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by freebish 9y ago
Perhaps you're getting caught in the labels, like mission & loyalty. It's not about buzz words, or receiving favors. In my experience, there is a substantial difference in the quality of work of a person who cares about what
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by freebish 9y ago
It depends on your definition of "excess", I guess. If you work out in the cardio section of any gym, you will eventually see regulars who are hitting some machines very hard, with a visual appearance of anorexia. I'm sure s
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by freebish 10y ago
That reddit group was just banned, 23 November, 00:01 UTC
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by freebish 11y ago
I agree, but this is also a management failing, in not noticing the pattern. I've been able to successfully hire good people by noting that some interviewers are never satisfied with any candidate. Once the pattern is clear, I either
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by freebish 11y ago
No one has publicly said why she was fired. We only know it happened rapidly. It happened shortly after a Jesse Jackson AMA that went way off the rails, but that could be coincidence.
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by freebish 11y ago
Man who hates Google concludes "Everyone hates Google," writes blog post predicting their demise.
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by freebish 11y ago
In retrospect, I wonder if there was a better way to report that bug. Clearly the first person didn't get it, at all.
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by freebish 12y ago
Card counting was hardly top secret until MIT revealed it. Edward Thorpe's "Beat The Dealer" was published in 1962. It did enter a wider phase of popularity in the 80s, especially as easier to follow tactics were worked out
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by freebish 12y ago
My experience with agile/scrum is that it puts a more important bounding function on the product/biz side, where they place demands. The most effective scrum meetings I've seen have been where the biz side presents its desir
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by freebish 13y ago
I don't work for Apple or Google, but I can assure you that there is strong upward pressures on salaries for developers in the bay area. Housing prices are a bit more complicated. I've also had personal experience with people rel