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by golover721 7y ago
Its pretty normal in a lot of places in the US as well to only actually serve 40-60% of a sentence.
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by golover721 7y ago
One important factor is that folks who use SAP (or other enterprise software) get really good and fast at using it. Any changes to the UI and you have a major revolt on your hands. Not with SAP but having been a part of a project to modern
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by golover721 7y ago
That is definitely true, however I would hardly classify a private in the army as "middle class".
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by golover721 7y ago
Fair enough, but the article did mention how much worse the Indian troops under their command had it. So seems odd that they wouldn't mention the British troops as well.
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by golover721 7y ago
For every officer living the privileged life described in this article there were dozens of rank and file British troops, who certainly had no servants, or any of the other described comforts and luxuries. No mention of them?
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by golover721 7y ago
An attack doesn’t mean death or severe injury. There have been plenty of attacks but they pretty much all have resulted in no injuries.
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by golover721 7y ago
It’s a myth that they never attack humans in the wild. As with most shark attacks it seems to be a case of mistaken identity. Since orcas are significantly more intelligent though they usually retreat before any real harm is done. https:
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by golover721 7y ago
While nobody ever seems to want to hear it, the vast majority of companies utilizing service meshes and k8s are wasting huge amounts of time and money on things they don’t need. Unfortunately these technologies are at peak hype so everyone
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by golover721 7y ago
I’m excited for it, though I guarantee the end result will look a lot different than what is presented.
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by golover721 7y ago
One thing is the general desire to separate your email from Google. Apart from that I find their webmail to be faster and superior to Gmail. They also provide file storage with WebDAV access which I find useful for apps (like notes applica
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by golover721 7y ago
I always ask recent graduates about interesting courses they took. Not so much to meet some kind of criteria, but to start a conversation about something in CS that interests them. Helps to see how passionate they are about their field.
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by golover721 7y ago
That’s somewhat different. Individual engineers are more analogous to the crew working on a particular production. They for the most part are not in a position to use their authority to sway the production. Unlike say a famous writer, ac
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by golover721 7y ago
These threads are always interesting on HN. I'm not going to pass judgement on folks who think they its ok or not ok to pirate media based on cost or sometimes how difficult it is to obtain "legitimately". What I do think is
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by golover721 7y ago
To some extent I agree. PMs should be working closely with users and stakeholders to see how to improve the system. However UX professionals tend to take a more scientific approach to experimenting and analyzing user behavior.
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by golover721 7y ago
Asking people what they want is a very small part of it. You research by watching how users interact with the system, then you take risks by experimenting and seeing if changes improve the outcomes or not.
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by golover721 7y ago
Unfortunately in most companies those who wear the UX title are just UI designers. Real UX is about researching and performing experiments on how your customers interact and use your software. So you can make proven decisions on how to de
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by golover721 7y ago
Police level of response needs to be appropriate based on the given situation. Seems like this police department just had a bunch of toys they really wanted to play with.
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by golover721 7y ago
What id love to see more is blurring the line between user and designer. Too often software gets in the way of the user and simple tweaking to an interface etc. can make a world of difference. Unfortunately this is usually either not possi
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by golover721 7y ago
It’s incorrect to say that the only attacks have been in captivity. There have been a couple of documented “attacks” on humans in the wild. One which required extensive stitches. It is true that there there have been no documented deaths
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by golover721 7y ago
Because humans tend not to be the ice cold water that Orcas tend to inhabit?
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by golover721 7y ago
Yes exactly, and thats what the article says.
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by golover721 7y ago
What a useless article. No one is disputing the fact that “income tax” is progressive. The problem is the truly wealthy make their money via other mechanisms which are taxed differently. The main one being capital gains which is taxed si
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by golover721 7y ago
The max employee contribution in 2019 is $19000 so given a 50% match the employer would pay $9500. I know a number of large tech companies offer this. But it still way under what they COULD contribute. And you are right most companies ar
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by golover721 7y ago
Sadly companies never really have contributed much to employee 401ks which was one of the main selling points when being offered as an alternative to pensions. Employees are very lucky if employers contribute 50% of their contributions (whi
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by golover721 7y ago
To be fair Comcast these days shows you a breakdown of the full cost of the service you are signing up for, which you have to accept. So the fees should not be a surprise. Would I prefer it was all included in the advertised price, absolu
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by golover721 7y ago
Is there anything in the backend arena that a small business couldn’t do with an excel spreadsheet?
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by golover721 7y ago
Bankruptcy in the UK is significantly different than in the US where companies often continue to operate under Chapter 11 in a way that may not be noticeable to customers. The UK as far as I know doesn’t offer such protections.
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by golover721 7y ago
Another thing that bugs me in the whole "medical cost" disaster that is the USA. Whenever you talk to Doctors or other medical practitioners about the situation they blame the hospitals, or the insurance companies or <fill in
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by golover721 7y ago
I also have a few friends who do well day trading (which is usually done by mostly or only technical analysis). They have done well for themselves as they actually treat it like a job. Constantly trying to educate themselves, being at the
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by golover721 7y ago
Unfortunately MFA doesn’t help in this case if an attacker can just circumvent it by calling customer service to fairly easily bypass it.

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