Bucephalus355

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by Bucephalus355 9y ago
While I guess Google isn't technically deprecating Drive, the very confusion introduced by them and this announcement is still not good. Why couldn't they have just used the same name, and upgrade the software? Why was there this
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by Bucephalus355 9y ago
Just looked at the physical book. I work in DevOps but just in general want to say physical books are great and highly underrated for how quickly you can access info / other things. https://www.dropbox.com/s/mqmmlf
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by Bucephalus355 9y ago
Just posted above on K. Anders Ericcson and the book Peak is great. Main point is the 10,000 hour rule comes from Ericcson's study that the best violinists in the world practice about 7,000 hours by the time they are 18. They average b
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by Bucephalus355 9y ago
Hey want to provide some quick clarification on your point. First, you are dramatically, 110% right that pop psychology books plunder really valuable research such as this for ultimately banal insights that they manage to hide in a 300 page
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Most jobs, at least at big employers, are split up into 4 quartile ranges. So bottom 25, lower middle 25, upper middle 25, and upper 25. Obviously super simple, but it helps to realize this framework going in. You can actually buy textbooks
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I've heard people say they were encouraged not to major in CS because of the belief that all of those jobs would be outsourced. This is from people starting college in 06 and 07. It's amazing to think people thought that at one ti
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Amazon has been pretty careful about their appearances in town. A good example that I saw when I went to Seattle is the subtle shame you experience as an employee if you drive yourself to work. Supposed to carpool / do whatever else yo
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by Bucephalus355 9y ago
Your point is well written but you seem to be referencing some past golden age of inter-person cooperation before "big government" got involved. I'm not saying your wrong but anytime our thoughts lead us to imagine the past a
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Great mindmap. One thing I want to add though is that for some reason "mindmaps" are all the rage now, but they really are just one type of "concept map". If you get a chance, look into concept mapping. It will give you
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by Bucephalus355 9y ago
LinuxAcademy is good, surprisingly it really shines for AWS stuff. A Cloud Guru is also good. Also want to add LinuxJourney.org, although it's free. Absolutely consider Udemy, they have some real gems in their catalog. Good for everyth
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The last sentence of this post perfectly describes Austin, Texas.
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Also dear god please use www.Thriftbooks.com or at least give it a chance. It dramatically lowered my prices from Amazon, by around 60% per book. Plus you get $5 back from every $50 purchased for the next time you buy, so it's effectiv
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by Bucephalus355 9y ago
Instead of looking for books, these days I try to keep an eye on publishers more. Consistent quality books tends to come out of the same publisher, and it's really easy to follow just a few. Also by following publishers you can be more
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by Bucephalus355 9y ago
Currently reading "Simulacra and Simulation" by Jean Baudrillard. This is a really fascinating book, probably one of the biggest in Post-Modernism. It is the primary inspiration for the movie "The Matrix". When Neo takes
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by Bucephalus355 9y ago
Worked at Oracle for 5 years...was in a similar situation. Left to go to a 9 person company full of hot shot DevOps engineers, couldn't have been more happy to be the dumbest person in the room everyday. I learn so much I feel like I s
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by Bucephalus355 9y ago
Microsoft was pretty infamous for his behavior in the 90's. They'd send down some VP, pretend they'd be interesting in acquiring your company, and then suddenly stop responding to your emails. 2 months later, they'd rele
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by Bucephalus355 9y ago
“Without realizing the implications, a handful of tech leaders at Google and Facebook have built the most pervasive, centralized systems for steering human attention that has ever existed, while enabling skilled actors (addictive apps, bots
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As someone who invests in Index Funds this does worry me. Surely we can't all invest in Index Funds and still have everything work? I don't think it's an issue for now, but something to keep an eye out for 10, 20 years into
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by Bucephalus355 9y ago
Google, to some extent, sanitizes the web of comments they do not feel should be on the web. I have no clue how much this is done, but the best example is Glassdoor. I've had multiple friends post their Google interview reviews, some p
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Make no mistake, Google Search is absolute shit. The larger issue though is that in general search is absolute shit. I have a sizable library in my 1 bedroom apartment. It's about 1500 books. For the record I'll say if you find a
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by Bucephalus355 9y ago
There was a thread a while ago on HN where someone mentioned they design EMR and EHR systems and for a particular module they design they couldn't put in autofilled dates because the nurses union saw it as a slippery slope to them bein
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by Bucephalus355 9y ago
I was shocked to see this comment as it rang so true for me. I worked at Oracle for many years, and I think it's a pretty well run company, but this theme of "the smart people leave, the dumb people stay and promote other dumb peo
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I am going to come out here strongly in favor of medication. All of the natural stuff you've been trying, the meditation, the emotional stuff, it's good and I appreciate it, but it just doesn't work significantly. As a societ