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by devonkim 10y ago
I've worked in government before and understand bureaucracy but there's a certain level of quality even they have standards for. Most government sites aren't massive volume transactions but primarily static brochure type site
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by devonkim 10y ago
So when the 22nd amendment was passed to limit the president to two terms in 1951 that seems to have changed the dynamics considerably.
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by devonkim 10y ago
The most apt analysis I've read was that from a historical standpoint Clinton was trying to do something even very strong candidates have trouble doing - keeping a party three terms in a row for the White House. There's only one p
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by devonkim 10y ago
What happened or didn't happen to the people running the site between 2004 and now when GWB was re-elected? You'd think that you should be shoring up the website seeing spikes for a while, and it's been over 10 years since th
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by devonkim 10y ago
I'm not sure if I've ever read anything that could construe Trump as an orator of any skill whatsoever, but this may be the closest. Clearly, there's much more factors involved than speaking and diplomatic abilities that deci
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by devonkim 10y ago
Lower skill may be the important distinction rather than whether it's manual labor intensive or not like we traditionally view in the US. Sitting at a computer at a click farm in a developing country is completely different than sittin
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by devonkim 10y ago
I've heard mention that this cult is somehow related to the Moonies cult that Americans are more familiar with, is there any merit to these claims? I can't find much connection between this and the Moonies in terms of current acti
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by devonkim 10y ago
At the very least, not having to bring separate laptop and phone chargers and cables is a convenience even if we had to err on the side of the bulkier of the two. Heck, there seems to be enough of a market that products like this from Twe
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by devonkim 10y ago
I can last maybe 3 - 4 hours on my 2014 MBPr in low power mode at least when writing Scala, longer potentially if it's just Java for some reason. You may also want to try resetting your SMC and see if that helps battery life in general
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by devonkim 10y ago
PTSD being such a big and publicized topic is the difference today than from past wars. The topic of ethnic cleansing actually happening wasn't even a thought until years following WW2. The politics of war were pervasive in media muc
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by devonkim 10y ago
The moral message was lost it seems - the viewer's gut reaction to persecute the supposed antagonist now is part of the critique. Wishing for his death despite his deeds is not necessarily justice and a failure to understand his motive
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by devonkim 10y ago
It got the dichotomy right - the solution for horrible things like PTSD also turned out to be justifying continuation of a horrific crime in its own right. The balance of how technology is amoral and how we use it as a society and for what
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by devonkim 10y ago
A lot of critical thinking and questioning of authority without the proper framework of rationality and methodology can backfire into turning more people into paranoid tinfoil hatters rather than critical thinkers with a healthy skepticism
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by devonkim 10y ago
The worst part is that we see people attempting to refute good science with poor science because of almost entirely political reasons such as the fact we're still having debates on the mere existence of climate change and unsupport
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by devonkim 10y ago
Nobody really remembers the Diamond Rio Karma but everyone knows about the iPod. History is only acknowledged by historians, perception is reality otherwise.
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by devonkim 10y ago
You just supported the typical anti-pattern of management where someone new gets hired and proceeds to re-orgs everyone after a couple months of meetings to superficially understand how an organization works. This thereby usually causes man
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by devonkim 10y ago
Frameworks and standards like that are more often needed because there's a huge ecosystem of custom, proprietary libraries and frameworks that also exists within government. Previous attempts to try to release standards that only addre
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by devonkim 10y ago
There's a great deal more than just regulations. I'd argue that for one line item of regulation in most poorly organized enterprises (most) you will get at least 10 jobs of bureaucracy to help track it not because of the regulatio
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by devonkim 10y ago
Who's going to sell hardware if not for the networking giants though? While hardware may be a declining business in terms of revenue it doesn't mean that there's no business either. After all, the big cloud providers will all
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by devonkim 10y ago
On the other side of the spectrum, companies highly averse to technical changes culturally (typical case in the F500) will avoid ever upgrading kernels, libraries, and tooling. It's how I've wound up spending days trying to compil
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by devonkim 10y ago
I think we could use close.io as a job seeker's tool instead of a CRM and it could be interesting to use it from the other side of the intended parties.
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by devonkim 10y ago
It may be more beneficial to train for just body feature recognition instead of skin tone because last I saw, from the neck down women have only so much variance across body shapes. We already have a huge amount of homemade porn by people a
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by devonkim 10y ago
I guess they left out of the video that their backpacks, purses, and luggage are entirely filled with external and replacement batteries.
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by devonkim 10y ago
It's not aesthetics for me as much as sufficiently older movies are a lot closer to stage plays in how they're filmed and storyboarded, and I generally dislike plays and musicals whatever the content is (case in point: I don'
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by devonkim 10y ago
"Devops" has bazillions of meanings, but avoiding (human) ssh to production boxes is a generally sound principle these days because our infrastructures are becoming harder to understand by poking at boxes one or two at a time now
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by devonkim 10y ago
As HP's ability to innovate in technology (as opposed to business operations and cost-cutting) waned, it primarily put engineers in lower cost of living areas like Texas, Georgia, and North Carolina. This pattern is consistent with alm
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by devonkim 10y ago
This isn't all that difficult of an analogy to computers for most people. Most of us here like computers enough to program them or mess around with them for our careers, but most people can hardly wait for the day they don't need
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by devonkim 10y ago
I went to school for computer engineering with greater emphasis upon hardware and over the years I've tried to approach software the way that I've learned how reliability is increased in hardware and electrical engineering, and th
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by devonkim 10y ago
I stayed away from coding for a lot of pre-high school and figured I should go to music school since I found it easy because everyone kept advising me "you need to be really good at math to be a developer" and my interest and gr
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by devonkim 10y ago
VMware is the de facto private cloud incumbent and switching costs are incredibly high, and AWS is the de facto enterprise public cloud incumbent with perhaps even higher switching costs and the same kind of inertia as legacy on-premises sy

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