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by bugsy 16y ago
Yeah, absolutely. Lots of talk about talent wars but salaries have been going down according to some surveys. Also where is the actual recruitment? People call and want you to interview and they are not willing to state the range or agree t
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by bugsy 16y ago
Right. Because if there is a shortage of something, like highly talented people in a field, then the best way to attract them to work for you is tell them it is a privilege they have to pay for.
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by bugsy 16y ago
Sounds like he was a conscientious designer with an intuition for usability. I can relate to him, I also analyze screws and designs of trivial things. Is this really the optimal screw for this sort of task? If you didn't want this level of
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by bugsy 16y ago
You know, I bet the cocaine fiend guy wasn't even on cocaine. How would the company know this? If they had insurance coverage and he went into rehab it would be seriously violation of medical privacy for this to be revealed to the company.
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by bugsy 16y ago
Good use of the "sandwich method" of delivering unpleasant news. The pattern is this: 1. Upper slice of bread - happy light carbohydrate empty calorie news. 2. Bad News - the meat of the message 3. Lower slice of bread - happy light carbohy
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by bugsy 16y ago
From what you say your VC is a vindicative and manipulative SOB who is wielding his veto power as blackmail to nix a deal unless you agree to give him more than his agreed upon terms. It's a nightmare scenario. If it was me I would play har
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by bugsy 16y ago
I suspect that some of the problems with Flash are Apple's fault. Here is the evidence. Flash crashes in Safari but not in Firefox, using the same computer and Flash installation.
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by bugsy 16y ago
I don't think the regulation issue is all that important since there are many other countries besides the US. The US is a basket case regarding its paranoia and hysteria regarding nuclear power. The cost of pushing through regulations is no
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by bugsy 16y ago
Great post. Burning Man is a much more valuable life experience than college. Many of the engineering projects people bring there are completely amazing and trump even the wildest accomplishments of CalTech students. What people are learnin
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by bugsy 16y ago
The dog arrest incident happened in a smallish town in the southeast where I was doing some work. It turns out having a dog not on a leash is a Class C Misdemeanor, but it's one of those sorts of laws that even locals don't know about becau
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by bugsy 16y ago
Good article. I agree with the points. After I dropped out of high school I ended up going to a well regarded west coast university. I was all set for it to be very challenging and some place where I would learn a lot but I was surprised to
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by bugsy 16y ago
Right, the steak/hamburger is one of the well known examples and certainly not the only one nor is it an isolated example. It is the way things are done; cooking the books is the official state policy. The adjustments are done across the bo
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by bugsy 16y ago
Yes, the discussions on math regarding high school always seem strange to me. There is a lot of talk about the relevance of calculus and trigonometry (which I personally think are relevant and should be understood, trigonometry is required
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by bugsy 16y ago
Thanks, interesting, it looks like that started as a dual enrollment program but now they've passed Washington State House Bill 1758 last year which says that if you're in the program and get an AA you also get a State High School Diploma a
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by bugsy 16y ago
It also ignores the effect of drop outs like me that have founded companies that have created hundreds of good paying jobs. But that's all counted as 1 drop out = 1 job. If I hadn't dropped out and was forced to stay in the useless hell hol
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by bugsy 16y ago
I am not white myself and have never committed anything anyone sane would consider a crime. Yet I have been picked up and thrown in jail several times. Last time was because I was walking my dog at the park without a leash. I have never hea
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by bugsy 16y ago
I wouldn't blame the jury on this one. They were treated to heart breaking testimony from a small child who was violently raped at gunpoint which culminated in her pointing at the defendant and saying "That is the man who raped me, he is si
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by bugsy 16y ago
The DNA got him released in the end but it's not the problem with the system since there are cases with no DNA evidence in which people are wrongfully convicted the exact same way he was. Here is a summary of what happened. He is a black. A
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by bugsy 16y ago
Yeah, you are right, but some sort of manageable grouping is needed to make the point since this is a conversation and not an academic journal so I don't feel it would be appropriate or needed to completely break down every possible combina
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by bugsy 16y ago
I don't know why Gates is advocating for fewer drop outs. Drop outs are one of the few things that is working for kids. Schools segregate on age now not ability. For smart kids, school is frustrating and holds them back. It is better for th
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by bugsy 16y ago
Yes, this is what they say about every new standard. And once you have thrown out all your working peripherals and bought all new ones, then LightningBlast is released, not compatible with Thunderbolt. This has been going on as long as I ha
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by bugsy 16y ago
Those feds number are cooked. They replace steak prices with hamburger prices and say it is the same thing to show there is no inflation, while they have the printing presses running 24/7. Food prices have doubled based on the receipts I en
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by bugsy 16y ago
I don't agree with the article's cut off point that $50k household pre-tax income is middle class. 2 parents, 2 kids making $50k is $36k after tax. Mortgage on a small house is $1800/month. Cars are expensive too, add $400 a month for payme
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by bugsy 16y ago
And so is FW unless you buy one of the very expensive interfaces that happens to have highly optimized fine tuned drivers. Source: personal experience finding the drivers of most FW audio interfaces under $1000 impose outrageous CPU loads w
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by bugsy 16y ago
It really seems to me a lot of this is about making your current peripherals obsolete so they can sell you new ones.
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by bugsy 16y ago
I think it's related to the idea that people are going to college for "training". I see the word 'training', implying blue collar vocational education, used a lot nowadays for supposedly university education. Someone will train you, meaning
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by bugsy 16y ago
I have found most Japanese video games to be really linear. Go from level to level following for the most part a set path. I know these things are popular but I find them pretty boring compared to western developer produced games. There are
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by bugsy 16y ago
It also cost the store money to process. If no one holds the store accountable, then there is no incentive for them to be diligent about correct pricing. Sometimes people sacrifice their own time for the greater good. If the pricing problem
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by bugsy 16y ago
That's an interesting discussion on stackexchange. Don't miss the matching question posted at the same time, "How do programmers in the east see programmers in the west?" http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/50884/how-do-... A l
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by bugsy 16y ago
A great feature in a wristwatch is only having to change the battery once every 5 years.

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