ergothus

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by ergothus 8y ago
I do have a story about how many mid-level managers met weekly for months to develop a "more efficient" order-of-tasks for janitors to clean the bathrooms. They claimed the new process would save $100,000 over 3 year (IIRC). Re
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by ergothus 8y ago
> If the company receives orders for an unusually large number of a component, such as a certain kind of Pentium 4 chip, Dell goes on red alert, rushing to wring out emergency shipments from suppliers. > If the components are selling
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by ergothus 8y ago
I remember in the late 90s when the place I worked at was all about JIT. Not compiling, but physical stock - having the items they needed just as they were needed. This was the Physical Plant for a large university campus, so considerable
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by ergothus 8y ago
Javascript is my strongest, and I have enough Python to be comfortable - I had a lot of Perl back in the day but that knowledge is fairly rusty (though Parse::RecDescent was my first exposure to parsers). I did Java for a few years, but I
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by ergothus 8y ago
> When I got started, I had just learned how to use yacc (really Bison) and lex (really flex) I've dug into parsers a few times, but everything I encountered seemed to think that once I had a parsed tree of commands it was obvious h
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by ergothus 8y ago
> Before having children, you may enjoy clubbing, skydiving, and LSD; you might find fulfillment in careerism, travel, cooking, or CrossFit; you may simply relish your freedom to do what you want. Having children will deprive you of thes
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by ergothus 8y ago
Javascript DOES allow trailing commas, though it never caught on since IE6 would blow up on them. JSON, however, does not.
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by ergothus 8y ago
I believe Stross had that as a background detail in Accelerondo too
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by ergothus 8y ago
You are conflating remaining married with happiness. It is just as possible that seeing more people increases your odds of realizing you dobt have to "settle". That said, I do believe that most people could be happy with one anot
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by ergothus 8y ago
I teach part time, and my students are largely ESL, while my non-English skills are decidedly limited. They speak English, but there's a big gap between "mostly-not-broken" and "can handle arbitrary nuance". I regu
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by ergothus 8y ago
I share both of your concerns (while I was very lucky in getting initial experience, I know of other beginners that haven't/arent, so I'm very sympathetic.) . Started coding for work in '95. > was I wrong then? Or am
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by ergothus 8y ago
Well, he and the other two Republicans that voted against it. He got all the press as the deciding vote, but it required all 3.
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by ergothus 8y ago
> Why would a real estate agent dissuade someone from buying something? Story time! When I was looking at buying my (now current) house, I had a realtor on my side, and my wife actually found the listing (no knock on the realtor there -
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by ergothus 8y ago
I'm a bit torn on this - for a long while, I saw Google as trying to promote "the right way" of doing things, and only getting frustrated and doing it themselves after handset manufacturers and cell providers kept doing it wr
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by ergothus 8y ago
> a company that clearly communicates to potential investors and the market as a whole that they have a different metric of shareholder value (e.g. social conscience You're talking about things like Ben & Jerry's social con
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by ergothus 8y ago
> While I'm naturally lazy, a procrastinator, and completely unambitious; the sheer worry during my younger years forced me to try harder. This, so many times this. I tell people I'm lazy and they say "You have two jobs,
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by ergothus 8y ago
> CBT doesn't work for everyone. I found it infuriating. This is where I'm at so far. I don't want to condemn it, even as a match for myself, with a sample size of 1, but I know a lot of people for whom it was successful
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by ergothus 8y ago
I've steered clear of a few now, both in tech and as a consumer. I've been burned too many times by the same company here.
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by ergothus 8y ago
When I moved to Seattle, I was amazed at how many social functions revolve around beer. Work functions, meetups of all varieties... Heck, my last two offices have in-office kegs. I technically drink, I just don't particularly like mo
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by ergothus 8y ago
As an outsider, I find myself disappointed everytime a company goes public, and VCs seem to be (1) a stepping stone to that and (2) motivated by the same concerns. As a consumer, I find that the shareholders never have my interests at heart
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by ergothus 8y ago
I wonder why we find stories like this so compelling. We see it time and time again: players work long and hard to destroy things that other players worked long and hard to create. I'm not mocking those that find these stories compell
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by ergothus 8y ago
> you got married, now you're stressed. Yet you think you're happily married Well, yes. Lots of other things happened too - this has been at least a decade of gradual creeping anxiety. But being married has definitely tweaked
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by ergothus 8y ago
This is very indicative of the 70s and 80s - at least for the US. No fault divorce was first legalized here in California in the late 70s, and in most states by the mid-80s. This increased the number of divorces, and I don't know the
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by ergothus 8y ago
Thanks for the note. Imposter syndrome is definitely a reality, and something that has really burned me in the past (the situation I described is about a decade old now) but I think I'm managing that well enough now. Or at least, in l
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by ergothus 8y ago
I watched Stranger Things for the first time a few months ago (I know, I know, but at least I did). I cried. Not at the scenes I think most people might. I cried because there was a scene where it was so obvious that the older brother wa
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by ergothus 8y ago
Agreed - what I like about these is that they give a scope - you can hear a term, check it here and say "oh, I'm way not ready for this" or "oh, it's in this scope that I already understand, I can go look it up with
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by ergothus 8y ago
Webdev since '95, so we likely have moderately similar backgrounds. Let me offer a different take: > If your stack...so complicated that you simply have no ability to understand ... and how to deploy it easily You are correct. Tha
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by ergothus 8y ago
>long-form deep investigative journalism I like the distinction you put here, as I've found most "long form" journalism to be focused on superficial details and to try to emphasize innuendo and rumor into emotional plays r
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by ergothus 8y ago
A fired-clay headed mace? I'm the daft one now, but how does this work? What fired-clay is sturdy enough to whack someone with more than once? Clearly there is some, but if someone can point to a modern example I might know I will
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by ergothus 8y ago
> trying to fully top off at every charge, a typical newbie mistake A quick Google didn't give me anything clear here - why is that a mistake?

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