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by caboteria 11y ago
I got a $60 ZTE firefox phone then switched to Android. Compared to my kid's Moto G it's smaller, feels thicker, has a lower-res screen, no selfie-cam, crappy forward-cam, and that's about it. It's pretty great for tex
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by caboteria 11y ago
Github can make some changes as administrative actions even though there's no UI to do it. For example, I have a project that was originally a fork but became the upstream when the fork went offline. Github was able to "break&qu
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by caboteria 11y ago
> Your performance meets or exceeds requirements. You get to keep your job. The second sentence seems arrogant and unnecessary, especially in the context of a meets-or-exceeds review. It seems to say the same thing as "I've de
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by caboteria 12y ago
Glad to see their longevity is improved. I had a '74 RX-4 and the conventional wisdom at the time was that you'd get 70-80k miles before you'd lose compression on one of your tip seals. My dad got 80k on the first motor so
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by caboteria 12y ago
The correct course of action, therefore, is to decline to give your current salary. The article is correct, at least in my recent experience: indicate that your current salary isn't relevant, and say what you want to make. They'
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by caboteria 12y ago
I worked for a company that was constantly hiring and laying off, often at the same time. The "tell" was if you showed up to work on Friday and there were Pinkertons at the front door then you knew it was going to be a rough day.
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by caboteria 12y ago
AAA estimates that it costs roughly 40 to 97 cents per mile to own a car (depending on the type of car and how much you drive)[1] so I'm having a hard time seeing that a lot of people will let random strangers abuse their cars for 5-20
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by caboteria 12y ago
From RMS himself: http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/1999062200505NWLF From the linked article: "Because copying hardware is so hard, the question of whether we're allowed to do it is not vitally import
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by caboteria 12y ago
The article gives an example: > For instance, three years ago, Franklin submitted an application for a startup that needed to secure crucial patents before it filed for public offering. It was being sued by a large company in the same sp
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by caboteria 12y ago
Yes, the IRS should. The fraudsters (and rich people with expensive accountants) already have this info, for example by hiring former IRS examiners and executives. Making the algorithms public at least puts everyone on equal footing.
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by caboteria 12y ago
Just one more shining example that the easiest way to be successful in business is to be a sociopath.
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by caboteria 12y ago
Neat project, I think I'll take a look at running it on the new CubieTruck in my basement.
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by caboteria 12y ago
I've heard Harvard described as a hedge fund that has figured out a great way to avoid taxes.
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by caboteria 12y ago
Ride my motorcycle on the track. For 20 minutes every hour I get to think about nothing but what I'm doing at that moment. A day at the track resets my mind better than a week on vacation.
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by caboteria 13y ago
Be wary of any methodology whose name begins with an upper-case letter.
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by caboteria 13y ago
Trade one bureaucracy for another that has even less accountability? No, thanks.
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by caboteria 13y ago
Why not cut out the middleman? https://archive.org/donate/
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by caboteria 13y ago
> If you are contemplating looking around for something else, you should let someone know at the thinking stage. On behalf of your employees: If you are contemplating letting people go, you should let them know at the thinking stage. Wo
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by caboteria 13y ago
According to the Open Source Definition[0] "Open source doesn't just mean access to the source code." Clause 6 requires that to be Open Source "The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a sp
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by caboteria 13y ago
It certainly would have been more useful if it had a disclaimer at the beginning indicating that it was written by a Passenger developer. It's OK to have biases as long as you're up-front about them.
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by caboteria 13y ago
So I think you're actually agreeing with the OP. "where it makes the most sense from a business point of view" is a subset of "global". Your point about the amount of effort to curate map data is well taken, too.
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by caboteria 13y ago
While I think this is a good idea, having InfluAds take 10% off the top seems excessive. Offhand I'd say 5% would be fair.
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by caboteria 14y ago
The problem with this approach is that it leads to everyone reading every email just in case they might have some relevant insight. I see this at my current job - there's a strong "just cc the whole team" attitude which leads to a frustrat
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by caboteria 14y ago
I remember watching the first episode of "Connections" when I was a kid and being pretty badly frightened by the power-loss scenario that James Burke described: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgOp-nz3lHg