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by abraae 10y ago
> A “No Jerks” Policy Must Be Built Into Your Culture. It is entirely possible to be extremely passionate (and even brilliant) without being a jerk. A “no jerks” policy must be preached and practiced from the highest levels. Following s
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by abraae 10y ago
Seems a slightly simplistic analysis. We know there are people who scheme and plot to get what they want, and will stop at nothing to do so. We also know that the real world is chaotic, that no battle plan survives first contact with the en
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by abraae 10y ago
You should have attached your post to one of the ones that you felt implied this.
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by abraae 10y ago
Yes, that's "cloaking".
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by abraae 10y ago
Depends what you're complaining about. If you don't complain when you see something wrong, e.g. a bad design choice - then you're basically a yes man (or yes woman), and you're only useful to companies who are either alr
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by abraae 10y ago
By giving it a special term, additional commentary/analysis can coalesce around it, such as that "governments and environmentalists generally assume that efficiency gains will lower resource consumption, ignoring the possibility o
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by abraae 10y ago
I'm sure they exist but I can't imagine any project where I would want to factor in data loss from my database. At the very least I'd want to know exactly how much data loss we are talking about, which is probably harder to a
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by abraae 10y ago
Vizio is not an individual, it's a collection of employees and contractors, some loyal, and others who hate their corporate overlord and would love nothing better that to dob them in if they ever sneakily resumed the spying.
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by abraae 10y ago
That it's financial burdens died with it but it's worthy parts were reborn in a new form.
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by abraae 10y ago
Sometimes the beauty of the free market is a joy to behold.
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by abraae 10y ago
Is that a problem? If the masses don't know or care then it's not a problem to them. Whereas you, who do both know and care, can snap up superior quality houses at bargain prices. Seems like a good situation to me.
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by abraae 10y ago
It may be in areas that don't even look unsolved. Pretty sure that a few years ago many people would have declared messaging to be a solved problem. Now it's the white hot center of multi billion dollar tech warfare.
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by abraae 10y ago
We all love a redemption story. Over the decades I've gone through a personal journey of discovery, astonishment, deep affection, surprise, disappointment and downright hatred with respect to Microsoft, now transitioning to wary hopefu
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by abraae 10y ago
Touché! I stand mortified and corrected.
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by abraae 10y ago
Absolutely concur. In an arbitration case, our attorney told us beforehand that (pardon the language) "the only bigger whores than lawyers are expert witnesses". The outcomes seem to depend mainly on, as you say, which side can sp
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by abraae 10y ago
Slugulus Eructo!
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by abraae 10y ago
Spoken like an intellectual (not an insult - an observation). Could John Carmack explain binary space partitioning in an interesting way that made Joe Average feel like he got it? Most likely yes. But would Joe Average really "get it&q
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by abraae 10y ago
Nice analogy, but we generally don't select development tools on the basis that we want to grow old with them.
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by abraae 10y ago
As the old saying goes,"when you go to sea, take one clock or three".
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by abraae 10y ago
Its surprising no-one's working on that, given Yammer is basically a SaaS Facebook. Or maybe they are, but they can't be found. I've noticed this before, but you can't google for something like "SaaS version of Quor
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by abraae 10y ago
In the old days, we had intranets, knowledge bases, wikis and we tried manfully but unsuccessfully to somehow get people to document the good shit so others could use it for reference material. Seems we've now given up on that and the
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by abraae 10y ago
I would hate to live next door to you and your intelligent, self-aware lawnmower.
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by abraae 10y ago
Maybe the scammers are using their ill gotten gains on education. Not sure if that's a good outcome or a bad one.
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by abraae 10y ago
Its fairly well documented that "Nigerian scammer emails" deliberately use poor grammar so as to filter out people in the smarter end of the target pool, since those people will never fall for their story and will just waste the
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by abraae 10y ago
But it would be perfectly reasonable - and not at odds with anyone's justice system - to set your fraud detection trigger such that: if (source.isSuspicious() && destination in ('Ghana', 'Nigeria')) { inve
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by abraae 10y ago
The number one reason we stay with Oracle was that once, years ago, we had a come to Jesus moment when the database shat itself and the backups wre not working as they should have been. After a terrifying ride, some combination of Oracle s
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by abraae 10y ago
I think of spreadsheets as like q-tips. Apparently the one thing that the manufacturers of q-tips tell you not to do is to stick them in your orifices. Yet the number one actual use of q-tips is people cleaning gunk from their ears. People
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by abraae 10y ago
Nope, I don't recall anything whatsoever about Improv. Lotus Notes was the new goodness a little later on.
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by abraae 10y ago
Eons ago, I worked for Lotus Software (way before they belonged to IBM) on an exiting new product - their flagship Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet product, in those days the preeminent spreadsheet offering in the world, ported to the IBM mainframe.
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by abraae 10y ago
Kudos on a magnificent post, and of course commiserations. One thing resonated strongly with me. When we started out many years ago someone said to me that the worst market you could go after was to target developers. Case in point - every

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