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by chevman 7y ago
Had a similar problem with an old iPod touch. I think once the system time gets screwed up iOS won’t connect to any website due to certificate security errors - ie iOS thinks its 1999 but all the website certs aren’t effective until 2019 f
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by chevman 8y ago
Looks like some of it has been posted here: https://archive.org/details/myspace_dragon_hoard_2010
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by chevman 8y ago
My wife and I live in Minneapolis and our experience over the past 2 years has been basically the same as yours, expect with the companies reversed. Instacart has been generally top notch in their logistics and customer service. Small issu
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by chevman 8y ago
Touchdown confirmed!
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by chevman 8y ago
A zillion high level contacts at all the enterprise clients they want to sell to?
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by chevman 8y ago
I don't work at Amazon, however my experience has been similar working at a large F10. Our internal 'recruitment services' dept is all outsourced/contracted. They mask this internally through cheap tricks (don't pr
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by chevman 8y ago
A few years ago at SFDC Dreamforce, a company actually did this - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/step-aboard-the-dreamboat-...
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by chevman 8y ago
[2016] One in five genetics papers contains errors thanks to Microsoft Excel
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by chevman 8y ago
I graduated from highschool 20+ years ago (1997, holy smokes!) and it was the same deal then. There were about 25 of us in my graduating class that ran the table with perfect SATs, 5s on all our APs, perfect GPA, etc and we all applied to
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by chevman 8y ago
This is a rookie mistake - create and host a mission critical part of your business (not just your backend infrastructure, your entire business) with a vendor that you have no real, vetted contract in place with? Total clown show. Take this
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by chevman 9y ago
We used cloth diapers on my son (who is now almost 4). Our technique was as follows: -One wash cycle in warm water using no soap. -One wash cycle in hot water using soap. -Dry Every couple weeks we would put white vinegar in the no-soap cy
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by chevman 9y ago
I think reinstituting a 2 year (or whatever length of time) national service requirement is a much more realistic, practical way of moving the country, and this general discussion, forward. UBI feels like a tactic with too many complication
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by chevman 9y ago
"One day he got an email from someone - likely someone making $150-$200k- more or less demanding that he review and accept some PRs, as well as do some work himself, for a feature they needed." This is called a 'business oppo
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by chevman 9y ago
"Could also be office politics bullshit; a high-up was gunning for them with no real justification and ginned up a smokescreen to fire them." Ding, ding, ding! We may have a winner. Here's my guess - the guys that got fired
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by chevman 9y ago
I work at a company within the Fortune 10 and we use Twilio in some isolated products, and they are pushing hard on a few potential deals/opportunities to expand further. Technical foundation appears solid to all their stuff, but their
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by chevman 9y ago
all the cities at once Pretend is a city bigger than New York, bigger than all the cities at once.
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by chevman 9y ago
Looks like they are re-building cloud ERP systems, just starting at the payment transaction and working outward. Compare to Netsuite and other similar platforms.
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by chevman 9y ago
Why reinvent something that could be solved by an existing CMS - i.e. Al Fresco, Adobe Experience Manager, etc? Curious if it is a financial decision, technical, or something else.
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by chevman 11y ago
I think what you're filtering for here is 'initiative'. I don't hire programmers, but have been a hiring manager, running fairly technical business teams now for 10+ years, and have found that initiative is often the dec
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by chevman 12y ago
Can you suggest some of your favorite speculations? Or links to other material?
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by chevman 12y ago
do you post under handle sigmaalgebra on avc.com? if so, have always really enjoyed reading your take on stuff.