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- checksums.yaml +4 -4
- data/Manifest.txt +36 -7
- data/README.md +145 -10
- data/Rakefile +1 -1
- data/lib/feedparser.rb +3 -0
- data/lib/feedparser/author.rb +39 -0
- data/lib/feedparser/builder/atom.rb +64 -17
- data/lib/feedparser/builder/json.rb +46 -10
- data/lib/feedparser/builder/rss.rb +94 -15
- data/lib/feedparser/feed.rb +30 -6
- data/lib/feedparser/generator.rb +34 -0
- data/lib/feedparser/item.rb +31 -6
- data/lib/feedparser/tag.rb +23 -0
- data/lib/feedparser/version.rb +2 -2
- data/test/feeds/books/nostarch.rss +125 -0
- data/test/feeds/books/oreilly.feedburner.atom +387 -0
- data/test/feeds/books/pragprog.rss +148 -0
- data/test/feeds/byparker.json +4 -4
- data/test/feeds/daringfireball.atom +8 -1
- data/test/feeds/daringfireball.json +28 -0
- data/test/feeds/googlegroups.atom +2 -2
- data/test/feeds/googlegroups2.atom +1 -1
- data/test/feeds/headius.atom +6 -5
- data/test/feeds/inessential.json +13 -4
- data/test/feeds/jsonfeed.json +8 -3
- data/test/feeds/{lambdatheultimate.rss2 → lambdatheultimate.rss} +0 -0
- data/test/feeds/{learnenough.atom → learnenough.feedburner.atom} +12 -9
- data/test/feeds/news/nytimes-blogs-bits.rss +333 -0
- data/test/feeds/news/nytimes-paul-krugman.rss +60 -0
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- data/test/feeds/news/nytimes-thomas-l-friedman.rss +80 -0
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- data/test/feeds/news/washingtonpost-blogs-innovations.rss +183 -0
- data/test/feeds/news/washingtonpost-politics.rss +35 -0
- data/test/feeds/news/washingtonpost-world.rss +29 -0
- data/test/feeds/ongoing.atom +1619 -0
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- data/test/feeds/osm/blogs.openstreetmap.rss +585 -0
- data/test/feeds/osm/mapbox.rss +1883 -0
- data/test/feeds/{railstutorial.atom → railstutorial.feedburner.atom} +28 -27
- data/test/feeds/{rubyflow.rss2 → rubyflow.feedburner.rss} +7 -3
- data/test/feeds/{rubymine.rss2 → rubymine.feedburner.rss} +5 -6
- data/test/feeds/scripting.rss +881 -0
- data/test/feeds/{sitepoint.rss2 → sitepoint.rss} +8 -9
- data/test/feeds/spec/atom/author.atom +48 -0
- data/test/feeds/spec/atom/authors.atom +70 -0
- data/test/feeds/spec/atom/categories.atom +66 -0
- data/test/feeds/spec/json/microblog.json +11 -2
- data/test/feeds/spec/json/tags.json +33 -0
- data/test/feeds/spec/rss/author.rss +41 -0
- data/test/feeds/spec/rss/categories.rss +64 -0
- data/test/feeds/spec/rss/creator.rss +38 -0
- data/test/feeds/{xkcd.rss2 → xkcd.rss} +0 -0
- data/test/helper.rb +21 -16
- data/test/test_atom.rb +1 -1
- data/test/test_atom_live.rb +1 -1
- data/test/test_authors.rb +26 -0
- data/test/test_books.rb +25 -0
- data/test/test_feeds.rb +4 -2
- data/test/test_rss.rb +4 -4
- data/test/test_tags.rb +25 -0
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AI: 2, Humanity: 0. A computer designed by Google researchers has beaten the world’s top Go player for the second game in a row, capturing the best-of-three match in Wuzhen, China, and confirming AI’s supremacy in what many consider as one of humanity’s most complex boardgames. Ke Jie, a 19-year old Go grandmaster, began the […]]]></description>
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One of the world’s most avid collectors would love to get his hands on an exclusive Apple product that the company isn’t selling. What Scott Wiener is after is a pizza box. The wider world became aware of the circular carrier with a perforated lid after it was mentioned briefly in a recent Wired article about Apple Park, the Silicon Valley giant’s new […]]]></description>
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Twenty years ago, when the commercial Internet was just a handful of static Web pages and links, I started a list of predictions that have since proved very, very wrong: “No one will ever buy a car on the Internet.” “Our customers aren’t interested in trading stocks online — that’s what they pay us to […]]]></description>
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Lindsey Graham: Comey needs to be 'held accountable' over Clinton investigation decisions]]></title> <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/05/28/sen-lindsey-graham-comey-needs-to-be-held-accountable-over-clinton-investigation-decisions/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Kane]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The GOP senator said he wants to review a document that influenced the then-FBI director's handling of the probe.]]></description><media:thumbnail url="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/03/12/Editorial-Opinion/Images/310871466_0-6.jpg" width="606"/> <media:group> <media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_90w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/03/12/Editorial-Opinion/Images/310871466_0-6.jpg" width="90"/> <media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/03/12/Editorial-Opinion/Images/310871466_0-6.jpg" width="606"/> <media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_1024w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/03/12/Editorial-Opinion/Images/310871466_0-6.jpg" width="1024"/> </media:group><guid><![CDATA[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/05/28/sen-lindsey-graham-comey-needs-to-be-held-accountable-over-clinton-investigation-decisions/]]></guid> </item><item> <title><![CDATA[Homeland security chief defends Kushner’s alleged proposal for ‘back channel’]]></title> <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/kelly-schiff-react-to-kushners-communication-with-russian-envoy/2017/05/28/4cf8ea0a-43c1-11e7-8de1-cec59a9bf4b1_video.html</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Kane]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Homeland Security Secretary John F. 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<item> <title><![CDATA[Constantine Mitsotakis, conservative Greek prime minister, dies at 98]]></title> <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/constantine-mitsotakis-conservative-greek-prime-minister-dies-at-98/2017/05/29/a69c615a-4488-11e7-98cd-af64b4fe2dfc_story.html</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Demetris Nellas]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[He was a stalwart of Greek politics for 60 years — and a divisive figure in the country.]]></description><media:thumbnail url="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/05/29/Obituaries/Images/Greece_Obit_Mitsotakis_41958-0a473-0936.jpg" width="606"/> <media:group> <media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_90w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/05/29/Obituaries/Images/Greece_Obit_Mitsotakis_41958-0a473-0936.jpg" width="90"/> <media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/05/29/Obituaries/Images/Greece_Obit_Mitsotakis_41958-0a473-0936.jpg" width="606"/> <media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_1024w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/05/29/Obituaries/Images/Greece_Obit_Mitsotakis_41958-0a473-0936.jpg" width="1024"/> </media:group><guid><![CDATA[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/constantine-mitsotakis-conservative-greek-prime-minister-dies-at-98/2017/05/29/a69c615a-4488-11e7-98cd-af64b4fe2dfc_story.html]]></guid> <wp:uuid><![CDATA[a69c615a-4488-11e7-98cd-af64b4fe2dfc]]></wp:uuid></item><item> <title><![CDATA[In Kabul, a sidewalk cobbler repairs more than shoes]]></title> <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/in-kabul-asidewalk-cobbler-repairs-more-than-shoes/2017/05/27/0081032a-4096-11e7-b29f-f40ffced2ddb_story.html</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Pamela Constable]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[War-weary neighbors stop by Ramzan Haidary’s tiny workshop to chat and commiserate.]]></description><media:thumbnail url="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/05/28/Others/Images/2017-05-26/horizontal-cobbler-security.JPG" width="606"/> <media:group> <media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_90w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/05/28/Others/Images/2017-05-26/horizontal-cobbler-security.JPG" width="90"/> <media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/05/28/Others/Images/2017-05-26/horizontal-cobbler-security.JPG" width="606"/> <media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_1024w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/05/28/Others/Images/2017-05-26/horizontal-cobbler-security.JPG" width="1024"/> </media:group><guid><![CDATA[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/in-kabul-asidewalk-cobbler-repairs-more-than-shoes/2017/05/27/0081032a-4096-11e7-b29f-f40ffced2ddb_story.html]]></guid> <wp:uuid><![CDATA[0081032a-4096-11e7-b29f-f40ffced2ddb]]></wp:uuid></item><item> <title><![CDATA[North Korea’s latest ballistic missile launch lands in Japan’s economic zone]]></title> <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/north-koreas-latest-ballistic-missile-launch-lands-in-the-sea-of-japan/2017/05/28/cb072e0e-43f6-11e7-a196-a1bb629f64cb_story.html</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Fifield]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[North Korea launched a new short-range ballistic missile, similar to a Scud, on Monday morning, and it flew about 280 miles to land inside Japan’s exclusive economic zone. 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reject U.S. claim that ISIS stored explosives in building leveled in airstrike]]></title> <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/mosul-neighbors-refute-us-claim-that-isis-stored-explosives-in-building-leveled-in-airstrike/2017/05/26/305d894c-4226-11e7-b29f-f40ffced2ddb_story.html</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Gibbons-Neff]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“There were no explosives,” says a man who lives across the street from the site where the three-story structure was destroyed, killing 105 civilians.]]></description><media:thumbnail url="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/05/26/Production/Daily/A-Section/Images/Iraq_Mosul_Probe_40368-0c7d9.jpg" width="606"/> <media:group> <media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_90w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/05/26/Production/Daily/A-Section/Images/Iraq_Mosul_Probe_40368-0c7d9.jpg" width="90"/> <media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" 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<summary type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Not alone and not un­read, but the ground un­der­foot ain’t steady. An in­stance of <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_economicus'><i>Ho­mo eco­nomi­cus</i></a> wouldn’t be do­ing this<span class="dashes">  —</span>  no pay­day loom­ing. So I guess I’m not one of those. But hey, when­ev­er I can steal an hour I can send the world what­ev­er words and pic­tures oc­cu­py my mind and lap­top. Which, all these years lat­er, still feels like im­mense priv­i­lege.</div></summary>
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words and pictures occupy my mind and laptop. Which, all these years later,
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still feels like immense privilege.</p>
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<i>check</i>. Follow your faves: <i>check</i>. But on my phone, an irritating
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goober at the screen’s foot says “open in app”, trying to tempt me out of the
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of the economists’ debates that are worth having. Or I can check out a new
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<summary type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>I was in New York last week, and got to make a call on <a href='http://www.mlbam.com/'>MLBAM</a>, a re­al­ly smart cus­tomer of AWS, where I work. The first three let­ters in MLBAM mean base­bal­l, of which I’m a <a href='/ongoing/What/Sports/Baseball'>devo­tee</a>; and al­so a hap­py five-year sub­scrib­ing cus­tomer of <a href='http://mlb.tv/'>MLB.tv</a>. So I was feel­ing sort of multi-level fan­nish. It was super-fun, and I got a cute pic­ture.</div></summary>
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<summary type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Here­with some re­portage on the most in­ter­est­ing cam­eras in the world, with opin­ions to pro­voke er en­ter­tain peo­ple who are up on this stuff, and a ba­sic sur­vey of the land­scape for peo­ple who like pic­tures and won­der about cam­eras.</div></summary>
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too many advantages.</p></li>
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size: Why does it matter and exactly how big are they?</a> But it’s from 2013
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nice effect where your subject is sharp and the background is fuzzy (see the
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these days, share and enjoy pictures on screens, and only on screens.
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resolution. So I already can’t display all the pixels from my Pixel.</p>
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<a href="/ongoing/When/201x/2012/08/15/Dreampeaks">from an airplane</a>.</p>
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needs. Which is to say, the quality of your pictures will depend mostly on
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your ability to see the opportunities.</p>
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pictures in a rainstorm.
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knobs and dials are</a>, and how they work, and how things look through the
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<summary type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Or should be that be JsonPath? What­ev­er, it’s a tool I’ve been us­ing late­ly and gen­er­al­ly like. But it could use a lit­tle work.</div></summary>
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<p>Or should be that be JsonPath?
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Whatever, it’s a tool I’ve been using lately and generally like.
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But it could use a little work.</p>
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Procesing</a>) to solve a tricky problem in a way that people seem to find
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easy to understand and use.</p>
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and it seems to mostly Just Work.</p>
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<p>But, we’ve had a few questions from customer along the lines of “Your
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service rejected my InputPath, but it looks OK to me.”</p>
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<p>Which raises the question: What is a legal JsonPath, anyhow?</p>
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would be Stefan Goessner’s
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JSON</a>. Standards wonks will sneer at it, not a shred of BNF in sight. But
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I like it, because it applies the most important lesson from Mark Pilgrim’s immortal
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<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20051016203842/http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/08/16/specs">Morons
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and Assholes</a> essay: Have lots of examples.</p>
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<p>Having said that, it’s kind of skinny. And if you go back to that
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start scrolling the README.md, well, you can keep scrolling and scrolling, and
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there’s a lot of goodness there.</p>
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<p>But still, is <code>$.blog-entry</code> a valid JSONPath? Or should you
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have to say <code>$['blog-entry']</code>? Because <i>blog-entry</i> is not,
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after all, a JavaScript “Name” construct.</p>
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<p>For the purposes of AWS Step Functions, JsonPath means what Jayway says it
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means. But I’d be happier if there were an RFC or something because, good as
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Java.</p>
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<p>So, an RFC maybe? The idea’s not crazy.</p>
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<h2 id='p-1'>Capitalization</h2>
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<p>Let me settle one dispute right here: Stefan Goessner says “JSONPath”, Jayway
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says “JsonPath”. Stefan’s right, because it’s called JSON not Json, and by
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the analogy with XPath.</p>
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<title>IsItOnAWS Lessons</title>
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<updated>2017-03-29T23:56:46-07:00</updated>
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<summary type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>I did some <a href='https://github.com/awslabs/IsItOnAWS'>recre­ation­al pro­gram­ming</a> over Christ­mas and the blog I wrote about it is now <a href='https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/is-it-on-aws-domain-identification-using-aws-lambda/'>guest­ing in Jeff Barr’s space</a> for your amuse­men­t; try the soft­ware at <a href='https://isitonaws.com'>IsItOnAWS.­com</a>. What I didn’t do there was re­lay the lessons I picked up along the way; one or two are around AWS, but most fol­low from this be­ing my first non­triv­ial ex­pe­di­tion in­to the land of NodeJS. So (ac­knowl­edg­ing that on­ly 0.8% of my pro­fes­sion aren’t al­ready Nodester­s), here they are. Spoil­er: I don’t like Node very much.</div></summary>
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<p>I did some
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<a href="https://github.com/awslabs/IsItOnAWS">recreational programming</a> over Christmas and the blog I wrote
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about it is now
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<a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/is-it-on-aws-domain-identification-using-aws-lambda/">guesting in Jeff Barr’s space</a>
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for your amusement; try the software at
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<a href="https://isitonaws.com">IsItOnAWS.com</a>.
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What I didn’t do there was relay the lessons I picked up
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along the way; one or two are around AWS, but most follow from this being my
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first nontrivial expedition into the land of NodeJS. So (acknowledging that only 0.8% of my
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profession aren’t already Nodesters), here they are.
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Spoiler: I don’t like Node very much.</p>
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<p><span class="lesson">Lesson:</span> Lambda has historically been used for
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behind-the-scenes work. But with the recent arrival of new
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<a href="https://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway/">API Gateway</a> and
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<a href="https://aws.amazon.com/certificate-manager/">Certificate
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Manager</a> goodies, it’s become pretty easy to convince a function to serve
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HTTP requests pointed at your own web-space. Will this be a popular idiom?
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Beats me.</p>
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<p><span class="lesson">Lesson:</span> I can now work with Node’s
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everything-is-a-callback worldview, but still, at the end of the day I think it’s
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wrong. What I want to do is fetch data, then process
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data, then write data, and if a damn computer language can’t give
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me a sequential abstraction when I want to do sequential things, well
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screw it.</p>
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<p>Yeah, I acknowledge the kozmick performance gains Node
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achieves, even when living in a single-threaded environment, by pushing
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developers into callback-or-die territory, but you know, there are things
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like pre-emptive multitasking and thread pools that should let the system
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interleave IO and compute for performance without making me worry my pretty
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little head over it.</p>
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<p>Having said that, async/waterfall is a straightforward way to
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remediate the damage.</p>
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<hr/>
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<p><span class="lesson">Lesson:</span> Node provides a very
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serviceable little JavaScript REPL on my Mac. There is no programmer on whose
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life JavaScript doesn’t impinge sometimes, and a command line is awfully
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helpful in exploring array combinatorics and related weirdness.js.</p>
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<hr/>
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<p><span class="lesson">Lesson:</span> Constructing a zip was pretty easy with
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<a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/jszip">jszip</a>. Except for, despite
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the fact that a zip is a bunch of bytes, jszip insisted on emitting a
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<a href="https://nodejs.org/api/stream.html">Node Stream</a>. But it seems
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that NPM generally contains correctives for its misfeatures, in this case
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<a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/raw-body">raw-body</a>.</p>
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<hr/>
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<p><span class="lesson">Lesson:</span> Node’s HTTP-fetch
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function is kind of dumb and clumsy. Every language should have a one-liner
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that says “Here’s a URL, gimme back an object with the content-type and the
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response body’s bytes, or let me know if you can’t.” Of the languages I’ve
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used in recent years, only Go and Ruby do.</p>
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<hr/>
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<p><span class="lesson">Lesson:</span> Upon publishing this,
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I will receive much pitying feedback along the lines of “Well <em>of
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course</em> you could have done it in a one-liner using
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TheNewHotness.js.” And also pointing out many other better ways to have
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done this using things my Internet search skills were insufficiently
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advanced to discover. Draw your own conclusion.</p>
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<hr/>
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<p><span class="lesson">Lesson:</span> The IPv6 address-literal
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syntax is <a href="https://www.zerotier.com/blog/?p=724">stupidly
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human-hostile</a>.</p>
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<hr/>
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<p><span class="lesson">Lesson:</span> NPM has at least one of
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everything you can possibly imagine.</p>
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<hr/>
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<p><span class="lesson">Lesson:</span> NPM dependencies are a
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fulminating cancerous mess. This little Lambda that runs when the JSON
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updates needs <em>fifteen freaking megabytes</em> in its node_module
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directory, and the zip is like 2.5M.
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For the little function that actually handles the IsItOnAWS requests, I
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consciously tried to keep the dependencies down, but I still ended up
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needing <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/async">async</a>,
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<a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/ipaddr.js">ipaddr.js</a>
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<a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/lodash">lodash</a>, and
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<a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/sprintf-js">sprintf-js</a>
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for another 2½ meg.
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Feaugh. What’s a “lodash”, anyhow?</p>
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<hr/>
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<p><span class="lesson">Lesson:</span> The Lambda and S3 APIs
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are minimal, sensible, and well-integrated into Node’s
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resistence-is-futile you-will-learn-to-love-callbacks paradigm.</p>
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<hr/>
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<p><span class="lesson">Lesson:</span> The best Node code is
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<a href="https://github.com/yoshuawuyts/tiny-guide-to-non-fancy-node/blob/master/README.md">Non
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Fancy Node</a>.</p>
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<p><span class="lesson">Lesson:</span> The
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<a href="https://github.com/substack/tape">tape</a> unit-test
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harness Just Worked for me out of the box, had a nearly-zero learning
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curve, and was minimally intrusive. I’m a fan.</p>
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<title>Contradictions</title>
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<link href='https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/03/27/Contradictions' />
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<published>2017-03-27T12:00:00-07:00</published>
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<updated>2017-03-27T23:39:36-07:00</updated>
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<category scheme='https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='The World/Politics' />
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<category scheme='https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='The World' />
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<summary type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Back when <a href='/ongoing/When/200x/2005/05/01/May-1'>I was an ac­tu­al Marx­ist</a>, we used to talk about the “contradictions of capitalism”. It’s ac­tu­al­ly a handy phrase (al­lit­er­a­tive too!) and re­cent­ly I feel like the In­ter­net is try­ing to stuff those con­tra­dic­tions down my throat.</div></summary>
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<content type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
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<p>Back when
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<a href="/ongoing/When/200x/2005/05/01/May-1">I was an actual Marxist</a>, we used to talk about the
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“contradictions of capitalism”. It’s actually a handy phrase (alliterative
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too!) and recently I feel like the Internet
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is trying to stuff those contradictions down my throat.</p>
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<h2 id='p-1'>Fish in a barrel</h2>
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<p>It’s not exactly hard to reel them off. <i>Item:</i> The owners of every
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business are incented to pay their employees as little as possible, but need
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their customers to have spare money in their pockets. <i>Item:</i> Prosperity
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depends on growth, everyone knows that; but we’re using our ecosystem fully
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and population curves around the world range from flattening growth to
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steepening decline.</p>
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<p>See how easy it is?</p>
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<h2 id='p-2'>Engagement in the clouds</h2>
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<p>Two pieces crossed my radar recently. First, Gartner recently released its annual
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<a href="http://www.gallup.com/reports/199961/state-american-workplace-report-2017.aspx">State
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of the American Workplace</a> report, a weighty slab of PDF you have to trade
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your email address for, but
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there’s a decent
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<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-reasons-why-gallup-believes-workplace-leadership-demands-crowley">summary with some
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graphs</a> over on LinkedIn.</p>
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<p>The news isn’t good. It turns out
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that that only about 30% of American employees are “engaged”; of the rest, 50%
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or so are “disengaged” and 16% are “actively disengaged”. And there’s loads
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of quantitative data to show that lack of engagement correlates with lack of
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growth, profits, and other good-biz metrics.</p>
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<p>Put another way: Scott Adams may be
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an annoying weaselly troll, but <cite>Dilbert</cite> is accurate
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reportage.</p>
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<p>Now cast your eyes at
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<a href="http://avc.com/2017/02/the-future-of-labor/">The Future Of Labor</a>
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by Fred Wilson, New York VC and Thought Leader; he discusses “three big
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megatrends impacting the future of labor/work”, one of which is “ the move to
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an on demand model for work”. He envisions a future where, when a business
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needs something done, “they issue the work order to the labor cloud and
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someone picks up the work order and gets it done.” This allows the business
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“to get the work done without thinking about the kind of relationship they
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have with the worker.”</p>
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<p>Obviously, no sane manager should expect “engagement” from the denizens of
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the “labor cloud”, any more than they can from the growing chunk of the
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population working for low pay in permanent-part-time mode. See?
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Contradiction!</p>
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<h2 id='p-3'>Hunger</h2>
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<p>You want <em>real</em> contradiction? How about
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<a href="https://www.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-hunger-us">11 Facts
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About Hunger in the US</a>. The US, you know, Earth’s richest nation. Where
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17.5 million households are “food insecure”.</p>
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<p>I don’t miss Marxism as a framework, but let’s not kid ourselves that the
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symptoms it was trying to address are behind us.</p>
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<title>Garage Color Fix</title>
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<link href='https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/03/21/Garage-Color' />
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<id>https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/03/21/Garage-Color</id>
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<summary type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>I was out the oth­er day <a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2017/03/18/Prairie-Spring'>shoot­ing signs of spring</a>; there was this garage, and it was pret­ty too.</div></summary>
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<content type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
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<p>I was out the other day
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<a href="/ongoing/When/201x/2017/03/18/Prairie-Spring">shooting signs of
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spring</a>; there was this garage, and it was pretty too.</p>
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<img src="https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/03/21/garage-fixed.png" alt="Regina, Saskatchewan garage in color-corrected light turquoise" />
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<div class='caption'><p>Color partly by some paint company, augmented by
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<br/>quite a few years of Prairie weather. Isn’t it pretty?</p></div>
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<p>The reason I’m writing this is that it’s the first time in years I’ve had
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to put significant work into color repair on a Fujifilm pic.
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Because the version above looks just like what I saw. But out of
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the camera, it looked like this:</p>
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<img src="https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/03/21/garage-fixed-2.png" alt="Regina, Saskatchewan garage in light turquoise, no color correction" />
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<p>Back in my Pentax days, I got pretty slick with the Lightroom
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white-balance apparatus, which is itself pretty slick. But in my four
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Fujifilm years I’m not sure I’ve touched them.</p>
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<p>Well, I did on that one. It didn’t work; I found another way:</p>
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<ol>
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<li><p>White balance: as shot.</p></li>
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<li><p>Exposure: -0.25 (fight that glare).</p></li>
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<li><p>Highlights: -15 (fight some more).</p></li>
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<li><p>Shadows: +10 (boost the shady side).</p></li>
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<li><p>Saturation: +33 (the colors weren’t <em>wrong</em>, they were just
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washed-out).</p></li>
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<li><p>Blue: -20 (sky was overexcited).
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At this point things were better but still not what I’d seen.
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Time for the secret weapon.</p></li>
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<li><p>Profile: Velvia/VIVID (smiles).</p></li>
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</ol>
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<p>I don’t know who it was at Fujifilm and Adobe that got those film
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treatments into Lightroom, but I sure owe them thanks. I don’t use one that
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often, but so great to have it.</p>
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</div></content></entry>
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<title>Prairie Spring</title>
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<link href='https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/03/18/Prairie-Spring' />
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<link rel='replies' thr:count='1' type='application/xhtml+xml' href='/ongoing/When/201x/2017/03/18/Prairie-Spring#comments' />
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<updated>2017-03-18T09:44:18-07:00</updated>
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<summary type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Most places know four sea­son­s, but for the most in­tense ex­pe­ri­ence of spring you re­al­ly come Up North. I’m in Saskatchewan vis­it­ing my Mom, went for a short walk in the park be­hind her house, and came back with pic­tures of the ex­pe­ri­ence.</div></summary>
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<p>Most places know four seasons, but for the most intense experience of
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spring you really come Up North. I’m in Saskatchewan
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visiting my Mom, went for a short walk in the park behind her house, and came
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back with pictures of the experience.</p>
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<p>Most obviously, the snow is retreating.</p>
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<img src="https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/03/18/FXT18982.png" alt="Prairie spring - retreating snow" />
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<p>With the melting and freezing of early spring, some of the snow is now
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crumbly puddled ice, which is melting in the cold March sun, and faster given
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an excuse.</p>
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<img src="https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/03/18/FXT18987.png" alt="Leaf melts spring ice in the prairie spring" />
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<p>An excuse for a little Physics Moment with my
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ten-year-old: “Hey girl, why did the ice melt over the leaf?”</p>
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<p>But that ice is being attacked from below as above; see the blades of grass
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straining away? Some green is already showing.</p>
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<img src="https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/03/18/FXT18990.png" alt="Prairie ice melting in spring" />
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<p>That ice, it’s a treat for the eye as it melts.</p>
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<img src="https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/03/18/FXT18993.png" alt="Melting snow on the prairies in spring" />
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<p>Having said that, it’s still not much above 0°C and there’s a brisk wind.
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But at 50.45° N, the oncoming spring is not to be denied.</p>
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<entry>
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<title>Whiteboard Interviews</title>
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<link href='https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/03/04/Whiteboard-Interviews' />
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<id>https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/03/04/Whiteboard-Interviews</id>
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<published>2017-03-04T12:00:00-08:00</published>
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<updated>2017-03-04T11:51:02-08:00</updated>
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<summary type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>The oth­er day, I joined a semi-viral tweet chain with <a href='https://twitter.com/timbray/status/836009408131837952'>I’ve been cod­ing since 1979 and I still have to look up java.lang.String meth­ods all the time.</a> There were a bunch of pro­gram­mers do­ing this and I thought it con­sti­tut­ed amus­ing hu­mil­i­ty while al­so mak­ing a use­ful point: Re­mem­ber­ing the de­tails of any par­tic­u­lar API or al­go­rithm is ir­rel­e­van­t. Turns out I was part of a trend, see <cite>TheOut­line</cite>: <a href='https://theoutline.com/post/1166/programmers-are-confessing-their-coding-sins-to-protest-a-broken-job-interview-process'>Pro­gram­mers Are Con­fess­ing Their Cod­ing Sins to Protest a Bro­ken Job In­ter­view Pro­cess</a>. Ex­cept for, that’s bull­shit; I still do white­boards at in­ter­views, and I don’t think the idea is bro­ken. (Al­so, they’re not sin­s.)</div></summary>
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<content type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
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<p>The other day, I joined a semi-viral tweet chain with
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<a href="https://twitter.com/timbray/status/836009408131837952">I’ve been
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coding since 1979 and I still have to look up java.lang.String methods all the
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time.</a> There were a bunch of programmers doing this and I thought it
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constituted amusing humility while also making a useful point: Remembering the
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details of any particular API or algorithm is irrelevant. Turns out I was
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part of a trend, see <cite>TheOutline</cite>:
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<a href="https://theoutline.com/post/1166/programmers-are-confessing-their-coding-sins-to-protest-a-broken-job-interview-process">Programmers Are Confessing Their Coding Sins to Protest a Broken Job Interview Process</a>.
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Except for, that’s bullshit; I still do whiteboards at interviews, and I don’t
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think the idea is broken. (Also, they’re not sins.)</p>
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<p>Does this mean I ask people to code a bubble sort? Or to show any evidence
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that they remember the details of any particular API? Obviously not: As many
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have pointed out, that’s what Wikipedia, StackOverflow, and (most often) my
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IDE’s auto-complete are for.</p>
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<p>These days, when I’m interviewing for senior-developer and
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development-manager positions at AWS, my questions are of the form “Design X”,
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where X is something like Twitter or SQS. The whiteboard is an
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appropriate level of detail; I want to look at the boxes and arrows they
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draw and see if they come up with a sane decomposition of the problem, and if they spot
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where the hard parts are. Sometimes, if there’s enough time, I might ask them
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to sketch in a bit of front-end code, but usually not.</p>
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<p>Back when I was at Google, I was mostly interviewing people for “Developer
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Advocate” positions, and a lot of people somehow got into the process without
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being able to code at all. So, early on, I’d ask. “You’ve got a list of
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objects, write some code to select one of them at random. Any language, don’t
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worry about syntax, assume the built-in random function is good enough.”</p>
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<p>That was actually a nice question: If you wanted to dive a little deeper,
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you could ask the candidate to sketch in unit tests. And if you’re talking to
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somebody super-technical, ask
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“Your code is in production and sometimes it’s throwing
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illegal-index exceptions under heavy load. What’s going on and how do you fix
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it?” Just because that’s a cool problem, very real-life, and most people
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smile when they get it.</p>
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<p>Apparently DHH started the trend by admitting he couldn’t code a bubble
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sort on a whiteboard, and I think we can all agree that would be a totally
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dorky interview question. But TheOutline’s piece goes further, alleging that
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whiteboarding is anti-diversity. See
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<a href="https://twitter.com/alinelernerLLC">Aline Lerner</a>’s excellent
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(and data-rich)
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<a href="http://blog.interviewing.io/you-cant-fix-diversity-in-tech-without-fixing-the-technical-interview/">You can’t fix diversity in tech without fixing the technical interview.</a>
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It mostly argues that “logic puzzle” interview questions are bullshit, and I
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heartily agree. By the way I got one of those in my interview day at Google, and
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another at Amazon, and I blew them both.</p>
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<p>At AWS, these days, I’m on a few hiring loops, and I don’t see anyone
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asking logic puzzles. But I have no idea what the state of the art is these
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days at the big tech companies; are there any studies?</p>
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<p>I think and hope that the way I use the whiteboard doesn’t make me part of
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the diversity problem, and I’ll be watching out for data on the subject.</p>
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</div></content></entry>
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<entry>
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<title>Spaced Paragraphs in Word</title>
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<link href='https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/02/28/Space-paragraphs-in-Word' />
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<link rel='replies' thr:count='12' type='application/xhtml+xml' href='/ongoing/When/201x/2017/02/28/Space-paragraphs-in-Word#comments' />
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<id>https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/02/28/Space-paragraphs-in-Word</id>
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<published>2017-02-28T12:00:00-08:00</published>
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<updated>2017-03-01T00:59:36-08:00</updated>
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<category scheme='https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Technology/Microsoft' />
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<summary type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>The In­ter­net is fierce with polemics about one-space-or-two-after-the-period. Bah, lightweight stuff. What about all those poor peo­ple you see mak­ing MS Word docs look a lit­tle more spa­cious by in­sert­ing an ex­tra emp­ty line be­tween para­graph­s? There is a bet­ter way! But the Of­fice UI (on Mac at least) is heinous, so here’s a step-by-step.</div></summary>
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<content type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
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<p>The Internet is fierce with polemics about
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one-space-or-two-after-the-period. Bah, lightweight stuff. What about all
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those poor people you see making MS Word docs look a little more spacious by
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inserting an extra empty line between paragraphs?
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There is a better way! But the Office UI (on Mac at least) is heinous, so here’s a
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step-by-step.</p>
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<p>Behold two paragraphs of text, crushed unkindly against each other.</p>
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<img src="mwsf0.png" alt="two paragraphs, too close to each other" />
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<p>What you want to do is tell Word to henceforth leave a tasteful amount of space between
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<em>all</em> your paragraphs, without you having to moronically double-Enter.</p>
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<p>You pull down the “Format” menu and select “Style”, for reasons which are
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obvious if you understand how Word thinks about the presentation units that it
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manages for you.</p>
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<img src="mwsf2.png" alt="Format=>Style in Microsoft Word" />
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<p>Which gets you this entirely opaque screen.</p>
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<img src="mwsf3.png" alt="Style in Microsoft Word" />
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<p>Once again, if you were able
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to mind-meld with a seasoned Office developer in Redmond, you’d understand
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that there’s a reason for each and every little morsel in this smorgasbord.
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You may not have thought that “No List” or “Theme Body” were important to your
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writing; silly you!
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Anyhow, ignore all that crap and just hit the
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“Modify…” button in the lower center, to tell Word that you want to fix up the rendering for the
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“Normal” style, softly highlighted in the left-side window.</p>
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<p>Hm, that soft select suggests that you could hard-select “Normal” by
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clicking on it. But don’t, because I can’t be responsible for the
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consequences.
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Or even double-clicking; I betcha <em>something</em>
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happens. I wonder… no, let’s go back to “Modify…”; it’s your
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friend. And people who take a wrong turn in the Office style dialogs are in
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Gandalf-and-Mirkwood territory: Leave the path and the
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giant spiders are waiting.</p>
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<img src="mwsf4.png" alt="Modify Style in Microsoft Word" />
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<p>Now we’re getting somewhere. Here are lots of interesting things about the
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“Normal” style, which is what you’re using in Word when you’re not using
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anything else. And this screen is just the tip of the iceberg.</p>
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<p>It’s helpfully highlighted the style’s name in case you want to change it;
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after all, you might not be feeling Normal that day.
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But for now we just want some white space. Many brave women and men have
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faced this screen, seen no path forward, and their courage has failed
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them. But I’m here to help. It turns out that what you want is the
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bottom-left control labeled “Format”. Mind you, everything else on this
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screen is all about format too; In effect it’s the We Must Go Deeper
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menu.</p>
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<img src="mwsf5.png" alt="Modify Style Format Pulldown in Microsoft Word" />
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<p>Look at that! All the Aristotelian Categories of WYSIWYG, pregnant with ellipses.
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Well, except for “Shortcut key…” which you have to feel a little sorry
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for, stranded as it is among strangers.</p>
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<p>Since we’re trying to space out paragraphs, you might be inspired to think
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that the “Paragraph” entry in this pulldown would be your ticket to happiness. And you’d
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be right!</p>
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<img src="mwsf6.png" alt="Paragraph Style dialogue in Microsoft Word" />
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<p>Really, Word is a pretty-full featured document presentation system, if
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you’re up to the dialog-navigation challenges.</p>
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<p>Anyhow, it turns out that to achieve the desired effect you use the “Spacing”
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group, third from the top<span class='dashes'> —</span> you can see that I’ve
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hit the “After” setting which helpfully jumped to a suggested 6 pt of
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paragraph separation. And 6 pt isn’t terrible but I normally prefer a little
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less, 5 or 4. The effect is way more polished than just hitting Enter twice
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after each paragraph. OK, so hit “OK” already.</p>
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<img src="mwsf7.png" alt="Back to the Style dialog in Microsoft Word" />
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<p>You’re pretty well done, but now you have to escape this maze of
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twisty little dialogs, which is not as straightforward as you might think.</p>
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<p>A close look reveals that the dialog in front with the “Apply” button
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doesn’t actually have focus, the one behind it does. I’m not sure exactly
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how this happens, but it’s really easy to get into a mode where you mash away
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at the Apply button and Word just isn’t having it, sneers at your attempts to
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Apply your amateur typographical notions. Then you have to bring the other
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dialog forward and hit the “OK”. Or maybe I have that backward. And it
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doesn’t always happen. But with a
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little persistence and after saying “Make It So, Number One” to a variety of
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subtly-3D blue buttons, the dialogs will all be gone, leaving your prose
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vaulting airily over graceful open space from paragraph to
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paragraph.</p>
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<img src="mwsf8.png" alt="Separated paragraphs in Microsoft Word" />
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<p>OK, 80% of you probably knew this already, and I have learned over the
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years that people cheekily double-tapping the “Enter” key between paragraphs
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rarely appreciate being told that There Is A Better Way. Especially when I
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start filling their screen with dialogs.</p>
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</div></content></entry>
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<title>Geek Career Paths</title>
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<link href='https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/02/18/Geek-Career-Paths' />
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<id>https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/02/18/Geek-Career-Paths</id>
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<published>2017-02-18T12:00:00-08:00</published>
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<updated>2017-02-19T16:47:49-08:00</updated>
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<category scheme='https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Business' />
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<summary type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Sup­pose you’re do­ing tech­nol­o­gy, and like do­ing tech­nol­o­gy, and your career’s go­ing well, and you find your­self won­der­ing what you’re go­ing to be do­ing in twen­ty years. I’ve been down sev­er­al of the roads you might de­cide to take, and it oc­curs to me that talk­ing them over might amuse and in­for­m.</div></summary>
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<p>Suppose you’re doing technology, and like doing technology, and your
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career’s going well, and you find
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yourself wondering what you’re going to be doing in twenty years.
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I’ve been down several of the roads you might decide to take,
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and it occurs to me that talking them over might amuse and inform.</p>
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<p>Thanks are due to
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<a href="https://twitter.com/andreleibovici">Andre Leibovici</a>, who tweeted
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<a href="https://twitter.com/andreleibovici/status/830099649147002880">Is it
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possible to be in a sr. leadership position and still be hands-on w/ tech
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& code? For geek leaders out there... how to juggle?</a> and got me
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thinking about this.</p>
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<h2 id='p-1'>Q: Should you stay in tech-related work?</h2>
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<p>Seriously, this is the most important question. I know of
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knitting-store owners and carpenters and luthiers and microbrewers and doctors
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who walked away from tech life.
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Their reasons were good: They wanted to engage with life physically,
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to get away from rows of desks, to be outside, to be around women.</p>
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<p>Me, I was never tempted; I’ve liked computers for their own sake for decades
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and still do. But I’ve watched people do this, and I’m pretty convinced
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that if you’re going to, it’s never too late or too early. When you’re young
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you can get by on less, have more energy, and have lots of years to flail
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around till something works. When you’re older, you probably have more money,
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which can be used to solve a remarkable variety of problems, and more
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experience as to how the world works.</p>
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<p>For the purposes of this piece, let’s assume you’re staying on the tech train.</p>
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+
<h2 id='p-2'>Q: Should you stay technical?</h2>
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<p>The bad news that it’s a lot of work. We’re a
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young profession and we’re still working out our best practices, so the ground
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keeps changing under you; it doesn’t
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get easier as the decades go by.</p>
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<p>The good news is that it doesn’t get harder either. Once you learn to stop
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expecting your knowledge to stay fresh, the pace of innovation doesn’t feel to
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me like it’s much faster (or slower) now than it was in 1987 or 1997 or 2007.
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More good news: The technology gets <em>better</em>. Seriously, we are so
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much better at building software now than we used to be in any of those other
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years ending in 7.</p>
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<p>And another thing that may not be obvious: It’s not a one-way door. I
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stepped off the technology train, spent years in startup management and
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technology evangelism, and climbed back into engineering life without too much
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pain.</p>
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<p>It hurts me to say this, but there are gender issues here. There is a
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pernicious tendency for smart women to get streamed away from actually doing
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technology to, well, almost any of the alternatives I’m going to talk about
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below. I’ve been in the room when it happens: “She’s great with
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customers and super-organized, let’s encourage her to look at a management
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role.” Not that there’s anything <em>wrong</em> with a management role, but
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the engineering ranks need women too.</p>
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<h2 id='p-3'>Q: Should you go into management?</h2>
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<p>I tried it, was a CTO and a CEO. I liked being on the spot for everything
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that mattered, and rarely having to wait for someone else to make a
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decision. Also, of course, getting the biggest paycheck.</p>
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<p>But I hated lots of things: finding investors and dealing with them,
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managing cash-flow, being pulled in a thousand directions every minute,
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the really
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hard shitty HR problems that get to the top, and never being able to
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say anything that wasn’t on-message. I also disliked the company of my fellow
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CEOs, because they are people who can never say anything that’s not
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on-message.</p>
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<p>A lot of the best executives started out as
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+
engineers. And there are really no barriers. In every tech company
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I’ve been in, if you’re a competent engineer and also a good communicator, and show
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+
evidence of seeing the bigger picture, then if you tell your boss you’d like to try
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management someday, that day may come a lot faster than you expect.</p>
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+
<h2 id='p-11'>Q: Should you go into Product Management?</h2>
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+
<p>FYI: Good product managers are really hard to grow
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+
and hard to hire. So if you combine those technical, business, and communication
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skills, you won’t have any trouble finding work.</p>
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1021
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+
<p>But it’s probably not a good <em>long-term</em> choice; most companies
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+
don’t have much of a career path for PMs. That may not be a problem;
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+
many PMs transfer to management or marketing positions
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+
after a while, without obvious strain.</p>
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+
<p>So while it might be a good choice right now, you’re probably not going to
|
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+
be a PM in twenty years.</p>
|
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+
<h2 id='p-12'>Q: Should you go into sales?</h2>
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|
+
<p>I’ve been on a lot of sales calls, and closed a couple of big deals all by
|
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+
myself, which is one of the most insanely satisfying things you can get paid
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+
for (and you can get paid a lot). It’s easy enough to find out; most
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+
technology companies’ salespeople regularly need geek support and well-run
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+
ones are happy to send engineers out on sales calls. If you like what you
|
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see, give it a try.</p>
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<p>Yes, there’s the risk of ending up in <cite>Glengarry Glen Ross</cite>.
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+
And that remorseless pressure to close is implicit in the profession. But
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+
a lot of really successful sales people are ex-engineers; is the remorseless
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+
pressure to ship that much better?</p>
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+
<p>Here’s a hint: All the truly great sales pros I’ve
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+
known have been people people; would genuinely rather hang out and shoot the
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+
shit all day than anything else. If that’s not you, then probably not.</p>
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+
<h2 id='p-4'>Q: Should you go into marketing?</h2>
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+
<p>Marketing is at the center of everything. You probably know why you’re
|
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+
building the technology you’re working on, and what it’s good for,
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+
But it turns out that figuring out who out there needs it, what they’d use it
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+
for, and how to explain it in simple enough terms that an overworked non-geek can get
|
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it quickly, is really <em>really</em> hard.</p>
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<p>There’s a range of marketing roles, from tech-oriented ones like “developer
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+
advocate” or “evangelist”, all the way over to full-time business strategist.
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+
Every one of them is accessible in principle to a technical person who wants
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to change lanes.</p>
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+
<h2 id='p-6'>Q: Should you go into Venture Capital?</h2>
|
|
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|
+
<p>Please, please don’t. With the exception of a very few top-tier firms,
|
|
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+
it’s a shitty business that delivers a lousy return to its investors. A large
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part of your job consists of saying “no” to people, then watching most of the
|
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people you say “yes” to fail anyhow.</p>
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<p>In my view, most of the pathologies that infect the tech sector,
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+
starting with self-absorbedness, arrogance, and lousy diversity, are joined at
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|
+
the hip with VC culture.</p>
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+
<h2 id='p-5'>Q: Should you work for startups?</h2>
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+
<p>Absolutely, yes. I have, twice. The best reason is that you’ll get to see
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all the different parts of a business up close, how they work, and if you
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+
decide you want to pitch in with something that looks interesting, you may not
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encounter much resistance, particularly if you turn out to be good at it.</p>
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<p>The white-hot team intensity, the feeling that you and a few others are
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moving the world, is just not something you’re going to find elsewhere.</p>
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<p>You might make a lot of money, but do bear in mind that most startups fail,
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+
and there are a lot of ways for a startup to succeed where most of the money goes
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+
to the VCs and almost none to foot soldiers.</p>
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+
<h2 id='p-7'>Q: Should you work for a BigCo?</h2>
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<p>Yes; you might not like it, but you should try it. Particularly, in a
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well-run company, when you get to see what high-quality marketing and legal
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support is like, and what classes of problem can be solved by throwing
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money at them, and maybe most of all, how to build systems and processes that
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are sustainable in the long term. </p>
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<p>The flip-side of that coin is that you’ll likely also see
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institutionalized stupidity, toxic politics, and pathological caution. But I
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think the rewards make up for it.</p>
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<p>I should also point out that you can make serious money working for
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a BigCo too, particularly if you get lucky with the share price. I speak from
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experience here.</p>
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<p>Finally, suppose you’ve tried managing people and you just don’t like it,
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+
but you still want a senior job. Most big tech companies have a position
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called “Principal Engineer” or “Distinguished Engineer” or some such, which it
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usually takes decades to grow into, but is pretty well the ideal
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job for someone like me. You get to work on the most interesting problems and
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feel like you’re part of the leadership team, and have the chance to move the
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needle.</p>
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<p><a href="http://redmonk.com/team/fintan-ryan/">Fintan Ryan</a> of RedMonk
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just published
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<a href="http://redmonk.com/fryan/2016/12/12/on-the-myth-of-the-10x-engineer-and-the-reality-of-the-distinguished-engineer/?utm_content=buffer5b28c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer">On the Myth of the 10X Engineer and the Reality of the Distinguished Engineer</a>,
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which I think overstates the wonderfulness of the position, but does hit a few
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key points.</p>
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<h2 id='p-8'>Q: Should you work for a government?</h2>
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<p>Up till maybe five years ago, I would have said “No way, run screaming in
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the other direction.” For decades governments as a matter of policy hired no
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software developers and based all their projects on outsourcing, usually
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to loathsome blue-suit operations whose core competencies are winning
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public-sector bids then cashing in by charging for every ripple coming out of
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those classic waterfall projects.</p>
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<p>In recent years, led initially by the UK organization now called the
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<a href="https://gds.blog.gov.uk/">Government Digital Service</a>,
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a few governments have clued into the fact that information
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processing is an essential core competence for the public sector, and started
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pulling it in-house.</p>
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<p>Remember
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+
when the Obama administration wrested control of
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<a href="https://www.healthcare.gov/">healthcare.gov</a> out of the hands of
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the consultants, aimed a bunch of competent geeks at it, and rescued it? I’m
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thinking that kind of work could be among the most rewarding things you could
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load up a technical career with.</p>
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<p>There’s a sub-question here: How about a job in the inteligence community?
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I’ve never had one, but I’ve sold them technology and worked with them. They have
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the biggest computers and maybe the hardest problems, and I firmly believe
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that effective intelligence makes the world a safer place.</p>
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<p>But the people I
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+
know in the community always seemed more stressed out and less happy than your
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average geek, and I heard persistent grumbling about work-culture problems. So
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I’m not sure I’d recommend that path.</p>
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<h2 id='p-13'>Q: Should you work for a non-tech company?</h2>
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<p>I can’t help you here very much; never done it. Since I’ve been working
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+
for AWS I’ve got in face time with a lot of IT people from outside the
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geek-o-sphere, and they seem to be pretty happy. But then, the ones I’m talking
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to are the ones mixed up in the move to the cloud, which is absolutely the
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most interesting single trend in IT these days.</p>
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<p>Obviously, you’re probably at slightly higher risk of a
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+
pointy-haired boss who hasn’t the vaguest idea what it is you actually do.</p>
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<h2 id='p-9'>Q: Should you be a consultant?</h2>
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1128
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+
<p>This is really two questions. First, should you be an independent
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consultant, working for yourself? I have, and it was OK, and paid pretty
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+
well (although both the startup and the BigCo did better). You have to be
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willing to market yourself aggressively; conference speaking slots work
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best, in my experience. Then, after the gig, you have to hassle
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your customers to get paid, which really isn’t fun. Finally, you’re going to
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<p>I had fun, and several remarkably interesting customers. Two things got on
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my nerves. First, you get to work on the hard problems, but you never get to
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stick around and ship a product. Second: A lot of times you end up telling
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management exactly the same thing their own smart geeks were telling them, but
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they listen to you, not their own people</p>
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<p>The second question is, should you go work for a big consulting company?
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I’d offer a firm “No”, even though the pay
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is good. These companies work their people insanely hard, and in my opinion, based on
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thirty years of observation, charge too much and deliver too little.
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They are definitely Part Of The Problem, and you should stay away.</p>
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<h2 id='p-10'>Q: Should you work for a nonprofit or charity?</h2>
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<p>I never have, and I regret it. Obviously, this is not a ticket to the 1%,
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and I suspect that the technology problems and solutions are pretty
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mundane. But I’d hope there would be other, more important, rewards.</p>
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</div></content></entry>
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<entry>
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<title>Looking Up</title>
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<link href='https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/02/19/Looking-Up' />
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<id>https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/02/19/Looking-Up</id>
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<published>2017-02-19T12:00:00-08:00</published>
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<updated>2017-02-19T14:27:59-08:00</updated>
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<summary type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Seems like ev­ery­one I know is blue and grouchy and an­gry; can’t say as I blame them. But it’s time to turn a cor­ner, be­cause the future’s just as long as ev­er, and we need joy to face it. Let me see if I can help.</div></summary>
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<content type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
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<p>Seems like everyone I know is blue and grouchy and angry; can’t say as I
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blame them. But it’s time to turn a corner, because the future’s just as long
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as ever, and we need joy to face it. Let me see if I can help.</p>
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<p>Canada’s first few crocuses are up!</p>
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<img src="https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/02/19/FXT18875.png" alt="2017 Crocuses" />
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<p>Yes, I did blog about the spring crocuses in
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<a href="/ongoing/When/200x/2003/02/22/Garden">2003</a>,
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<a href="/ongoing/When/200x/2004/02/29/FlowerPain">2004</a>,
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<a href="/ongoing/When/200x/2005/01/28/Crocuses">2005</a>,
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<a href="/ongoing/When/200x/2006/02/05/Crocuses">2006</a>,
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<a href="/ongoing/When/200x/2007/02/10/Crocuses">2007</a>,
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<a href="/ongoing/When/200x/2008/02/17/First-Crocus-of-the-Year">2008</a>
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(<a href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/03/11/Purple-Raindrops">twice!</a>),
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<a href="/ongoing/When/200x/2009/02/16/Crocus">2009</a> (<a href="/ongoing/When/200x/2009/03/11/Crocus-Sequence">twice!</a>),
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<a href="/ongoing/When/201x/2010/02/02/Dailyshoot-79">2010</a> (<a href="/ongoing/When/201x/2010/02/07/Spring">twice!</a>),
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<a href="/ongoing/When/201x/2011/03/06/Crocus">2011</a>,
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<a href="/ongoing/When/201x/2012/02/26/2012-Crocuses">2012</a>,
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<a href="/ongoing/When/201x/2013/02/12/Every-Year-this-time-Crocuses">2013</a>,
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<a href="/ongoing/When/201x/2014/02/08/N5-Lying-Flowers">2014</a>, and
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<a href="/ongoing/When/201x/2015/01/25/Crocuses-of-2015">2015</a>.
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Clearly I need to remediate 2016’s lacklustre performance.</p>
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<p>Once again, as I often do, I should echo the question from John Crowley’s awesome
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<a href="http://amzn.to/2kX6r6r">Little, Big</a> (seriously, one of the best
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books): “What is Brother North-Wind’s secret?” The answer: “If Winter comes,
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Spring can’t be far behind.”</p>
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<p>This winter, our discontent has been political mostly. Lots of wars and
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lies and pain to be sad about, but most sharply felt: 62,985,106
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Americans, about 25.4% of the potential electorate, thought it was
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OK to vote for That Man.</p>
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<p>I’m sad too. And about Syria and Brexit and our sick elderly cat and my
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children’s foibles and global warming and destructive inequality and the fact
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that people still in 2017 think God wants them to kill other people.</p>
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<p>But enough of that; today we’re in this blog’s silver-lining department. So
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here are a few more things to smile about.</p>
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learned that they’re not crazy and not alone.</p></li>
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<li><p>The explosion of unrest and anger has educated people around the world
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as to how non-monolithic America is.</p></li>
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<li><p>The proportion of people around the world who’ve realized that
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Elections Have Consequences is noticeably higher than a few months
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ago.</p></li>
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<li><p>Often I hear good new music on the car radio while I’m driving around.
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For example, I recommend
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<a href="http://amzn.to/2lwXxzq">Touch</a> by
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<a href="https://twitter.com/julytalk">July Talk</a>.</p></li>
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<li><p>There’s good <em>old</em> music too! The Rolling Stones made a
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<a href="http://amzn.to/2kX14nq">pure blues record</a> and it’s not
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terrible.</p></li>
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<li><p>There are a lot of good books being written. For example, I recommend
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<a href="http://amzn.to/2lxakCb">Do Not Say We Have Nothing</a>.</p></li>
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<li><p>There’s a lot of really good stuff on TV. For example, I recommend
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expanse_(TV_series)">The
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Expanse</a>.</p></li>
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<li><p>Look around you; there are good people in the world.</p></li>
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<li><p>Well, and another crocus.</p></li>
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</ul>
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<img src="https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/02/19/FXT18876.png" alt="2017 Crocus" />
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<div class='caption'><p>I’ll watch the forecast for sunshine once they’ve
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opened,<br/>and take some more.</p></div>
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<p>Seriously, let’s grant that there are really unhappy trends stinking up
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the landscape. And that if we want to be part of the solution, it’s going to
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be a lot of uphill work with, doubtless, downhill slips. But it’s worth
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doing, and for reasons of mental health, and long-term survival, and pure
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propaganda, I’m going to try to walk into 2017 with a smile.</p>
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</div></content></entry>
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<entry>
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<title>Two AWS Years</title>
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<link href='https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/02/12/A-couple-AWS-years' />
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<published>2017-02-12T12:00:00-08:00</published>
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<updated>2017-02-13T08:13:12-08:00</updated>
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<category scheme='https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Technology/Cloud' />
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<category scheme='https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Technology' />
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<summary type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Wow, it was De­cem­ber 2014 when I climbed on board this train. I’m sit­ting in a pret­ty in­ter­est­ing place and feel I owe the world some re­portage.</div></summary>
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<content type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
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<p>Wow, it was December 2014 when I climbed on board this train. I’m sitting
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in a pretty interesting place and feel I owe the world some reportage.</p>
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<p>In terms of what it’s like to work to work here, I don’t have much to add
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to
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<a href="/ongoing/When/201x/2015/12/01/One-Amazon-Year">last year’s
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write-up</a>.</p>
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<p>Since then I’ve got my fingerprints all over two AWS services:
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<a href="http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/events/WhatIsCloudWatchEvents.html">CloudWatch
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Events</a>
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and <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/step-functions/">Step Functions</a>.
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There are few things as much fun as helping ship something and
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watching people start to use it.</p>
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<p>If you want opinions on what those products mean and how well they work,
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there are lots of blogs out there written by people who are less
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biased.</p>
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<p>But here’s one amusing sidelight. When I came to work here I
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felt like I was facing a thousand-mile-high wall of technology and knowledge
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and experience, and damn little of the stuff I knew felt relevant. After six
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months it was less scary, but I still feel like a
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<a href="/ongoing/When/201x/2011/08/05/Permanoob">Perma-noob</a> much of the
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time.
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Well, except for the
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<a href="https://states-language.net/spec.html">Amazon States
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Language</a><span class='dashes'> —</span> they needed a JSON DSL, with a
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specification, and a parser inside the service, and (it became obvious) a
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<a href="https://github.com/awslabs/statelint">downloadable command-line
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version</a>. I smiled, because had this rare feeling of “I know
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<em>exactly</em> what needs to be done here, as well as
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almost anyone in the world, and how to do it.” I wonder if
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that’ll ever happen again in my whole life.</p>
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<h2 id='p-1'>What makes me happy</h2>
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<p>Turning IT from Capex into Opex.</p>
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<p>Writing code that processes billions of messages per week with good
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<b>O()</b>-notation behavior.</p>
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<p>Working in an almost-entirely-asshole-free environment.</p>
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<p>My paycheck.</p>
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<p>Hearing about the weird shit people do with the infrastructure we rent
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’em.</p>
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<p>Working in Vancouver.</p>
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<p>Cloud hypergrowth.</p>
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<h2 id='p-5'>What makes me scared</h2>
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<p>Cloud hypergrowth.</p>
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<h2 id='p-2'>What makes me unhappy</h2>
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<p>Working when it’s nice outside.</p>
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<p>Videoconferencing technology.</p>
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<p>Male-dominated professions.</p>
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<p>I-5 between Vancouver and Seattle.</p>
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<h2 id='p-3'>What makes me impressed</h2>
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<p>Network design that enables things like VPCs at scale.</p>
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<p>Serverless. I’m pretty sure there’s a there there.</p>
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<p>Linux. Seriously, no sense of strain after all these years.</p>
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<p>IntelliJ.</p>
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<p><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/cloudtrail/">CloudTrail</a>. Maybe the most radical AWS service. I can’t
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imagine running a serious business without something like it. The combo with
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CloudWatch Events makes me smile too.</p>
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<h2 id='p-4'>What makes me dubious and cynical</h2>
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<p>AI. <i>*gasp*</i> OK, the best implementations can now beat humans at Go and (even more
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impressive) reliably distinguish between photos of cats and dogs. But OMG
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the hype. My advice: Try linear regression first.</p>
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<p>Node and NPM.</p>
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<p>Blockchain.</p>
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<p>AdTech.</p>
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</div></content></entry>
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<entry>
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<title>Super Stifado</title>
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<link href='https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2015/02/01/Super-Stifado' />
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<published>2015-02-01T12:00:00-08:00</published>
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<updated>2017-02-05T23:46:39-08:00</updated>
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<category scheme='https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='The World/Food and Drink' />
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<summary type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>My Su­per Bowl Stew has be­come a tra­di­tion, so I should share it. With some tech mag­ic too. <i>[Up­dat­ed again for 2017.]</i></div></summary>
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<content type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
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<p>My Super Bowl Stew has become a tradition, so I should share
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it. With some tech magic too. <i>[Updated again for 2017.]</i></p>
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<p>What happened was, eight years ago
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<a href="/ongoing/When/200x/2007/02/05/Superbowl">Prince played the
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Superbowl</a> and I made a Stifado for guests, a Greek version of a fairly
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straightforward beef (or rabbit) stew distinguished by heavy oregano. I got
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the idea from a fellow-employee’s piece on the late lamented
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blogs.sun.com.</p>
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<p>I later refined the recipe from with ideas from another foodie site, also
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now vanished,
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<cite>A Spoonful of Sugar</cite> (I think), dedicated to stews and
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suchlike.</p>
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<p>Anyhow, this morning two miracles happened; I was poking around the
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Internet not liking any of the Stifado recipes, when Lauren suggested looking
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in the Wayback Machine, and there it is:
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<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070208191708/http://blogs.sun.com/paulhu/entry/beef_stifado">Beef
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Stifado by Paul Humphreys</a>. (Still out there, Paul?)</p>
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<p>The next miracle was
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when on impulse I hit “print” on my Android<span class='dashes'> —</span> first
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time I’ve ever done that<span class='dashes'> —</span> it auto-magically found the
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network printer in the basement and Just Worked. For making a big messy stew,
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you definitely want to read the recipe off paper not a screen.</p>
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<p>OK, here’s Tim’s improved version of Paul’s stew as filtered through
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several other minds and a handful of Super Bowls</p>
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<li><p>This recipe starts with 2lb (a kg or so) of stewing beef. My butcher
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cuts them too big, so I have to slice them up a little further. The first step
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is to brown the meat in a little oil. I mean <em>really brown it</em>, with
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dark brown scorch marks here and there.</p></li>
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<li><p><i>[2017 update]</i> I make the stew in a big old
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Creuset">Le Creuset</a> oval
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well-cured cast-iron frying pan instead; much less washing-up!</p></li>
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fresh; you want that sharpness of flavor.</p></li>
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<li><p>Cook it for a long time. I had it in the oven by noon and we ate
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during the fourth quarter of the ballgame. This will make your house smell
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per person who’s going to be eating, and give the stew a second sprinkling of
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<p>We always serve it with home-made cornbread and a big salad, but I think
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you could pair lots of other things successfully.</p>
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<p>Also, they should have given the ball to Lynch or called a Wilson run around
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the left. But since everyone on the planet was thinking that too, probably
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that little pass was piece of offensive innovation. Well, it would have been
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if it’d worked.</p>
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<title>Time Machine Completed the Backup</title>
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<link href='https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/01/31/Synology-Time-Machine-Failure' />
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<published>2017-01-31T12:00:00-08:00</published>
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<updated>2017-01-31T22:41:43-08:00</updated>
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<category scheme='https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Technology/Storage' />
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<category scheme='https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Technology' />
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<summary type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Re­cent­ly, I <a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/12/20/Network-backup'>ac­quired a Synol­o­gy DiskS­ta­tion</a> and wired up a nice com­fort­ing <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Machine_(macOS)'>Time Ma­chine</a>-to-<a href='http://amzn.to/2kPdUo9'>Synol­o­gy</a>-to-<a href='https://aws.amazon.com/s3'>S3</a>-to-<a href='https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/'>Glacier</a> back­up da­ta flow. But then I start­ed to see “Time Ma­chine couldn’t com­plete the backup” with some­thing about “could not be ac­cessed (er­ror 21)”. Here’s how it got fixed.</div></summary>
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<content type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
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<p>Recently, I
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<a href="/ongoing/When/201x/2016/12/20/Network-backup">acquired
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a Synology DiskStation</a> and wired up a nice comforting
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Machine_(macOS)">Time
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Machine</a>-to-<a href="http://amzn.to/2kPdUo9">Synology</a>-to-<a href="https://aws.amazon.com/s3">S3</a>-to-<a href="https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/">Glacier</a>
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backup data flow. But then I
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started to see “Time Machine couldn’t complete the backup” with something
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about “could not be accessed (error 21)”. Here’s how it got fixed.</p>
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<img src="blurgs.png" alt="Time Machine problem" class="inline" />
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<p>[This piece placed here to attract search-engine attention and, with luck,
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help someone else dig out. If you’re feeling public-spirited, toss in a couple
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links for visibility’s sake.]</p>
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<p>I was tempted to give up, but the thing was working fine for my wife, who
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however was not yet on Sierra; there was some Twitter rumbling about Sierra and
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Synology having relationship problems.</p>
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<p>With the aid of Google and Twitter, I eventually did all these things, and
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finally data started flowing again. Perhaps they are not all necessary.</p>
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<ol>
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<li><p>After a tweeted squeal for help, Saul Tannenbaum
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(<a href="https://twitter.com/stannenb">@stannenb)</a>
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and Shazron Abdullah (<a href="https://twitter.com/shazron">@shazron</a>)
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suggested installing
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the
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<a href="https://www.synology.com/en-global/beta">Synology beta</a>, and
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connecting over SMB not AFP. Because SMB is the new shiny, amirite?</p></li>
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<li><p>Also per @stannenb, poked around in the Synology menus (Control
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Panel>File Services>Service Discovery) to enable “Bonjour Time Machine
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broadcast via SMB”. Uh huh.</p></li>
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<li><p>At some point before the backups started failing, I’d seen a message
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about a Time Machine verification problem; Googling that led me to Jonas’
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<a href="http://jd-powered.net/notes/fixing-your-time-machine-backup">Fixing
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your Time Machine backup</a>, which talks you through mounting the ”sparse
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bundle” and using the
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsck">fsck</a> hammer. Last time I
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used fsck it was in a different millennium.
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Thanks, Jonas. Like he said, it ain’t fast, and the use of a wired network is
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indicated.</p></li>
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</ol>
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<p>Of course, a civilian would have been dead in the water, and I should be
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mad at either Apple or Synology, or the pair of them for not playing nice.
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But at the moment, I’m so relieved to have this working that I’m not.</p>
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</div></content></entry>
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<entry>
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<title>Shooter as Tabula Rasa</title>
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<link href='https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/01/30/Whose-Killer' />
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<link rel='replies' thr:count='2' type='application/xhtml+xml' href='/ongoing/When/201x/2017/01/30/Whose-Killer#comments' />
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<id>https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/01/30/Whose-Killer</id>
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<published>2017-01-30T12:00:00-08:00</published>
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<updated>2017-01-30T23:58:13-08:00</updated>
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<category scheme='https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='The World/Politics' />
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<category scheme='https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='The World' />
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<category scheme='https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Politics' />
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<category scheme='https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='The World/Life Online' />
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<category scheme='https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Life Online' />
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<summary type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Last night I ac­ci­den­tal­ly came face to face with Twit­ter hor­ror, a very pale re­flec­tion of larg­er real-life hor­ror, but still jar­ring. What hap­pened was, some­one shot up a Québec Ci­ty mosque. For a few hours no­body knew who’d done the shoot­ing, and that ab­sence of iden­ti­ty be­came a blank can­vas which the Net’s trolls paint­ed with their shit-colored dream­s.</div></summary>
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<content type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
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<p>Last night I accidentally came face to face with Twitter horror, a very
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pale reflection of larger real-life horror, but still jarring.
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What happened was, someone
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shot up a Québec City mosque. For a few hours nobody knew who’d done the
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shooting, and that absence of identity became a blank canvas which the Net’s
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trolls painted with their shit-colored dreams.</p>
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<p>I got interested in the story and like everyone else was curious who the
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bad guys were. Watched Twitter because that’s what you do when news is
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hanging fire. Tuned in the
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<a href="http://ici.radio-canada.ca/">Radio Canada</a> (French-language)
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livestream of the 1:45AM Eastern Time press conference by the Québec Premier,
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the Québec city mayor, and the police chief, which was emotional and had the
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sad facts about deaths and injuries, but didn’t ID the shooters.</p>
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<p>I thought it couldn’t hurt to get the straight story out to the
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non-Francophone world and
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<a href="https://twitter.com/timbray/status/825959894222147584">tweeted</a>
|
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“Quebec premier, Quebec city mayor, and police chief live press conf now,
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declining to say who attackers were.
|
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/saintefoy?f=tweets&vertical=news&src=hash">#SainteFoy</a>”.</p>
|
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<p>That hashtag, based on the street where the mosque is, seemed the hottest
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one late yesterday. I’d glanced in, finding mostly sorrow and solidarity, but
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after I became part of it looked closer and started feeling sick.
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Because it was obvious that a whole lot of people were hoping really
|
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hard that the shooter was Their Personal Other. Robyn Urback brought a nice
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turn of phrase, on the CBC:
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<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/mosque-shooting-narrative-1.3958357">How to make a tragedy fit your desired narrative</a>.</p>
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<p>Except for a lot of people weren’t just hoping that the killer was (a) a
|
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crazed Islamist or (b) a crazed Trumpkin, they were announcing it
|
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proactively. The dreary litany of 21st-century exalted ignorance:
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Islamofascism, Kellie Leitch, Barack <i>Hussein</i> y’know, “They were Syrian
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refugees!”, “political correctness”, TrumpTrumpTrump, alt-right, Liberal
|
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apologists, yadda yadda fucking yadda.
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So many of them, so little thought, so much anger, so much fear. Twitter
|
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|
+
trolling, it’s so easy to ignore when it’s not in your timeline.</p>
|
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|
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<p>I was going to copy in some of the more deplorable tweets, but
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then I’d be part of the problem, wouldn’t I?
|
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But let’s make one exception:</p>
|
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|
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<img src="jerk.png" alt="A Jerk" />
|
|
1490
|
+
<p>This is the white supremacist who was punched out on live TV the other day
|
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1491
|
+
in Washington. He had some other remarks on the incident. I hope he comes to
|
|
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|
+
Canada real soon now.</p>
|
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<h2 id='p-1'>What actually happened</h2>
|
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<p>The shooter was a
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<a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/quebec-city-mosque-attack-suspect-known-for-right-wing-online-posts/article33833044/"><i>pure laine</i> Québecois</a>, given to social-media mooning
|
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at alt-right icons specifically including Marine Le Pen. Let’s not
|
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generalize; life’s too short to walk around in daily fear of either jihadis or
|
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|
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fascist-wannabes, and you’re way more likely to get hit by a bus.</p>
|
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|
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<p>The second person arrested is actually
|
|
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|
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<a href="http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/dossiers/attentat-a-quebec/201701/30/01-5064556-mohamed-belkhadir-pour-eux-quelquun-qui-fuit-cest-un-suspect.php?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter">an interesting story</a>,
|
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a random Muslim engineering student who was shoveling the mosque’s snow during
|
|
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the shooting, called 911 and was giving first aid when the cops arrived waving
|
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guns. He (not unreasonably) panicked and ran, and they (not
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1504
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+
unreasonably) chased him down. No hard
|
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+
feelings either side.</p>
|
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|
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<h2 id='p-2'>A lesson</h2>
|
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1507
|
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<p><a href="http://www.wnyc.org/story/breaking-news-consumers-handbook-pdf/">The Breaking News Consumer’s Handbook</a>;
|
|
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|
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go read it. Right, as usual, in every particular. And if you don’t know
|
|
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|
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what’s going on, shut the fuck up about it.</p>
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</div></content></entry>
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<entry>
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<title>The Women’s March</title>
|
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<link href='https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/01/22/Womens-March' />
|
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<link rel='replies' thr:count='3' type='application/xhtml+xml' href='/ongoing/When/201x/2017/01/22/Womens-March#comments' />
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<id>https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/01/22/Womens-March</id>
|
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<published>2017-01-22T12:00:00-08:00</published>
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<updated>2017-01-22T23:00:47-08:00</updated>
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<category scheme='https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='The World/Politics' />
|
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<category scheme='https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='The World' />
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<category scheme='https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Politics' />
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<category scheme='https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Arts/Photos' />
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<category scheme='https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Arts' />
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<category scheme='https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/' term='Photos' />
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<summary type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Just like ev­ery­one else I have a the­o­ry about What It Mean­s, but I al­so have a sto­ry and a cool pic­ture to il­lus­trate.</div></summary>
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<content type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
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<p>Just like everyone else I have a theory about What It Means, but I also
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have a story and a cool picture to illustrate.</p>
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<img src="https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/01/22/FXT18739.png" alt="Vancouver’s Roots ‘N’ Wings choir performing on Jan 21, 2017" />
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<p>We go to a few choir concerts, since <a href="http://laurenwood.org/">my
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wife</a> sings in one and is part of that social network. On January 21st in
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a two-choir show, the second half featured
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<a href="http://www.songroots.ca/choirs/roots-n-wings">Roots ‘N’ Wings</a>, an
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all-women ensemble. They opened with just a few singers on stage, then the
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rest came up the aisles, singing
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<a href="http://civilrightssongs.blogspot.ca/2014/11/aint-gonna-let-nobody-turn-me-around.html">Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around</a>
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(one of the
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Songs">Freedom Songs</a>), some
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with the hats, some with signs.</p>
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<p>The crowd came alive, on their feet, clapping and yelling, singing along.
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The choir fed on it and five minutes of pretty pure ecstasy ensued. My heart
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was instantly full.</p>
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<p>Earlier that day, my wife and daughter were in the
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<a href="http://www.straight.com/news/859136/photos-thousands-vancouverites-flock-downtown-support-womens-march-washington">local
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march</a>; I was proud of them. I didn’t go because I wanted to be part of
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those powerful sea-of-women’s-faces visuals by not being in it; anyhow
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someone had to clean up and make dinner.</p>
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<h2 id='p-1'>What the march meant</h2>
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<p>I think it’s obvious. A bunch of reasonable people, led by women, needed
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+
to shout out and reassure each other that they weren’t crazy because they were
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horrified at a <i>nouveau regime</i> that’s crude, threatening,
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ignorant, oligarchic, reactionary,
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childish, corrupt, bigoted, thin-skinned, offensive, and oozes
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appallingly bad taste.</p>
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<p>That’s about all the marchers had in common; the hardass rhetoric
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coming off the main stage was interesting and had its moments, but I bet very
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few of the marchers have even heard the word “intersectional”. Likely
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nobody will remember the rhetoric, but everyone will remember the clever
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signage, massed pink, glowing faces, and astonishing absence of violence or
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vandalism.</p>
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<h2 id='p-2'>Hall of shame</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><p>The new management of the Executive Branch of the United States
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Government.</p></li>
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<li><p>Twitter, for studding the
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WomensMarch?src=hash">#WomensMarch</a>
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stream with deplorable hate-spewing trolls; they’re still there now. I mean,
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really, <em>Fuck Twitter</em>.</p></li>
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<li><p>Those trolls. My quip: They were grumpy because their Mom
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was off marching and couldn’t fix a sandwich for them and bring it down to the
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basement.</p>
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<h2 id='p-3'>Thanks!</h2>
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<p>For that much-needed reassurance that it’s perfectly OK to have strong
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negative feelings over behavior which is
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crude, threatening, ignorant, oligarchic, reactionary,
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childish, corrupt, bigoted, thin-skinned, offensive, and oozes
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appallingly bad taste.</p>
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<p>I dunno. Nor does anyone else. In the United States, the forces of decency
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and sanity suffer from a leadership vacuum. You can get along without a
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coherent ideology, but you need someone to rally around and vote for, and I
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don’t see who.</p>
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<p>For the next few years, resisting the the hamfisted guttersnipes of the GOP
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will be useful and reasonably rewarding<span class='dashes'> —</span> the
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evidence suggests they lack the competence to get much done.
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reassurance. You’re not crazy. I’m not crazy.</p>
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