AdrianB1

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by AdrianB1 4y ago
Really curious about something: according to the Pareto principle you should identify the top square root of employees that are top performers and pay them significantly more than the rest (they are producing several times more,~ 9 times,
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
Curious: in what way better? I am doing interviews from time to time just to see what is outside and I found companies with better pay but very toxic atmosphere, companies that pay less but great to work in (relaxed, friendly), not yet bett
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
My personal advice to anyone is to move from a company before you are there for 10 years. It does not matter how well you are doing, how good you are rated, it is both a career killer and a personal investment that will make it a lot harder
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
I work in a different vertical industry and I can tell the company perspective: they will die for pennies and ignore the value that comes from outside if someone important in the company will not benefit from it, one way or another. Regular
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
They hire local people that know the system and can navigate it. When I was in CR navigating was not simple, but I always got where I wanted to be. In a way it was interesting as very precise time was not possible, I think that makes people
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
F# is also Microsoft, is it? I am thinking about third parties that want to use the dot net ecosystem with their own languages.
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
Stupid question of the week that came to me after reading this: is there any language that compiles to dot net intermediate language, so it runs on do net like C# but with a different syntax like Nim? There are advantages and disadvantages,
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
My brother has a couple of small apps he wrote in Deplhi for his company; is is not a software developer, but an infrastructure manager, but he still plays with Delphi after ~ 25 years since he learned Pascal and moved ~2002 to Delphi. His
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
This is disingenuous. Drinking vodka is not a constitutional right, it is just something that is not forbidden by law, so you are comparing 2 very different things. For any constitutional right people should be proud to show support and exe
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
No, top priests were actually collaborationists. The anti-Ceausescu coup d'etat was done by a hard-left, atheist group (public face being Ion Iliescu).
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
Fully agree with the first part, disagree with the second: women elected to work, they did not needed to work. Single income family was in a way better than dual income family, the world was in a great shape in the '60-'70 when wo
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
I thought the same, but real life experience shows that in my country (Romania) there is an increase of religion with age, especially for women; in other words, most women start being religious when they age and these days most of the relig
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
I did not read the article as "we want 300 million in France", but a study on demographics and the number is just a projection of a data point a few hundred years ago to compare with current number.
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
It is a mess and there is more to it. I have 2 Microsoft accounts on the same email address, one is a personal account I created ~ 10 years ago and one that appeared out of the blue a few years ago. The second one seems to be created by my
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
Strange. Like most of the C64 games in that era in my country, my brother and I got a pirated copy with no instructions and we never had any problem figuring out how it works.
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
None of the C64 games aged well in terms of graphics. Back in mid 90's I borrowed from a friend a C64 with a floppy disk drive, as I sold my C64 a few years earlier and I only had the tape unit, and tried to play some of the games I wa
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
Internet can exist without a country or more. It cannot exist if all the countries decide to shut down all the infrastructure in their territories, but Internet can thrive without UK, while UK cannot live without Internet, not today.
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
They operate where this is possible; if, for example, Signal operates in North Korea it is not because they have offices there, but because some people in NK can get a client and connect. If Signal would have offices in NK, it is guaranteed
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
Sovereignty on Internet in the Internet age is a nonsense; Internet is not the possession of a government, participating to the Internet at country level (dot uk) is voluntary, if UK wants to get out of Internet as a mesh of interconnected
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
The insurance companies have huge discounts, even 90% for many procedures. The price list is usually for uninsured people, not what is ever paid by insurance.
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
A friend that is a doctor specialized in metabolic problems told me that around 5% of the cases of obesity have some medical cause, not eating too much. 5% is low, but it is a lot more than "very few exceptions". (Disclaimer: the
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
At stake is not the free speech, but the qualified immunity concept (something made up by SCOTUS 50-60 years ago).
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
It does not matter, police officers have qualified immunity in all cases except when they don't, and they don't only if there is already a legal precedent telling they don't. Yes, circular reasoning.
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
No, sentences are not served in parallel here, they are merged ("contopite") into a single one that is the longest plus a small extra that makes up for all others. For example 5 sentences of 5 years each are merged into one of ~ 6
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
Romania. I don't have official statistics, there were some news also mentioning it. I don't think anybody is counting it to avoid public rage. About 10 years ago I read about 2 sisters that had 33 children in total, I don't r
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
Your country has a wiser system than mine.
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
Endgame in my country is that pregnant women cannot be imprisoned for any reason, plus a couple of years post birth; we have cases where they get pregnant again and again until the prison sentence ends, so they never spend a day in prison.
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
For most it is working because talent is not what they are looking for, but cheap labor. I saw companies that prefer to pay 3 people in India to deliver less than 1 person in UK just because they want to have people in low cost locations no
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
Not sure the average German software engineer costs 1/3 of the USA one, but I am sure Germany is still in Western Europe and considered a high cost location. The average German still makes 2-3 times more than the average Bulgarian or R
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
That is the opening question leading to "why hire anyone in USA or Western Europe when Asia exists?"

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