exelius

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by exelius 9y ago
I guess my point is that intelligent leadership is what's really in demand. :) And yes, I agree. In most white-collar jobs, intelligence is assumed. It's the non-cognitive skills (let's call it emotional intelligence) that
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by exelius 9y ago
There are socially appropriate ways to start a discussion. Taking your concerns directly to a senior leader -- who can explain the other pieces that are being missed here, such as empathy for end-users -- provides a wider view of why divers
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by exelius 9y ago
There's a difference between "starting a conversation" and blasting out an e-mail to 50,000 people that doesn't really even grasp the realities of modern software development. There's a chain of command about this k
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by exelius 9y ago
In my experience, non-cognitive skills are definitely a big boost to your career. However, the real need is for people with both cognitive AND non-cognitive skills: if you can understand something intrinsically through your cognitive skills
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by exelius 9y ago
Yeah, the whole FX market operates largely outside international law unless you're talking about a handful of currencies. And even there the conversion path for almost everything runs through USD or EUR (with some regional exceptions).
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by exelius 9y ago
All we're doing here is separating logic from syntax -- which totally makes sense. Ironically, a lot of business software development works like this (not that it should, just that it does). You have a bunch of BAs who churn out flow c
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by exelius 9y ago
The hard part here is market making. Market making is almost pure game theory, and unless you worked at a big market making trading house (i.e. Goldman, JP Morgan, etc) the learning curve can be really expensive. In this type of work, it&#x
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by exelius 9y ago
My theory with Germany specifically is that the Germans I have known have all been extremely protective of their privacy. I'd be interested in seeing stats on social media adoption in Germany, because my hypothesis is that they lag t
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by exelius 9y ago
Honestly, Bitcoin is proving to the world why we need financial regulation.
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by exelius 9y ago
Not really; no. DDOS mitigation is actually a pretty standard bag of tricks. Cloudflare describes their setup in pretty deep detail via engineering docs. Technically you might have to talk to their sales people to get them, but that's
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by exelius 9y ago
Side note - this type of exchange is why I love HN. It's like Reddit for mature adults.
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by exelius 9y ago
I'm not sure this argument is any more plausible than the "evil genius" argument from Descartes. I think that all it's saying is that given our limited reference frame within the universe, we can't judge what is &qu
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by exelius 9y ago
The D.C. Suburbs also have some of the highest-income households in the country. Low-income households buy less home Internet by FAR (low income people use cell phones and mobile data). That absolutely factors in.
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by exelius 9y ago
PA also has two of the major telecoms in their backyard (Comcast in Philadelphia, Verizon's HQ is closer to Philly than NYC) and even the rural areas are relatively densely populated. The executives want to play with the shiny, new thi
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by exelius 9y ago
I find it's generally a "grass is greener" thing - we envy other countries for infrastructure but ignore the serious problems in those places like high unemployment, etc. But you're right; the US got overrun by nationali
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by exelius 9y ago
Yeah; it never went away for me. I gave it a couple of months and decided that I needed my brainpower for work. I still try to eat low-carb, but not necessarily keto extreme.
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by exelius 9y ago
My problem with Keto was that it made me dumb. I found that when I was in ketosis, my brain just wasn't as sharp. Tasks that should have taken 5 minutes took half an hour. My memory recall was not as good (not that it was great to begi
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by exelius 9y ago
How would you stop companies from just erecting solar panels and operating off the grid? Certainly generating your own power starts to make sense at some scale of data center power usage. Build a data center in the desert next to a few squa
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by exelius 9y ago
Oh; I don't blame Trump for any of this. He's not smart enough to deserve that. He's a reactionary populist, the latest in a long history of men willing to say or do anything in the pursuit of power. Trump is a mere opportuni
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by exelius 9y ago
IMO Trump was the canary in the coal mine that the world had changed, just like 9/11 was in its time: both are highly visible, symbolic milestones that are loosely associated with the broader cultural changes that had been happening fo
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by exelius 9y ago
Right, and there's no universal set of laws -- so if one country bans, taxes or otherwise heavily regulates automation, a country with more favorable economics for it (say, high nationalism, stagflation and a declining birth rate -- ak
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by exelius 9y ago
Actually the west disproportionately benefits from globalization, but only the capital class. Anyone who doesn't own stock in a global company gets left behind -- and something like 75% of Americans own no stocks at all.
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by exelius 9y ago
People were worrying about automation well before Trump. In the recent backlash against globalization, Trump is only one data point: nationalism is on the rise in Europe as well with Brexit (which happened before Trump's election) bein
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by exelius 9y ago
Honestly, for all the hand-wringing over globalization, I think it has been a necessary stopgap for the wholesale destruction of low-skilled jobs by automation that's coming in the next few decades. It's forced us to recognize the
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by exelius 9y ago
I thought this was pretty standard practice for uncovering fraud? At least these are the red flags that auditors look for. One that's not on the list is "never takes vacation" -- if you're involved in a long-running frau
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by exelius 9y ago
Agree 100%. In fact, this is how I built my career -- I knew the tech ok, but realized that I was never going to have the type of influence I needed unless I got into the product side as well. In the consulting world, we call this job &quot
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by exelius 9y ago
I think this is only really worth the headache for security issues. That said: - HSTS - DNSSEC - IPv6 in that order. I think for a long time, governments had no interest in pushing security and encryption because that would prevent them fro
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by exelius 9y ago
I went with a full Ubiquiti setup (USG + CloudKey + UAP-AC-PROs) because yeah. Spent more than I should have, but the USG is actually a great dual-wan router. Already had a PoE switch for the APs though.
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by exelius 9y ago
Modern meshes still often have a choke point. Kill enough nodes at the right point in the mesh and the reliability degrades quickly as the backhaul links get oversubscribed. At least that's what I think OP meant :)
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by exelius 9y ago
Ubiquiti can get expensive for a home user, but yeah. It's rock solid gear, truthfully advertised and still a bargain at that price point.

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