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by criticas 4y ago
One, most US companies don't own their buildings - they lease for the tax advantages. It comes down to capital expenditures vs operational expenditures. They're happy to reduce OpEx, but it's not like it's a billion do
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by criticas 4y ago
Apple? Or do you argue Apple doesn't count because they're not in the business computing space, or that they're essentially a consumer products company that also makes personal computers?
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by criticas 4y ago
Managers often have little discretion for unusual pay increases. The budget process, "fairness", and company culture inhibit raises. For anything out of the ordinary, you either need to get a promotion, be indispensable (or have
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by criticas 4y ago
You're being offered smoke and promises. I would not let the current offer affect my behavior in any way. They are asking you to assume the risk for the company's benefit. It does NOT even boil down to how much you trust the cu
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by criticas 4y ago
You may wish to look into Synergy ( https://symless.com/synergy/features ). It allows you to use a single keyboard and mouse across multiple computers. Each computer retains its' own displays, so it may not meet y
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by criticas 5y ago
You're asking about a technology solution to a legal problem. Depending on the agreement between you and your employer, even a separate account may not be sufficient. Understand that first, then determine how to best implement it.
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by criticas 5y ago
I grew up as a military brat. Joining the military was more of the same, in a different dialect - AF Blue instead of Navy Blue. After commissioning I served in an R&D environment that was mostly civilian & contractor. I had the l
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by criticas 5y ago
No, because the problem is within essentially every state. There is a conservative exurbs/rural vs liberal cities divide. Studies have observed the effect in other countries as well. It appears cities select for a set of personali
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by criticas 5y ago
> one of the 25 schools that claims to be a top 10 cs/engineering school Hey, I went to one of those! Definitely going to steal that. I also agree that a varying percentage of graduates from any reputable school are top notch. Man
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by criticas 5y ago
New Marketing slogan: "Take Prucalopride When You Can't Remember Shit!"
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by criticas 5y ago
Study Source: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medici... Results Summary: "Prucalopride increased recall of words in a verbal learning task, increased the accuracy of recall and recogniti
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by criticas 5y ago
Texas should pass a law declaring unborn children are legally Uyghurs, and thereby render them invisible to Apple.
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by criticas 5y ago
We should start calling these "Yet Another Satoshi Nakamoto Expose" (YASNE) posts. A great rabbit hole to fall down. Coming up next... "Unsolved Nerd Mysteries".
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by criticas 5y ago
I heard the same thing in the 90's, when moving IT jobs to the three I's (India, Israel, Ireland) was all the rage. I figured out which parts of the job were hardest to move, and got good at those. Fortunately, defects in qualit
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by criticas 5y ago
Another root cause in our environment is alluded to in the article. With the rise of test frameworks, devs seem to test to prove the API is correct, not to find problems. Another symptom of this is that when the QA/Staging function we
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by criticas 5y ago
This happens weekly. Developer: Host XYZ is very busy. Sysadmin: Yes, Yes it is. The top 10 processes are your Java App. Developer: Fix it. Sysadmin: ???? You can request a larger virtual machine, you can try these options to the JVM, or
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by criticas 5y ago
My benefits package pays for a pair of glasses every year, and my prescription doesn't change much. One year I get a "free" pair of progressive bifocals (with an upcharge of $100-200), the next a "free" pair of pre
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by criticas 5y ago
and MIPS, as a server architecture. In 1998, MIPS Technologies left SGI. Without a major systems house using it, MIPS was left to chase embedded markets. The R10000 had been used by SGI, Tandem, Pyramid, and NEC for high-end servers.
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by criticas 5y ago
HP concluded PA-RISC (and all RISC, really) had reached a plateau. Wikipedia explains it well: In 1989, HP determined that the Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) architectures were approaching the processing limit at one instruction p
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by criticas 5y ago
There were two competing schools of thought in the late '70s and early '80s. One said that computer hardware should have hardware support for high level languages. That school led to the VAX, iAPX432, and 80X86. The other schoo
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by criticas 5y ago
Not sure the government needs to be involved at all. Purdue has an income-based repayment program. It's not a loan - technically it's an income sharing agreement. A sophomore, junior, or senior receives an amount, say $10,000,
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by criticas 5y ago
Colleges have already adapted - they've widened the net, looking for rich parents globally. They admit more foreign students, who pay full rate. That's particularly controversial for public schools because of taxpayer funding.
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by criticas 5y ago
On problem is that many of the government interventions on "making college cheaper" had the reverse effect. Loans and grants made students price insensitive (and financial aid disguised the true price). Couple that with the fact
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by criticas 5y ago
Graduation, employment, and starting salary are factored into the US News ratings for law schools. Law schools responded by offering graduates who could not find jobs "fellowships" to move them into the "employed" categ
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by criticas 5y ago
If they did a cost/benefit calculus, they wouldn't be on that path (or that field, most likely). I have to remind myself that most people don't think like I do. There's a confirmation bias, where I'm surrounded by
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by criticas 5y ago
Two Possibilities: they work for a non-profit or government entity (school district, social services organization, etc), or they work less than full time. About 85% of speech pathologists are women, who tend to prioritize other factors (w
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by criticas 5y ago
"there was a bug that forced a reboot when the keyboard was plugged in while the system was running." That's not a bug, it's a feature! -- Sun God, we fought with them about that. Even if it was a reasonable feature o
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by criticas 5y ago
Using "wc -l" or "sort | uniq -c | sort" to count and classify things. Count processes and threads by user on Linux: # ps -Teo euser=,comm= | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
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by criticas 5y ago
The first joke oneliner I learned, circa 1980: 1: gotta light? No match. Quickly followed by: 2: Could you beat up superman? No match. Oh, the days when csh was cool and not retro.
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by criticas 8y ago
"Now yeah, I stayed at the architecture contract for a long time, and that was contrary to my beliefs too. I had no business doing defense contracting in any form. But that was a boring, actuarial, technical evil; the biometrics stuff

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