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Kevin Mitnick P.E. posted:If your workplace is anything like mine, getting approval to spend $30 a month on this stuff would take more time than setting all of it up. I loved this about a past job of mine. Need $10K worth of hardware? FedEx will be here with it tomorrow. Need a $10/month account for some service that'd save $10K worth of developer time if you had to do it yourself? You'd have better luck asking for the Coca-Cola formula.
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CapEx vs OpEx. The trick to getting that second one is see if they offer to charge yearly and one time expense it each year.
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Nov 25, 2018 15:44
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My current team has its own P&L and our product makes a ton of money, so if I ask for something cheap that pays dividends like that, I typically get it ASAP. Having revenue directly attributable to your activities is a powerful weapon to wield against penny wise pound foolish corporate crap.
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Nov 25, 2018 16:06
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kitten smoothie posted:My current team has its own P&L and our product makes a ton of money, so if I ask for something cheap that pays dividends like that, I typically get it ASAP. The cost centre mentality is still alive and well in software.
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Nov 25, 2018 17:08
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AWS has CodeCommit that will be a lot, lot cheaper than hosting options for 1-10 developers and you won’t need to host anything yourself. In fact, it’s free for the first 5 active users and you get 10k commits / mo free with 50GB of storage. The primary downsides are related to webhooks and integrations with CI that most hosted solutions have. If you’re cheap and small, AWS and GCP are both solid contenders over the risks and time wasting of hosting anything yourself. In fact, I host most of my personal repos (dotfiles, personal projects too embarrassing to put on Github) in CodeCommit.
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Nov 25, 2018 19:59
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CodeCommit is pretty bad but if you already have an AWS account it's a very low-friction way to at the least stop running your own git server. I see it has pull requests now. That's something. The big problem where I work isn't money, it's legal and getting contracts approved. One absolutely essential (as in, without it we'd have half a product) contract renewal took three months to get approved by legal. Budget was already in place, had been in place all fiscal year, it was purely about getting the drat thing signed and faxed before the provider cut us off.
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Nov 26, 2018 04:16
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I used to get worked up about such practices but evidently that practice of waiting until the last possible minute to pay and getting extensions is really, really common even for financially solvent companies. It seems to be a widely understood practice to keep having to hassle your customers to pay and to require your vendors to hand you invoices with clear due dates and consequences. This is appears to be how every other corporate accountant earns a large part of their keep. American business always seems to have standard practices border upon near-criminal and completely rear end in a top hat practices. I’m not particularly convinced that it’s efficient beyond what it looks like on paper.
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Nov 26, 2018 16:25
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necrobobsledder posted:I used to get worked up about such practices but evidently that practice of waiting until the last possible minute to pay and getting extensions is really, really common even for financially solvent companies. It seems to be a widely understood practice to keep having to hassle your customers to pay and to require your vendors to hand you invoices with clear due dates and consequences. This is appears to be how every other corporate accountant earns a large part of their keep. One of the contractors I worked with used to put out invoices with 30 days to pay, but if you paid within a week he would give you a 5% discount. He almost always got paid immediately, which makes me jealous now that I’m contracting (record so far: 7 months).
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Nov 26, 2018 16:56
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Seat Safety Switch posted:One of the contractors I worked with used to put out invoices with 30 days to pay, but if you paid within a week he would give you a 5% discount. He almost always got paid immediately, which makes me jealous now that I’m contracting (record so far: 7 months).
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Nov 26, 2018 17:23
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necrobobsledder posted:American business always seems to have standard practices border upon near-criminal and completely rear end in a top hat practices. I’m not particularly convinced that it’s efficient beyond what it looks like on paper. Illegal rear end in a top hat business practices are 100% baked into the system. In America it definitely feels like the manager who never signs business contracts on time went to the same school as the Wolf of Wall Street guy. If they're not screwing things up to the point that they're violating basic sense if not the law, they don't feel like they're business-ing hard enough. poemdexter posted:Why would anyone want to use Jira when post-its are so much easier? The ability for companies to say they're going to use a whole Agile/Scrum-Jira/Kanban stack and then mess it up is the number one hilarity of this industry for me. Like the number of places who say they can't organize their tasks into columns. Even though the basic "to-do", "in progress" columns apply to basically anything.  "You want me to move a ticket to In Progress when I start working on that task!? Are you even speaking English!? I can't wrap my head around this extremely complex psychological puzzle. It's going to take my department at least 3 months to trial this difficult new workflow, at which time we'll admit we never actually tried it so we wasted not only our trial period but delayed this whole project by 3 months for no reason." -actual conversation with a client
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Nov 27, 2018 01:05
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CPColin posted:That's lunchtime what the hell You'll never see me hit the decline button any faster than that
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Nov 27, 2018 01:09
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CPColin posted:That's lunchtime what the hell It's slightly excusable if they're in another timezone booking 2-3PM and it's the only window on your calendar that day. Outside of those exact circumstances, lol
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Nov 27, 2018 01:19
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Nov 27, 2018 03:32
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My holiday advent calendar this year is deleting a dead feature a night through the end of 2018, and boy howdy are there enough to get me through e: this is also the best way to improve code coverage ratios Vulture Culture fucked around with this message at 06:07 on Nov 27, 2018 |
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Nov 27, 2018 06:03
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necrobobsledder posted:I used to get worked up about such practices but evidently that practice of waiting until the last possible minute to pay and getting extensions is really, really common even for financially solvent companies. It seems to be a widely understood practice to keep having to hassle your customers to pay and to require your vendors to hand you invoices with clear due dates and consequences. This is appears to be how every other corporate accountant earns a large part of their keep.
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Nov 27, 2018 07:35
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"I don't understand why we can't just embed this Angular app in a frame inside [insert large React product]". I mean yeah technically I could do it, but have you considered gently caress you, no I won't.
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Nov 27, 2018 07:56
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Aaronicon posted:"I don't understand why we can't just embed this Angular app in a frame inside [insert large React product]". anyone who's like "oh, let's just put something complicated in an iframe" hasn't been doing web dev for very long.
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Nov 27, 2018 08:05
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Xik posted:Or they've been doing it too long i could write a book about things that can go wrong with putting spas in iframes. it'd go like: chapter 1: wtf is document.domain=document.domain chapter 2: omg something went wrong in an iframe, how do i get the breakpoint to hit? chapter 3: onbeforeunload doesn't fire in an iframe, what do I do chapter 4: trying to figure out when the iframe is loaded chapter 5: handling localstorage events in iframes chapter 6: oh gently caress which frame is the code in my event handler running chapter 7: it's loving webdev just put everything in a try catch. chapter 8: don't embed pdfs and videos using iframes, use embed/video tags you stupid motherfuckers etc.
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Nov 27, 2018 09:05
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I have two recurring meetings on Monday and Wednesday from 11:30 to 1PM. Me and a few other coworkers set up a recurring lunch meeting so that nobody would schedule meetings during that time... management has lunchtime meetings the other days of the week.
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Nov 27, 2018 17:05
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Vulture Culture posted:My holiday advent calendar this year is deleting a dead feature a night through the end of 2018, and boy howdy are there enough to get me through 'Cause if you liked it you should have written tests for it
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https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/11/hacker-backdoors-widely-used-open-source-software-to-steal-bitcoin/
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Keetron posted:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/11/hacker-backdoors-widely-used-open-source-software-to-steal-bitcoin/ This is what happens when you rely on weekend projects by script kiddies for your entire ecosystem.
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Nov 28, 2018 17:32
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One of the QA folks on my team frequently gets caught "multitasking" during meetings (i.e., not paying attention). He keeps opening bugs for things that are explained in our various meetings and asking questions that are already answered earlier in the meeting. It was head scratching at first, and now it's just plain annoying. We covered this! You're the only one who's confused!
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Nov 28, 2018 18:38
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Protocol7 posted:One of the QA folks on my team frequently gets caught "multitasking" during meetings (i.e., not paying attention). We had a guy who would actually snore in meetings with the client. It took months to fire him.
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Nov 28, 2018 18:46
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Rubellavator posted:We had a guy who would actually snore in meetings with the client. It took months to fire him. Ugh. I don't know if he needs to be fired, but something needs to change. Like, he's got the right mindset of a QA person, but the memory span of a goldfish, to the point where sometimes when he says things you can just tell that everyone is thrown back and confused why he would ask that.
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Nov 28, 2018 18:52
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I don't understand how meetings are so awful. It seems like there should be universal rules to follow:
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Nov 28, 2018 18:59
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Rubellavator posted:We had a guy who would actually snore in meetings with the client. It took months to fire him. Was it this thread or the Corporate thread where someone didn't realize that their webcam was on, they just muted their sound instead of muting the microphone, then dropped trou and started masturbating while the rest of the horrified meeting yelled at him to stop? 
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Volmarias posted:Was it this thread or the Corporate thread where someone didn't realize that their webcam was on, they just muted their sound instead of muting the microphone, then dropped trou and started masturbating while the rest of the horrified meeting yelled at him to stop?  uh, I think it was a different thread and also lmao
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Man, I love getting grilled by coworkers when I'm removing entire functions. We're working on a feature to clean up a lot of tech debt, like COM code. So some portions of the application get removed as they are unused or replaced with newer managed .NET code. So why would we leave the unused classes and functions to support that in the codebase? The function already had a comment saying "this is unused", so I confirmed it by grepping through the code and checking references. It was truly unused. Why would you want to keep that?
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Nov 28, 2018 20:24
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Because it contains that cool code snippet from stack overflow that I'm sure I won't be able to find anymore. I don't understand what it does, but it looks cool and it works. Look, I'm just working here why do you make my life difficult?
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Protocol7 posted:Ugh. I don't know if he needs to be fired, but something needs to change. Like, he's got the right mindset of a QA person, but the memory span of a goldfish, to the point where sometimes when he says things you can just tell that everyone is thrown back and confused why he would ask that. I wonder if that guy's been stuck in some hurry-up-and-wait bug report management role for so long that it has wrecked his attention span.
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Nov 28, 2018 20:47
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CPColin posted:I don't understand how meetings are so awful. It seems like there should be universal rules to follow: As far as I can tell it's because the people doing all the talking like having an audience and usually are the ones that call the meeting and have hiring/firing power over everyone else there. There are tons of people who can only process information by saying it out loud to someone else. There also seems to be a subset of those people who want to believe that they are a "cool boss" who doesn't do "lame boss" things like "run boring meetings" with bullet points and clear agendas. Apparently Amazon, for all their faults, does a written agenda thing and actually sets aside like 10 minutes at the beginning of the meeting for everyone to silently read the agenda together.
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Nov 28, 2018 20:53
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vonnegutt posted:There are tons of people who can only process information by saying it out loud to someone else. I'm sure we've all had that person who always wants to have a phone call to verbally regurgitate the contents of an email, with zero additional details added by anyone on the call.
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redleader posted:I'm sure we've all had that person who always wants to have a phone call to verbally regurgitate the contents of an email, with zero additional details added by anyone on the call. My boss did this yesterday. A customer said they wanted us to add a new feature that could go in one of two directions. All we needed an answer to was, "Which direction?" but my boss scheduled a whole phone call for it, during which we had our answer within the first couple of minutes. Then my boss proceeded to tell the customer about how we want to refactor some code so new features could be shared more easily among all the customers and I wanted to give the "kill" sign, because what the gently caress that's not an appropriate topic.
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It baffles me how blasé our management is about sharing intimate details of our product with the people we're selling it to. No, I'm not taking a screenshot of our goddamned cloud infrastructure or putting together a class hierarchy diagram for a particularly noisy client. They're subscribing to our service, not buying a how-to guide to make their own. I'm a developer, why am I the gatekeeper of this poo poo?
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Che Delilas posted:No, I'm not taking a screenshot of our goddamned cloud infrastructure or putting together a class hierarchy diagram for a particularly noisy client. The volunteers at Experts Exchange tried to pull that one a couple times. "Let us look at the code and we'll help you fix the bugs we keep reporting!" (Never mind that we weren't fixing the bugs because they either weren't bugs or were just useless poo poo that only particularly picky assholes would care about.) I think they also asked why more Experts Exchange employees weren't asking work-related questions on the site. Turns out, we had been, all along, but 95% of the answers took a day to come in and were wrong anyway. (Didn't stop the executive management from listening to them and hassling us to eat our own dogfood, though.)
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Volmarias posted:Was it this thread or the Corporate thread where someone didn't realize that their webcam was on, they just muted their sound instead of muting the microphone, then dropped trou and started masturbating while the rest of the horrified meeting yelled at him to stop? One of our VPs recently told us a story how his former COO used to hold phone conference meetings from home. In the bathtub.
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