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by chris11 7y ago
I'm thinking a review of spaced repitition software, like Anki, logs would give more information on efficient learning.You could map hours spent and schedules to outcomes.
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by chris11 7y ago
The one exception is parking. This isn't as useful if you use covered parking. And with a new car I'd rather use covered parking.
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by chris11 7y ago
How do you like agile at Pivotal? I'm curious, they have some really strongly heard opinions about how to do agile correctly.
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by chris11 7y ago
Japan has a serious issue with it's declining birth rate. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/27/japan-shrinkin...
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by chris11 7y ago
I've read the IRS just returns the money, but you can donate to the government. But the argument is that charity does not make up for the negatives of low taxes. Also, the Broads are noted philanthropists, and they have committed to gi
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by chris11 7y ago
I think Cameo a really cool business idea.For me it would mostly be a gag gift, but I definitely think it's sustainable. It gets creators in front of their fans, and lets their fans send money directly to them. I see comparisons betwee
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by chris11 7y ago
Yeah, on the whole I'd say doctor's WLB is a lot worse, especially considering what I've heard about residencies. And I think a developer can find a job with better WLB much easier than a doctor. I just think that tech, espec
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by chris11 7y ago
> IMHO, the only reasons to work long hours are - real emergencies (like the kind doctors and cops deal with, not the kind when some photo sharing app goes down for 15 mins) Even that doesn't make tech look great. Hours are bad for
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by chris11 7y ago
I haven't really had an issue with this. Though job searching is a little harder as a junior engineer. You can also have your resume start with your second degree.
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by chris11 7y ago
Yes, if especially if "you" is a company or engineering department. It can be difficult trying to figure out how to best deprecate a micro-service endpoint if you aren't quite sure what other services are using it and if logg
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by chris11 7y ago
The assumption is that Facebook is selecting the contracting agencies based on performance or cost. If Cognizant's performance doesn't meet the Facebook's standards they will get dropped, the same thing will happen Cognizant
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by chris11 7y ago
I had a really short contract at a major tech company. It was a completely different situation, I felt that I was respected and treated well. But it was a very low paid/low skilled job. I didn't see much of any room for growth. Th
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by chris11 7y ago
> several (maybe most) state universities in the US publish the salaries of their professors. I'd expand this to state governments. It depends on the state, but for some states you can find a lot of detailed salary information.
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by chris11 7y ago
I think the major issue there is process and management related. The account should have been reviewed by someone with the authority to activate it, and it definitely shouldn't have been flagged a second time. But looks like DO thought
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by chris11 7y ago
For awhile I lived in a city with both an Aldi and a Trader Joes. Over all I prefer Trader Joes, but Aldi had some cheap products I liked. And it was a nice surprise when I found some random household item I needed.
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by chris11 7y ago
> Some customers will be ok with that. I'm not sure I would fully trust that. The client probably won't be happy if bugs from poorly tested code keep coming up. And it sounds like the client might question the dev teams work, i
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by chris11 7y ago
> as electrical systems are easy to work on and diagnose compared to mechanical systems. I'm not sure I agree with that. ICEs have a culture of DIY repairs. Sure, that could develop around electrics and hybrids, but HV electrical sy
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by chris11 7y ago
Dr. Dre's daughter got into USC after Dr Dre co-founded a school there. Sure, the donation was made in 2013, but I'm sure the 70 million dollar donation impacted their decision. https://iovine-young.usc.edu/about&#
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by chris11 8y ago
I don't think this is necessarily about the poor state of public education. Two of the top three school districts are in the bay area, and 9 are in the top 20. https://blog.pacificunion.com/silicon-valley-again-earns-hi
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by chris11 8y ago
Wikileaks refused to release a giant dump of stolen Russian documents.
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by chris11 8y ago
This has definitely happened. Wikileaks refused to release info on Russia during the 2016 election. Wikileaks may have started out with good intentions, but it seems to be making some explicitly political actions. https://foreign
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by chris11 8y ago
I'm not in academia or at a FAANG, but I think that talented professors should always have applicable skills. A professor successfully running a research lab is basically running a small company. They need to raise grant money, and the
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by chris11 8y ago
Personally I think that asking how teams do agile differently and how team members change agile practices can be a good gut check to see what agile is like at a company. If some teams do scrum and some do kanban or some teams have daily sta
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by chris11 8y ago
One safeguard you can add is to use a different database for the tests with different environmental variable names and db roles. So the unit-tests should never be able to access a non-test db.
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by chris11 8y ago
I don't know about that. For awhile I was doing Airbnb while looking for a place. I had the worst rental experience ever. I ended up renting one bedroom in a two bedroom apartment. The people I was staying with weren't bad, or lou
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by chris11 8y ago
I'm interested in that also. I don't really see how you can compare public and private education without looking at class and the ability for the private school to select students. At the very least private school students have pa
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by chris11 8y ago
My personal preference is if-else/switch blocks with enums. Doing conditionals with string parsing just seems gross to me, but I find conditionals easy to read. And the benefits of using an enum is that you can easily find where it is
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by chris11 8y ago
This is slightly different though, the Democrats did just take over the House. So a somewhat inaccurate story has a much greater impact on congressional investigations. I'm thinking that Buzzfeed wrote a well-sourced story that wasn&#x
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by chris11 8y ago
I'm interested in hearing more about that. What were the non-technical requirements that you didn't like?
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by chris11 8y ago
It's not a horrible solution though. I'm kind of cheap, I don't want to pay for unlimited data. So I have an inexpensive plan with T-Mobile that gets throttled. But I can still have some internet access for free once I go ove

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