Vicky Harp
@vickyharp.com
Product person, recently ex-Microsoft. Dev experiences, Al, data. Helper of experts. She/Her. Black Lives Matter. This meeting could have been a riot.
I went to see the new Spider Man on opening night, and I like Spider Man a lot, but there is no way that this one is "the best one yet" or the present 98% on Rotten Tomatoes. I like the performers in their roles and all, but both of the Spiderverse films are a lot stronger.
I did a lot of interviewing when I was at Microsoft, sometimes 5-10 ppl a week. I didn't find out until much later that some candidates were ghosted by the process. It shakes me to the core to know I was part of this and I apologize unreservedly to anyone who experienced it. Those are not my values.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2w agoInteresting: There’s now an anonymous, moderated list of companies that stop responding after you interviewed with them
Oh fuck yes. This is a really shitty practice. Anyone who gets as far as a screening interview deserves a response for sure. I’d extend that to anyone who applies but that’s more debatable.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2w agoInteresting: There’s now an anonymous, moderated list of companies that stop responding after you interviewed with them
In an hour I will be doing my first livestream presentation since I joined YugabyteDB. It sure would be fun to see some familiar sqlfamily faces, just saying. :) You will learn something even if you are not yet in the distributed SQL world! www.linkedin.com/posts/vickyh...
I'll be showing off bucket based indexes tomorrow in a live stream, come join us! No advanced knowledge of YugabyteDB or even PostgreSQL required: if you enjoy a good indexing strategy and diving…...
I'll be showing off bucket based indexes tomorrow in a live stream, come join us! No advanced knowledge of YugabyteDB or even PostgreSQL required: if you enjoy a good indexing strategy and diving into...
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The algorithm just served me up a teaser video to let me know that a trailer is coming out tomorrow for a show entitled "Star Wars: Visions Presents - The Ninth Jedi" and I need everyone involved in that GTM to, like, watch a sunset or something.
One of my favorite work from home things is when I go to close my office door and the dog is right outside, I ask him if he wants to join the upcoming meeting or not. It amuses me to no end. "Hey buddy, do you want to join the geospatial sync?"
I used to eat a spoonful of peanut butter around 3 pm for a snack, but I knew that was pretty childish. So now I eat a spoonful of Nutella.
I can't pick a favorite line from this youtu.be/5KyfW79Ld4g?... But I do like "When MySQL has a good day, I wait for Ops to fix the monitoring"
Interview with a DBA (Database Administrator)
YouTube video by Kai Lentit
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This was Microsoft life every day, it is such a bizarre dynamic
v buckenham@v21.bsky.social · 2mo agoall the work done to make beautiful compelling pitches to someone who works at the same company as you, hoping for the chance to do the job they're paying you for. all the work no-one external will ever see.
Imagine being the most decorated gymnast in history, almost dying, and media referring to you as “NFL Wife” as your greatest achievement.😑 Misogyny is a helluva drug. Smh. Truly hope Simone is safe and makes a full recovery. What a horrible experience.
Life pro tip: toast your oats in browned butter before making oatmeal. It makes a bigger difference than you might expect.
Listening to the Project Hail Mary soundtrack and it strikes me that Time Go Fishing absolutely sounds like something from Cirque du Soleil youtu.be/OsSRIjgJDnI?...
Daniel Pemberton - Time Go Fishing | Project Hail Mary (Original Motion Picture Score)
YouTube video by SonySoundtracksVEVO
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NASA’s mission to orbit the Moon is being interrupted by Outlook (New) and Outlook (classic) both refusing to open 😂
Listen, and this is a real question: why do we indicate gender on driver's licenses anyway?
Browsing Google groups at work and finding one that shows activity of "less than 280 messages per day"
a woman wearing glasses is making a face and saying `` no , thank you , please . ''
Alt: a woman wearing glasses is making a face and saying `` no , thank you , please . ''
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Watch as Gemini adds more and more commas as it progresses through this answer
Everyone who worked at this camp should go to prison.
Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 6mo ago“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further
A career update! This week I joined @yugabytedb.bsky.social as Sr Dir of PM for the Core Database. Happy to be working on OSS and data again :)
How many dogs do you have to find to offset selling out your neighbors to ICE?
Did Microsoft just run a Superbowl ad implying using Copilot to make hiring decisions?
Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
Omg. WTF is Happening?@lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 6mo agoSir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
Trying to help kiddo set up VR link with Meta Quest and it's buggy as shit. Companies are laying off workers and just letting products rot in full view.
