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by donw 10y ago
I suspect that a lot of founders forget that, at Apple, employees were part of a technological revolution that they could see around them every day, a revolution whose success was borne out by the company itself being incredibly successful
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by donw 10y ago
Very true. The invention of the modern firearm, one that fires an integrated cartridge (what the layperson would call a bullet), predates the invention of the bicycle. Both bicycles and firearms have about the same number of moving parts, a
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by donw 10y ago
Apparently my hobbies are Star Trek Vulcans, Old Age, and "Octopus".
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by donw 10y ago
Having done a decent amount of work in helping startups build and scale their product teams, there are a few big areas where I have seen startup founders really struggle with managing their teams: 1. Kindness I put this one first, because i
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by donw 10y ago
Oddly, this has been on my mind as well. On the one hand, rail is much cheaper per-mile than traditional roads, for both construction and maintenance. Rail is also more efficient in terms of goods hauled per unit of fuel spent, and contro
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by donw 10y ago
Terse feedback can be fine, once you know that, for a specific person, terse feedback is effective. I have met more than a few people that said they preferred "brutal honesty", but would still react very defensively to straightfor
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by donw 10y ago
The best advice I received on this topic was that feedback should be actionable, specific, and kind. Actionable and specific mean that the person on the receiving end has a set of concrete actions to take to implement. For example, "ge
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by donw 10y ago
Have you tried suggesting that exact trick (using search rather than scanning) to your pair whenever they default to the Mark One Eyeball? Having paired quite a bit, it's rather amazing how many programmers just don't know the ful
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by donw 10y ago
American infrastructure, and a lot of other vital institutions, are in poor shape because waste is highly profitable. Oddly enough, it seems that the more regulated a state is, the more profitable that waste becomes. This isn't to say
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by donw 10y ago
Not a hardware engineer, but I'm going to wager that it has something to do with failure rates. Modulo correct wiring, if you have a massive stack of D-cells and one dies, it's not a big deal. If your sole source of power dies, th
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by donw 10y ago
Apparently Japan is smack in the middle of the Atlantic. Who knew?
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This exists in Japan, and is actually a very wonderful thing for the most part. There are a lot of low-paying jobs here that involve doing little else than basic customer service: answering questions and directing people where to go. Simila
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This does make some sense from an anthropological perspective. For tribal people, being excommunicated from the tribe was a death sentence. This is also the reason that people fear public speaking so much (the risk of losing favor with the
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by donw 10y ago
Given that they all, except one, own AR-15s -- it is the most popular rifle in the US for a reason -- I rather doubt they would support a ban. It's not like one model of rifle is really any more or less lethal than another, after all.
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by donw 10y ago
In my experience, at least, safety is not the driving factor. Not unimportant, but also not primary. It's more about self-reliance. I know a pretty decent number of people with concealed weapons permits, and not one walks around in clo
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by donw 10y ago
Out of curiosity do you have any sources that show Republicans as being any more or less anti-encryption than Democrats? The most recent push (for Apple to backdoor iPhones) came from the FBI, and from a fairly left-leaning Justice Departme
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by donw 10y ago
Pretty sure that distinction goes to Taco Bell...
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by donw 10y ago
Here's a video of Senator Feinstein talking about confiscating weapons from legal owners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCRKv-szJlo How many times has President Obama -- whom I voted for, mind you -- suggested follow
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by donw 10y ago
I can speak with some knowledge of a not-insignificant B2C company -- not my current gig -- that went down this exact same route some years ago. Swore off mobile web in favor of pushing people to the app, because app conversions were much h
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by donw 10y ago
You can manufacture firearms for personal use across the US -- even in California -- provided those arms otherwise comply with the law[1]. https://www.atf.gov/firearms/qa/does-individual-need-license...
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by donw 10y ago
Having lived in Japan for quite some time, it is sort of amazing how often companies come here and blow not insignificant amounts of time and money simply because they assumed their business model could cross the border without being detain
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by donw 10y ago
I regularly find myself needing to charge my phone and not having an outlet available. Having a spare battery in a single waterproof package is just more convenient for me. It lives in my backpack, and I don't need to care when the rai
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by donw 10y ago
Not sure if we're saying the same thing here, but my policy is to stock a large quantity of things we actually use, and keep topping up our supplies as we use them. Saves us both time and money to have a bunch of staple goods at home t
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by donw 10y ago
> Tangentially, there's a behavior pattern prevalent in the "Prepper" (aka Emergency Preparedness) community that confuses me. They take a logically sound concept such as storing large amounts of food, and seem to separate
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by donw 10y ago
Nope -- it's a 3000 mAh LiPo power cell with standard USB connectors for recharging from a wall adapter, and for charging anything that can charge from USB.
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Or, you can just bring along a small USB battery pack, which can fully charge pretty much any modern smartphone. Personally, I carry an Instapark Novobeam 3000 in my backpack. It's about the size of a roll of breath mints or a small fl
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by donw 11y ago
A bag of dice lives in my backpack, as it serves as the Ultimate Decision Making Tool. Sometimes there is just no obvious good decision, even after all the options have been analyzed and considered. So whenever I -- or my team -- gets stuck
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by donw 11y ago
Your analysis sounds pretty spot-on. It's government, so you'll likely have a 508 compliance audit (accessibility) as part of the project as well. Figure a work-week of that. Security clearances are almost a definite "yes&quo
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by donw 11y ago
Most hiring processes spend gigantic amounts of effort to see how a candidate works as a member of the team, without actually having the candidate... work as a member of the team. I suspect that the reason why, is that so few engineering te
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by donw 11y ago
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