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by a-priori 8y ago
Horizontally maybe, but not vertically.
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In the Amazon format, meetings begin with dedicated reading time. The presenter hands out copies of the memo, and everyone spends 20 minutes or so reading silently. Then they discuss the memo as a group. People aren't expected to read
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Very interesting. This feels like one small baby step away from a negative income tax scheme where you'd receive that difference immediately, rather than having to wait until you make more income in a later year.
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by a-priori 8y ago
In theory lobbyists perform a public good: they create legislation that someone wants. The problem is that we only have them for groups that have the money to pay lobbyists, so the only lobbyist-originated bills that cross legislators&#x2
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by a-priori 8y ago
I don't know about American taxes, but at least in Canada individuals can do this for capital gains / losses. If you have investments that produce losses one year, you can carry those losses forward to cancel out capital gains in
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by a-priori 8y ago
Perhaps, if the people would allow it. Theoretically you could end up in a loop where the people vote in Party A in a minority government, then Parties B+C oppose a budget bill, an election is held, Party A is re-elected into a minority gov
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by a-priori 8y ago
Specifically in Westminster systems (like Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK) the budget is a supply bill , a bill where the government asks for money. Supply bills are automatically confidence motions , which means that if they f
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by a-priori 8y ago
Yes but the best people to judge what's garbage and what's not are the experts. Look I'm done with this thread. I've made my point, and your comment history shows you only post this sort of pseudo-intellectual nonsense.
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by a-priori 8y ago
There's a whole discipline of experts who spend their whole lives studying this stuff. It's awful arrogant for an amateur to assume they're all full of shit.
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Ah, thanks! Yes, in that case I have actually heard of BEM before then because I've followed that convention on a few projects.
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by a-priori 8y ago
No, _why disappeared from the internet a while ago... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff In fact, we're coming up on ten years now! Holy shit I feel old now.
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by a-priori 8y ago
I've worked as a web developer for about half of the last fifteen years, and work as a senior front-end developer at a large web-focused company (Shopify). So I guess I'm fairly good at it? Here's a list of things I have nev
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by a-priori 8y ago
If you're interested in this there's a Rust crate for creating UEFI-bootable images and accessing the runtime and boot services. https://github.com/GabrielMajeri/uefi-rs https://github.com/Gab
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by a-priori 8y ago
If that happened, the client government could nationalize the reactor and seize control of it. This would provoke a diplomatic incident, of course, but that'd be something for the two governments to sort out. Or, less aggressively, the
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There's also trade off where the more tamper resistant/evident the system is, the more sophisticated it must be and the harder it is to understand the system. Trust isn't just about engineering like it is for avionics or othe
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by a-priori 8y ago
When I was in school we were never assigned reading Shakespeare as homework, it was always done by reading it out loud in class, rotating parts every several lines, with the teacher interjecting whenever something needed to be explained.
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by a-priori 8y ago
For another data point: I'm an Amazon SDE2 in Ottawa making CA$225k total compensation this year (about 2/3 of that is salary). That's very good pay locally. I'm not sure I can match that anywhere else in the city. I mig
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by a-priori 8y ago
Yes, but the way our nervous system does this is by two mechanisms: 1) The inter-aural time difference. Sound takes time to travel, so any sound coming from left of the head will arrive at the left ear sooner than the right ear. 2) The head
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by a-priori 9y ago
Specifically, unless my knowledge is out of date, they use a subset of C known as MISRA-C that is easier to analyze using static analysis.
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by a-priori 9y ago
Is it not shocking to you how blatantly Facebook breaches people's expectations about the use of their data? People share data with Facebook for a particular, immediate benefit to themselves. I share my location so my friends can see w
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by a-priori 9y ago
Yes, and the origin is that a résumé was a summary of your curriculum vitae , listing only the most recent/relevant parts whereas the CV was complete list of your 'life course' including all your work history, accomplishme
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by a-priori 9y ago
I think the critical aspect here is the management system. Pair programming makes total sense when tasks are owned by the team. In that case it's in everyone's interest to improve the team's overall velocity. That means time
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by a-priori 9y ago
VRML was declarative. It was like HTML for describing 3D scenes instead of documents. Web3D (WebGL, specifically) is imperative. It lest a program render 3D scenes by telling the system where to put the triangles on each frame.
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by a-priori 9y ago
To me, Occam's razor says that a grand, company-wide initiative is unlikely, and it's more likely a series of isolated projects that individually make sense and that well-meaning engineers can work on in good conscience. This is a
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by a-priori 9y ago
These things are never spelled out in any plans. They're done piecemeal, by separate teams, incrementally over long development cycles. One team implements 2FA, and they add a way for users to enter their phone numbers as a second fact
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by a-priori 9y ago
Oh hi, it's alternative-universe-you here with a rebuttal. Optimal for whom? Why should I as a pedestrian have to wait or take an alternate route (e.g. a cross-walk) just to save you a bit of time and energy? Why is your time more impo
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by a-priori 9y ago
Okay that's your opinion, and it's a fine opinion to have. But it's just one way things can work. Another way, is to give pedestrians priority and expect drivers to exercise due caution to not hit them the same way they do ot
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by a-priori 9y ago
I find it really interesting that psychedelic drug users frame their experiences in Freudian terms, using terms like 'ego' and its struggle against other entities within the mind.
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Yes but in some cases, astronomy uses slightly different definitions of key scientific terms: "metal", for example, means anything other than hydrogen or helium.
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by a-priori 9y ago
Jeff Barr says in this article exactly how it works: when you make a write in one region, it streams the updates to the other regions. Presumably this is built on top of the DynamoDB Streams system. It tags the item update with a timestamp,

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