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by doktrin 8y ago
Actually it's 120
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by doktrin 8y ago
> I've probably spent a total of three to four days reading around the GDPR and I don't really see what's special about this law other than it's imposing decent standards on what was in effect a wildly unregulated ind
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by doktrin 8y ago
>> ~12 Google employees resigned. Out of ~4,000 signers to the petition. Out of ~74,000 total employees. > 5.6% of staff signed a petition and 1.6% resigned. 1.6% would be almost 12,000, not 12. I'm not familiar with this case
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by doktrin 8y ago
> If I talk to a non-reference who I think is in a position to know about a candidate's performance, I would make it clear that discretion is called for how benevolent of you
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by doktrin 9y ago
Aren't we talking about government salaries here? It's not like there aren't (more) lucrative options elsewhere for any and all qualified candidates. Money isn't always the primary motivator.
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by doktrin 9y ago
Not a 'tech company' per se, but at SEI / CERT research we had our own offices.
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by doktrin 9y ago
I learned about Tom Lehrer through my parents, and lacked some of the context necessary to really enjoy some of his songs like MLF lullaby, whatever became of hubert, Alma, poisoning pidgeons in the park, etc - all of which deal with histor
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by doktrin 9y ago
it can be both
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by doktrin 9y ago
I don't know about anyone else, but as an EU skeptical European I've never been more happy about GDPR. The tech hegemons clearly don't deserve the public trust and good will they've enjoyed for the last decade.
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by doktrin 9y ago
> So what's the furor about? Probably about the absurdity of being hit with potentially astronomical penalties for "copying" 9 lines of trivial code that's barely worth hitting ctrl-c for. Obviously, common sense is -
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by doktrin 9y ago
At the time, the Iraq war enjoyed broad public support particularly on the right. That support persisted for over a decade, and to this day you'll still find people justifying the whole mess, arguing for the existence of "WMDs&quo
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by doktrin 9y ago
Not sure, I've wondered this myself. At a certain level, there's the fact that the US is simply a very patriotic place. Similarly, in Russia it's also not socially accepted to publicly criticize military service members. That
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by doktrin 9y ago
Maybe I just haven't had enough coffee, but this article felt really lacking. > There were two areas where the United States really was quite different: We pay substantially higher prices for medical services, including hospitalizat
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by doktrin 9y ago
> Often it seems tech/IT is simpler. A software engineering team in California write the code, then it's clear that nearly all of the value was created in California. It's fairly easy to price the cost of foreign datacente
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by doktrin 9y ago
At the end of the day, anyone who fought in the Boer war was born no later than the early 1880's.
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by doktrin 9y ago
CERT is by far the largest 'department' in the SEI. I'm not sure exactly by what margin, but they probably account for over 50% of the SEI. Also the funding model isn't quite that straightforward. As an FFRDC they receiv
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by doktrin 9y ago
> those that constantly critique cryptocurrency are often so wrong about their assumptions it's just pointless reading on People often criticize 'crypto' on the basis of technology, but are wrong about the market because t
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by doktrin 9y ago
In my opinion, and only my opinion : Google has for a while been toxic to the technology ecosystem. I don't think their halo is deserved, certainly not on the basis of the "free" trinkets they release to the public (like, say
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by doktrin 9y ago
> Others may have persistent episodes over a decade with worsening symptoms, and increasing difficulty going to work or carrying out routine activities. Anecdotally, this seems increasingly true.
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by doktrin 9y ago
the spelling of your posts is objectively not impeccable
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by doktrin 9y ago
> the English equivalent would be 'ineffable' which describes a quality that is beyond words also known as "inherently subjective" just because you deem something to be inexpressible doesn't mean it actually is.
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by doktrin 9y ago
It is pleasurable from an auditory perspective but i discern no difference in quality between the linked content and other more generic recordings of the same piece. Again : just because "you" find that something speaks to "y
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by doktrin 9y ago
> ‘je ne sais cois’ if you're going to pompously bandy a term about, you should at least spell it correctly
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by doktrin 9y ago
my core takeaway from HN these days is that life is but a meaningless expression of conscious carbon, quick to life and quick to death, with the only constant being endless futility.
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by doktrin 9y ago
> My wife is a very good piano player, but she doesn’t have “it” Absurdly subjective. If you can neither qualify nor quantify "it" you shouldn't start levying it as some standard of quality.
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by doktrin 9y ago
I wonder if it's possible to put a $ value on how much impostor syndrome has benefitted employers. I suspect it's in the billions, but that's little more than a hunch.
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by doktrin 9y ago
> Most of the well-paid programmers I know (including quite a few at AmaGooFaceSoft) can't wrap their heads around databases well enough to deploy a low-traffic web application. I honestly don't believe this. You did caveat tha
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by doktrin 9y ago
Oddly,this is only even potentially true in the US. The rest of the world, including Europe, pays devs at the low end of the distribution showed here.
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by doktrin 9y ago
You're welcome to think that, but you still haven't articulated a coherent argument.
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by doktrin 9y ago
No need to get angry just because you don't have anything coherent to say.

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