Kalium

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by Kalium 6y ago
It's true of small companies too. If you don't manage well, there are negative consequences. Is it possible that what's changed is the price of good leadership?
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by Kalium 6y ago
Now you're in what is probably textbook discrimination territory.
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by Kalium 6y ago
If you're a Russian autocrat, you're probably terrified of a "color revolution" challenging your control over what you view as Russian territory. If people there get to make their own choices, they might do what the Balt
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by Kalium 6y ago
CreditKarma lets you file capital gains and so on for free.
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by Kalium 6y ago
Sounds about right, and I've corrected that same error in Europeans before. That's the kind of error someone with a limited understanding of American history or culture would make. It's an easy mistake to make, looking at a m
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by Kalium 6y ago
They're describing a procurement process that is designed to favor ownership by women, minority groups, veterans, and disabled veterans in particular. Programs like this enter into it: https://business.defense.gov/Small
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by Kalium 6y ago
> If I remember correctly, pushing back hard when not winning a contract was not done. I can’t imagine how much this would sour future contracts and future negotiations. It definitely can and does happen for big contracts. It's what
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by Kalium 6y ago
I routinely see people postulate that unions act primarily in the interests of the general public. Unions may not claim that, but at least some of their supporters do.
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by Kalium 6y ago
I once worked on a codebase that had been subject to this. It had been substantially, but incompletely, refactored at least three times in five to eight years. Everything was a mishmash of half-updated features nobody understood from the da
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by Kalium 6y ago
The UK is a deeply centralized place. There are only a few layers of devolved government, that you may or may not be subject to. There is an ability to set and enforce standards centrally. The US is not. A federalized system means that vari
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by Kalium 6y ago
I've seen devs do it while also ignoring an overloaded pipeline of work. Sometimes you manage to get the worst of both worlds.
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by Kalium 6y ago
> Why can't we have HEB in California? I think most grocery companies are really food logistics companies under the hood. Expanding requires building out the logistics. With that in mind, the answer seems to be "We can't h
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by Kalium 6y ago
I think we may be seeing an organizational issue at work. The job of a design department is to produce design. If there isn't enough new stuff to design, they will redesign old stuff. This serves to advance the critical goal to the d
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by Kalium 6y ago
In my limited personal experience, the emotional journey of "Shut up, nobody cares about your feelings you overprivileged ass" is very different from that of "That sounds very painful, I'm so sorry you're going thro
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by Kalium 6y ago
> Not sure why society should care (beyond preventing people been radicalised into becoming a danger I guess). What I find most interesting about this reaction is that it often comes from people who wholeheartedly believe in kindness, c
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by Kalium 6y ago
I bought eggs today. There's a 1200% flood of new eggs in my fridge! Some might consider it relevant that I had two eggs before that.
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by Kalium 6y ago
Similarly, a lot of companies use systems that they believe could get the up and running on a different cloud vendor should that day come to pass. Until then, they don't maintain a full second or third environment. This is equivalent t
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by Kalium 6y ago
> What are you waiting for ordering those servers right now, while Amazon is still working? The startup costs, ongoing maintenance, and organizational costs of mitigating this kind of risk have to be considered with an evaluation of the
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by Kalium 6y ago
Sometimes it does happen. I once interviewed with a company that was hiring because one of their engineers had died in a motorcycle accident. Personally, I think trying to reframe it as happy and positive and coming with a grace period is a
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by Kalium 6y ago
> Don't you think you're putting an unreasonably high burden on people? In a world where the question of "Should we attempt to do a thing?" depends in part on whether or not there's a way to do it that brings mor
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by Kalium 6y ago
One of the interesting caveats about extraditions treaties is that they generally only apply to things that the country doing the expediting consider to be criminal. With that in mind, someone spends their life in country A and does a bunch
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by Kalium 6y ago
I've worked with enough people in both groups to have little difficulty believing either. More than once I've had an engineer on my team that we worked with by confining their work to somewhere where they couldn't do much dam
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by Kalium 6y ago
I think it's one of the key virtues of the programmer: arrogance. I've worked with engineers who hated frameworks. They saw them as overhead imposed by force on everything they did that didn't know or care what they actuall
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by Kalium 6y ago
Also true! That said, it continues to strain credulity that 50% of interviewees for engineering jobs suffer from forgetting the most fundamental of tools in the face of an interview. So I am led inescapably to the conclusion that there are
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by Kalium 6y ago
Very true. That said, sometimes they're basic skills. In one job a few back, I did a lot of resume-reading and phone screening. I used basic questions. A solid 50% of screenees failed FizzBuzz. Now, it's absolutely possible that
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by Kalium 6y ago
I believe they mean they blocked the number Facebook was using to text them from, after giving Facebook their phone number. Ergo, they did not block their own number.
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by Kalium 6y ago
> How can a Nigerian national face charges in the US for crimes he committed in Nigeria? Defrauding a company across international borders potentially involves committing crimes in multiple countries. The country the defrauded is in, the
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by Kalium 6y ago
Thank you! That's absolutely amazing reading. Have any of those $250k bounties been paid out? The $40k figure was something I found from a bounty that's actually been paid, rather than a hypothetical one.
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by Kalium 6y ago
> it’s important for musicians to be able to make a decent living at their work I think this depends on a great many factors. Do you mean possible for some musicians, everyone who wants to do music in some capacity, or somewhere in betw
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by Kalium 6y ago
Death? One of the things that happens when consumers have options they didn't before is previously invisible preferences become expressible. What if the bulk of consumers never cared much about albums as coherent pieces of art? What if

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