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IBM Calling Remote Workers Back to the Office(wsj.com)
14 points by bwoj 9y ago|14 comments
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by bwoj 9y ago
I've worked for companies that created subsidiaries with the sole intent of purchasing competitors products with the intent to reverse-engineer them and do competitive performance analysis. Good legal counsel probably would have sugges
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by bwoj 9y ago
A few years ago, I was tech lead on a team doing the software for IPTV settop boxes. We were trying to grow the team out and not getting many good candidates for the position. At one point the best candidate we had was a 60+ year old engine
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by bwoj 10y ago
I've been reasonably happy with a laptop I've had running Windows 7. Then it stealth-updated itself to Windows 10. I turned off most of the ads, but the lock screen still had ads. I had to turn of some service with an incongruous
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by bwoj 10y ago
To my recollection, the worst performer was parsing all of the QML at startup. This did not impact us at first, but as we grew the QML portion it went from a noticeable delay at startup to an unacceptable delay. It was something on the orde
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by bwoj 10y ago
On my last project we started an effort to redo our QWidget implemented UI with QML. The QML version was really slow, we actually ended up buying a commercial license to get access to a QML compiler just to speed things up. And that was for
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by bwoj 10y ago
From 2015.
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by bwoj 10y ago
Poker analogy: the nut is the one card that forms the best possible hand out of the shared cards on the table. Having the nut card in the hole means you have it in your hidden cards. When you're in this position, you know you're g
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by bwoj 10y ago
The barrier to entry in the trades isn't the difficulty of the work. If you trained 1000 programmers for six months, a good number of them would be competent, but none of them would be able to get licensed. Every single one of them wou
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by bwoj 10y ago
For most people that hew to the teachings of the book, understanding the proper context involves a religious authority telling them which parts of the book matter and which ones to ignore because they don't matter any more. I would lik
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by bwoj 10y ago
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/07/its-official-shar...
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Rude UX – The Gall of Pokémon Go(medium.com)
1 points by bwoj 10y ago|0 comments
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by bwoj 10y ago
Of course the super-rich are going to get coddled. If you are in a position of influence they can throw $100,000 to a million dollars your way to make sure you enact the policies they want. This can be in the form of consulting gigs or spea
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by bwoj 10y ago
Not sure why everyone is downvoting. You may not go on a list, but you could be targeted by the FBI if they can produce "probable cause" http://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/constitutional-rights...
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by bwoj 11y ago
I deplore the practice of publishing papers without a date. This could have been written any time between 2012 and last week based on the sources referenced.
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by bwoj 11y ago
I worked for a company that went public at $18/share in 2000. During the lockup period the price of the stock went as high as $202/share. Over the next two years, the price trended downwards to around $20/share. Pre-IPO emplo
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by bwoj 11y ago
Nope you're still liable for infringement. It does help you avoid the treble damages for "willful infringement."
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by bwoj 11y ago
This isn't quite so much bypassing the OS as it is redefining the boundary of the privileged space to not include the network traffic. This lets your filtering application get the network packets directly without having to copy them o
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by bwoj 13y ago
The source here is CEO of a company trying to sell content protection solutions for the web.
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by bwoj 13y ago
Original post, with working links: http://blog.docker.io/2013/06/create-light-weight-docker-con...