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by abraae 8y ago
In my country deer are an introduced species that decimate the local flora. Alongside pigs, cats and other animals that are simply in the wrong place thanks to humans.
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by abraae 8y ago
Or Americans, as it seems rejection of science around climate is disproportionally high in the USA.
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by abraae 8y ago
If going Oracle played even a minor part in Amazon's success, then it was a fantastic call, even if now they have a migration task on their hands. Both of these things can be true: - we succeeded by betting the farm on a single vendor
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by abraae 8y ago
To be honest those requirements sound perfect for a scrappy startup. Just enough of a moat to deter 99% of drive by hackers, but within the reach of any reasonably serious startup. - £1,500 application fee - €50,000 own capital requirements
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by abraae 8y ago
As the old saying goes, "When you're up to your ass in alligators, it's easy to forget you came to drain the swamp". (This is not a political comment! The saying long predates the current swamp drainers)
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by abraae 8y ago
To be fair, with some software we are often not even targeting new users at the expense of power users - we are targeting the audience for our product demos. If our animations make a punter go wow when they see the product for the first (an
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by abraae 8y ago
Unfashionable I know but I feel strongly like this about Java. We chose Java maybe 2 decades ago when it was newly minted. Some decent swathes of code written back then are still running in production. Its enormously satisfying looking at a
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by abraae 8y ago
If you enjoyed SoTM for that reason, you may also enjoy "House" by the same author. Its a nail by nail account of... building a house with Kidder's trademark style.
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by abraae 8y ago
> We are writing things that affect peoples lives. That could kill people. That affect the environment. We need to hold ourselves to the same moral obligations as other engineers. We have a duty to prevent harming people when we write ou
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by abraae 8y ago
In many Asian cultures, swimming is discouraged, parents think it will increase chance of their kids drowning. Drowning is the leading cause of death of young people in Thailand. At a pool under a waterfall in Thailand last year I saw a bun
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by abraae 8y ago
1. True, but "visited" is much less use on dynamic sites, where you may have visited the page, but the page itself has changed since then.
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by abraae 8y ago
Playing the long game! Very good.
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by abraae 8y ago
Disagree. A while ago I experimented with giving job applicants honest feedback on why they were unsuccessful - not just the old platitudes like"there were stronger candidates". Big mistake. When you reject people, they really rea
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by abraae 8y ago
It's good to have a high bar. But it's dumb to use someone's academic achievements alone to measure whether they meet the bar or not.
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by abraae 8y ago
Not a lawyer but I'd dig into this: > We do not create profiles for non-Facebook users What is a "profile"? Is a shadow profile a profile? Not "creating a profile" may be very different from not tracking someone.
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by abraae 8y ago
> But FIU's bridge was designed to mimic the dramatic look of a cable-stayed bridge, where the deck is suspended from cables fanning out from a tall mast. In FIGG's design, though, the "cables" — actually metal pipes
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by abraae 8y ago
Just stopping things from getting worse would be an achievement on those scales.
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by abraae 8y ago
You can also use the information to optimise your workforce. Lets say you're a big home improvement chain opening a new store. You need to get 150 workers to staff the new store. Do you want to hire 250 people cold and hand the new sto
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by abraae 8y ago
There is no "management". There's just people, in positions or more or less power over others. At some companies, these people are well selected, trained, and caring individuals who understand who to build and nurture teams.
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by abraae 8y ago
We do the latter, and I am currently reading this thread to gain ideas. Please, if anyone has ideas about what a good performance management SaaS would look like - share!
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by abraae 8y ago
GitLab++
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by abraae 8y ago
Except he also loved it himself.
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by abraae 8y ago
"dump the husk" Great, I can see it written in the spine of an evil management book!
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by abraae 8y ago
I saw a group of 3 or 4 seagulls take down a pigeon in this way on an office rooftop next door. It was too gruesome to watch. When I next looked out there was just a wing with a few feathers hanging off it sitting there.
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by abraae 8y ago
> How can life be good if it's not comfortable and easy ? Really? As soon as you encounter discomfort or difficulty, life's no longer good? That philosophy will be wearying over the years.
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by abraae 8y ago
Not just faster, but significantly faster. If the current is 3 mph, and you can swim at 4 mph, then you will be swimming for a very long time at the effective 1 mph to get back to shore. And if on the way you need to stop for even a minute&
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by abraae 8y ago
That's a great point, certainly you wouldn't want to breed a culture where the life guards were playing cards back in the staff room with one ear cocked for the "silent sentry" going off to warn of a drowning. I'd p
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by abraae 8y ago
So well put. People you could have roomed with, drink with, hung out with, even been trapepd on a desert island with, all successfully, can turn into monsters under the pressure of running out of money and associated startup events. And you
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by abraae 8y ago
Genuine question - how could it possibly cost $100B to upgrade a "signalling system"?
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by abraae 8y ago
I was about to prove you wrong by demonstrating that couch fires are still a fun student tradition in NZ, but googling shows the very opposite. https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/heat-out-couch-burning . Only 11 fi

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