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Does Your Business Have a "Regressive Gene"?
Tom is a big fan of geneology, are you familiar with it? If not, it’s the study of ones family history, and ancestors. Chunga’s grandparents were big fans of geneology and created a hightly detailed blueprint of how Chunga became…
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STRIKE! Is A.I. Ruining Video Games?
In his other life, Chunga is a voice actor and is a member of several acting unions. Lately, that means he’s always on strike for one reason or another. Well, its happening again… This time, voice actors are striking against the video game…
SO MANY CYBER-ATTACKS!!
Tom has lost his wallet! This has never happened before! If you find it, will you please let him know? Although his fresh back from his vacation, Tom is feeling anything but relaxed and recharged. In truth, he feels like he came home…
Data Center Drama
For a long time, Tom has wanted to do an episode of The Hacks that’s centered around what he refers to as data center “bloopers”. Chunga isn’t entirely sure what he means by this. Tom has always been amazed by the cathedral like way in which data…
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The Freemium Up-sale Fallacy
In this episode of The Hacks, Tom & Chunga are talking about freemium software. When you think of freemium software, what comes to your mind? Is it Google? Maybe Facebook or a different social media platform? In the world of open source,…
Tom Talks About Tiamat!
Chunga is really surprised that he and Tom have never talked about Tiamat on The Hacks before. Especially considering how valuable it is within the world of Salt! Tiamat solves a fundamental problem with Python. As many of you know, Python is an…
SaltConf21 Why It's So Important to Salt and to you!!
SaltConf21 is happening on November 3rd and 4th this year, and once again, it’s going to be virtual. Registration is completely FREE and you reserve your spot right now at ! In this episode of The Hacks, Tom and Chunga talk about why SaltConf is so…
Tom's 3-Types of Managers
Tom Hatch has been around the block. When it comes to the world of Tech, he’s seen it all. Especially when it comes to the business side of the industry. Because he has so much experience, Tom has broken down corporate managers into three…
We Have a BIG Problem! The Tech Industry Can't Find Enough Talent!
You’ve seen it happening across all industries–companies are having substantial staffing problems and labor shortages. The tech industry is certainly not immune to this problem. Sadly within our space, it’s even worse. Currently, there are…
What Is Resource Gravity?
Tom wants to talk with Chunga about something called “Resource Gravity”. Have you ever heard of it? Simply put, resource gravity is a problem. It starts when a large piece of software is conceptualized and the construction of that software is too…