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by clintonb 8y ago
If you fire those people, you remove your source of expertise on the old system. Yes, they did a poor job of maintaining the old system, but their knowledge may be valuable to understanding the old system and creating requirements for the n
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by clintonb 8y ago
What's wrong with English, literal sentences and paragraphs, or a few bullet points? If you can write the readme or user-docs, you have written a significant amount of your requirements. If you can add the various edge cases, you'
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by clintonb 8y ago
praise-criticism-praise
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by clintonb 8y ago
Heroes can be disappointing.
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by clintonb 8y ago
I am reminded of the Ship of Theseus[0]. What percentage of people employed at Microsoft in the 1990s now remain some 20-30 years later? At what point is the company considered changed? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by clintonb 8y ago
I've been at a new company for a few months, and still find the codebase confusing/frustrating. At my previous job, I was a tech lead/architect. Here I feel like a dummy. Talent can't necessarily overcome poor documentat
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by clintonb 8y ago
> I don't know if it's good or bad but I feel like it is easier for me to deal with a person who's driving force is profit rather than lust for power. They seem to be more reasonable on average than powerlusters so I'
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by clintonb 8y ago
> No, but they all went to college, so they should have learned calculus, and derivatives. I've been out of school for ten years, and haven't used calculus in about twelve. How exactly do you think knowing calculus would have h
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by clintonb 8y ago
Credit unions are non-profit member-owned cooperatives. You as a customer/member are the owner of the credit union, thus the credit union has an onus to have lower fees/loan rates but higher savings rates. Banks on the other hand
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by clintonb 8y ago
> Heaven forbid someone is making more money than they know what to do with than you are. I see what you're saying; however, all things being equal, I would want compensation comparable to my peers if we were doing the same job. Why
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by clintonb 8y ago
I realize this is a late reply. GE Capital was a loan organization. Marcus also offers checking and savings accounts, which were built in-house at Goldman Sachs. I interviewed for a job to work on the project.
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by clintonb 8y ago
> Don’t get me wrong I’m not saying to scrap all your test suites and try to encode all your constraints using the type system instead. Not at all I still firmly believe that tests are useful but in some cases you can leverage the type s
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by clintonb 8y ago
Goldman Sachs has a consumer presence: https://www.marcus.com/us/en
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The Academy has 7000 active/lifetime members who vote on Oscars. That’s not really an arbitrary committee.
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by clintonb 9y ago
Problem extends beyond mailing forms. Everything linked to the tax year is now broken in this world. FSAs, employer-provided insurance, even general budgeting all have to change. Such changes will have an effect on the economy at the $100M
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by clintonb 9y ago
How do you determine when an entity—person or company—needs to file? If the filing date is based on employer, what happens if I work for multiple employers or change jobs? If the filing is date is based on the filing entity, every employer
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by clintonb 9y ago
Processing fees are also much lower in the EU, hence the lower rewards.
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by clintonb 9y ago
docker-sync ( http://docker-sync.io/ ) is another option that helps resolve filesystem issues on macOS.
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by clintonb 9y ago
I only sign paper at restaurants. If a signature is needed at a retail store, I usually sign a digital pad.
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by clintonb 9y ago
Exactly what problems need solving here? Cardholders aren't on the hook for fraud. If you are in a hurry, you can tell your server to provide the check with your food, and pay before you're done eating.
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by clintonb 9y ago
Your site isn't loading.
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by clintonb 9y ago
The final option (provisional ballot) is what happened. The problem is she also signed an affidavit stating that she was eligible. It is a completely victimless crime and a waste of taxpayer dollars.
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by clintonb 9y ago
> Netflix should just buy their own damn theater in LA and show movies there to get them on all the awards shows. That's what used to happen. The Fox and Paramount theatres in Oakland, CA used to be owned by Fox and Paramount, respe
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by clintonb 9y ago
Voters can sell their votes now. While unethical, it's not illegal and probably not worth combatting since, technically, that is the will of the voter.
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When Does a Campus’ Big Data Become a Student’s Educational Record?(michellelessly.com)
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by clintonb 9y ago
FERPA is the HIPAA for educational records. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Educational_Rights_and_...
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by clintonb 9y ago
"What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful" by Marshall Goldsmith helped me become a better teammate and communicator.
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by clintonb 9y ago
I keep hearing bad things about Electron, and have only now bothered to look it up. As a user of Slack, and whatever other applications I happen to use that are based on Electron, I don't care that the application isn't native. El
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowing_(sport)
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by clintonb 9y ago
Alexa can control Nest, yes: https://nest.com/support/article/Nest-and-Amazon-Alexa . That skill would be hard to get rid of, unless Amazon explicitly forbade access to Nest APIs.

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