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by delibes 11y ago
So many comments here reflecting ideas from the 2002 book "Abolishing Performance Appraisals - Why They Backfire and What to Do Instead". I think it's well worth a read, especially if you're implementing or in a position
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by delibes 11y ago
I imagine an alternate universe where you wrote : "The failure of Microsoft and IBM to reach a deal to bundle DOS with the original PC provides one of the great "what-ifs" in computing history."
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by delibes 12y ago
It might still happen for a variety of reasons. I live in London, and not all boroughs/districts are equal. Compare posh Kensington on the western edge of the London Underground Zone 1 with Whitechapel and Hackney at the eastern edge a
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by delibes 12y ago
The reddit spacex thread suggests another 'hard' landing for stage 1. But sounds like they got close again. One day ... one day ...
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by delibes 12y ago
I never watched one of these before ... T+13 shows Dragon deploying solar panels (really should to be called 'wings' I think). I think a second stage camera shows the Dragon with a some fairing panel spinning away from it. This is
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by delibes 12y ago
That stage 2 engine nozzle really glows hot! Looks hot enough to melt, but holding together impressively. Also, the exhaust into the vacuum looks like a messy grey cloud, not the bright cone I might have expected. Very cool. Or hot.
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by delibes 12y ago
Also the Lockheed bribery: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_bribery_scandals Which damaged plenty of European aerospace companies like Sauders-Roe (who developed the Black Knight and other UK rockets). http:&#x2F
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by delibes 12y ago
Maverick: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maverick_%28book%29 Read it when I was 17 and it shaped what I expected from work in the future.
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by delibes 12y ago
A personal favourite of mine, by Coleridge :- http://www.orgs.miamioh.edu/anthologies/bijou/vissat/Workwit... Why? Because in the movie Groundhog Day, when Phil Connors has had his moment of enlightenment&#x2
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by delibes 12y ago
I think there's an error in the blog post, because the 4th graph is the same as the 3rd. It should probably be http://danluu.com/images/dunning-kruger/dunning_4.png which shows a positive correlation for &quo
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by delibes 12y ago
Looks like only people in the 3rd quartile are any good at estimating performance, and so perhaps they should immediately all become project managers?! :)
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by delibes 12y ago
Tic-tac-toe - it isn't in the list. The only winning move is not to play.
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by delibes 12y ago
That abstract reads strangely to me. "This article demonstrates that among violent Islamists engineers with a degree, individuals with an engineering education are three to four times more frequent than we would expect given the share
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by delibes 12y ago
Or this classic from my childhood http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Frisby_and_the_Rats_of_NIM...
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by delibes 12y ago
The cap isn't on the pen properly, so it'll dry out. Share prices of marker pen manufacturers are going to soar! :)
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by delibes 12y ago
I don't remember much about the node.js implementation. Some early experiments with Ruby were beset by problems the VMs - Ruby MRI vs JRuby vs Rubinius etc ... We also had strange performance issues on JRuby, but not sure we ever reall
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by delibes 12y ago
I haven't been in our Clojure code for over 6 months, but I'm pretty sure it's still https://github.com/clojurewerkz/elastisch
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by delibes 12y ago
I can add some more details here, because I'm still at the MailOnline :) The CTO, Clifton Cunningham, did help by giving us the space to create new things. For example we also work on our own Javascript library for building the in-hous
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by delibes 12y ago
This guy is very entertaining in the video, and what they're doing is very practical. Rocket engines sometimes get described as extreme plumbing. Big rockets that are more powerful than the simple solid rockets the video describes tend
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by delibes 12y ago
He seems to be warning against falling into a localised optimum, thus missing out on something better. Fair advice, but I don't think that's what's commonly a meritocracy. Sadly unrelated, the term meritocracy was coined by M
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by delibes 12y ago
Not sure if the Russians provide stats and this is the first launch for the A5, so probably only estimates available. The middle core that looks like the boosters (assuming that's what you mean by second stage) is the same according to