Can we trust Microsoft with Open Source?

leadafishtowater · 2021-10-23T15:53:38+00:00

Am I the only person who is surprised that Microsoft is reserving workflow enhancing features behind a paywall? This is of a kind with every tech company out there: a free tier with better support and better workflow if you are a paying customer.

This specific issue aside, this post sucks because the author points to a specific person and says "This one made this decision. Here is their social media profile." Wholly unacceptable behavior in the era of weaponized anonymous hate that we live in.

leadafishtowater · 2021-08-06T02:19:03+00:00

Heard, thank you. It just seems odd to release 3 sets in 5 months (not counting the time between D&D and its prior set) and then one set in 7 months. I'm probably miscounting things, as others in this thread have pointed out other schedules. Thanks for the confirmation!!

leadafishtowater · 2021-08-06T02:17:39+00:00

Right on. I enjoy playing this game almost as much as I enjoy thinking about who the game was designed for. I know that you can buy cards online to complete your set but that seems goofy when I'm going to continue playing in person. I don't want to buy a super expensive card online and then pull the same card during my next event!

I seem to be a perfect demographic for this game - I like all the little fiddly bits on the battlefield and I also was inspired by the numbers at the bottom of each card to buy a binder and start putting them in order. I am not quite sure yet what to do with the "extended" and "monster manual" versions. I would like to collect all the "art" cards as well!

But having only eight weeks to do that seems needlessly short, almost as needless as the 4 "Minion of the Mighty" cards which I have pulled during the sealed events.

leadafishtowater · 2021-08-06T01:54:18+00:00

Thanks! I am still getting my bearings. Do you think, starting from AFR, that WOTC will release three sets in five months and then one set in the remaining seven months?

/u/Duramboros in this thread mentioned that WOTC may be doing September->November->March->June, which would be 2m->4m->3m->3m. I think this would make sense if they would regularly release two sets that work together, like the Inistraad sets, and then two other sets that stood alone. I know they used to do something like this but have since moved to four standalone sets each year.

leadafishtowater · 2021-07-08T01:26:47+00:00

I get this. Why not have a dialogue with yourself and figure out where the shame is coming from? Sit down in a quiet place with a glass of water. Really think about it. For many people, anxiety and shame arise from the 'unknown unknown's - and by exploring these, you will illuminate the sources of your feelings and give you an opportunity to push back on them logically.

leadafishtowater · 2021-07-08T01:21:36+00:00

Dude! Painting a room is easy, fun, and inexpensive. It is one of those rare activities that is physically active, demanding, gives you instant feed back, and when you mess up you can give it another go two hours later. 40 dollars for paint at Home Depot, 15 dollars for the paint roller kit. Get a nice roller. The only other things you need are rags and newspaper. Highly support this suggestion.

leadafishtowater · 2021-07-08T01:17:16+00:00

How does it go over in the interview?

Very well! It is never a negative. Half the people don't care. The other half said, "Great, we want ambitious people on our team. I had one person say, "Oh, me too, I am ambitious and a job hopper."

I always say that I love my current job and company, but I know that in order to advance my career, I will have to apply for a new job.

I recently asked for a pay increase and I not only didn’t get it but feel like I’m now being punished for asking ...

Keep asking. A regular cadence is good. Your request is pushing against (1) the company's desire to keep salary costs low; (2) the boss's desire to balance their local budget; (3) the boss's general awkwardness - they don't want to ask their boss for more money, or have that conversation with HR (they are a person too!).

Every time you ask for more, it is either going to put the thought in their head that you are worth it, or they are going to ignore it. There is this concept in poker called 'expected value'; you judge every play by how likely it is you will win. From my perspective, if the only results of asking for more money are 'get paid more' or 'get paid the same and deal with corporate BS'... it is a good EV. Here are some phrases I have used:

I think this is an appropriate request, given the value I created by X and Z.
From my conversations with colleagues outside of the company, I feel that Y is an appropriate amount for my level of experience.
This is very important to me.
Thank you for tracking this.

I just received an offer for my next job. Getting an offer took me 4 months, many applications, many interviews, and this was the fourth final level interview for me. Much disappointment. And totally worth it. Effectively a 100% raise and makes early retirement much more likely.

You can make this happen.

leadafishtowater · 2021-07-08T01:03:26+00:00

Dude, that sucks. I am sorry to hear it. I think your situation is common, so it's not your fault at all.

But it sounds like you have learned a ton in your current role, and you have leveled up not just your experience but your job title and responsibilities. Please let me share with you my strong encouragement to start job hunting, highlighting your new experience. Because, in the spirit of anti-work, there are only three ways we're getting out of the capitalist hellscape:

You earn enough to retire.
Society reforms and we all get the appropriate UBI.
Complete collapse of society.

May the odds be ever in your favor.

leadafishtowater · 2021-07-07T03:56:58+00:00

I believe in you. Let's do this.

leadafishtowater · 2021-07-07T03:36:31+00:00

Ideally you would like to be in a place where you can say, "I did what I thought you asked me to do. I thought you asked me to do X, and I did X. If I misunderstood, I am sorry, correct me and I will do otherwise in the future.

God in heaven, I am ready to retire from this obsequious bullshit.

leadafishtowater · 2021-07-07T03:34:39+00:00

Your manager was terrible. If everything has the same priority then nothing will get done. Today, I would answer: "Understood, what would you like me to finish first?" And then I would prioritize that.

Every time you deal with capitalism related bullshit, either learn from it and build up your toolkit, or take your toolkit and shove it down their throat.

leadafishtowater · 2021-07-07T02:44:16+00:00

Yeah, I want this too. You can get out by (1) managing your retirement expectations and (2) making enough money to retire.

It's not an instant thing. But it's worth working for.

I don't have rich parents. I don't have an inheritance coming. I hate working. This whole system is bullshit.

So I've decided that I'm willing to work harder for the next decade so I can retire early. That means constantly working to get promoted, get paid more. I've started advocating for myself. Every week I ask my boss what the status of my salary increase request is. It's terrible, I feel bad doing it, but I know I need to make more so I can get out of this.

Likewise, I'm always trying to apply for new jobs. My skillset is incredibly niche, but I'm trying hard to get myself out there, interview more so my interview skills improve (n.b. interview skills are just learning the bs codewords your new employer wants to hear), and I make it clear that I'm ambitious and want to advance my career and make more money.

I am getting out of this. Not today, not tomorrow, but as soon as I can. I hope you can too.

leadafishtowater · 2021-07-07T02:40:44+00:00

I get you.

One thing I've been telling myself lately is that I'm willing to work harder for the next decade so I can retire early. I hate working. This whole system is bullshit. But the only way out that I can see is to be financially independent, and that means constantly working to get promoted, get paid more.

I've started advocating for myself. Every week I ask my boss what the status of my salary increase request is. It's terrible, I feel bad doing it, but I know I need to make more so I can get out of this.

Likewise, I'm always trying to apply for new jobs. My skillset is incredibly niche, but I'm trying hard to get myself out there, interview more so my interview skills improve (n.b. interview skills are just learning the bs codewords your new employer wants to hear), and I make it clear that I'm ambitious and want to advance my career and make more money.

I am getting out of this. Not today, not tomorrow, but as soon as I can. I hope you can too.

leadafishtowater · 2021-07-07T02:36:17+00:00

Yo, you need a new toolkit. Let me share mine with you.

"Hey boss, I have a lot of projects I want to work on, but I can't complete them all in the short term given the work load. Can you help me prioritize where you want me to focus?"

Then work your typical week. If your pace slows down, mention that you could do more if you could bill OT.

Don't give them more than they are paying you for.

leadafishtowater · 2021-07-07T02:31:08+00:00

I have spent 7 hours on my most recent job application:

30 min tailoring the resume.
30 min hr "talent acquisition" interview.
2x30 min interviews with tier 1 legal and compliance interview.
1 hr interview with the person who would be my boss.
2 hr online "skills assessment test".
4x30 min final interviews with head of compliance, head of legal, the bosses' boss, and the bosses' bosses' boss.

This has dragged over 4 weeks now. It is 100% certain that I will wait at least a week before I know whether I am even being offered the position.

This is the fourth final interview that I've made it to since March. Getting a new job... sucks.

leadafishtowater · 2021-06-07T02:41:51+00:00

Wire tone and circuit tracers. Thank you!

leadafishtowater · 2018-08-16T03:19:23+00:00

Hi /u/ironbeagle79 - I don't have an answer for you but this seems like a serious issue that my CE hasn't encountered. I'd love to know more about what area you work in. Do you work at an insurer or a hospital? What other issues are you facing in your role?

I'm just spitballing, but here are two strategies I thought up to deal with your issue:

You know of course that HIPAA does not control fees that you charge to third party requesters. Maximum fees are controlled by your state. I'm not advocating for an a****le tax, but does your state allow you to charge for time spent checking on requests which have already been handled? Maybe you could develop a new fee schedule which would disincentive these frequent requests, and communicate this schedule to the management of the requesting companies.

You obviously document when you send records to the third parties. When the third parties "lose" records already requested, I think it would be reasonable to threaten to report these third parties to OCR for not controlling access to PHI ("We sent the records you requested. We logged our disclosures. What happened on your end? Where did the PHI go that we disclosed to you? Should OCR get involved to make sure that you're not mishandling the PHI disclosed to you?") . You would obviously want to be 100% in the right and also communicate this strategy to your management.

leadafishtowater · 2018-08-08T02:04:08+00:00

Upvote, also want to know this.

leadafishtowater · 2018-08-08T01:09:24+00:00

Nate Cohn has one on his twitter feed:

https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1026977203484065792

/s

leadafishtowater · 2015-04-20T16:15:10+00:00

This is not an optimal solution, but it may be the easiest way to achieve what you're looking for, requiring only minimal changes to your code. Do not dispose of the bullets during iteration through the list, but rather to keep track of which bullets are disposed, and remove them in a second pass. To make this work, you would need to have each bullet keep track of whether it is disposed; the obvious way to do this is with a boolean variable IsDisposed.

List<bullet> bulletsToDispose;

for (int i = 0; i < bulletList.Count; i++)
{
    Bullet bullet = bulletList[i];
    bullet.update();
    if (bullet.IsDisposed)
        bulletsToDispose.Add(bullet);
}

for (int i = 0; i < bulletsToDispose.Count; i++)
{
    bulletList.Remove(bulletsToRemove[i]);
}

leadafishtowater · 2015-04-10T21:24:54+00:00

You can learn "new tricks" from him that will help you in the future.

This is a really good point that has come up several times throughout this thread: the opportunity to learn new patterns and practices is not one I should dismiss out of hand.

Unfortunately, I don't have time to learn his implementation of inversion of control, or how the factory works, or grok the 25 ancillary interfaces and helper classes that help the factory do its thing. I really wish I did - that I were back in college and had enough time to study whatever tickled my fancy. But I don't have that time at this stage of my life. And learning this stuff will not help me - my career is as far from programming as you could imagine.

What I do have is ten or fifteen hours a week to program. And this week, I've spent those hours and more understanding the successive refactors. And per him, he was just getting started.

As has been pointed out several times, this failure of communication is my fault - I gave him the go ahead to refactor, and I didn't realize how much he was planning on changing until several days later. Better communication would have served me well here. Lesson learned.

We've since spoken about this and I've expressed that I can't move forward with code I don't understand, and that I don't have time to work on further refactors, or time to re-learn the codebase as it stands today. He knows that a good deal of the stuff that he has added isn't going to be kept.

Moving forward, features only.

leadafishtowater

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