LargeWu

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by LargeWu 11y ago
"lack of supervision" If you need to "supervise" your employees, you have either hired the wrong people, or not given them agency to just do what needs to be done. In either case, remote isn't going to work, but it&
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by LargeWu 11y ago
The culture problem is that the team believes a tool to help get work done is to be used for frivolous activities. No amount of technological solutioning is going to prevent people from mixing "donuts in the break room" in with im
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by LargeWu 11y ago
You have a culture problem, not a technology problem.
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by LargeWu 11y ago
Think of the damage all this unhealthy food loaded with sugar, saturated fat, and sodium is doing to the community. Heart disease and diabetes are rampant problems among the poor because this kind of food is cheaper (often due to govt. subs
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by LargeWu 11y ago
If she doesn't have CSS chops, then it makes a lot of sense. Much easier to build the components in photoshop or whatever and just get them stitched together. It doesn't look like she's interested in any sort of development r
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by LargeWu 11y ago
To be fair, one of those was Harriet Miers, who was eminently unqualified for the position, and 100% deserved to be blocked.
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by LargeWu 11y ago
1) Edit or remove the post 2) Keep the position open for longer than 24 hours. Yes, it's entirely possible that an amazing candidate somehow saw the post, applied, and got hired in 24 hours, but more likely is that there was no open po
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by LargeWu 11y ago
Correction, Daily Fantasy Sports. Regular ol' fantasy sports, where you manage a team over the course of the season is specifically legal. The argument around DFS is that it's not the same as fantasy sports.
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by LargeWu 11y ago
“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
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by LargeWu 11y ago
Stop thinking of startups as "startups" and instead as businesses. The whole startup mentality of prizing growth and valuation, at least from the outside, seems greedy, rapacious and unsustainable.
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by LargeWu 11y ago
In the Dakotas, the word 'town' is more of a colloquial term. The requirements to be a town are basically that you have one of the following operating: post office, bar, or church. Really, because its so sparsely populated, it may
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by LargeWu 11y ago
All of the upsides for microservices the author enumerates are really luxuries that may or may not be afforded a harried team trying to beat their next deadline, which they're having trouble doing because they're slowed down due t
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by LargeWu 11y ago
No, in fact the interview addresses this specifically: "The home of Thomas Drake, a senior executive at the NSA, was searched, his passport was cancelled and he lived under the threat of 35 years imprisonment for four years, prosecuted
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by LargeWu 11y ago
False. While most pro teams in major leagues other than NFL have local TV deals, the leagues control all of the national broadcast rights, including streaming services, and that's not likely to change anytime soon.
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by LargeWu 11y ago
Well I agree the video doesn't prove anything. Would need to see a more controlled study. At minimum I would like to see what that line does without any sweeping. If you watch closely you can see the sweeping appears to cause the rock
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by LargeWu 11y ago
Sports draw the line on equipment all the time. Professional baseball, for example, does not use aluminum bats. Pro golf has extensive lists of approved/disallowed equipment. The key here is that the professionals claim it fundamental
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by LargeWu 11y ago
That prize isn't needed, as evidenced by the overwhelming gender imbalance in chess.
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by LargeWu 11y ago
Also REAMDE, which features T'RAIN, the fictional successor to WoW.
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by LargeWu 11y ago
But they got the implications of it right. "There isn't a government in the world that wouldn't kill us all to get their hands on this." That is absolutely true. Whether or not such a device exists, or could possibly e
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by LargeWu 11y ago
I can't reply to sama's comment below, for some reason, but I would be interested to hear the median valuation of all YC backed startups. My hypothesis is that number tells a very different story.
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by LargeWu 11y ago
Just because something is a "soft skill" doesn't mean it's easy. I suspect anybody that thinks effective management is easy would not do very well in that role. I've seen plenty of competent developers get chewed up
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by LargeWu 11y ago
Are you equally as uncomfortable with libraries?
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by LargeWu 12y ago
Another bug: Adding a middle initial to the first player (Carlos), but no other lines, and I typed in "Carlos plays soccer" results in: Carlos plays soccer baseball plays USA basketball plays USA soccer plays Japan Cool idea thoug
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by LargeWu 12y ago
It's not a matter of how they physically get the signal, it's a matter of whether they have license to use that signal in a commercial setting.
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by LargeWu 12y ago
Not his best novel, but it was a lot of fun and was well paced. It had a lot more action than most of his larger novels, which was kind of a nice departure.
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by LargeWu 12y ago
Civil rights is a "vanity cause"?
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by LargeWu 12y ago
It's not about a pissing contest who has worse traffic. It's that I don't need to get a job with a commute, so I don't.
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by LargeWu 12y ago
Maybe it's because you're in Minnetonka, but you think you're in Minneapolis. I live in Minneapolis and have no interest in commuting out to Minnetonka. I won't even bother checking job postings out there. Unless you liv
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by LargeWu 12y ago
I once worked at a major big box retailer where somebody came up with a visualization that purported to show, for a given product category, purchases made in other categories. One surprising purchase correlation was customers bought TV sta
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by LargeWu 12y ago
Maybe people are starting to catch on that gemstones are big fucking scam. The entire value proposition of gemstones and precious metals is scarcity, which is artificially controlled by cartels like De Beers.

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