MikePlacid

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by MikePlacid 4y ago
>you didn't have as much freedom in that job as your Western colleagues. Very true. >You had to work harder than the Swedes because the alternative was worse for you. Not very true. I never worked hard in my life. I worked pro
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by MikePlacid 4y ago
>Caught me a bit by surprise as well, as Intel seems to have stagnated a bit as of late The best place for an engineer to be (in my observation) - is at a company that faces a fierce competition. To envision, design and build a pipe pump
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by MikePlacid 4y ago
>Love the blatant exploitation of visa-"enslaved" labor. Have American citizens ever tried to "check their privileges" and imagine how a life of a "visa-slave" changes after crossing the American border? I c
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by MikePlacid 4y ago
As a parent I clearly saw 3 things that would have given my kids an unfair advantage in their adult life: 1. The foundations of the American legal system - the Mock Trial club took care of that. 2. Financial literacy - I was lazy so I’ve ju
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by MikePlacid 4y ago
Yep. “Interesting times”.
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by MikePlacid 4y ago
> There’s something magical about taking your nose out of a book and finding yourself in the same setting as the characters. I had (am having?) the similar magical feeling when reading a book on iPad you can open Google Maps, find the lo
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by MikePlacid 4y ago
> collapse doesn't happen everywhere the same, nor all at once. Frankly, I have a “living experience” of a practically instantaneous collapse. January 1, 1992. Prices were “freed”, (hyper)inflation started, people life savings were
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by MikePlacid 4y ago
I am sorry if my choice of words has caused some misunderstanding, but English is my third language, so I am not able to put too many subtle nuances in my messages or to follow the latest language fashion trends. Still, there is a definitio
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by MikePlacid 4y ago
How this downsizing looks from a client's point of view: I have almost finished a 4 months long process of buying a summer house (including one failed deal), and my first financial agent - a very bright and fast girl - was fired right
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by MikePlacid 4y ago
Kinda strange that Apple has not used the time-and-customers-tested (and with a nice website) ifixit.com for the task. I only hope that iFixit will not die as a result - it’s always nice to have an alternative.
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by MikePlacid 5y ago
Anything? Ok, let’s look at a couple of examples. 1. Stealing and publishing DNC correspondence. A team of security experts, doing a magnificently fast work named exactly two culprits: a) Russian military intelligence, b) Russian political
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by MikePlacid 5y ago
Yep. I am observing this interesting gap in political correctness for a long time now. When Russians are concerned nobody (in my perception) is using a politically correct formulas (formulae?) like "a Putin-paid disinformation campaign
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by MikePlacid 5y ago
That: middle managers famously add billions of fields to the bug pages - sounds strange. Jira should reflect a software dev process in your organization, it just helps you to follow it. The process is defined by a doc which can be changed
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by MikePlacid 5y ago
Our company moved to Jira from Siebel by Oracle - THAT was a true nightmare and so Jira was a huge relief to us. But yes, it was on-prem and managed by a good admin.
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by MikePlacid 5y ago
A bit earlier than that, actually: [In 1917] the government spearheaded great changes in people’s lives, starting with housing. The Soviets nationalized private property and started the so-called “уплотнение” (housing compaction), giving r
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by MikePlacid 5y ago
Thank you for the link. It helped me to find the actual performance difference. It is significant: AMD’s performance improves by 1.32x – 1.37x overall… changing what looked like a narrow victory [for Intel] over the 3960X and a good showin
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by MikePlacid 5y ago
> But that strict version is obviously not true Yes, and the strict version was never actually taught. Well, at least - not in my lifetime, and I finished high school in 1973… So the article attacks a straw man. “My embryo had gills” is
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by MikePlacid 5y ago
> How's that "lobbying"? From the court’s decision: <<But this new law generated several years of international-trade issues with Canada and Mexico, including two disputes before the World Trade Organization and more
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by MikePlacid 5y ago
Lolwhat?? https://apps.apple.com/us/app/firefox-private-safe-browser/i...
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by MikePlacid 5y ago
> Our industry is well short of good CE graduates, Are there any? My son had a summer job in a small recruiting firm in Silicon Valley. Customers (you know them all) had just two requirements: - a proper degree from top 10 universities;
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by MikePlacid 7y ago
When my manager tried to pay for my lunch, I declined and paid myself (I am from Russia, we had no such tradition at that time). The feelings I had were a mix of: a) is he trying to make me a teacher’s pet? I am not a teacher’s pet; b) is h