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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Really don't know but this page, for California corporations, seem to say that's one way. https://www.sos.ca.gov/business-programs/business-entities/s...
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Hard to assess with regard to right-to-repair, but many companies have gotten in trouble by assuming that open source licenses of one kind or another are just some hippie/commie psychodrama. That's all true until the process serve
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Almost all DMV problems are due to understaffing, not any laziness or incompetence on the part of the people who work there. In California the DMV experience was greatly improved by having appointments, and for walk in, you get a number and
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
No, I once saw this described for Nebraska. I don't remember the details or which party benefited from each possibility. Here's an idealized example. Imagine a state with 1,000,000 people. 400,000 Democrats live in a narrow str
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Square state, two Congressional districts, relatively uniform population distribution but one party clustered in one section of state. Sometimes you get different outcomes if you divide state in half north-south vs. east-west, depending on
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Late reply. My point is not number of reports, but number of people. A directorate might have 25 managers, and maybe 200 developers. Of those developers 4 or 5 might be staff/principal, and it might be as small as 1 or 2, or even zero
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
> whales . . . sustainable That's maybe 100,000 people doing the hunting. Not a world-wide hunt to support the needs of maybe 50 million people in the developed world as in 1850. Whaling continued into the 20th Century in a big way
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
> PhD with 4 years of experience Google and other FAANGs pay very well, so it's not surprising they can hire PhDs but I sometimes wonder about the negative effects of vacuuming up so many research level people and having them do ver
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
This reminded me of something else. The German General Staff in the old days would have training exercises where the objectives could only be met by disobeying orders. And the test with the magic dingus with the buttons and levers somehow r
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Also color blindness and low contrast.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
So if they make one promotion, they are OK indefinitely?
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
In the military the E9/O1 issue is at least understood. Not so much in corporate life. The parity between the two ladders is something of a myth. At most companies, you can see that clearly if you count heads. A director might overse
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Then there are ultra-micro companies where there can never be a promotion, only a raise, because the team is one or two people. Then it's likely 3% forever.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
In Robert Heinlein's early juvenile novel Space Cadet, the applicants are given a device and a set of instructions. The instructions make no sense for the device in question. Assuming this is based on something real life, I suppose it
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Had to look it up. Objectives and key results (OKR, alternatively OKRs). More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OKR . Hmm. If you are supposed to not meet all your OKRs, then that guarantees you will have a record of
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Is Google an up or out company? That is, if you don't get a promotion in a certain number of years, you will be encouraged to leave? That would encourage making projects more complex than they need to be, to get that promotion.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
> `readlink -f` Other languages have this also. In fact it's a C language system call in Linux, though it only goes one indirection level at a time. This is useful if you run a script and want to use files contained in the director
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Is there a book for Haskell comparable to Practical Common Lisp? Teaching the language while showing examples of using it for day to day tasks, like file management
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Exact origin is obscure. Some think it relates to paying a farmer, some that it refers to a death benefit.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Or by having a third party, a temporary agency, actually employee the resident of another state. Manpower is large and well known example of such an agency here in the USA. Get legal and tax advice to see if this will work in your situation
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
One workaround for this is to have the employee "payrolled" through a temporary agency. They handle the paperwork, and all the state compliance. The markup over handling this yourself is smaller than if the agency locates the emp
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Hence the old term "bought the farm" for a crash landing.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Interesting article. But the web page itself: the PageDown key doesn't work for scrolling, though the arrow keys do.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
A few ISPs, like Sonic, maintain neutrality by their own policies. Then I read not only of throttling but of horrors like replacing ads on websites with different ones that pay the ISP.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
> documentation sites, blog-like sites Sites like those can often be fully static sites. Process the docs or the blog posts into HTML. Nothing is generated at runtime. Of course you can cheat a tiny bit, like putting the date in the fo
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Property tax is the only tax I know of, at least in the US, that's on static wealth rather than economic activity. Your stock goes from 500 shares at $20 to 500 shares at $2000, no tax on that $999,000 gain until you sell. Your house g
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
If the typical ads on YouTube for bootcamps are any indication, I can believe the self worth issue. The clear implication is that you finish the bootcamp and you will be on top of the world.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Not clear on need for fsync and sync. Are those for networked like NTFS or just as security against crashes. Logically on a single system there would be no effect assuming error free filesystem operation. Unless I'm missing something.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
The concept of shareholder value really got started in the 1970s, pushed by Milton Friedman and others. And value seems to be interpreted as nothing more than the stock price. Hence the idea that anything is justified as long as it gooses
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> Risk taking in the workplace You mean like this bold approach to development? Programmer: "Please, boss, let me write this one in Rust." Manager: "OK, but if you are even one day late, you job will be on the line."

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