Simon_ORourke

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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
For a second there I mis-read that as Canva, and thought what the hell?
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
No, say you're on a team of five with two consistently poor performers that not only fail to achieve limited tasks, but constantly draw off support from the rest of the team. There's no technical fix for that. The nuclear option o
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
This seems quite appropriate listening to half wits like Joe Rogan giving equal weight to an expert in a given topic and then cutting away unashamedly to some fruitloop with a theory that would make a sane person blush.
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
> We spent a whole week learning about all the clever tricks Harrah's data scientists found to keep people in the gambling halls. What sort of stuff are they pulling? Like sending down a five dollar cocktail to keep someone spending
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
These look like those corrective glasses the doctor gave Bart Simpson - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Cgi8WqjU1U
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
The key verb here is "plead" - they've absolutely zero power in the decision making process beyond deciding to leave or stay. Andy Jassy is a smart guy, all this smoke he's blowing about enhanced communications and coope
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
Endeavour to listen to this later, but if it's like the blog it'll be quality.
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
> Attempt no landing there. And what did folks try and do in the sequel? Attempt to do a s*t-ton of moon landings!! Best commentary on the nature of humanity in any work of fiction since the Bible.
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
I've always wondered that myself, especially why all the focus and acclaim for the violinists over and above the other musicians. I'm sure it's pretty difficult to play the French horn or the clarinet, so why is it always a b
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
It does indeed, if you could squirrel away a few million from nosey prosecutors, do your two years and come out "clean" the other side (assuming it's a federal rap with no possibility of remission for his behavior).
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
A few, but in my defence I never claim to be all-knowing or otherwise omnipotent.
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
If we're God's plan, she mustn't have put too much thought into it.
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
Same here - and I'm always left wondering what manner of trivial/cosmetic cases are taking up these bookings and leaving more urgent medical cases to wait.
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
> leader in the find long lost relative space/your "roots" space. Acknowledging Ancestry.com are well ahead of the market here, but I never got their appeal of finding some long-lost second cousins... basically strangers,
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
> 1. Are you or others in immediate danger? If so, get out and help others get out. Wanting to help folks out is great, but if there's one role going in some related company, and there's a few on your team who are going to be o
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
Absolutely this - management will do whatever it takes to help management get through whatever problem they currently have, and if that's outright lying to IC's, or stringing them along for a few months they will do that, and not
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
In fairness, anyone trying to convince me of any given fact of authorship could do well by leaving the bright red shirt and braces combo in the wardrobe.
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
Absolute nonsense, you would use a tablespoon for a criminal purpose if you wanted to.
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
It's a cultural thing, I know of one Russian guy recently who went for an interview for a principal dev in a FAANG company, and didn't get the role because he was too serious, no smiles, no little ice-breaking smirks, no chortles
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
> Muilenberg and McNerney “had personal reasons to emphasize productivity and cost-cutting” because their compensation was tied to share performance. Together they took $209 million in total pay over seven years. Absolutely stunning - th
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
So what happens with these costs - surely the failed litigant should shoulder some if not all of the costs of defending this defamation claim?
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
This is nonsense, bordering on tripe.
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
Where I work, we've got a public-facing chatbot on the product page to, you know, help out possible customers with product information. As part of a chatbot refresh, I got to look at some of the chats, and boy howdy, some of them were
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
My pop's uncle was one of those Atlantic dots, he got off the SS Santore in 1942 after it stuck a mine coming out of Chesapeake Bay, and I remember growing up with his stories of how the merchant marine took greater casualties than any
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
Pupil size maybe, but those poor unfortunate folks with eyes spaced too closely together unfairly appear to be cognitively challenged. Like my former CEO, looked dumb, folks instinctively underestimated him and he always came out on top in
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
Yes, but look at it from the other perspective, if they state things clearly they're not puffing themselves up to their fullest extent for academic peers and funding bodies.
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
In full respect, this guy validated his first point about lack of trust in his opening remark "I am a chemical engineer". If he'd have said something about being an expert marketer I'd have stopped reading there and then
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
Bah, they're fighting a losing game, no different from trying to grab water.
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
For an overtly authoritarian institution it actually surprises me they do the old delete and pretend it never happened approach to basic security.
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
The guy was right, but as a donor surely someone there could have just instructed the architect not to add them in. Here on one side of the argument is a rich guy who's giving you millions, and on the other a glorified hired hand who&#

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