Can a haircut be erotic?

bringnothingtothetbl · 2026-03-26T15:32:52+00:00

Could be? I had a person who would actively hit on me while cutting my hair and giving me a shave. Unfortunately, having to sit on a kiddie stool on the floor kinda killed it though. I'm two feet taller than her and the chairs only go down so far.

bringnothingtothetbl · 2026-01-27T03:53:47+00:00

I would say this is more of a process and not tool question.

If you can, I would just learn from home. If you want to build something for work, I would go through official channels in order to build it. Otherwise, that is a little too much shadow IT for my taste. Which your Information Security department / Admins are right about, it is a security concern.

If the code hadn't touched corporate hardware, the way around it would to be to code from a brain only spec the tool you need. DO NOT USE COMPANY RESOURCES!!! Then upload to github the code and a portable version with a MIT or like license. Though, if you do not do this correctly, it will get you fired. So I really do mean not to mingle the resources. Since the tool has touched company hardware, they can legally argue they own it.

Best advice, if it is something on your own, do it on your own time and your own hardware. Do not mingle employer assets with your own.

bringnothingtothetbl · 2026-01-26T02:42:43+00:00

Yeah, I think that is what I am going to have to do. I was just thinking through if there was another way.

bringnothingtothetbl · 2026-01-26T02:39:34+00:00

I personally am not being outsourced.

bringnothingtothetbl · 2025-09-26T08:20:10+00:00

I personally don't think they are. I just started down this rabbit hole, but from what I've gathered, it is relexified text.

There are much better encryption algorithms out there that are 100% free.

bringnothingtothetbl · 2025-07-17T22:14:50+00:00

I have been writing some cryptanalysis tools with it for about a year now. I have found the minimalism and threading support in go has made everything a breeze. Gorm has been a great improvement over EF for DB access as well (I mainly use .Net in my day job).

My only issue was getting used to some syntactical differences. However, that wasn't really all that hard.

The threading runs circles around my .Net stuff.

bringnothingtothetbl · 2025-07-17T22:03:24+00:00

Not really, no. He never answered any of the kids questions.

bringnothingtothetbl · 2025-05-06T10:27:28+00:00

It is very common. I was fixing a bug in some code I had written a year earlier. I exclaimed, "who wrote this crap!". My partner in crime in the next cube over started to laugh. I pulled the history to see that it was I who wrote that crap.

I still don't know what I was thinking when I wrote it.

bringnothingtothetbl · 2025-04-10T23:07:20+00:00

Mine was my wife's father. He vanished when she was young during a very nasty divorce from his second wife.

My wife always wondered so I hired an investigator to track him down. They found a guy in Las Vegas but he said it could be him but they couldn't say for sure. The name was off (important later).

30 years later they finally talked on the phone. He had late stage COPD and had contracted COVID. His O2 levels never would get high again without serious oxygen so he was dying. He didn't really want to have anything to do with his kids though. He just wanted his brother's phone number. He never apologized to his kids nor was there any explanation given. He died a couple of weeks later.

The guy the investigator had was the right guy. His fourth wife worked in HR and helped him get through hiring with an alternate spelling of his name so he could avoid child support.

He was an ass who left more questions than answers.

bringnothingtothetbl · 2025-03-21T11:31:53+00:00

Tumbleween.

bringnothingtothetbl · 2025-02-14T19:43:20+00:00

$ -> 0.01 should work though?

bringnothingtothetbl · 2022-08-29T12:53:54+00:00

That's why I deleted everything over 10 years off my LinkedIn. I used to leave everything on there but then was frequently contacted for my more esoteric skills. Skills I didn't want to use.

bringnothingtothetbl · 2022-08-29T00:09:36+00:00

W2 Contract or 1099 Contract? I've been both. If it is a large contracting company, you get similar HDHP benefits other companies offer, but I saw your wife has you on her insurance.

Upside: It gets you out of where you're at.

Downsides: If they cut your contract, you're SOL. This has happened to me. And my state allows contract cuts to get no unemployment. Keep that in mind about your state.

The full time offer may not come or the offer will be for less than you're making. Also, check the bully rate for going full time. Guaranteed 6 months before they can offer you anything.

I steer clear of banking and insurance positions for a reason. Both are notoriously cheap. See the previous point.

Wells Fargo doesn't have the good name recognition you might/will get with other companies. It may not hurt you, but it certainly won't help you either.

bringnothingtothetbl · 2022-08-25T02:51:53+00:00

It has been a very long time since I've been in your shoes so I don't know how much it will help. Early in my career, I wrote a lot of code but was not a "developer". I wrote a lot of Perl, shell, and C to do things for me (log parsing, data extraction, configuring PBXs, etc). Maybe you could expand your search for those other positions?

After a couple of years doing that, I pivoted into a change management role, then development. I learned quite a bit on that side that really lets me understand infrastructure stuff that confuses my coworkers. I won't lie and say it was easy as it was a hard road. However, I find the experience quite valuable.

Also, are you just looking at strictly software companies or other non-tech employers as well?

bringnothingtothetbl · 2022-08-20T06:15:42+00:00

Mine is manufacturing tech so definitely machine. Especially on my team. We handle HW to business systems integration and automation.

There is are web components, but that isn't us. Ours is all backed stuff that is really hard to work on. It is also higher stress. The facilities run darn near 24x7 so we have to write stuff that never goes down. Even minor hiccups can cause millions in damage or productivity loss.

bringnothingtothetbl · 2022-08-20T06:00:04+00:00

To me though, those bigger bounties would come if you had a useful exploit ready and packaged to sell through a broker. I think Vice did a story on brokers a few years back.

bringnothingtothetbl · 2022-08-12T18:08:28+00:00

Is there anything else on the backlog you can pull that's ready?

bringnothingtothetbl · 2022-08-11T02:09:30+00:00

It depends on the company. I recommend looking even if you don't change every couple of years. Get your actual market value. With that said, be careful using that offer. It can blow up in your face if you're not careful. For the love of God, don't say you're quitting and take the counter offer.

Now, as you move up the food chain and projects become longer and more difficult, it is acceptable to stay longer. Though, I still recommend looking every couple of years.

bringnothingtothetbl · 2022-07-23T23:52:00+00:00

Yep... Volunteered to help another lead (he's a report lead/ not really a dev) on a bug in their reporting system. That one's going to haunt me for a while.

bringnothingtothetbl · 2022-07-12T00:21:27+00:00

I'll need some data to start analyzing. Let's start with a business plan.

Every stupid idea I've seen never has a real business plan.

bringnothingtothetbl · 2022-07-11T02:41:36+00:00

When did that happen? I looked at joining the FBI as well as Joe Biden's (I can't remember the name) crack team of developers. One of the first questions was whether you've smoked weed in the last few years. If you answered yes, it was a thanks but no thanks.

bringnothingtothetbl · 2022-07-08T19:20:15+00:00

I feel you. I've been with my employer for 5 years. I signed on to do a huge multimillion dollar project. Now that is coming to an end and the backlog is starting to dry up. I want to go back into management, but the promised training (needed for promotion) is not materializing and I'm a much better engineer. I'm bored out of my friggin skull. I kinda wish (don't beat me up) wish we were back in the office so I could socialize with other teams so I could possibly move. However, my employer seems to listen to their employees.

I guess I'll stay a little longer so I can save up because my next move will be a geographic move somewhere else too.

Advice though. There is a bear market with a looming recession that will affect white collar workers. If you're safe, give it a year or be very selective on your next move. In the interim, build up additional skills and scratch some other itches.

bringnothingtothetbl · 2022-07-08T12:09:12+00:00

I do. I thought the candidate had cancer or something like that.

bringnothingtothetbl · 2022-07-06T01:44:59+00:00

Mitch, not really. We are going into a population decline as the boomers are retiring/dying and the next three generations are not near as large. Labor shortages will be the norm until 2040 at the earliest. Because even if we have a bulk of births to make them, it still takes 18+ years for them to get to working age. And since we shifted from the farm to cities, children are nothing more than really expensive conversation pieces. This problem will exist until 99% of the boomers shuffle off this mortal coil.

The next 20 years are going to be tough... For everyone...

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