ethbro

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by ethbro 7y ago
The irony is: how does a company that conducts itself thusly manage to retain people? To which the answer is: pay well above median wage The mind boggles. One of my founding tenants for any company would be "Never assume work done in s
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by ethbro 7y ago
Parent is using the commonly accepted stat abbreviation for intelligence in role playing games
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by ethbro 7y ago
Disney's genius, more than anything else, has always been an oscillation between kid-comprehensible and parent-intriguing. In the same work. You can see it in the details of their animated films, presumably where the workers were giv
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by ethbro 7y ago
The absence of competition reinforces conservatism. Bluth leaving Disney was the best thing to happen to them.
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by ethbro 7y ago
Only in parts of the world where inequality is high.
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by ethbro 7y ago
What legal agreements actually exist between ratings agencies and their consumers? As I understand it, there are legal agreements that take ratings as an input (e.g. a pension may only invest in investment grade bonds). But is there actuall
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by ethbro 7y ago
> One thing that many people appreciate as well was receiving a call and just open the phone to answer it. What's a "call" and why would I receive one on my phone?
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by ethbro 7y ago
Yeah, that's pretty normal for campus network access. Otherwise it kind of defies the logic of having a corporate network in the first place. It's definitely a slippery slope though. "If we already have a privileged app runni
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by ethbro 7y ago
Also, humour.
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by ethbro 7y ago
One of the reasons change is so slow in the industry is because there are many must-be-coordinated changes, with various independent parties. E.g. if I update my system, you need to update your system From what I saw, one of the biggest mot
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by ethbro 7y ago
Oh, and you're ultimately sourcing truth from people who are minimally trained on (and have minimal time for training on) the system. Because they've spent the last couple decades focused on medical training.
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by ethbro 7y ago
The amount of complexity that it would be necessary to simplify and approximate would make any answer to this question meaningless. And it's not only an IT systems problem. It's a comprehensive systems problem. Which includes trai
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by ethbro 7y ago
My point is that Boeing and American share fault in this. And I don't see anyone blaming American nearly to the extent they are Boeing. And I'd be inclined to agree it's 100% manufacturer fault... except this was a pretty hig
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by ethbro 7y ago
Possibly. But that version doesn't jive with public statements. Previous to American's press release, Boeing's leadership was strictly avoiding mentioning an up-engined 737. And was fairly reliably mentioning a clean sheet re
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by ethbro 7y ago
All true. But from where we are today, that seems like a better solution from a safety perspective. And now, the FAA (or EASA) might just mandate that anyway. I wouldn't be surprised if CAAC refuses to ever recertify the 737 MAX, espec
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by ethbro 7y ago
In which case American would have bought exclusively new A320neo's. Boeing was caught flat-footed and underinvested in a new product in 2011. So while Boeing management could have said "No" to their largest (?) customer, that
827.
by ethbro 7y ago
2006 - 2011, Boeing maintains the next 737 will be a clean-sheet redesign. In December 2010, Airbus launches the A320neo, featuring new engines (LEAP included). In July 2011, American Airlines releases a press release [1] containing the fol
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by ethbro 7y ago
Yeah, a lot of stuff should be more rigorously tested on single and dual-core environments. Especially when it relates to OS-handling (specifically: Windows), I feel like we've papered over a huge number of poorly sequenced, blocking c
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by ethbro 7y ago
I get the impression half of HN is pissed at Boeing because they understand terrible management-driven engineering decisions. The other half just think we're "pissed off at Boeing" and makes claims like "well, they shoul
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by ethbro 7y ago
I'm not sure why this keeps getting repeated. Boeing certainly bears culpability for failing to execute, and whatever terrible lapses in certification were made to get there. But why were they doing a dumb thing in the first place? Bec
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by ethbro 7y ago
You're forgetting there's a third system: the pilot. If the majority of computer aids turn off, the plane doesn't simply drop out of the sky. It reverts back to a more complicated, but human-controllable, vehicle. From the ar
832.
by ethbro 7y ago
It was a blessing and a curse. The internet in general is probably "better designed" now, but also way more homogenized and boring.
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by ethbro 7y ago
That's not normal behavior, per my experience. Are you sure Dell didn't ship it with something that, f.ex. is constantly making privileged calls and thereby causing AV to be invoked? Wouldn't be the first time.
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by ethbro 7y ago
My experience has been that the enterprise versions at least include some semblance of stability and performance enhancement, vs the consumer releases. But it's been awhile since I've dealt with consumer AV. Is this false now? May
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by ethbro 7y ago
No apology needed. :) We each have a right to our own perspectives on the world.
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by ethbro 7y ago
The thing that's consistently baffled me with projects like this is why technical milestones aren't encoded in contracts. In your example, if they can't demonstrate a PoC container or automated environment creation in x% of t
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by ethbro 7y ago
One person's lie is another person's cultural expectation. It's ironic you're lamenting Indian cultural inflexibility, while simultaneously imposing your own by refusing to simply reword a question. Engineers get results
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by ethbro 7y ago
> Broadcom bought Symantec's enterprise arm, and this is the consuner remnant Oof. That's going to be a gem of a product, with the enterprise team gone.
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by ethbro 7y ago
This is a false narrative. Facebook better optimized for the fact that most people are too stupid to avoid using full-page background images and auto-playing music.
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by ethbro 7y ago
Hint: Look for the single, colored "order calling" tile on the other side of the counter, and how the upcoming order plates are set There's a wicked smart method to the chaos.

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