running water, restrooms, a place to sit... Truth is we don't afford that to everyone here and a lot of people ignore the cruelty/suffering. Hell - some even justify and celebrate it.
I get where you're coming from, and ultimately agree. But I doubt anyone at LastPass on the business side agrees - to them this is just another PR snafu. The business continues to chug along regardless of how many catastrophic breaches they go through. I think they see these numerous issues as a cost of doing business vs. having a critical broken product offering.
Again I agree, but, I doubt they're going to change their ways this late in the game.
I prefer lightweight tools that solve big problems while still staying small/simple. Alpine.js really hits that balance for me. The fact I'm able to drop it in without a single Node.js/etc build tooling is astounding (esbuild, rome, etc). I really prefer how it stays true to vanilla JS/general web development while also bringing modern attribute-driven reactivity to the table.
A perfect example is scope creep, which happens with all sorts of clients. And, as much as we all hate it as devs it's just the way the world works - stuff changes. Some clients will work with you to update the spec and make sure you're compensated for extra time, where others will just expect you to "roll with the punches" effectively working for free.
A personal anecdote of this was when a medium-size company switched payment processors half way through our contract. I was building a custom subscription experience over a 3-month timeline. I had already finished the specified payment parts when they came to me wanting to switch it out for another provider... When explaining that change would effect timeline, and that I would need to be paid for the extra labor they got very combative. I pushed back on them and they threatened to pull the entire contract, sue for the 50% up-front (if not reimbursed), and even heavily alluded to slandering me among other customers of mine in their niche industry. They strong-armed me into doing the work because it was either losing two weeks redoing payment processor integrations, or losing over two months of work and potentially taking a huge reputation hit.
Over the years they would reach out for new work, but I never contracted for that client ever again. Gotta pick 'em carefully and I don't tolerate abuse.
On a contrasting positive note... Other clients understand scope creep involves extra work, and even proactively offer to pay for the labor/update timelines. For these folks I will bend over backwards because of the respect.
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So back to the "rules change" and "people cheat" - 100% accurate. Not all clients are like this - but, you have to learn to gracefully handle and eventually cull the ones who are.
Cheers on the co-op ISP - that's outstanding and I wish more places did that. In so many ways that's living the dream!
I can't live without mine!
With major members of the C-suite turning over and his outright public aggression toward them I'd sure be concerned if I worked there.
Can't recommend it enough - it's so solid and no-nonsense!
What behavior?
You're spending the majority of your comment saying "great numbers" of these folks are claiming asylum in bad-faith. You imply "great numbers" of them are here to game/play the system. You call a "great number" of them liars. You imply that they're criminals (not acting lawfully).
> I applaud their efforts
No you don't. You're painting "great numbers" of these people out to be untrustworthy to the point of preemptively calling them criminals.
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> and the idea that all these people are 'acting lawfully' is not only factually incorrect I assert you KNOW it is factually incorrect and use it here as propaganda
Instead of asserting what I know, maybe provide sources for your argument. I take it as an outright aggression toward me that you posit I am spreading propaganda.
Regardless. I rebut:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2014704117
> We find that undocumented immigrants have substantially lower crime rates than native-born citizens and legal immigrants across a range of felony offenses. Relative to undocumented immigrants, US-born citizens are over 2 times more likely to be arrested for violent crimes, 2.5 times more likely to be arrested for drug crimes, and over 4 times more likely to be arrested for property crimes.
It's common sense that if you're looking to immigrate somewhere that you're not out there looking to break the law. Every study I have come across in regards to this seems to have similar outcomes. They know if they break the law they will likely be deported; and they typically act accordingly because they want to live, work, and raise their families in America.
I take great issue with you claiming I'm spreading propaganda. In good-faith I assure you, I am not.