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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 Balance of Product and Engineering
Chunga feels a little intimidated about this episode. Today, he and Tom are going to climb into the dark recesses of the mind of a software engineer! They’re talking about the balance of product and engineering. Where do most engineers start their…
You Had a Bad Launch--Now What?
After taking a short break, thanks to Chunga getting the CoronaVirus, The Hacks has returned! In this episode, Tom and Chunga are talking about something we’ve all had to go through–a launch that goes bad. It’s happened to all of us, Chunga thinks…
Do You Really Think Your Data Is Safe? Do You Really?
Chunga can tell Tom hasn’t slept well over the past few days. Typically, when he’s sleep-deprived, his brain tends to drift and focus on strange things like conspiracy theories. This time, Tom is obsessing over passwords. Thanks to his history in the…
Open Source Is Terrible At This...
Tom and Chunga are breaking their own cardinal rule on this episode of The Hacks! You all know they both love open source and that Tom is a bit of a rock star in the space, but that doesn’t mean that they believe open source is perfect; quite the…
Can Tech Professionals Ever Return To The Office?
Tom and Chunga have a question for all of you. A few days ago, they saw a news story that talked about the rapid decline of covid cases around the U.S. The main focus of this story was the growing concern over mental stability as people start…
Are Open Source Databases Dead?
Not too long ago, there was a story that made all of the industry trade publications. Elasticsearch created a huge stir by moving the core of their stack from Apache 2 to a registered license. Every time a large company does something like this,…