chasingthewind

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   by chasingthewind 7y ago

   It would be great if there was a "billions above replacement" statistic for CEOs.
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   by chasingthewind 7y ago

   What if we built solar farms on top of car dealership lots that doubled as a canopy? Canopy + energy. I wonder if anybody has done that yet.
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   by chasingthewind 7y ago

   You make a good point. Economist Russ Roberts of Staford recently interviewed Andrew McAfee of MIT on Econtalk [0] and they discussed McAfee's thesis that we're getting radically better at doing more with less via miniaturization
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   by chasingthewind 7y ago

   Re: Profit Centers vs Cost Centers I was once on a team that maintained a SaaS application that was in some sort of bizarre super-position of "cost center" and "profit center" a few years back. The company technically so
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   by chasingthewind 7y ago

   The TIOBE and Redmonk pages both show Python in 3rd. Fun video but I think it would have been more reasonable if they'd bucketed languages into popularity bands. Claiming to know "popularity" of languages to two decimal place
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   by chasingthewind 7y ago

   I've had some friends read things in a few cases and the reaction was basically "hey good job" which I interpreted as "it was ok" :) If I thought there was a particular audience that would be interested I wouldn&#x2
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   by chasingthewind 7y ago

   Writing is probably not going to change your life. But by all means, write like crazy...it's a wonderful hobby! I've written ten (bad) novels in the last ten years and I've loved every minute of it. They've been read by
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   by chasingthewind 7y ago

   Peter Woit in his blog "Not Even Wrong" [0] sometimes deals with the Many Worlds interpretation. He doesn't seem to be a fan. He had a recent post [1] about Everett that's interesting. [0] https://www.math.col
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   by chasingthewind 7y ago

   I've been mentoring junior engineers for fifteen years and I've found a lot of techniques that work but there are two ingredients that I think have to be present: 1) You're motivated to help 2) The junior engineer is motivate
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    by chasingthewind 7y ago

    I read a few of those and it's just like reading later Sherlock Holmes pastiche. They both capture the setting and the mechanics and completely exorcise the spirit. It's almost sad to read things like that. It's the wish that
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    by chasingthewind 7y ago

    I see the same problem you describe. I got [0] as the Amazon's Choice And here's my favorite review: The hip resistance circle bands arrived exactly as expected! I love the colors and how heavy duty they are. When I first took the
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    by chasingthewind 7y ago

    I wholeheartedly agree with this sentiment and I'd like to expand on it. I think the DFW quote is actively damaging because it paints a picture of certain places as belonging to a certain group of people by natural right rather than by
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    by chasingthewind 7y ago

    I wasn't sure what the post was about from the title but this is a satirical article about the recent NPM issue with purescript-installer.
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    by chasingthewind 7y ago

    I was talking with my daughter about this yesterday and it really occurred to me that it's probably important to look at NASA through a realist lens. Here's their Vision and Mission statement: [0] Vision: We reach for new heights
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    by chasingthewind 7y ago

    Yeah that's why I was hesitant. The joke hadn't been posted so many times on Reddit that I was comfortable sharing it :P But here's another dad joke to tide you over! Did you know that Sir Isaac Newton had a brother that sold
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    by chasingthewind 7y ago

    I came up with an original "dad joke" a few years ago that I was incredibly proud of, posted it to Reddit and got many upvotes. Then later on I started to realize that everything on Reddit was reposts and I thought to myself: &quo
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    by chasingthewind 7y ago

    I grew up with Sierra adventure games in the 80s and they hold an incredibly special place in my heart. I love reading these articles about what was happening behind the scenes so thanks for posting. Despite my extreme level of nostalgia fo
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    by chasingthewind 7y ago

    I also got yelled at by my dad for racking up long distance charges in 1991 or 92 but in my case it was only about $150 for calling the Sierra BBS to download stuff for King's Quest games or something :)
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    by chasingthewind 7y ago

    Interesting...thanks!
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    by chasingthewind 7y ago

    Does anyone know if it's safe to leave a voice-only landline phone number associated to an account? Are these as susceptible to being hijacked as cell numbers?
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    by chasingthewind 7y ago

    This is one of those articles that is so outlandish and incredible that I'm left half wondering whether it's an elaborate prank. Either way I love it! Thanks for posting it.
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    by chasingthewind 7y ago

    I think it's actually reasonable to literally say "Tell me about how people collaborate here at XYZ and on this team." If people start highlighting all the ways in which they work together, how they help each other, how they
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    by chasingthewind 7y ago

    I've been thinking about this question for many years now and I have not been able to come up with a good, concise answer about the critical things you need to know before joining a new team. There are so many questions you could ask t
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    by chasingthewind 7y ago

    Munger starts by pointing out the example of the Kitty Genovese murder but it turns out that the popular understanding of what happened is probably quite wrong. There’s a fair amount of irony here. It would appear Munger “adopted the conclu
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    by chasingthewind 7y ago

    I used to work at a company that did incorporations so I may simply be parroting the company sales pitch here, but I did get the honest impression that finding a company that helps you incorporate can really save you some huge headaches lat
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    by chasingthewind 7y ago

    If the location of this story sounds familiar it's because Miami Gardens has a miserable track record of police corruption and scandal including a story of a man arrested over 250 times for "trespassing" at the convenience s
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    by chasingthewind 7y ago

    The Base Rate Fallacy [0] suggests there's often a lot more true negatives than true positives. In this case a true negative is ignoring a non-fraudulent transaction and a true-positive is catching a fraudulent transaction. As someone
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    by chasingthewind 7y ago

    I became interested in Georgist tax models a few years ago but at one point I came across something that didn't seem to be Georgist exactly but perhaps a later modification that seemed terrifying. The idea was that you were responsible
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    by chasingthewind 7y ago

    I'm extremely conflicted about this kind of thing. On the one hand, student debt is extremely burdensome and the system in the U.S. is terrible. This was also obviously very generous. But a one-off donation like this leaves me wonderin
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    by chasingthewind 7y ago

    > Marinara trench Just FYI on the misspelling. Probably an autocorrect issue :)A funny one though!