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by eitally 4y ago
This happened to me in Mumbai several years ago. I had thankfully been forewarned, but there were military police checking boarding passes for entering passengers outside the airport, and no one without a paper boarding pass + appropriat
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by eitally 4y ago
https://www.commentary.org/noah-rothman/would-you-believe-sa...
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by eitally 4y ago
The reality is that most companies can't afford an IT budget it would require to implement, and then force adherence to, a standard set of best practices for much of anything. As another commenter said, though, this is not the case in
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by eitally 4y ago
Alexandr had been running 185mi/wk average to train for this over the past 3 months. Lots of marathon and 2x marathon runs on back-to-back days. That said, there's an enormous chasm between someone like this training for a 24hr
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by eitally 4y ago
They can handle any snow or ice you could drive in. Lots of studded tire options out there. That said, I think this problem is truly minuscule relative to the size of the opportunity as a whole.
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by eitally 4y ago
It's a long game. The right thing to do is to start to shift toward bike-friendliness and bicycle-centric programs and infrastructure projects. Then get the kids on board. Part of this will probably require a rethinking of neighborh
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by eitally 4y ago
Even when I was heading to college in '95 Oberlin was known as the SJW school. It was the "most woke", most liberal, most feminist, most LGBTQ+ friendly, etc. Those aren't necessarily negative attributes, but they ar
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by eitally 4y ago
I don't think the US is doing a good job of this at all. There's a huge amount of policy-driven gate-keeping that's both ejecting lower income residents from tier 1 & 2 cities [due mostly to cost pressures], and preventi
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by eitally 4y ago
I still remember a project (I was the eng director and one of my team leads did this) where my team lead for a new dev project was given a group of near-shore SWEs + offshore SQA who were new to both the language & RDBMS of choice, and
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by eitally 4y ago
To be fair, though, there's a flip side. My neighbors seem to get more utility from my driveway feed than I do. Every couple of months, I get a text from a neighbor asking if I got footage of some such thing. Everybody knows who has
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by eitally 4y ago
This is much more likely to be incompetence than malice. There's no compelling reason not to comply with the WARN Act.
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by eitally 4y ago
It's disingenuous to conflate SF's micro-climate with the entirety of the bay area. I agree that SF weather is insufferable, and I live in San Jose, which is entirely different ... and different again that the mid/upper-peni
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intervals.icu is fabulous and 100% worth paying to support the single dev who runs it.
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by eitally 5y ago
I think #'s 1 & 2 have to be 1) stack ranking & forced PIPs, and 2) comp policies overall (the stock vesting schedule being part of it, the bonus program covering the first two years being another, and the [until this year] low
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by eitally 5y ago
Also at Google, and my impression is that during the role posting exercise when the hiring manager is first talking with their recruiter, the recruiter asks which locations are acceptable, and "remote" is an option. Often the hir
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by eitally 5y ago
In my case, we bought our kids better ones than the district offered, which are the lowest educational spec machines available. It was only after we bought it - during covid school-from-home last year - that we learned our district also fo
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by eitally 5y ago
One eye opening fact I learned when my family was dealing with a complex medical diagnosis was how specialists have seemingly the entire population of peers on speed dial. If you can help them connect dots to other specialists, they likely
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by eitally 5y ago
My wife is a nurse who pivoted into pharma, and when our daughter was diagnosed with a heart tumor, the only thing that ultimately resulted in us finding the right case was my wife's experience and ability to 1) ask the right questions
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by eitally 5y ago
I think there needs to be acknowledgement that there are two different learning tracks in higher education - one that is facts & figures, and one that is experiential. For better or worse, most institutions treat success in facts &
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by eitally 5y ago
Agreed. And for people who like reading rhyming children's books, anything by Julia Donaldson is a good bet. https://www.amazon.com/Julia-Donaldson/e/B000APV1DK
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by eitally 5y ago
One thing I've noticed as a parent is that there's a very clear delineation between children's books written for the love of children, and children's books written for a) $, b) as PR for the [often celebrity] author, and
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by eitally 5y ago
There are a bunch of similar articles describing costs in the Middle Ages. Here's one example (there's another on the bookandsword.com site, too): https://www.sleuthsayers.org/2013/06/the-3500-shirt-hist
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by eitally 5y ago
At what point do we stop calling it a "mechanism" and start calling it what it is: a mechanical computer.
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by eitally 5y ago
In some US public schools, the "advanced math" curriculum puts 7th graders in algebra. In more, though, algebra isn't available until 8th grade (and that is still treated as accelerated). "Normal" math progression
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I lost my mother to breast cancer when I was 14, and although it wasn't cancerous, my youngest child was diagnosed with a heart tumor at 19 months (she had a successful resection and is thriving with no symptoms). Two dramatically dif
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by eitally 5y ago
It somewhat amuses me to see the parallels with Google Glass in this regard. I worry the enterprise market may already be quite crowded, though, and there are ample niche vendors specializing in AR for different use cases (construction, ma
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by eitally 5y ago
I would wager that Etsy (and most big cloud-native unicorns) probably has far, far, far superior infra, SW & ops in place than just about any gov agency... and the ones that don't (Zoom) get called out and are forced to fix it.
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by eitally 5y ago
I think the important thing to put on the table when having career & performance conversations with team members is to acknowledge that career progression via deep specialization is a perfectly valid path -- or that it isn't. This
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by eitally 5y ago
This is basically where we are today, except that instead of AI it's management consultants (and they're expensive).
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by eitally 5y ago
Think of it more like this: "cyclist who is very good at riding all-out on her own has chance to ride all-out on her own; peloton that has potential advantage of strength in numbers doesn't use advantage; to some surprise, lone ri

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