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by fma 7y ago
I was thinking about this the other day, because I'm kicking off a new project. How do big companies start their code base. Do they have 1 person write a platform and everyone builds on top..and then iterate. Or several people contribu
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by fma 7y ago
Often times when faced with a tough decision, I pretend I have a friend in the exact same situation and I think about what advice I without give them. It would actually take the form of a conversation and is quite productive.
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by fma 7y ago
Everyday, women are smearing formaldehyde on their body...story time. I bought a new construction house a few years back and have been paranoid about formaldehyde. Prior to moving into it, I bought a formaldehyde detector. I had it on at my
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by fma 7y ago
Anecdote...I had a random chat with a hiring manager and he commented he can't hire the right developers. Developers think too highly of themselves and ask for too much money...I had no sympathy for him.
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by fma 7y ago
I've seen Groupons for MRI scans and thought surely it must be a scam. From the reviews, sometimes they pressure you to get a package for periodic scans and use the first as a base line. But interesting indeed!
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by fma 7y ago
I've seen places where beans are simmered in meat broth or something... So meatless and non vegetarian.
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by fma 7y ago
Agreed. But also I think a lot of job requirements list every programing language under the sun...so candidates just trying to match the resume screening algorithms.
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by fma 7y ago
My previous company issued the Wondelic Test ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderlic_test ) for everyone. I don't know the details but there was a minimum for different positions. There was also a personality port
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by fma 7y ago
Actually, Amazon just announced they are willing to throw money at you to start a company to do delivery for them. https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/13/amazon-offers-employees-10...
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by fma 7y ago
FYI Target has a service called "Restock" where you can get items the next day. I've used it a few times and it's not bad. You can buy detergent and they'll overnight them from some warehouse in Illinois or whateve
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by fma 7y ago
I don't really have a good answer but I'll give it a shot. I can only speak for my team. In big corp, your work experience is based on your team. We have 4 senior dev, 7 college hires who have been with us between 0-4 years. The e
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by fma 7y ago
92% of people in China use WeChat pay as their primary payment method. Why can't/doesn't the US adopt a QR code payment system? https://www.businessinsider.com/alipay-wechat-pay-china-mobi...
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by fma 7y ago
To a lesser extent, the same can be said for those who get an "IT" degree from a no name school from the college of business. I've spent a lot of my time training people who graduate from local small colleges instead of say,
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by fma 7y ago
I doubt we'd be able to reproduce that feat. My state took 5 years to widen 8 miles of state road in a loosely populated area near me. They didn't need to bulldoze any houses or anything...it was literally add another road in para
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by fma 7y ago
Lol I was in the same boat. House is new construction, GE appliances... I took down the microwave and replaced it with the Fotile hood. The microwave (its huge...) sits on my counter. Needed to do minor custom wood work to mount and make it
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by fma 7y ago
The kitchen exhaust fans in American homes are very weak (at least, every one I've lived in, and visited...). When cooking, you can smell what people are cooking, so it's not really doing its job of pulling the air out. I upgraded
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by fma 7y ago
I have a foobot. https://www.amazon.com/Foobot-Quality-Monitor-Homeowners-Ren... I believe you can hook it up to IFTTT and turn on the AC etc if levels are high. You can get real time stats, historical reporting...If you do
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by fma 7y ago
If mob guys lobby politicians to make their protection racket legal, then no difference.
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by fma 7y ago
Per the article..."Wu Songtao, a top Chinese engineer with ITER, conceded that China's technical capabilities on fusion still lag behind more developed countries, and that US and Japanese tokamaks have achieved more valuable overa
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by fma 7y ago
I wonder if libraries can have some journalists on staff? Or a librarian that is part time librarian, part time journalist. As far as bias...it's hard to be unbias. Maybe there's some questionnaire that determines your bias, and l
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by fma 7y ago
I had another comment in this thread where I said I thought of this idea in 2011. And you know what's funny? I actually bought the domain yummmonion.com. I think I ran drupal (or some other open source CMS) on there as a place holder.
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by fma 7y ago
I actually had this exact same idea in like...2011. So, ideas are worthless without execution. I used to work in Middle Georgia where Vidalia Onions are plentiful. I went to visit a friend in NYC, where Vidalia Onions are scarce. I brought
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by fma 7y ago
I woulda been reporting to him :)
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by fma 7y ago
I mean there's people who have are happy with the health insurance through the Affordable Care Act, but wants Obamacare dismantled....
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by fma 7y ago
I've posted this elsewhere (forgot here or reddit). I'm gainfully employed. A former colleague who is now in a hiring position at a new company reached out to me. Said they have several openings and are having a hard time hiring g
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by fma 8y ago
Regarding #6...Boeing charged $80k to unlock the software feature to gather data from more than 1 angle of attack sensor.
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by fma 8y ago
I was in the market for headphones. I bought a pair and was looking for another because I was dissatisfied. I saw my exact model under another listing...but oddly it had ~150 5 stars. I thought no way in hell THESE were loved by everyone. E
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by fma 8y ago
Yep... Even car sales increase because people have money for the down-payment. A large population of Americans do not have much savings. Could be bad money management, low paying jobs, bad luck (health issues) etc.
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by fma 8y ago
My first real programming class was in 9th grade, 1997. That class was around for a while. The language was BASIC, but covered all CS topics (if then, loops, disk i/o...and even GOTO hah!). My middle school had computers with rudimenta
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by fma 8y ago
Jawbone Bluetooth headsets. They offered the best noise cancelation and at one point was everywhere. Their execs made their products cheap and inferior, required payment for software updates.

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