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by ebiester 3y ago
This is much less common outside IT. My worry is that this kind of enhancement will normalize unacceptable requests because "just have AI do it and you just need to go over it" will become an expectation.
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by ebiester 3y ago
I think that would be an interesting ADA suit.
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by ebiester 3y ago
Meetings are a poor indicator of continuous integration. Instead, build a steel thread. Make the simplest thing that can go through every team first. Every team working on the project goes to build that initial slice of functionality. When
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by ebiester 3y ago
Who are these people excited about scrum? Most of the scrum masters I know dislike it and would rather build ad-hoc from the agile toolbox. Scrum is popular because it's an easy-to-implement general process that enough people know. Scr
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by ebiester 3y ago
Python is the second best language for everything. Even with its warts (which any language gets after 30 years), it's a very solid, defensible choice. However, it does not have a great concurrency story relative to languages that were
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by ebiester 3y ago
If you take into account the lifecycle of HIV, it can take 2-15 years to develop stage 3. (Stage 3 is the symptomatic part. People on medication may never reach stage 3.) As such, a transmission generation even of SARS-CoV-2 is going to be
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by ebiester 3y ago
I think that's fair. I also think it's fair to count on-prem versus hosted as a metric for your org that should be evaluated. I think that what is missing from the article is that it's not a matter of free versus paid, but ra
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by ebiester 3y ago
It’s all of the above for B2B. The cold call and email definitely makes some money - that’s why people do it. Ideally, they already know who you are when they get the cold call.
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by ebiester 3y ago
Sizes are not standardized, and most people don't know how it's going to fit until they try it on. Maybe the right answer is to have every piece tailored, and I'd say that's a valuable way to reduce the need to return, b
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by ebiester 3y ago
Who's using JDK 9? I understand the JDK 8 bit - the breaking changes in large code bases are a big lift, especially in projects with no significant changes for years. However, if you're on 9, the lift is much lower and primarily o
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by ebiester 3y ago
How much was the contract company getting paid? How much overhead did they have? I saw what the blended rates were grow our negotiations with one of the big players and it wasn’t what the people on the ground were getting paid. I’m guessing
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by ebiester 3y ago
Compliance and customer trust. Azure can sign a BAA, for example. If you are Building LLM capability on top of your SaaS, your customers want assurances about their data.
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by ebiester 3y ago
The office already doesn't matter when it comes to offshoring. Companies are rarely in the same office already, and are spread across the US. Even if a team is co-located, their stakeholders aren't. Further, timezone-friendly offs
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by ebiester 3y ago
Except for Government Center in Boston. I don't remember anyone liking that.
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by ebiester 3y ago
Think about remittances. One side wants Bolivars because their family is sending them money to live. The official exchange rate is dictated by the country and is a flat out lie. It is an illegal transaction, but not an immoral one.
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by ebiester 3y ago
AFAIK, most people using Kotlin are somehow tied to some variant of Java 8, such as Android. Kotlin is very useful for that use case, but otherwise was a useful kick for Java but I don't know if I'd start a new project in it.
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by ebiester 3y ago
It's like anything else - the closer you get to the problem, the more work you see that happens. Directors are often the group that is doing all the work nobody else is assigned. This goes from scheduling off-sites to preparing for aud
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by ebiester 3y ago
Middle management will only be replaced by AI if fewer employees can do the same job. How many people do you think a VP-Eng or CTO can manage and still do the rest of the job?
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by ebiester 3y ago
I was thinking that this would be more of a postdoc position, or that most labs would be hybrid: that is, they are doing some portion of original research and replication research. If they are replicating, they are made authors on the paper
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by ebiester 3y ago
It depends on where you are. The more prestigious the university, the more that impact factors start to matter. There is also the matter of teaching and service, but I'm not talking about the entire tenure system.
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by ebiester 3y ago
Where are these concentrated stock packages? I've had better than bullion and added gelatin to that, and I think I've seen heinz demi, but what concentrate stock packages to you have available?
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by ebiester 3y ago
You'd be surprised how much chat happens as a side channel. Further, collecting questions means that the presentation material would have to be out there first, and that misses the point of the town halls, where financials and other in
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by ebiester 3y ago
That is my idea... If we opened it up, there's probably more interesting iterations, such as requiring pre-registration for all papers, having papers with pre-registration count as some portion of a full paper even if they fail so long
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by ebiester 3y ago
We agree - the "simple not easy" turn of phrase is speaking to that point. It is easy once implemented, but it isn't easy to transition. (I am academia-adjacent by marriage but closer to the humanities, so I understand the am
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by ebiester 3y ago
Have you seen Adam Ragusea's cheater demi? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4WLUMS7Ung It's about 80% as good as the real thing but that's pretty useful to have.
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by ebiester 3y ago
Let's not make perfect be the enemy of good. We may never be able to replicate every field, but we could start many fields today. It means changing our values to make replication as a valid path to tenure and promotion and a required e
567.
by ebiester 3y ago
I don't necessarily think it would mean more scientists, but it would mean more expense. You have a moderate number of low impact papers that people are doing for tenure today - papers for the purpose of cranking out papers. We are tal
568.
by ebiester 3y ago
It's simple but not easy: You create another path to tenure which is based on replication, or on equal terms as a part of a tenure package. (For example, x fewer papers but x number of replications, and you are expected to have x repli
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by ebiester 3y ago
For the corporate or training use case, this is not a problem. If you are worried about US law agencies, you shouldn't be using any system that isn't rooted in face to face communication for anything sensitive. (And even that is s
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by ebiester 3y ago
So, then... you're bound by youtube's TOS, you can't prevent people from getting in (usually via login), and Zoom makes it a nice experience instead of a hack. Oh, and you can also do sub-rooms with Zoom, which has some appli

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