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by captain_perl 8y ago
You would think you could become good at eng. mgmt., but reality says otherwise. Most of the VP Eng's I've met are washed-up ex-engineers with no mgmt. ability either. They're just cogs in a machine or the apex of an org char
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Well, Euler and Gauss knew all there was to know about mathematics at the time. That consisted of algebra up to quintic equations plus their own inventions. You'd be unpleasantly surprised if you saw a turn-of-the century-math high sch
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by captain_perl 8y ago
I do daily upper-body stretches taught to me by chiropractors. I don't know how I could function without them actually.
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by captain_perl 8y ago
You might want to try postal address lookup/verification software to fix the addresses.
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by captain_perl 8y ago
This is the second similar news story this month. The thing in common is that both sets of parents were either divorced or not biological, and the hospital tried to use leverage to push them off balance with bogus law citations and police i
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Just correcting some vagueness from the above comment. Most tailwheel airplanes can do wheel or 3-point (stall) landings. For example, I've done both in the Decathlon, a very common tailwheel airplane. Also, I watched the video and alt
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by captain_perl 8y ago
The Q400 is actually a 76-person airliner. Most airliners don't have keys, thus rely on perimeter fences for security. This single confused airline worker is going to cause massive inconvenience for other airline employees and increase
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by captain_perl 8y ago
> What I had believed until now is that Intel was essentially pivoting to a different strategy, moving away from traditional CPUs. Intel is addicted to $100 - $3,000/CPU for its "traditional CPUs." Where do you think they
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Wow. Not just cheap, but MacProject was free on the original Mac. Smartsheet has a PERT view. I've used it successfully on a short-term project with about 20 engineers. The only "configuration" I had to add was a JIRA column.
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by captain_perl 8y ago
A hazmat team of 6 in bunny suits arrived each morning for the Hamilton VTA light rail stop in San Jose when I lived there. That stop has an outdoors elevator, and somebody was wiping shit all over the keypad daily. So reality is even more
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by captain_perl 8y ago
For those who don't use AWS ... I use the AWS console all day every day, and I couldn't name a single icon. So my guess is they are just intended to be art icons, nothing purposeful. Or they're too similar to be mnemonic.
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Just wait until you find out about the The California Land Conservation Act, commonly known as the Williamson Act. A Who's Who of Apple executives exploit this to build mansions on nearby "ranches": https://www.scc
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Andrew Morton should be your role model. He left mgmt. to become a linux kernel maintainer, and ended up at Google: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Morton_(computer_progra...
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by captain_perl 8y ago
No, you're missing a level of subtlety. The author made it sound like there was no relationship between cuprates and copper, but in fact cuprate molecules include copper atoms. In fact, cuprates are a new family of superconductors beca
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by captain_perl 8y ago
> discovered a behavior in materials called cuprates that suggests they carry current in a way entirely different from conventional metals such as copper. Well, cuprates are copper-based molecules, so a better wording would be "they
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by captain_perl 8y ago
You can compensate for distractions by completely mastering your tools so that less focus is needed. That's a technique that you have control over.
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by captain_perl 8y ago
1) Stalling is not falling vertically. 2) Airliners are designed as stable instrument platforms, so it's unlikely you've been in an airliner that stalled.
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Planes don't fall, they glide. Also, dropping a few feet when you're at 20,000' to 40,000' is a small change.
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Because the economy is people's demand.
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Since the comments in this thread are missing historical context, here's a review wrt California: 1) the State Treasurer presented 3 options (low - 6%, middle - 7%, high - 8%), but said high was dangerous 2) the State picked high, sinc
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by captain_perl 8y ago
I've hosted high-bandwidth services before and here's what I recommend ... Start with a dedicated hosting provider until you build up a user base. Then when you need extreme bandwidth, Hurricane Electric is the affordable way to g
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Just for the record, I surveyed a dozen Hipchat users who used it all day in late 2016 for software development. They had zero complaints about using Hipchat. My opinion of the Hipchat web client at the time was that it worked fine (no comp
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by captain_perl 8y ago
As a vanilla-JS guy for 2 decades, I can say that you can go far without any frameworks, especially now. The one feature I miss that jquery has is dialog boxes that can be customized with HTML. Does anybody know of any cross-browser javascr
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by captain_perl 8y ago
That's my theory about Woz also. He was as brilliant as the Sun before the crash, and not only designed optimal hardware, but also wrote Apple BASIC and designed the floppy controller software. Sounds easy today, but his work was all p
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by captain_perl 8y ago
> hottest neighbourhood in Mississauga Mississauga ... lol. What's funny is I remember when the downtown waterfront condos were $50,000 each and nobody wanted to buy - long walk to downtown and freezing cold in winter. How things ch
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Why? Because they're trust-fund babies? Where does a post-grad get enough cash to start a cafe?
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by captain_perl 8y ago
> Do the Québécois form an independent nation? The answer is no Quebec will remain in Canada until the day before their $10+ billion in transfer payments and National Capital Region special treatment is stopped.
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Einstein, Bertrand Russell and even Wittgenstein himself were all armchair philosophers. They just formed their deductive powers in the modern scientific era. Wittgenstein is well-known for changing the origin of mathematical problems to th
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by captain_perl 8y ago
The OP makes it sound like inability to focus is a normal thing, but it's not. I've never used white noise or headphones to improve focus, and it's rare that co-workers ever use headphones. So maybe investigate whether the pr
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by captain_perl 8y ago
It's unlikely because the existing staff incentives are from the previous business line, not the new one. Just try and get your sales staff to sell a new product line when all their commission comes from the old one.

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