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Reinventing [Employee] Performance Management(hbr.org)
1 points by cpitman 12y ago|0 comments
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by cpitman 12y ago
Yes, especially when you take into account that your two married doctors will likely be working off debt/opportunity cost related to becoming doctors for over a decade. At the point that they have paid off all debt, and start having
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by cpitman 12y ago
Does it matter how much money they make? My understanding is that the difference between middle class and upper class isn't how much they make, it is how they make that money. The upper class is the only class that makes the majority o
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by cpitman 12y ago
Right, he's also worked as a game developer, has been a moderator on GameDev.Net for many many years, and lead the SlimDx project to implement one of the only remaining DirectX libraries for .Net. He knows what he is talking about.
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by cpitman 12y ago
I'm guessing the title came from the tweet that went about it as well (which Promit did correct, but that isn't going to matter when John Carmack retweets it): https://twitter.com/josefajardo/status/57471
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by cpitman 12y ago
Statistics are wildly important for both business and understanding the world around you, and without solid calculus skills you cannot truly work with statistics. Its not something that comes up every day at work, but it is still pretty oft
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by cpitman 12y ago
Exactly, the "Singleton" pattern should only be used when having two instances of one object will be catastrophic . In all other situations where you only think you want one of a class, dependency injection handles that. A good D
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by cpitman 12y ago
First, I should say I work for Red Hat :-) If your goal is VM orchestration, and you are not ready to go full self-service via OpenStack and similar, then we also provide a product called CloudForms ( http://www.redhat.com/en
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by cpitman 12y ago
I think what may be missing that this is more than just a "graphics" library, and that by taking over the event loop and overall structure of the app they make it so that you can get a running game (as opposed to rendering a qua
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by cpitman 12y ago
I work as a consultant, and at least for my work it is like this: Consultants are brought in to "consult", ie they have knowledge and expertise that the client does not have and that the client needs access to. For example, many o
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by cpitman 12y ago
I would assume its the ease of making the systems highly available and/or scalable. Scaling ActiveMQ can be a pain once you exceed the capacity of a single broker, and the standard HA setup requires shared file systems with non-broken
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by cpitman 12y ago
MQTT is a wire protocol for connection a message sender and receiver, but leaves the actual messaging architecture (brokers, P2P, etc) unspecified. NSQ appears to include its own proprietary wire format, as well as a full im-memory messagin
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by cpitman 12y ago
I'm glad someone at least seems to be addressing congestion. Every 802.11 standard seems to have hopped on the "multiple bandwidth by 2x" bandwagon, which is great if I live in a single family house with tons of space. I don&
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by cpitman 12y ago
Do other countries also have problems with their roads and bridges being in disrepair? How about their water mains, do they break and wash out streets on a regular basis? US local governments do not seem to have a good record of maintaining
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by cpitman 12y ago
The local government has plenty of other advantages. For one, they have a vested interest in not imposing costly requirements on themselves, while they continue to do so to private ISPs. In other words, they set the rules that everyone has
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by cpitman 12y ago
This is one of the real issues with the FCC's collection of this data. Broadband providers don't report where they have customers they are providing service, they report areas that they "cover", where "cover" m
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The Agile Coaches' Coach Shares Her View on SAFe(infoq.com)
2 points by cpitman 12y ago|0 comments
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by cpitman 12y ago
Yes, I completely agree. I had a client that pushed for a large enterprise application to be written in C++. By large, I mean it took a ~30 person team about 3 years to develop. In the end, I think the 80/20 rule applied and well under
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by cpitman 12y ago
It was her job in the first place to keep this from happening. The fact that this report even needed to happen is a result of her committee's inability to provide the oversight that they are tasked with.
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by cpitman 12y ago
You are underestimating the capabilities of one of the largest public transportation agencies in the world. Even far smaller agencies have employees dedicated to designing new fare tables, and they are sure to take advantage of their massiv
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by cpitman 12y ago
Just to reinforce this: RHEL/CentOS version numbers cannot be directly compared with the upstream projects version numbers. That is the version that was picked as a base, and then bug fixes are ported back to that version. In this ca
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by cpitman 12y ago
Those are not the things that most developers do. When I'm hiring you, I need to know that you can write clean, maintainable, well tested code. We interface with SQL, web services, messaging, rules systems, etc. IE, the majority of dev
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by cpitman 12y ago
I work at a very large software company, and we also have beer in the fridge pretty often. Usually ends up coming out Friday afternoons when people are starting to wind down.
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by cpitman 12y ago
As far as (4) and (5), that probably speaks to where you were in Japan. Outside of the major cities there is plenty of driving going on. Like in Hokkaido, where Sapporo has a nice transit system but outside that is a vast expanse of roads.
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by cpitman 12y ago
Looking at my peers, who mostly have science and engineering backgrounds, there is a perception that we need to work in "our field". Not using our degrees makes the entire expense and time of college seem like a waste[1], even tho
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by cpitman 12y ago
Nope, sorry. That might be part of it, but Americans also are very reluctant to take vacations even when we have plenty of time off to use. In my experience it comes down somewhere between "things will fall apart without me" and &
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by cpitman 12y ago
They are not only cloud based. They have a link to download the code ( https://github.com/taigaio ) and let you host it yourself.
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by cpitman 12y ago
This American Life actually did a pretty good story on patents. I'm pretty sure part of it explained the historical reason for why the ninth circuit gets so many patent cases: patent cases are lower priority on dockets, so if plaintiff
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by cpitman 12y ago
It's actually kind of surprising to me how many people like Ubiquiti here. Every couple of years I end up trying out lots of wireless gear. Last time was about 1.5 years ago, and Unifi was a cheap option that offered moderate throughpu
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by cpitman 12y ago
The book mentioned in this article, 'Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art', actually goes into a lot of depth about this. For example, what is statistically likely to happen if you only use single point estimates when t

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