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by HillRat 7y ago
5% doesn’t solve the problem, but it makes it more tractable. Enough 5% (or 4%, 3%, 2%…) solutions that integrate well into the existing economy, and you get GHG emissions into a range where the complex, expensive, and disruptive (in the tr
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by HillRat 7y ago
One thing they don’t get into, but which becomes a significant pain, is what happens if history is wrong — for example, a policy is mis-entered and you need to adjust past financials. I architected precisely one insurance finance system, an
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by HillRat 7y ago
It’s not just resolution; the dynamic range (the “f-stops”) of the human visual system is incredibly wider than even high-quality film and digital cameras, meaning that cameras are much less capable at handling details between wide ranges o
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by HillRat 7y ago
What I find interesting is that he still doesn’t realize that because Microsoft was dominant in specific plays (desktop OSes, productivity software, e-mail clients) it was precluded by internal culture from innovating on mobile. Their suc
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Stanford researchers work on privacy-aware virtual assistant(nytimes.com)
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by HillRat 7y ago
The skills of a good journalist — interviewing, elicitation, focus on critical details, and the ability to build a compelling story — are skills that /anyone/ should find valuable. But a developer or architect responsible for prod
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by HillRat 7y ago
The Census Bureau’s TIGER/Line is the authoritative repository of US streets and features data, regularly updated by municipalities and counties. For-profit mapping services augment the data and use drivers to make sure they’re on top
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by HillRat 7y ago
And Adobe’s AEM lives on top of Jackrabbit Oak, their next-gen JCR. For a lot of purposes, Jackrabbit Oak makes a pretty good general-purpose headless CMS in its own right (assuming you’re good with the JCR pragmatics).
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by HillRat 7y ago
This article goes off the rails when it conflates fuzzy set theory with connectionism, and then goes over the cliff when it starts talking about ethics without reference to any of the underlying philosophical theories of ethical reasoning u
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by HillRat 7y ago
Big problems mean big projects, big risks, big staffing plans, big costs, and smaller margins. If you can bear the cost of sales, ten $10mm projects beat a single $100mm in my experience.
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by HillRat 7y ago
The price tag for the tunnel is pretty much what you’d expect at the low end of civil engineering costs, so there’s no room in the pricing if things start to go south. Musk’s entire premise is that there are magical inefficiencies in the co
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by HillRat 7y ago
Strikes me as something that may violate “failure to haul” laws in many municipalities. While there are a lot of egregious, openly racist, refusals by (e.g, NYC) cabbies to pick up black or Latino riders, chasing down individual cabbies mea
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by HillRat 7y ago
Yeah, to put it mildly, J. Random Web Developer’s view on the news business is … not helpful. It’s not as if news orgs don’t hate their current monetization models; a quick spin through Poynter would have confirmed that for him, while he pr
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by HillRat 7y ago
At this point most of the “practical” work seems to be proactive in nature; e.g., financial firms (such as GS) developing quantum solutions that aren’t currently useful, but will be extremely valuable if and when quantum computing can scale
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by HillRat 7y ago
Propofol-only deep sedation is commonly used for minor outpatient procedures. If you’re going to have a patient down for less than an hour for a colonoscopy or endoscopy, it’s a very popular alternative to combination sedation as patient re
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by HillRat 7y ago
Weirdly enough, one little-stated aspect of that dynamic is that as a client you can sue a major consulting or services firm for delivery failure and expect to get something out of it, whereas that option is rarely available for smaller fir
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by HillRat 7y ago
I think many people, especially developers, often fail to appreciate how much of decisionmaking in organizations is the result of sustained negotiation between groups that have different conceptual models of what the business does. In the O
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by HillRat 7y ago
What lessons have you learned from each failure? How can you take your experience forward into your next opportunity? Failure is the default state of new businesses. The key question is if you’ve learned enough each step of the way to reduc
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by HillRat 7y ago
To be fair to CF, it’s really easy to write server-side rendered CRUD apps in it, and there’s a lot of functionality baked it to support it. But RoR is just as easy, and lacks the, ah, legacy aspects of the CF language and runtime that are
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by HillRat 7y ago
In Texas, if nowhere else, it’s established that SaaS is a “business service” and taxed appropriately either via sales or use tax. (Texas is unusual in taxing business services, however.)
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by HillRat 7y ago
This is not uncommon in the PE/LBO world; often “turnaround CEOs” are finance professionals who essentially act as lieutenants for the GPs rather than independent executives. The real problem is when those people then go back into th
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by HillRat 7y ago
Beyond that, you could definitely migrate iPhone production to, say, Foxconn’s production facilities in Guadalajara with appropriate production guarantees from Apple and satellite investments from other entities to replicate the PRC supply
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by HillRat 7y ago
It would actually be a pretty good way to see if a candidate can be persuasive, logical, able to acknowledge opposing points of view, and capable of divorcing argument from emotion on heated topics. Pretty crucial skills in the workplace!
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by HillRat 7y ago
Any IP encumbrances we should be aware of?
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by HillRat 7y ago
A new city attorney settled with him a year later as part of an effort to get the city free of a whole raft of §1983 violations, the sort of incessant petty but systemic abuses of authority that can lead to municipal bankruptcy.
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by HillRat 7y ago
Absolutely not true, I’m afraid. I’ve architected or worked with message bus architectures in large-scale medical payments processing systems, as a central broker for a national-level telecommunications company, multiple Fortune 500 consume
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by HillRat 7y ago
It’s actually a reasonable estimate of salary + benefits + operating costs, adjusted to cover non-billable hours, with a small profit on top. I’d want a more formal cost accounting model, but as a rule of thumb it’s pretty solid. People cos
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by HillRat 7y ago
You always charge hourly, it’s just that you don’t always expose it as such. All of your costs are either driven by time (rent, salry and benefits, SaaS costs, calories per day) or amortizable over expected number of billing hours. You ne
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by HillRat 7y ago
So now all Nest accounts have to go through Google. Can’t wait for the first time some Android developer gets their Google account locked and suddenly can’t change the temperature on their HVAC unit.
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by HillRat 7y ago
Agile doesn’t excuse you from having to do the work of resourcing, budgeting, business alignment, goal setting, sprint planning, acquisition, and so on. For bite-sized projects with just a few developers, it’s less of an issue, but for a pr

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