Swannie

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by Swannie 13y ago
Tell that to Bill Gates, who was apparently still deep in the weeds (reviewing product specs, challenging design assumptions, etc.) whilst he was CEO of a pretty large company. (Or maybe that's just part of VP Engineering and above rol
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by Swannie 13y ago
I'm not sure you've worked with a 10x developer. They see the mess, and they see the way out. Any change they make is a refactor with the end goal in mind. Before you realize it the codebase is cleaner, concerns have been separate
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by Swannie 13y ago
Agreed. The article poorly draws comparisons with 10x engineers and executives. This VP level compensation in Twitter would be a (junior) director level package in most large corporates. The bonus is slightly more generous (I think most wou
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by Swannie 13y ago
Yep. As someone 6ft tall (183cm +-) it's an odd experience being surrounded by groups of people often taller than you!
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by Swannie 13y ago
And the food is bulked up with cheap ingredients, reducing its nutritional value :-/
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by Swannie 13y ago
Or join forces with https://medivizor.com/
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by Swannie 13y ago
My #1 tip - if you enjoyed a speaker, search them out and tell them. You'll be likely run into other like minded people who also enjoyed the presentation.
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by Swannie 13y ago
Yea. That's what I'm thinking too. If you receive bitcoins from those address you're effectively doing the same as if you were collecting cash from watched boxes in a bank vault, and the cash was radio-actively tagged. (And t
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by Swannie 13y ago
No, two PCs is much smarter. Use /etc/hosts to block access to the sites that you shouldn't be seeing on one machine to the other. One PC, two accounts, breaks for some things, like Flash cookies, etc. The other alternative i
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by Swannie 13y ago
Incredible. How is this the first time I'm reading about this topic! This is a lot more concerning than the widely publicized reduction in shark numbers. Though that particular problem is easier to fix. I wonder if more marine reserves
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by Swannie 13y ago
A successful YCombinator exit. Congrats guys. Will miss you from London. When's the party? ;-)
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by Swannie 13y ago
Yeah, I strongly agree. I never understood why people think Sandberg or Zuckerberg would every be considered by the board. Facebook is such a totally different business to one building software and hardware for operating systems, office t
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by Swannie 13y ago
No longer Nokia Siemens Networks. Nokia recently bought out their share from Siemens, and now called "Nokia Solutions and Networks". It's been a solid revenue generator for them. Just like Motorola which has a lot of cell tow
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by Swannie 13y ago
Not really embarrassing. FirefoxOS is standing on top of the success of Android... literally, it leverages all of the work on the Linux kernel, and all of the work the handset manufacturers have done in writing hardware drivers and exposing
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by Swannie 13y ago
No, the message is, if you have such a strong accent that people don't understand you, working on your language skills is not only a good idea, but it may even be a cause why you are not successful.
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by Swannie 13y ago
I'd say you accomplished your aim. Great little article, and awesome to see the power of the remote frame buffer lib.
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by Swannie 13y ago
This guy never ceases to amaze. Allez Fabrice!
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by Swannie 13y ago
OpenStack can run with LXC as the "IaaS" tier.
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by Swannie 13y ago
Not a stupid question. I am covered, during my time I am diagnosed with cancer. I get treatment, and am declared "free" of cancer. I remain that way for 5 years, and claim no more benefits. I am still covered. I leave, and join a
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by Swannie 13y ago
Hello to the person living in a bubble. Most people don't spend more than that on a car. The average price of a used car (what most people buy) is $14,375 [1]. The average savings rate in the USA is below 5% [2]. With a median househol
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by Swannie 13y ago
Oddly the BBC has a lot of exceptions to this, based on the past few weeks of "question as headline".
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by Swannie 13y ago
Serval is referenced in the article, just not by name.
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by Swannie 13y ago
Great biography!
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by Swannie 13y ago
Like how the International Atomic Energy Authority advises on nuclear power world wide?
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by Swannie 13y ago
It's taken me too long to realise that this really is just LXC or similar (OpenVZ), plus some nice directory service akin to JNDI. Analogy wise, a Linux version of a Java Application Server cluster? EAR or WAR files are not meant to co
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by Swannie 13y ago
Right. Most "brain teaser" technical interviews are just an oral test. We all know that passing a test is hugely different from productive work. I don't understand why technical interviews are not more oriented to "how w
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by Swannie 13y ago
HN has its fashionable topics. Interview bashing is popular at the moment. It's also a suggestion to me that maybe there are more people looking for work right now. That's not a particularly good sign. Either the benefits to job s
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by Swannie 13y ago
39M USD loss is a token loss, too. Cost of building, staffing and operating a warehouse is going to be far in excess of that.
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by Swannie 13y ago
It is different for car transport. Primarily for fire safety.
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by Swannie 13y ago
''escape reality (i.e. video games, films, alcohol, and drugs'' ...TV, YouTube, Hacker News, works of fiction...

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