Recent content by alavaz

This comment seems out of place in response to RFK...

I did Kratom daily for over a year (several years ago now at this point) when I fucked my neck up and couldn't sleep without some kind of pain killer. Once that was over with I decided I liked it and just kept taking it. At some point I realized I was no longer getting much effect out of it and...

I would be worried that you're in a niche tech lead role and it's just going to be a middle manager role anywhere else (even though they'll say it's not). If you leave, I'd go back to firmware dev unless some people you trust can vouch for the tech lead role not being all meetings and bullshit...

Where can I get an EveeQrst t-shirt like that?

I would second the advice of searching LinkedIn but not applying through it. Go directly to the company website. Were you in a cleared gov type role? If so should be cake to find something. If not - I know gov contracting isn't anyone's first choice lol, but should be lots of opportunity in...

There used to be this smoking hot German project manager that worked in the dev office and I used to like to go in there just for some boner fuel later on. I think she liked talking to anyone that wasn't an autist. Anyway, there was a neckbeard dev who worked in there that used to fart it up and...

I'd fire him or conspire to have him fired. I can't stand unabashed farters. That's just embarrassing for everyone. You know everyone that walks by and smells that rank shit is looking around and postulating whos rancid asshole that came out of.

Another rousing round of original thought and philosophy regarding cheating in our favorite 26 year old game. How did it start this time... oh because a guy said "here's what I would like..." and everyone else said "No you wouldn't, you wouldn't like that!!! They aren't even the same crime...

Make really only makes sense for low level compiled code. The main purpose for it was to compare sources to decide what all it needed to compile and link. I.e. you change a .c file, you can probably just recompile that file and link where as you change a .h file, you likely have to recompile...

I do not have ADHD and messed around with Adderall and the anti-narcolepsy drug many years back. I can say that it did not make boring things interesting. So anything that I did not want to do, I still had to force my way through it. I personally found the anti-narcolepsy one better (I'm...

I've been doing cloud work for coming up on 10 years now - which is crazy to think it's actually been that long... From a conceptual standpoint, there's sort of three major archetypes you can find yourself in and those are dependent on the type of business your employer does to some degree...

If you were into rap in the 90s this was often sampled / quoted film. Warriors, come out and playyyy

I'm sure it's directly related to the amount of spend an org does on MS, but I've always had good luck. Their architects have been pretty great and our TAM (or whatever they are calling them these days) is always on top of quotes - even looking for ways to "save" money. Some of their more...

tl;dr - Gear is tertiary to strategy and leadership. It wasn't your fault when you were a bad healer. Big brain stuff, thank you for these gems.