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by devonkim 10y ago
AbstractTeslaIndustry is my personal convention in this case.
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by devonkim 10y ago
With these considerations taken we can apply the same problems to people in industrial scale manufacturing that have typically managed many organizations that are now in charge of software projects. Then comes no real effective incentive st
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by devonkim 10y ago
Those aren't even examples of taste though as much as idiosyncratic single-song ratings when the topic is about preferences for different tonal groups (consonance, dissonance, etc.). Unless there's a strong generalization possible
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by devonkim 10y ago
We can look at a simple counter example to see the trivial findings compared to the title. Siblings can have completely different musical tastes.
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by devonkim 10y ago
You were not rejected by Google and Amazon, you were rejected by fallible, biased, and hopefully well-intentioned representatives at Google and Amazon as part of their human-driven internal processes.
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by devonkim 10y ago
Having been ops before I have to stand up a little. Not all contractors compete primarily on price (in my case I was paid substantially more than FTEs and even other contractors I found out - 20%+ more than my peers, in fact) but also bas
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by devonkim 10y ago
Almost everyone I've worked for in enterprise and defense, for starters. A couple places didn't allow chat applications that recorded history (too much liability during legal investigations was the excuse I heard). Doesn't me
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by devonkim 10y ago
Those of us that have worked as remote engineers for a lot of our career know that most companies in general are just plain not managed in a way that would work for companies that have lots of remote workers, especially larger companies. Po
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by devonkim 10y ago
I understand p2p without routers to be a star topology network where every device is connected to the other without any need for indirection. FPGAs are a bit piggy on power consumption historically given they've mostly been used for sm
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by devonkim 10y ago
I moved to Asheville after I had a remote job secured for a while. The problem is that Asheville, like much of the country, lacks jobs in general and that what's there pays rather little for even North Carolina even though the cost of
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by devonkim 10y ago
Bad IT is standard and expected for enterprise, period. I've spent years going around to different companies that fail to do some of the most basic best practices from 1995. Retention of decent engineers is impossible.
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by devonkim 10y ago
I think decently smart people are all capable of learning business skills. The problem fundamentally later on is that you need skills and a network that is aligned with your goals for your post-individual contributor career.
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by devonkim 10y ago
Let me get this straight. Government contractors are concerned about the lack of transparency of 18F/USDS and also that they're developing capabilities that the incumbents cannot possibly offer and are asking for more regulation?
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by devonkim 10y ago
I view Outlook as the Emacs of e-mail. But the unfortunate part of Outlook in my experience is that between jobs my Outlook configuration is completely non-portable by design it appears (I have to reconfigure each time I switched to another
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by devonkim 10y ago
There's a Brazillian company (Semco) that's like this supposedly, but I have to wonder how they're doing today with so much of the company involved with energy.
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by devonkim 10y ago
Elizabeth Warren addresses this trend in a paper showing most homes' square footage went up to add a second bathroom in comparison to the middle of the century. The cost of labor to add a bathroom and the raw cost of the materials in r
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by devonkim 10y ago
In production you still need to protect from zero days with some form of protection that is not necessarily detection or antivirus such as AppArmor or more commonly SELinux.
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by devonkim 10y ago
This goes back to the recent findings that are leading to how to motivate employees better now instead of the tradition of compensation (staying under inflation for most workers while management bonuses trend upward, anyway) and stability &
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by devonkim 10y ago
I personally don't see anything "wrong" with silos - they are the partitions of the distributed systems of human society and are going to emerge anyway partially due to Dunbar's number in a "flat" organization.
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by devonkim 10y ago
I've come from your perspective before to customers (talk about the pain points, focus upon problem-resolution fit not tech, etc.) and it's awful hard to tell customers that have 80% of costs being related to labor and have reason
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by devonkim 10y ago
I've been consulting for public sector and the companies in the Fortune 500 that are behind the software and operations curve from even start-up companies and always will by choice + self-imposed bureaucracy. The problem I've obse
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by devonkim 10y ago
If we want to invoke scripture liberally, we can say that Satan was a disgruntled employee that was fired for insubordination and founded his own company starting a War for Souls. I think there's a book where the setting is that Hell i
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by devonkim 10y ago
Completely unsubstantiated on my part, but I think that it may have been both for stylistic reasons as well as to make the lighting engine look better / hide certain imperfections. For example, the contrast between well-lit areas and d
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by devonkim 10y ago
I've been using https://github.com/superlumic/superlumic for setting up my Mac machines because it supports a few more constructs that are common for Macs such as plist file modifications. Since it's Ansible-
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by devonkim 10y ago
People interested in the topic of the great farce that is modern business management should read in Jeffrey Pfeffer's Leadership Bullshit that also criticizes the management industry as well as modern corporations' incentive struc
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by devonkim 10y ago
Beyond this, a lot of Steam users are familiar with the paradox that Steam is now the opposite of piracy because Steam sales drive so many users to over-buy games just because they're on sale. This drives sales of back catalog rele
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by devonkim 10y ago
Firewalls are required for compliance in IT in regulated environments that are common in the Fprtune 500. Sometimes an IDS is necessary to supplement it.
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by devonkim 10y ago
I've been trying to do this for a number of years because I move roughly every year and have been keeping notes of items I use and don't use similar to a cache hierarchy. Upon inspection of my outer layers, I've come to reali
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by devonkim 10y ago
Even worse, many doctors don't even know what a procedure costs to a patient due to the maze of bureaucracy both necessary and unnecessary in many healthcare facilities.
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by devonkim 10y ago
I've gotten a (4) response several times after interviews that went well in multiple regions - "Although you're well qualified, your experience and compensation are far more than we were expecting and we cannot proceed. Thank

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