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by gaius 8y ago
Coursera will not grade the end-of-section quiz for non-paying students. EdX grades exercises for audit students, on every course I’ve done there the free/paid experience is identical, the only difference is whether they issue a “ver
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by gaius 8y ago
I feel like the concept of unions needs to be rejiggered for the modern era This is very much a cultural thing. A German union for example ensures that Workers get their fair share but understands that the company must be profitable and s
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by gaius 8y ago
Not all USB C ports are equal. Some have higher speed potential than others. Some have higher power providing/consumption potential than others. Some carry additional protocols (looking at you, Thunderbolt) that are only available on
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by gaius 8y ago
EdX has this - courses are free to audit, you only pay if you want a certificate (but you can always screenshot your progress page)
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by gaius 8y ago
Can anyone who's recently transitioned to a Surface from a MacBook Pro / Air testify to the validity of this statement? Yes, I made the jump a few months ago and am very happy. I would even say the whole Surface range is a glimp
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by gaius 8y ago
the bosses wouldn't approve it, despite showing a 0 failure rate compared to a pretty big one from the bored employees. A boss’s prestige is in how many people they manage, not how many scripts they run. That’s the key to understandi
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by gaius 8y ago
What does he say? I follow him on Insta and it’s all cars and office furniture as far as I can tell.
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by gaius 8y ago
there are many lessons that the Puppet and Chef communities learned years (or decades) ago It’s funny because I would say that Chef has yet to fully re-learn what the CFEngine community knew.
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by gaius 8y ago
Some kinds of automation only create more work. Looking at you, Chef.
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by gaius 8y ago
Many years ago, one of the secretaries was on holiday and the big boss asked me to write a program that, unbeknownst to me at the time, completely automated her job away. When she came back she came to me in tears, couldn't believe I h
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by gaius 8y ago
If everyone is a 20-something graduate of the same handful of universities then of course there will be a monoculture.
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by gaius 8y ago
I guarantee that Trump has zero influence on how the NYT reports on the economy.
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by gaius 8y ago
What would you consider to be “official” enough then? All EdX MOOCs are backed by real institutions, for example.
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by gaius 8y ago
constantly making important decisions This does not explain how CEOs such as Fiorina and Elop can inject themselves into established companies, run them into the ground, and still walk away with lavish rewards. They are in a completely di
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It led to easily over a million extra in revenue that year. My boss was delighted to take credit for it Had a similar experience once. A small change generated $2m/year extra revenue. That amount just about covered the bonuses of two
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by gaius 8y ago
the Redmonk ranking [1], which is imho much better than TIOBE What I think many fans of any sort of language popularity survey miss is that there are huge swathes of the industry that simply don’t actively participate in things like SO an
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by gaius 8y ago
You can totally do a MOOC in any of those things and put it on your CV
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by gaius 8y ago
I also did my Masters part-time. Noone’s ever mentioned it, but it’s pretty obvious that that’s what I did from the dates.
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Nobody outside the program will ever know which path you took to get the degree. Will they not notice the overlap between a job and the programme?
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by gaius 8y ago
One reason I stopped arranging social events via FB is that every “yes” there just means “maybe” and there will be a flurry of posts made on the event on the day from people who RSVP’d “yes” ultimately meaning “I can’t be bothered” or “I go
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by gaius 8y ago
I’m proposing to up the PTO for any person for any purpose to match. Then everything is equal regardless of reproductive choices.
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by gaius 8y ago
Well it’s already illegal to sack a woman immediately that she announces she’s pregnant, so I guess this would come under the same thing. For both men and women obv.
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by gaius 8y ago
Exactly. So decouple the time off from the reproduction.
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by gaius 8y ago
There should be a system that every n years you get a 6-month paid sabbatical that can be used for any purpose - studying, traveling, having a kid, anything. Because consider two women, one who wants kids and one who doesn’t. Why should wom
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by gaius 8y ago
Isn’t Schpock the German eBay?
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by gaius 8y ago
Umm the entire spectrum is regulated. This is only about one small slice of it.
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Are gender imbalances destabilising historically? It woild be interesting to see the history. I've often wondered to what extent it explains the situation in Afghanistan. If there is a shortage of women anyway due to poor healthcare
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by gaius 8y ago
But possibly not within their age cohort; that 123:100 ratio is within the 16-17 year bracket, not in Sweden as a whole.
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by gaius 8y ago
It's popular with "preppers" Every Airsofter I see has a Baofeng in an imitation Harris casing and freely uses it in their games. None of them have ham licenses. The spectrum is regulated for reasons, but there seems to be
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People in general underestimate the cumulative effects of small things. Like “just one cookie” won’t make a difference but do it hundreds of times and you wake up one morning to discover that you’re fat and your clothes don’t fit and you’re

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