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by abraae 9y ago
An interesting thing too you may experience at discovery is that the other party has documented their own parallel but self-serving version of events via emails to themselves. e.g. "Today Harry repeated his threats to sue us for fraud.
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by abraae 9y ago
I love Jeff's way of thinking. I watched a YouTube video where he explains that he identifies a particular form of conversation - for stack overflow it is Q&A - and then hones in and builds a perfect environment where such conversa
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by abraae 9y ago
That sounds like insanity. My country by comparison is too far at the other end of the scale. Anyone can buy (or make) a boat, with a 200 horse motor, grab a six pack and a tank full of fuel and hit the water and go anywhere, into any harbo
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by abraae 9y ago
This really is an exceptionally good article, written by a pragmatic and insightful student of working life. I have often experienced the following but could never have described it as elegantly: > Incompetence is fiercely gregarious whi
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by abraae 9y ago
Yes, if the customer was happy to buy everything from a single vendor that would work perfectly fine. But as per sibling comments, that's not the way that the enterprise HR software market works. There are many, many very specialised v
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by abraae 9y ago
You talk as if the customer already has the quiz content in their mind, and just needs a few web pages to present it. That's not the way the industry works. Some exciting, specialised startup develops some kind of cool UI blended with
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by abraae 9y ago
Well, this can be a fruitless discussion without a shared understanding of what a microservice is. To Martin Fowler: > In short, the microservice architectural style [1] is an approach to developing a single application as a suite of sma
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by abraae 9y ago
Typically in the enterprise HR software space, the customer does not want to buy all their components from a single vendor. If they want a culture fit quiz, they do not go to their ATS (applicant tracking system) vendor for it. They go to a
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by abraae 9y ago
Very relevant. The nature of software for managing humans is that it's very fuzzy, fashion/tend driven, diverse. E.g a recent trend is for companies to try and reduce the number of undesirable applicants they get for jobs (since i
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by abraae 9y ago
Or microservices are strongly indicated if you are in a SaaS industry as we are (HR software), where individual customers want choice over the components making up their own stack.
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by abraae 9y ago
Thanks! Will peruse over coffee
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I live in NZ and I would have said that virtually every salaried worker is paid monthly.
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Perhaps that he could have done more, earlier, but choose the money instead.
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Could you elucidate on that? I don't get how a message is somehow routed through a thicket of say 1000 of these things to get from one node to another, because NAT?
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by abraae 9y ago
I wonder if one of the keys to HN's success, apart from great moderation, is that poster's identities are very subdued. I feel it encourages responding to the post, rather than the person making it. By contrast discourse stuffs a
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by abraae 9y ago
A friend's rural internet connection was getting 50kb throughput recently. It turned out the line was lying across an electric fence. Clearing it got him back up to his usual 1mb
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by abraae 9y ago
Tony Hoare, who introduced null in Algol in 1965, calls it his $1b mistake https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Null-References-The-Bill... .
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by abraae 9y ago
Yeah, I probably phrased my post overly provocatively but I wasn't trying to be funny, just logical. And thank you for a reasoned and courteous response. My thoughts were: 1) Mass shootings are horrific, and it seems insane that anyone
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by abraae 9y ago
What do you want confirmation of? That MS is now a gentle, caring beast? Large organizations are not like that, they are money making machines that adopt strategies to maximise profit. EEE is no longer such a strategy, though it worked very
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by abraae 9y ago
Leaning in from outside the US, the path forward is obvious. "Progressives" should embrace guns and reject abortion. That would make them palatable to these mysterious deplorables that seem to hold sway over the US political syste
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by abraae 9y ago
Indeed, any startup founders that are not aspirating will fail almost instantly!
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by abraae 9y ago
By comparison in APL: life←{↑1 ⍵∨.∧3 4=+/,¯1 0 1∘.⊖¯1 0 1∘.⌽⊂⍵}
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by abraae 9y ago
Everything about this is excellently done. I was about to call out the favicon but { key : values } is clever.
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by abraae 9y ago
If by "model" you mean reproduce, why is it so hard to simulate the distortion introduced by poor FM reception? Or by the acoustics of a store?
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by abraae 9y ago
Perhaps because the title is classic clickbait, and people on HN don't expect too be hoodwinked like that - and are responding in good faith to a self-contained question as in the title.
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by abraae 9y ago
That's a fantastic animation. It would have been incredibly useful back in the day.
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by abraae 9y ago
Come on, Gordon Gecko. What makes you think that making money off climate change is a thing? Will the world monetary system even hold up if those of us that remain alive have moved into shelter bunkers, where we grow our food hydroponically
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by abraae 9y ago
Young'un indeed! IBM used to use hydraulics pretty extensively. Their 2311 disk drives used hydraulic actuators to move the heads in and out over the platters. Hot pressurized oil and spinning magnetic media - a combination not made in
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by abraae 9y ago
Deja vu! I spent years fixing mainframes at IBM and the 1403 lived on for years after the 1401, attached to more modern systems like System/360. It was quite a beast to maintain. The main part is a "train" of metal slugs with
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Gary Player: The harder I practice, the luckier I get.

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