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by gaius 8y ago
FTA: 90 percent of Google+ user sessions are less than five seconds. Their own stats seem to back this: people arrive by mistake and immediately go somewhere else
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by gaius 8y ago
a significant tech bear market from your comment, but if you have, you should know better. Things dry up completely, for nearly everyone Can confirm. 2001 was utter carnage. Developers hit a lot worse than ops but no one got out unscathed
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Veggieburgers are one thing but I think I would wait for 10-20 years of other people eating frankenburgers before I’d be willing to switch.
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The military beard ban is about sealing a gas mask, it does have a real purpose. Having said that, they do let SF grow beards.
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A previous employer had an extremely weird WAN topology, until you realised that all this data was circumnavigating the world as part of a grand tax reduction strategy. All fully legal of course. In the end they simplified by simply cutting
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Plenty of people have reported deleting their account, creating a new one later, and seeing all their old friends recommended to them. It’s obvious that nothing is ever deleted, just hidden.
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I wrote up my own quitting FB approach here https://gaius.tech/2017/12/29/less-facebook-more-faces-and-b... I still use Insta and WhatsApp tho’ so I am not entirely free but FB is the biggest time sink for su
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meal plans at both schools cost about $11-13 per meal I knew the chef at a previous employer, he used to like to make bets with people, “I bet you can’t eat £1 worth of food”. He always won because at catering rates an egg was 2p and a ra
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Last time I was in hospital I was dreading the food but it was in fact amazing and came with a pamphlet explaining how they configured each meal specifically for whatever was wrong with each patient. This was my local NHS.
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the CIO would frequently refer to the tech staff as “the factory”. I often encouraged this CIO and others in the management team not to At least he was being honest in revealing management thinking. Worse would be a guy who said the compa
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by gaius 8y ago
Kanye's request was to make slavery more legal, not less legal. That interpretation makes no sense, why would he want that?
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Snapchat is still bleeding money, losing $353 million last quarter. I literally do not understand what they can be spending that much money on, can anyone clue me in? It can't be on infra and bandwidth.
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Assuming he meant stuff like this, Kanye Kardashian was absolutely right about the 13th Amendment, which is what permits involuntary servitude as punishment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_Un..
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by gaius 8y ago
That rhetoric was a useful tool for winning debates and being persuasive, particularly in politics But that cuts both ways: two skilled rhetoriticians in debate each won't permit the other to deploy a logical fallacy. Therefore they
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A candidate's CV contains all sorts of personal data, their detailed work and academic history, their contact details and work eligibility, maybe their date of birth, address and personal interests. And it's being served up to Goo
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From what I've seen, they don't verify the user actually worked at the company in question How would they do that? The person may not still have access to their company email address, or even want that kind of email in their cor
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Right; people used to argue over interpretation of facts. Now no one seems to even care about facts, evidence, consistent stories, anything, just who can shout the loudest, debates are won by “shaming” the opponent, and so on. And Facebook
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by gaius 8y ago
I don’t see why a company can’t be biased. It’s totally OK for a company to be biased, absolutely. But that company cannot reasonably expect to benefit from the privileges of common carrier status. Facebook wants to play both sides. It mu
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by gaius 8y ago
AI ethical principles relate to the development of a superintelligence This is not true; there are real-world ethical considerations right now with existing tech, infact have been since the most rudimentary AI was applied in commerce or g
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This is a great course on the subject, free if you don’t care about the cert at the end https://www.edx.org/course/ethics-and-law-in-data-and-analyt... I took it as it was a prerequisite for something else expecting it
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And your comfort comes at the cost of massive amounts of space, clean air and thousands of deaths each year. There should be a national registry of everyone who wants to ban cars, that every driver can check before anyone wants a ride, or
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There are a suspicious number with things like “advice to management: none, they are great!” that can be immediately discounted Also remember that Glassdoor’s business model is such that their customers are the companies being “reviewed” (w
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Of course once the phone breaks you lose all that, but still it will be impressive You would also have no way to charge it, it’s not like any modern phone has simple inputs for 5v or whatever.
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I can’t remember who originally said this, but the problem with Twitter is that you think you’re engaging in jokey banter with your mates but random strangers are reading each tweet without context in absolute seriousness and judging you
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The uneducated masses of soldiers and workers are much easier to dazzle Time Traveler: look at this iPhone! WW2 soldier: that’s a flimsy looking walkie-talkie, wouldn’t last a day fighting the Waffen SS. Do you mind? I got work to do.
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It sucks but if there is literally no money left then the company is simply not able to fulfill its obligations. Like if pay is owed where will that money come from? I don’t excuse management for a second; they must have known the coffers w
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If the company ceases to exist, then many of its usual responsibilities don’t exist either
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Well, it’s a pre-interview signal, like anything on a CV. Previous employers, alma mater, extracurriculars, yadda yadda. If I’m compiling a shortlist to interview, completion of a relevant MOOC from a quality provider such as EdX, the Andre
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by gaius 8y ago
why is COBOL so prevalent in the finance sector? It can't seriously be SO GOOD as to be completely un-replacable? To use hip modern buzzwords, it’s a DSL. In addition, it runs on hardware specifically designed around its idioms.
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Some, including myself, take it as a slightly negative signal. I’ve seen too many paper tigers. I take almost any MOOC as a positive signal that this candidate invests their own time in ongoing professional development, but I have encount

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