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I think it's getting harder to find accurate info about company culture (Work/Life balance, workplace politics, ethical practices, managers who care vs will do anything to get ahead, executives who are in-touch with the…

I have a friend who is outgrowing his Google sheets financial system (many many scripts) and as a former Python developer (been in management recently) I thought “Oh let’s do a proper business rules/state engine” then I…

After years of using Slack and Discord for company chat, I _really_ struggle with Zoom’s chat interface. I’ve looked at pidgin and Adium, so far I don’t see a zoom connector. Does anyone know of an alternative client?

For web development or just general use, what add-ons are you using?

How do you all track and manage shoulder taps (slack requests, actual shoulder taps, etc) so that: 1. They get prioritized and not lost. 2. They get tracked for accounting purposes. 3. Your productivity doesn't plummet.

I've got a service I'd like to put out for public use, but I need to protect it from attacks. Typically I'd use fail2ban and read the IPs from the logs for rate limiting, banning, etc. Is there a way I can one way hash…

Forgive the naive question, as I know many of you have at least one graduate degree. One of my favorite courses during undergrad was one on how to read papers and journals, and the vigor that goes through them. Not that…

There are plenty of commercial and open source electrical main-feed monitoring solutions out there. Do you use one? What do you like about it?

Which lightweight FTS engines have you used? Preferably BSD/*Nix. I’m familiar with Sphinx, Solr, Elastic, and Lucene. The use case is desktop docs/text files/email. Preferably faster than grepping...

I think most of us have had the odd and frustrating experience where we are forced to submit a document of some kind to some stone-aged entity via fax. With the advent of programmable fax, you can now send a 5-page fax…

It's your code, no one else will ever see it or maintain it. What worst practices and cheap shortcuts do you use when you really are going "quick and dirty?"

I have a few subjects that I study regularly and extensively and try to keep a "study journal" in hopes that one day with minimal effort I can turn it into an encyclopedia/dictionary of sorts. Premature optimisation…