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811.
by ghaff 10mo ago
Not clear in the US. Some countries, such as Canada may have stricter requirements even if some wiggle room.
812.
by ghaff 10mo ago
Meanwhile I actually started college at 16 which is illegal in some locales.
813.
by ghaff 10mo ago
Xserve was always kind of a loss. Wrote a piece about it a number of years back. It became pretty much a commodity business--which isn't Apple.
814.
by ghaff 10mo ago
Certainly, Ubuntu used to be friendlier to new would-be Linux desktop users for a variety of reasons. (And we could get into some controversial decisions/directions it's taken but I won't.) I'm sure lots of people still
815.
by ghaff 10mo ago
Sort of where I am. Have good laptop and not sure I really have a need for a dedicated desktop.
816.
by ghaff 10mo ago
In my last job, I just bought my own laptops for a variety of reasons. Know that may not work for everyone. Also for a variety of reasons. But worked dor me.
817.
by ghaff 10mo ago
The title is a bit of hyperbole but it's still worth reading.
818.
Mississippi Transformed Its Schools from Worst to Best(nytimes.com)
5 points by ghaff 10mo ago|2 comments
819.
by ghaff 10mo ago
Been debating about buying a Mac mini to replace my old iMac--which I don't use at this point. Have a newish MacBook Pro but it's not the best ergonomic choice to use with a big monitor.
820.
by ghaff 10mo ago
When I joined my last company, it would have been politically unpalatable to run Windows which was what I was used to, Linux was sort of frustrating to me at the time (even if I'm sure I could have adapted and it has improved in the la
821.
by ghaff 10mo ago
Well Red Hat did make a go at a supported enterprise desktop distro for a time and, as I wrote, Fedora--which Red Hat supports in a variety of ways for various purposes--is pretty much my default Linux distro. So I'm not being critical
822.
by ghaff 10mo ago
SUSE has a lot of ex-Red Hatters at high levels these days. Their CEO ran Asia-Pacific for a long time and North America commercial sales for a shorter period. SUSE has always been pretty big in Europe but never was that prominent in North
823.
by ghaff 10mo ago
Intel has long been a big contributor--mostly driver stuff as I understand it. (Intel does a lot more software work than most people realize.) Samsung was pretty high on the list at one point as well. My grad school roommate (now mostly ret
824.
by ghaff 10mo ago
I think it's fair to say that Red Hat simply doesn't care about the desktop--at least beyond internal systems. You could argue the Fedora folks do to some degree but it's just not a priority and really isn't something th
825.
by ghaff 10mo ago
At large companies, there's just a lot of coordination needed. Which means a lot of meetings typically. Probably more than there is needed but one of the points of a large company is having a critical mass of people pulling in roughly
826.
by ghaff 10mo ago
Yep. Execs who are booked pretty solid with meetings, including with customers and field teams making important decisions, will sometimes be late for or even miss meetings. Last job, the senior guy who I knew missed our breakfast meeting to
827.
by ghaff 10mo ago
Obviously, meetings shouldn't be longer than they need to be. But 15-20 minutes of unused time tend to be dead. That's mostly not long enough to do anything useful. That said, nothing wrong with 30 minute meetings. In my previous
828.
by ghaff 10mo ago
Whether it's planned or not, that seems like a pretty normal dynamic. "Let's give people a few minutes and then we'll get started." Especially with back to back meetings which are the norm for a lot of people, they
829.
by ghaff 10mo ago
Sometimes it makes sense, if you fundamentally disagree with leadership (or peers who outvote you), it makes sense to just move on. Otherwise they just annoy you and you them. If you've made your case, both parties will be happier apar
830.
by ghaff 10mo ago
Being "handy" around the house (or even more advanced tinkering) and a mechanical engineering degree--maybe especially from a good school--are absolutely not the same thing.
831.
by ghaff 10mo ago
I don't really have specific knowledge of Australia but within an hour or so radius of Boston/Cambridge (expensive cities), there are reasonably priced exurbs. (Also expensive suburbs/exurbs of course.)
832.
by ghaff 10mo ago
Well, ans we're talking about within very specific locales. Honestly, Brooks--who has been presented and self-presented as something of a skeptic with respect to autonomous self-driving--looks like something of an optimist at this poin
833.
by ghaff 10mo ago
I admit I just avoid Europe at that time of year, although I'd note that Eurostar from the UK to the Continent can be pretty bad too at any time of the year.
834.
by ghaff 10mo ago
And, everywhere, it's about people wanting to live in some specific cities. Even a bit outside of those specific locations isn't necessarily particularly expensive. (Leaving aside ski resorts, especially nice college towns, and th
835.
by ghaff 10mo ago
You're going to have some security in any case and have since at least the 1970s. And it typically takes me <10 minutes even if I allow some extra time for the potential that it could be longer if it rarely is with pre-check.
836.
by ghaff 10mo ago
Even most businesspeople aren't really that hyper-scheduled on trips--especially the ones that can't book whatever class they want. And to your latter point, I can afford higher-class tickets but it comes back to what I could do w
837.
by ghaff 10mo ago
Assuming they're even micro-managing employee productivity to the degree that they really care about working on a plane. Personally, I never purchased plane wi-fi even when I could have expensed it.
838.
by ghaff 10mo ago
My dad got upgraded to a Concorde once (for reasons I don't know) from First Class on (I assume) Pan Am. His reaction was basically meh. Got into London at rush hour and he really wasn't that impressed.
839.
by ghaff 10mo ago
You'll pay double (or more) for it. You can have a much better experience today if you fly business.
840.
by ghaff 10mo ago
And NY to London really isn't bad. I have to do Zero Dark Thirty for London flights with a change in Newark but EWR-LHR itself isn't really much different from when I fly from BOS to SFO. At a minimum, I'd want to be able to

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