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Actual no exaggeration quote from a debugging session with a non-technical colleague earlier:

“What are you doing?”
“*aigh* Yo dawg I heard you like virtualized environments so I put a virtual machine in your machine and then I put a Ruby version switcher in your virtual...
machine and then I put a virtual dependency subspace in your version switcher. Actually that sounds hard so yo dawg, I heard you like virtual machines. Still following?”
“Oh God no.”
“Oh God yes, dawg, because the virtual machine in your virtual machine can’t find the virtual
machine it needs to machine, so I need to virtual machine into your physical machine to log into your virtual machine to tell its virtual machine where the virtual machine is.”
*I do. It works.*
“... I don’t know whether to be happy or scared.”
“Welcome to engineerig!”
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And as much as I share enthusiasm for living in that hypothetical universe good golly there is a heck of a lot of work between the status quo and the first 1% of that outcome.
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Using a Chromebook for the first time and reflecting that given how much of my workday is in Google applications and other generic web apps this might be a perfectly adequate main computer if one isn’t doing development (on which I have no read on it).
I always thought “You’ll pry MS Office from my cold dead hands” but these days 98% of what I use it for is handled by Google Docs. (It helps that almost all docs I care about are internal and began life in Google Docs.)
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Apple should steal that.
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One of the least heralded and most important technological advances of the last 20 years is a battle getting fought one piece of paper at a time to replace workflows with web applications. It’s slow, boring, and enormously impactful.
It’s surprising how much you can get done these days *without* needing to call anyone, line up, or make a visit to an office to figure out the correct form to file something.
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"Technical problems are hard, but people problems are harder."

Do you hear this a lot? I hear it *everywhere* these days. I'm probably even guilty of saying it once or twice, despite the fact that it annoys the bejeezus out of me.

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And I remember feeling genuinely insulted by it as an engineer. Here I am working my ass off to solve hard problems on deadline, while managers saunter in for a few hours of meetings, and then on top of that they're gonna call their jobs *harder* than mine?! Sincerely fuck you.
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Non-technical list of things that, especially when combined, can help you spot bots.
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