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by JJMcJ 4y ago
That's the hiring side of the issue. What's the assurance for the person you are recruiting?
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
You need to have a very very clear idea of what the new hire will be doing when they start. Plenty of companies assign people badly and then act all surprised that they don't have a Plug Compatible Interchangeable Engineer. https:&#x
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
> fire those that don't perform up to expectations quickly What's the compensation for that risk? "We'll fire you in six weeks if you don't work out, so please leave your current job where you're well estab
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
The term "audiophile" describes someone who indeed spends huge amounts on their audio setup. It is different than someone who appreciates music, which it seems like you do.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
There are companies that offer zero compensation for oncall, expect a full week's work during oncall rotation, and expect the oncall developer to maintain normal work hours. Obviously bad places to work, but there are many of them.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
An additional $45 million in punitive damages just awarded by the jury.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
4 million in compensatory damages. Just in, jury finds 45 million in punitive damages, subject to reduction by the judge and any appeal in Jones's favor.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Yes, a connection to the physical world. Sometimes especially on Zoom I look at my cabling and think it's amazing that images of other people and their voices are going through that cable. Only on Zoom and similar video conferencing.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
I remember when CDs were very very new the first review of them in an audiophile magazine a friend subscribed to. The reviewer was quite unhappy. The next month he reviewed a different player. He basically retracted his opinion of CDs but
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
There is also some with CDs, but vinyl's the real deal. The record cleaner brush. Inspect the needle for dust. Be sure the record is properly seated. Sit back and enjoy.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
For Judith Durham, I don't know if the problem is the physical writing of the songs, or the ability to compose a song. Sources aren't clear on that.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Or here on Earth over say 100 million years with trillions of little globs of organic chemicals, likely with even simpler replication mechanisms that are not understood currently.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
To my thinking, that means that self replicating systems arose in an even simpler chemical environment and even RNA was a later development.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Don't use it myself but friends do. Didn't know about the changes.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Hah. "The business" vs. the programmers. I hate that concept but it's something we must live with.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Very much a matter of luck and details. What part of the brain is injured, how bad the bleed is, how quickly it can be treated, how good the treatment is. Anything from dead within a few minutes to no effects at all, with great variation i
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Having worked on projects drowning in technical debt, it's a very real concept.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Or else "let's have the programmers do production support too, they're paid to much to get a full night's sleep".
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
With prompt treatment, somewhere around 50%. A really bad one can kill someone in minutes. Untreated, like you're alone and nobody finds you for days, much much less, and the recovery of functioning less likely. Depends on how much bl
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Judith Durham, Australian singer and songwriter famous with The Seekers in the 1960s but active ever since, had a stroke. Afterwards she could still sing but had lost the ability to write songs.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
> burden The slow boot and shutdown times, and the interminable upgrades are almost inhuman. It seems like you can upgrade Ubuntu to a new major version faster than Windows can install a month's worth of fixes. Especially when the W
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Maps, Voice, and Docs, seem to be here to stay. Not sure about anything else. Except Search, of course, I suppose they won't close that down any time soon.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Given the timezone, cultural, supervision, issues of offshoring, that makes it less of a bargain than it used to be. Supervision - people in the USA have to oversee the offshore work, maybe even travel overseas, and video calls at 11 PM two
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Typically flat means anyone in Sales or Marketing can give orders to any developer and must be obeyed instantly.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Also some other classics like The Three Musketeers.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
My understanding is that the standard public translations of many books are viewed as inadequate and there are newer and better ones. These days I try to order from the publisher when possible even if it costs a few extra dollars.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
I don't think the client was in the USA. If it was, of course it would be a tremendous bargain.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
The competent people in India usually end up working for foreign companies directly in a development center, or for a WITCH type company in dev centers. I assume some work for Indian companies doing ordinary development work, banks, governm
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
For most jobs that is not true.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Then there's the pull cord on the Toyota assembly lines. Someone sees something wrong, they reach up, pull the cord, the whole line stops until the issue is resolved. Unlike American lines, where they defective cars would just roll on

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