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by adekok 11y ago
> c) Leave. If you really do know best, why aren't you running your own business? That's not a good answer. A person staffing an assembly line making widgets may know how to double through-put. They do not know how to sell
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by adekok 11y ago
Or to put a positive spin on it, this person was hired to do a job, was good at it, but was prevented from doing so by internal corporate politics. I've worked at companies where meeting major customer deliverables fell through the c
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by adekok 11y ago
FTA: I always prioritized my work based on a cost/benefit estimate. Amazon culture always places higher priority on work that direct-line superiors consider higher priority. If I had a billion dollar project in the backlog, I could sti
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by adekok 11y ago
> On-call in general (24/7 availability for some period of time), is not exclusively an Amazon thing. I'm surprised the writer tried to portray it so. I don't think the writer did. The problem I see being described is not
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by adekok 11y ago
> Even better, hire one more person and cover the full 24-hours staffed. But I get why that'll never happen, at least. Because it's cheaper to burn out your existing employees, fire them for non-performance, and then hire (and
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by adekok 11y ago
This is also the guy who did a 3d renderer for the 2MHz 8-bit: http://users.axess.com/twilight/sock/gloom/gloom.html Which got turned into a game: http://members.optusnet.com.au/nickma/Pr
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by adekok 11y ago
Pressure is the collective action of the molecules / atoms flying around and smashing into things. At "normal" temperature on Mars, hydrogen atoms have a thermal velocity [1]. That velocity is greater than the escape velocit
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by adekok 11y ago
Mars doesn't have hydrogen because at temperatures where water is liquid, the speed of hydrogen atoms due to temperature is greater than the escape velocity from Mars.
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by adekok 11y ago
And the shotgun pellets land... where? What's his backstop? Firing guns into the air means that the bullets come down. And they can hurt people.
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by adekok 11y ago
> Disclosure up front, I don't really use git myself. I have tried it and found it to be too confusing. I liked svn Oh dear, that's bad. > and these days use hg. That's better. > I also tend to work on mostly solo a
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by adekok 11y ago
Nice, except recvmmsg() is broken. http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/recvmmsg.2.html The timeout argument does not work as intended. The timeout is checked only after the receipt of each datagra
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by adekok 11y ago
I think "frugal" in this context means "spending within their abilities". In contrast, many lottery winners are bankrupt within 5 years. Why? They're "rich"! They can spend money like it's water!
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by adekok 11y ago
I worked in France for a number of years. One case I saw personally was a sales guy who didn't sell. He went on "trips" every week for 4 days to visit his girlfriend. Then, expensed meals for both of them. After 4 months o
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by adekok 11y ago
> "Mirrored projects are sometimes used to deliver easy-to-decline third-party offers." If they just mirrored the project, no one would be complaining. Having another place to download copies of the official releases is a go
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by adekok 11y ago
> babies are very poorly wired if at all. As a father myself, I don't agree. I find it impossible to believe that babies are wired poorly , or randomly, or just are amorphous blobs of learning. They're active and inter-activ
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by adekok 11y ago
While it is how humans learn, there's more to human learning than that. Babies are pre-wired to learn language, recognize shapes, determine "intent", etc. This means that the neural nets used by babies are pre-wired to be go
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by adekok 11y ago
Everyone should note that these TLS attacks may also work on EAP. i.e. WiFi authentication, or 802.1X. Since HTTP is so much sexier than EAP, no one pays attention to EAP. :(
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by adekok 11y ago
That's not the point. The point is right now, they are asking people to pay for a free version of Ubuntu. This annoys people. They should change their pricing model to make it clear that the base OS is free. And that their additions
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by adekok 11y ago
> They are asking for $10. They aren't asking for a huge sum of money. $10 could be a very reasonable amount of money for the effort they've put into it. It's a matter of marketing. Everyone knows it's based on Ubunt
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by adekok 11y ago
It was well established in the 1930s that workers peak productivity is at about 40 hours of work a week. Anyone who thinks they can be more productive at double that, for long periods, is either superhuman, or deluding themselves. Get out,
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by adekok 11y ago
> I agree she was abused by an uncaring and incompetent prosecution. In passing. > My point was that the article and the comments here and on the article seem to insinuate that she was free of culpability and should have never been in
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by adekok 11y ago
> I feel for Mrs. Chen, I really do. The U.S Government should not have moved forward without solid evidence. Reasonable, but it's followed by a caveat which misses the key point: > However, after reading the article, several of
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by adekok 11y ago
Does access to the Windows source come without tainting your soul? Open Source licenses say what you can do with the source . From what I've seen, the Windows license also says what you can do with the knowledge . It's difficul
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by adekok 12y ago
FTA: > ... the solution is to reinvent Adobe: to change the system from within. If Customer Success could talk directly to Product Engineering, then the bugs would get fixed, and the volume of complaints would go down, making everyone’s
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by adekok 12y ago
> Their eyes lit up at the prospect of a way out of that. That was in 2001. Why don't we have that yet? The companies making word processors make word processors . They don't make revision control systems. They don't ma
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by adekok 12y ago
The past tense is for a past activity. The past perfect tense is more complicated. From an online ref: http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/pastperfect.html "With Non-Continuous Verbs and some non-continuous us
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by adekok 12y ago
There is a bottom-up build system: http://gittup.org/tup/ It's very nice, but the cost of changing from Make means that most people don't use it. The Ninja design docs reference Tup, so they're aware i
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by adekok 12y ago
She doesn't seem to have taken it down. Facebook doesn't generally take down random peoples accounts. The simplest explanation is that it was taken down against her will. Likely by someone with pseudo-legal authority to do that.
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by adekok 12y ago
Unfortunate? It's a direct attack on the legal system. It's worse than the average person breaking the law. Because that's expected... that's why we have police. When the police (who should know better) break the law,
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by adekok 12y ago
Don't underestimate the power of green space. Having small homes in the middle of lawn, trees, and plants is much better than having small apartments in a dense apartment building. There's still the problem of services / j

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