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by bkirkby 6y ago
i usually go with the cheapest.
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by bkirkby 6y ago
i recall one time in my teens watching saturday morning cartoons and seeing an ad for golden grahams. i said to myself "i'd like some golden grahams right now," so i hopped in my car, drove to the grocery, and bought some gol
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by bkirkby 6y ago
In the stickiness of whatsapp, I caused something of a stir with my family. After the prev announcement and having a general distrust of facebook that had grown over the years, I deleted my Facebook account and made the announcement in the
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by bkirkby 6y ago
A very funny one at that.
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by bkirkby 6y ago
Does "manufacturing a scandal out of fashion choice" refer to the party that screams "cultural appropriation!!!" when the person with the wrong identity wears clothing deemed inappropriate? Or are you referring to the pa
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by bkirkby 6y ago
i believe one of the culprits for software taking so long is planning. this is alluded to in marty cagan's excellent book _Inspired_. first, the caveat: a software dev project will take up as much time as is allotted to it. when you ha
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by bkirkby 6y ago
You might want to consider that "the deniers I know..." Indicate you might have created your own ideological bubble and don't realize it.
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by bkirkby 6y ago
back in mid-90s i did a contract job for a field office of the FBI. they had a policy that we were required to remove our ID badges when we left the building (to go to lunch or whatever). the building itself was also devoid of any signs tha
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by bkirkby 6y ago
wired was instrumental in educating me about the "vertical knowledge" on this subject over 20 years ago with this article: https://www.wired.com/1997/02/the-doomslayer-2/ until then i had never been
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by bkirkby 7y ago
When you have a disagreement about how something should be done, think that your role is to try and convince the other person. If you don't convince them and their way is safe enough to try, don't stop them from doing it. If it&#x
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by bkirkby 8y ago
But it doesn't have to be perfect, just has better than human drivers. That doesn't seem too difficult.
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by bkirkby 8y ago
He spoke about being a young man willing to put in the hours starting out to learn his craft. Yes, the young need to learn a lot after schooling just to keep up. After that, he spoke about figuring out how to provide the most value for the
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by bkirkby 8y ago
as if on queue: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable
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by bkirkby 8y ago
Instructure has an office in pleasant grove now too (but you are right, they are HQ in SLC)
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by bkirkby 8y ago
s/seem/are/ imnsho . best place i've worked at in 25+ years :) strong engineering culture. great products. really, really smart people. management that understands the value of management (and what can be detrimental of
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by bkirkby 8y ago
re: DPO i think you are being a bit naive and dismissive. the law could easily be interpreted as his endeavor requiring a Data Protection Officer. the guidelines ( http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/document.cfm?doc_id=44100 )
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by bkirkby 8y ago
did that $250 include an audit to verify that you are actually in compliance?
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by bkirkby 9y ago
ok. counterpoint: steven pinker, et. al. go!
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Learn Quantum Mechanics in 25 Minutes (VIDEO)(twitch.tv)
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Everything needed to understand Quantum Mechanics in 30 minutes (VIDEO)(twitch.tv)
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Can the Truth Be Repugnant? Should It Be?(economicsdetective.com)
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by bkirkby 9y ago
His first group he sent it to was a diversity group. I think it reasonable that a skeptic group who, ostensibly, would side with reason would be a next logical step.
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by bkirkby 9y ago
Isn't that the majority of the evidence tho? What I keep hearing is that women are underrepresented because women are slightly more than 50% of the population but 10-20% of engineering jobs. That implies that diversity initiatives are
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Example of corporate espionage in “Silicon Valley”(dogfoodconnoisseur.blogspot.com)
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by bkirkby 9y ago
for stuff at work i use the internal company wiki's blog option. on a day where i learned something i didn't know before and want to keep a record of it, i blog about what i learned with a"TIL" tag and subject header. it
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by bkirkby 10y ago
thanks for your insight. i also am a software engineer, so maybe i'm not qualified to have a complex, technical discussion either. but, i do think that most issues can be summarized/presented in a way that makes the technical disc
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by bkirkby 10y ago
i don't propose a "main culprit" as i understand climate to be a classic complex system. i simply don't know what the main culprit is or even if there IS a main culprit. i'm not yet convinced that the temperature in
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by bkirkby 10y ago
i do not. as i pointed out, it's a classic complex mechanism that might not be able to be attributable to one single factor. i guess i'm also not convinced that the warming of the past 150 - 200 years is out of the range of normal
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by bkirkby 10y ago
the short answer is "science," specifically "observation." the long answer is that my skepticism comes from climate being a classic complexity issue where trying to isolate a single factor (carbon) as being the main forc
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by bkirkby 10y ago
maybe not an exact match, but the "dark triad" traits are shown to be effective for individual career progress, but negatively correlated to organizational performance. Harvard Business Review did an article ("Why Bad Guys Wi

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