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by _jal 4y ago
Agreed, this gets super fuzzy at some point, most quibbles with the list will probably have some merit.
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by _jal 4y ago
Edited to add acquisitions, where appropriate: - Maps (Keyhole, Where2, Endoxion) - AdWords (Doubleclick) - Gmail (reMail) - YouTube (Youtube) - Analytics (Urchin) - Translate (Phonetic Arts) - Calendar (Timeful) - Docs (Upstartle)
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by _jal 4y ago
It isn't quite a check-box, but here's Ring's exigent circumstances form: https://support.ring.com/hc/en-us/article_attachments/360053...
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by _jal 4y ago
"Let me hold your wallet". "No way!" "OK, then just let me hold everything that's in it."
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by _jal 4y ago
That's an aggressive opening.
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Evo psych like this is generally indistinguishable from just-so stories. My partner (US American woman) thinks dogs have been bred to act needy and pathetic. I tend to agree. I guess I can see how that could be mistaken that for loyalty, bu
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by _jal 4y ago
Twitter is not "the public square". It is a night club. Confusing private, for-profit businesses for public assets does a disservice to, and leads to ideas that are damaging for, both.
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by _jal 4y ago
It is hardly absurd to point out that the rules used in a formal system are leading to absurd, bad, broken results. And people do fetishize the 200 year old document. (At least, the parts they like.) You see it all the time, and saying othe
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by _jal 4y ago
I worked variously as an individual consultant, or either leading or as a member of small ad-hoc contract teams, or as a co-founder of a consulting firm, for about 14 years. If you don't like the process of selling yourself, you will n
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by _jal 4y ago
Effectively, it means you have to ask current employees how much vacation you get. The theory is you can "take what you need" so long as you're getting your work done. In practice, company culture of course dictates what&#x27
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by _jal 4y ago
I was hoping for some edgy economic model wherein ransoms were pareto-efficient or something, but this was fun, too.
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by _jal 4y ago
There is pressure in our org to find ways to have fewer dependencies. Some of this is trivial, and a very good thing - stop using bullshit exercises in fragmentation like isEven. Some of it is very much not, and will apply pressure to find
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by _jal 4y ago
> This will be a problem but the solution is not to transfer your freedom to choose to Apple Will the solution involve a method to negotiate degrees-of-freedom? Or perhaps a freedom grant method with revocation protocol? Do I get a littl
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by _jal 4y ago
Tractors don't know how to repair each other, either.
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by _jal 4y ago
Example #354 of why the shift to subscriptions and cloudified everything has resulted in me using more open-source for consumer-style apps. It turns out that, if you refuse to simply let me throw money at you in exchange for software and in
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by _jal 4y ago
They could just rename to "FB, Inc". FBI for short. That won't cause any confusion.
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by _jal 4y ago
It is a sad kind of funny, watching people realize what happened. I saw someone I know ranting elsewhere recently about how "nobody saw this coming" and "nobody warned us". I called him out on this, because I vividly rem
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by _jal 4y ago
For most commercial use, you're talking about refrigerated racks. They exist, but they're pretty niche. In a typical data center, all this does is decentralize your cooling. Now you have many smaller (typically less robust) motors
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by _jal 4y ago
"This will go down on your permanent record..." -- Bezos in helium voice I remember quitting from Krogers bagging groceries when I was a kid. I forget why, but I did give less than 2 weeks notice. Mr. Manager gravely conveyed that
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by _jal 4y ago
How do you even get to "anti-science" from using GIS for investing? I'd say people are getting way too twitchy with their witch hunts, but I don't even see how you get from here to there. Just bizarre, and worrisome.
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by _jal 4y ago
> It's not that we're naive youngsters who don't know any better. Sorry if it came out that way, that wasn't my intent. Fake jobs were not a thing that I encountered when entering the market, but I almost certainly wo
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by _jal 4y ago
> but it is not a crime and the right response I don't know who you're arguing with, but it isn't me. Nobody is saying it was. I'm saying it is an irrelevant non sequitur. Imagine that Dad instead misunderstood an in
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by _jal 4y ago
No, "diacritics don't kill people, people kill people" is not an important life lesson. It is a reductive just-so generalization of basic common sense that obscures more than it enlightens. The important thing for engineers t
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by _jal 4y ago
I think he's probably right, in context. And I also think this is increasingly why I just don't play new games anymore. I like the output of those clay-carver idiots, and don't like product from savvy businessgamers. Cash e
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by _jal 4y ago
Companies are increasingly intrusive when hiring, like everyone else. Running background, credit, etc. checks for low-level employees was considered absurd not too long ago, now it is routine. Especially young folks, excited by their great
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by _jal 4y ago
> but no one is forcing users to install software from APT groups. That's a choice people make. ... what?
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by _jal 4y ago
> high median wage growth Wages are noticeably down since 2020. WSJ and others prefer to report nominal wages (unless the article is about business costs), but you don't have to fall for the scam. https://jabberwocking.co
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by _jal 4y ago
> You don't mean sharing raw traffic as in forwarding actual requests, I wouldn't think? The usual method is either to use a splitter or switch configuration to mirror traffic to another interface, attached to a machine running
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by _jal 4y ago
> Our gun crime rates per gun are flabbergastingly low I think I'm going to start reporting our bug resolution counts by text editor.
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by _jal 4y ago
You're getting downvoted of course, but it is true - the US is the outlier among rich nations. Per capita, the US is just behind Panama; in absolute numbers, Brazil is ahead by about 14%. https://worldpopulationreview.com&#x

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