ghevshoo

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by ghevshoo 6y ago
A significant part of the stigma comes from the fact that once caught, it’s for life. So curing it looks like the best way to also fix the social stigma.
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by ghevshoo 6y ago
I was fired once in one of the worst ways possible. It came as a total surprise. My boss and my boss’s boss booked a meeting with me at 17:00 in an external meeting room. My boss’s boss did the actual firing. My direct boss just sat there l
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by ghevshoo 6y ago
And it’s still using lightning :(
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by ghevshoo 6y ago
Unfortunate it’s limited to cars
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by ghevshoo 6y ago
Don’t miss the awesome “zen mode”. https://onlywei.github.io/explain-git-with-d3/#zen This the the best tool I’ve found to demonstrate to people, how commits that no longer appear in your history due to rebase or amend
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by ghevshoo 6y ago
> "This is not just Apple's lawyers being lawyers, it appears that the organization at Apple stands behind its lawyers," I wonder how much truth there is to this conjecture. It’s seems to me that Apple stand to lose much m
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by ghevshoo 6y ago
Yesterday I started donating $10/month to the Mozilla Foundation. TIL it’s not the Mozilla Foundation that develops Firefox. I stopped using Chrome when they added the “feature” that logging into gmail was the same as logging into the
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German labour minister wants to put right to home working in law(reuters.com)
4 points by ghevshoo 6y ago|0 comments
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by ghevshoo 6y ago
In my experience the main reason that agile mostly sux in large enterprises is because it is agile in name only. Not a single one of the people who are responsible from managing the process have even heard of the “agile manifesto” let alone
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by ghevshoo 7y ago
The situation in Stockholm, Sweden right now is: “You who have symptoms similar to coronavirus will not be tested in the future. This applies regardless of whether you have been in the areas that were previously exposed to infection or had
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by ghevshoo 7y ago
An exercise I learned from Sam Harris that finally started to convince me that free will is an illusion goes as follows: 1. Choose a movie title 2. Now do it again with your eyes closed and try to figure out precisely how you chose the movi
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by ghevshoo 7y ago
OMG! Thanks!
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by ghevshoo 7y ago
Maybe podman “just works” on Linux but it still has some work to be done before the same could be said for macOS. E.g. https://github.com/containers/libpod/issues/4039#issuecommen...
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by ghevshoo 7y ago
Maybe the world has changed now, but around 2006/2007 I was an embedded software engineer for a company that built public transport smart-card ticketing systems. I was working on a device that sat on a bus, operated by the driver. It h
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by ghevshoo 7y ago
They don’t need to drive perfectly. They only need to drive better than your average human.
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by ghevshoo 7y ago
Blinkist sounds interesting, even if it feels more like cheating than regular audio books. I already feel a bit guilty saying I read book X, when I really listened to it. Their website doesn’t explain much and the reviews are vague as usual
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by ghevshoo 7y ago
The problem with personal blogs is that they are likely to get labeled as a “personal” site and blocked by some stupid corporate filter.
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by ghevshoo 7y ago
> Capitalism’s failures arise from two of its defining elements. The first is perpetual growth. It's not just perpetual, but exponential. However it has nothing to do with capitalism. How do free markets and private ownership over t
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by ghevshoo 7y ago
Not sure what contacts you are talking about, but the civil lawsuits have started to roll in... https://in.reuters.com/article/ethiopia-airplane-lawsuit/fre...
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by ghevshoo 7y ago
I look forward to the day when I can walk around Rome viewing something like this on my phone and augmented reality on google maps!
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by ghevshoo 7y ago
I found this interesting story with details about how he was caught, set free, and left behind an unusual legacy including founding a eponymous butterfly conservatory. https://medium.com/un-hackable/the-bizarre-pre-inte
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The NSA wants to call time on its phone-tapping hobby(theinquirer.net)
2 points by ghevshoo 7y ago|1 comments
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by ghevshoo 7y ago
Website seems down. Found this link which has some pretty interesting information. https://gbtimes.com/a-first-look-at-chinas-mars-simulation-b...
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by ghevshoo 7y ago
> I have seen failed projects where the complete lack of commit sanity wasn't the cause, but a very clear sign, of what was wrong. Clean commit messages fall into the same area as “good git hygiene” for me. When I was consulting (mo
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The Way Git Commit –Fixup –Autosquash Should Work(gist.github.com)
1 points by ghevshoo 8y ago|1 comments
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by ghevshoo 8y ago
Would love an answer to this question too. I effectively find myself in the role of a “principle engineer”. That’s exactly the reason why I was hired - with the expectations to be a “force multiplier” in the organization, which means I end
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by ghevshoo 8y ago
> Linux containers, Kubernetes, artificial intelligence, blockchain... Bingo!
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by ghevshoo 8y ago
This is probably a good idea. I checked your github for sample code but couldn’t see anything obvious. Any chance to open source something from Capital One?
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A major problem with the Resplandy et al. ocean heat uptake paper(judithcurry.com)
2 points by ghevshoo 8y ago|0 comments
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by ghevshoo 9y ago
Only in the case of a disputed between the buyer and seller where arbitrage is needed.

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