cathartes

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by cathartes 10y ago
> Good managers are invisible geniuses who know how to fade into the backdrop, get out of your way, allow you to make decisions, and do not feel fear that they have to micromanage or create empty superficial artifacts to justify that the
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by cathartes 10y ago
But she was explicit in saying no one even asked if anyone was watching. Instead, each person in succession walked in, recoiled in horror, and decided to flip the channel without a word. One person doing this is unexceptional. Two? Less
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by cathartes 10y ago
I think what's more unsettling to me about that part of her story is that there was only One Right Answer: the sports game. I'm accustomed to team dynamics with aggressively asserted opinions; but even within the group, those opi
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by cathartes 10y ago
The author's point about "dogfooding" jumped out at me more than he probably intended, but that's probably because it's an aspect of Slackware's SlackBuilds repository (SBo) that I can't say enough about.
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by cathartes 10y ago
Doug's message brings to mind Chuck Moore, the creator of Forth, who is probably as fierce a "negative" coder as anyone has ever seen, and he extended his approach similarly to his stack-based hardware. Sadly, Forth (in any
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by cathartes 10y ago
I see overlap between these approaches, but not sure I'd go so far as considering one or another "better" for all use cases. Tails specifically targets "less sophisticated" users, and is pretty self-explanatory. A
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by cathartes 10y ago
If the millions you are surrounded with are living exactly the same way, then yes--there is no challenge. But to make options or even omit things that are widely considered staples by your peers, to put yourself at even this much of a cult
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by cathartes 10y ago
Why the cynicism? I don't get a "holier than thou" vibe from this article at all. To me, it reads as a simple progress report about one person's trial in embracing something other than consumerism to fill emptiness. I
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by cathartes 10y ago
What I find strangely absent in most discussion of the UBI is how these fixed payments will hold up against inflation. Even simple arithmetic based on the Consumer Price Index over the past forty years will suggest that an amount like $10,
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by cathartes 10y ago
Simulations, including those that use Monte Carlo methods, might be one class of examples.
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by cathartes 10y ago
Even in power plants, Windows tends to be the rule rather than the exception. The wind, hydroelectric, and solar facilities I'm familiar with run entirely on Windows, right down to the SCADA and process control systems.
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by cathartes 10y ago
Living and working in rural locales will leave you with the feeling that many software developers assume you've got the same fast, unlimited connectivity that they have. For users like myself, with each forced batch of updates you can