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by aplummer 6y ago
I don't believe the virus is known to behave like this to a very high probability. It's unknown but possible the virus behaves like dengue fever and gets worse the second time.
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by aplummer 6y ago
> Fixed price deliverables are usually more expensive due to bidders pricing risk. Correct, that’s the only way the vendor takes on the risk really. That was my point. > Or the project owner don’t have the political power to not accep
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by aplummer 6y ago
You couldn’t have written a more insightful comment.
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by aplummer 6y ago
> I’m really just asking for some support of the original statement that Deloitte will foot a $100M bill for a client when they fail to deliver a working system. I didn’t say that, they would foot the bill for the changes required to mak
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by aplummer 6y ago
Yep it can totally work, but I think it’s a bit of a coin toss and I wouldn’t risk it with these sized contracts.
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by aplummer 6y ago
T&M only works for contracts for a few resources in a blended team in my view, with the only risk being a 2 or 4 week price on getting rid of them. Then you’re basically hiring overflow individuals you can get rid of easily who may have
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by aplummer 6y ago
To your edit: A good strategy is to hire a team, get a few consultants who have literally built the same system down the road, and use that blended team until 2.X release. That way you a team that has made a thing already (and often consult
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by aplummer 6y ago
> You also need a competent project management team (backed by contract lawyers) that can push back Yep I agree with you totally.
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by aplummer 6y ago
I’m not saying how the world should work - I’m just saying how it does work. Why would they admit fault? The entire point is to take the hit and preserve reputation - you being able to find a link would defeat the entire point.
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by aplummer 6y ago
Yep on a 100 million dollar budget you need to hire people to manage software delivery on your side and can never absolve end responsibility is definitely my point. I’m not describing how the world should work, just how it does when outsour
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by aplummer 6y ago
Ex Deloitte here: In several years I never once saw the firm not deliver what they agreed to in writing. There’s one way to deal with a consulting firm: a rock solid statement of work and people on the client side to verify you got exactly
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by aplummer 6y ago
I moved to the bay from Australia and I thought everyone was being sarcastic for a long time. The use of "quite" to mean "very good" not "passive aggressive barely enough", and how people talk up their accompli
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by aplummer 6y ago
Some people are constantly marginalised in their everyday, who are constantly reminded negatively of their race, and don’t have the luxury of forgetting about race for even a day. If changing branch names makes them even just a little bit m
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by aplummer 6y ago
Hm a lot of good points for me to think about here.
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by aplummer 6y ago
> You can flag this comment away, but I'll say this anyway Same here with the opposite point: The government intervening and controlling private companies that distribute information is proven to bring down democracies. It literally
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by aplummer 6y ago
No difference to eye strain or comfort vs the LG 5k I used before, although a major improvement vs my old 1440p monitor. Width makes a good improvement in Xcode and the color is very accurate to the iPhone screen which helps. I prefer one b
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by aplummer 6y ago
I use a Pro Display XDR for programming / design work, I think you forgot this one. It seems like it would fit your needs (with the obviously premium price) as it’s 32”. It’s overkill for most, but still the best display I’ve ever used
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by aplummer 6y ago
I can dramatically shorten development time with generics + codable in Swift using a similar approach - to the same code in objective C it’s like night and day
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by aplummer 6y ago
I know of at least half a dozen people who have found great jobs by HR reaching out to recruit them on LinkedIn.
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by aplummer 6y ago
er, humans have agency to follow instruction easily in a way that animals do not.
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by aplummer 6y ago
Maybe it’s good, maybe it’s bad. I think they are a private company with free speech, and people should just not use their products if they don’t like it.
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by aplummer 6y ago
In australia the new bills do have tactile dots to distinguish them for people living with blindness. About halfway along the bottom of the new 5 you can feel it.
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by aplummer 6y ago
I don’t have a source on hand, however I read now because of chat culture people actually read and write a lot more. Back then verbal communication was so much more commonplace. Sure it’s not novels etc, mostly comments are chit chat, but s
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by aplummer 6y ago
> In other words, it's US exceptionalism both ways around, that is, circular reasoning. Why should anyone bother to try and have a good faith argument here? I've assumed good intent with my reply and included size examples of A
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by aplummer 6y ago
Here is a well thought out analysis of different attributes tha constitute "free-ness" that breaks down many kind of freedom[1]. Obviously Americans get full marks for "freedom of movement and assembly" but there are oth
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by aplummer 6y ago
This is not true at all. You know people in other western countries are actually significantly more free than in the USA right? New Zealand is widely regarded as the most free country, and they also don’t have coronavirus.
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by aplummer 6y ago
Even if he did enter politics (in America), it’s not at all the same thing.
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by aplummer 6y ago
> I am happy to put myself in harm's way if It’s not all about you. You are putting other people in harms way.
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by aplummer 6y ago
If you’re right that money in a public health system will pay back dividends I imagine.
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by aplummer 6y ago
I don't think shadownite cares what the farmer aka animal abuser thinks. Pretty sure OP wasn't raiding a free range farm to give the chickens a little more space.

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