chrisdbanks

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by chrisdbanks 4y ago
The previous owners of our house did all the electrics and plumbing. So far we've had 3 major floods, an electrical fire, and the garage door cables snapped. I'm all for people actually having qualifications to show their training
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by chrisdbanks 4y ago
Beautiful writing is more memorable and more enjoyable to read and therefore you're more likely to read it, remember it, and be inspired by it. Hence invisible writing is not the aim, but I agree writing shouldn't get in the way o
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by chrisdbanks 4y ago
People would just find ways of giving the money to their children, e.g. cash, or setting up a company and employing them at ridiculous salaries. When you have money there are always ways around things. It's an arms race and unfortunate
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by chrisdbanks 4y ago
I prefer to think of the Peter principle as you arrive at your point of unhappiness rather than incompetence. Not everyone wants to be the CEO of a billion dollar company. Everyone has a place where they reach maximum happiness in there car
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by chrisdbanks 4y ago
Title case would lowercase prepositions (de) and determiners (los) so this isn't title case technically
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by chrisdbanks 4y ago
Skills don't follow a bell curve or normal distribution. They follow a power law distribution with most people being terrible and a very small number of people being exceptional.
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by chrisdbanks 4y ago
I once had to do this and turned all the docx into one document, used Word to export as PDF and then used a PDF splitter to get separate documents.
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by chrisdbanks 4y ago
Maybe you need to reread the question. I think he's asking how this will affect you personally, not what you're doing for the people being layed of. This doesn't answer that question at all or at least comes across as a polit
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by chrisdbanks 4y ago
Which other unfair advantages? Another way to look at this is that the employee is selling the employer a service. When you buy something from a shop do you expect to name your price, or do you expect see a price label? In that case the sel
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by chrisdbanks 4y ago
Some companies make you sign an NDA before they tell you their prices.
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by chrisdbanks 4y ago
I completely agree. I would never ask someone to do work for free, but take homes are the best way of simulating actual job performance and can be enlightening for both sides.
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by chrisdbanks 4y ago
This would take double the time but also assumes that the same people are on the market during phase 1 and 2 which won't be true. In some cases I have s time constraint and just need the best available person. If they happen to be a to
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by chrisdbanks 4y ago
Yes, so why did they do it? I guess it depends on the type of job and company. In this case it sounds like they didn't have the budget or wisdom to hire a high performer but we're trying to net one through trickery. There will alw
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by chrisdbanks 4y ago
I don't say that the candidate has to be the first to name a number, just that they can. In fact, in most negotiations the results ends up closest to the first number named, so candidates should be happy to name the first number.
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by chrisdbanks 4y ago
I completely agree that it doesn't make sense, but that's how it is. Anyone who's ever hired a top performer will feel like they're getting the biggest bargain ever. I guess that psychology artificially limits the top of
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by chrisdbanks 4y ago
As an employer, I am reticent to name a salary range because the fact is that the return on investment of employees is not normally distributed; it follows a power law where the top people return many times the amount of an average person.
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by chrisdbanks 4y ago
At the point that Russia starts calling normal people to service, that's the point where he starts losing the population. The vast majority of people don't want to fight in a war. They may believe his lies for the sake of an easy
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by chrisdbanks 4y ago
The version number was really important to me when I recently had to roll back my Kindle app so that I could actually buy books in it. It seriously pisses me off that Google gradually makes my phone more and more unusable.
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by chrisdbanks 4y ago
When I was writing full-time, we had strict word limits. It meant we spent a lot of time removing unnecessary words. My writing skill improved immensely because of this "training". Writing is a skill like any other. It can be trai
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by chrisdbanks 4y ago
Seems like a fair definition of passive income. Not sure why the commenter feels it's not.
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by chrisdbanks 4y ago
Congratulations. Most people get stuck at the procrastination phase you mention. Just getting a book to published is a huge achievement let alone making significant revenue from it. This is not only good advice, but also an inspiring tale.
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by chrisdbanks 4y ago
I would suggest that it's never a good idea to be cooking several dishes at the same time in the world of software. Software and cooking are completely different in terms of the cost of making a mistake. A single bug in production can
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by chrisdbanks 4y ago
For me, "Mise en place", has nothing to do with chopping everything beforehand and in fact that is completely different from how I cook and develop software. Chopping everything at the start seems like it takes longer. I think Mis
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by chrisdbanks 5y ago
I don't like: - manual testing - fixing bugs found in production under extreme time pressure - people finding embarrassing bugs in my code - spending lots of time explaining what code should be doing to other developers Unit testing ma
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by chrisdbanks 5y ago
Maybe I was being too subtle. I mean it sounds like offering completely random advice that has no statistically significant correlation with success, and therefore is just as likely to be wrong as right.
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by chrisdbanks 5y ago
This sounds like all the parents who've had one baby that slept well and spend the rest of their lives telling other parents what worked for them. Very difficult to draw anything meaningful from a sample size of one. Sometimes a compan
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by chrisdbanks 5y ago
For me, whichever you choose, you should make it easy for the user to change the language. Living in Spain as an English speaker I often end up on a Spanish version with no obvious way to change to English. That is the real sin.
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by chrisdbanks 5y ago
Seems to be correlated with when you have young kids. Not surprising really as having young kids is like having a grenade set off in your relationship.
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by chrisdbanks 5y ago
I completely agree with the do nothing approach. I live in Spain and it feels like they've taken the opposite approach. All the systems are designed to catch the 0.01% of people who abuse the system which makes it impossible for the 99
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by chrisdbanks 5y ago
I'm sure that's what MySpace investors thought.

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