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The idea of a Cabinet that had direct and easy access to the President made sense when there were four or five people, as was the case early in American history. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2&#x2
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The high inflation and poor economy flowed from in large part from the first oil crisis in 1973, and then the second one after the oil boycott following the embassy kidnapping and hostage crisis. The first oil crisis had nothing to do with
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His grades were good. His promise was recognized very early.
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At first I was expecting an ill informed rant, until I saw it was Julia Evans, who always digs down and then explains a subject with great clarity.
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Only exception was first half of 2009 when it seemed like the world had ended. Otherwise, for experienced people, something is wrong. Not trying hard enough, applying to wrong companies, terrible resume, interview very badly, demanding a j
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I think the sandwich shop and similar working class non-competes is what finally pushed this into happening.
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North Sea oil money didn't hurt.
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Speaking of pixelation. If you're nearsighted taking your glasses off can blur the pixelation of a face so that you can get a pretty good idea of the person's appearance, especially if you are just trying to guess if it's rea
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Maybe not quite in the 10KB club, but Drudge Report and Craigslist both still look like 1998 high school computer club projects and load almost instantly. Actually Hacker News is quick as well.
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The two big evolutionary pressures are believed to be a balance between protection against skin cancer vs. enough sunlight for vitamin D production. And maybe a little bit about the calories needed to actually produce melanin. For Britons,
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In the old days, an IBM man-year was 500 guys trying to get done by lunchtime.
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> Present solutions, not problems. Sometimes that's just victim blaming. In this story, the report presented the situation cogently, and the higher ups decided it would be best not to tell the client, within the context of semi-ripo
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Similar to correcting a big shot's mistaken notion, where you might say something like "Curiously, that turns out not to be the case."
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200 meters would flood the entire Mississippi Valley into Wisconsin, not to mention the ocean reaching inland to flood the entire Great Lakes. It might be disruptive.
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Not if you want to insure it, register it, keep it in good repair, and have a reserve for big repairs.
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Or how the Matrix movies came out and suddenly "Are we living in a simulation?" became an immensely important philosophical question.
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Story told which might even be true, maybe RFK, maybe JFK, maybe Teddy Kennedy, campaigning for office, visited a factory, somebody asked "Is it true you've never worked a day in your life?", and which ever Kennedy it was sta
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Yes, this is "proof" that remote work is less productive.
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Heavy list creation is one way to really slow down Python. And itertools is a real gem, full of lots of goodies to handle list manipulation tasks.
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Someone, I can't remember who, wrote an article where he said that 1.5 is the optimum team size.
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Not Brooks, but someone estimated productivity goes up about as the 0.7 power of team size. Using that exponent, two people can do 1.6 times as much work as one person so each is about 80% as productive. Ten people can do 5 times as much wo
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To use Frederick Brooks's term, the optimizations, the special cases, the interactions with other parts of the system, start to become essential complexities as the system grows. The skill of your developers is all that stands between
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> specialized committees Or permanent civil service, or to lobbying organizations that these days often write the bills and regulations.
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Typical would be very unpleasant pre-PIP ordeals. Of course managers are busy doing this instead of guiding their projects. Bad for the projects and bad for the companies. It's exactly how Lumberghs or Pointy Haired Bosses get created
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IBM, HP, some of the other big institutional employers, found this out in the 1980s. They offered buyouts for senior employees. I'm not sure exact terms, but something like a year's severance and adding five years service time to
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Yeah, but when there are hundreds or maybe even 1,000 files, splattered across who knows how many directories, it gets tiring. I suppose I could create some automation tools, and I have thought about that.
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> I really really dislike Windows when it hides paths, for example, "My Pictures". Where the heck is that? I helped my wife reorganize many hundreds of images. Finding out where they really were located and where they would ac
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> governments get serious about ad regulation Or companies pull back on Internet advertising. The unknown unknown is the creation of a new advertising method. I doubt that any newspaper in 1990 thought that this thing called the Interne
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DL/State ID is proof of identity. You can have such documents and not be eligible to work in the US. SS Card (unless stamped not for employment or the electronic equivalent) proof of eligible to work. US passport proof of identity and
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Are you a non-US citizen? Because otherwise it makes no sense. Only about 25% of US citizens have passports. The DL or State ID card is the de facto national ID card.

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