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571.
by hapless 13y ago
He says the conditions are not awful, then describes awful conditions. He says he's not leaving because he burned out, and then describes when he burned out. He very obviously loves the company, but it's not a healthy love.
572.
by hapless 13y ago
I don't have to read much between the lines to interpret a strangled reference to losing at pingpong as a more literal expression of his status. He posted this on his current employer's public forum, after all.
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by hapless 13y ago
Given that this is posted on his current employers' public forum, I take the "bottom of the ladder" and "not a benefit" juxtaposition as a "ha ha only serious" kind of joke. There's no way that wasn&#
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by hapless 13y ago
This post confirms that the job posting is exactly what it looks like: an exploitative horror-show * He speculates whether the job is worth a "lower salary" (and, given his admitted inexperience in the workforce, he probably has n
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by hapless 13y ago
The new aarch64 chips will support large amounts of memory and hardware virtualization. Despite low performance, the perf/watt and high memory density might be good enough to compete with x86. These exist only as engineering samples
576.
by hapless 13y ago
Recruiting is a two-sided market with high stakes and perverse incentives. Any time money and conflicting interests collide in the same actor, weird stuff happens Recruiting attracts good faith actors and bad faith actors. It makes good
577.
by hapless 13y ago
I misinterpreted your proposal because distributing SALARY this way was too plainly insane. No one with a brain in their head would work for you on that basis. The feuding would start immediately and never end. You cannot make software deve
578.
by hapless 13y ago
If the payments are big enough to make a difference, people will crawl over bodies to earn the bonuses and feud viciously if/when they don't get assigned the bonus-bearing tasks. People will become reluctant to work on the low&#x
579.
by hapless 13y ago
EDID tells you whether you're connected to an HDMI device. AMD added a special chip to their adapters that adds extra data to the EDID data in-line to say "yes i am a real ati adapter." This was totally unnecessary.
580.
by hapless 13y ago
EDID tells you whether you're connected to an HDMI device. AMD added a special chip to their adapters that adds extra data to the EDID data in-line to say "yes i am a real ati adapter." This was totally unnecessary.
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by hapless 13y ago
Coral Cache link. http://blog.42floors.com.nyud.net/startups-die/#.UkHADudq0Qm
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by hapless 13y ago
"the world’s most respected, business-savvy professors can misjudge companies’ valuations of the doctoral degrees they so thoughtfully hand out" It is impossible to convince a man of something when his salary rides on his not beli
583.
by hapless 13y ago
Cable companies pay for AMC. They are compelled to take IFC and the others as a condition of showing AMC. This is how AMCX, the firm, maintains its ad inventory. It doesn't matter if the content on AMC can't pay for itself as lo
584.
by hapless 13y ago
Netflix and AMC have very different business models, and Netflix' business would cannibalize AMC's. AMC makes a small amount of premium content on a continuous basis, and forces cable companies to carry a mixture of paid channels
585.
by hapless 13y ago
Notably AMC makes a lot of money by bundling 48 hours of unwanted programming alongside its flagship station. to get AMC on your network, you also have to accept some of AMC Networks other products, such as WeTV and IFC. They can lose a l
586.
by hapless 13y ago
Just by the by, this is a terrible idea to do online. The best case is a crash-consistent replica. The more likely case is an inconsistent one that may or may not be repairable, because of the length of time it takes to do the dump.
587.
by hapless 13y ago
I have little doubt that this will accelerate the super-seed trend, wherein small startups avoid VC for extended periods of time. One thing that struck me: the wefunder guys clearly believe this is going to be a big deal for small-time inve
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by hapless 13y ago
I seem to recall it is actually the other way around, and storing a null results in a nonsense date. Added bonus: some versions will segfault if you pass an un-formattable date value.
589.
by hapless 13y ago
The problem is that MySQL deviates from the standards (all of them) in surprising and uncomfortable ways. porting from MySQL is fun, when, for example, your target database actually ENFORCES the constraints that MySQL accepted but silently
590.
by hapless 13y ago
MySQL is possibly the single hardest database to port to/from, because it supports nothing .
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by hapless 13y ago
"If, by 2015, 64-Bit ARM makes it within striking distance of x86 server processor performance [...]" There isn't a big enough rolleyes in the universe. ARM's sink-or-swim pitch points will be will be power consumption a
592.
by hapless 13y ago
It's true, one very rarely meets people who have suffered serious head injuries without a helmet. You will never talk to a cyclist with that kind of serious story. It's a sampling problem: you only talk to cyclists. The head-injury cases
593.
by hapless 13y ago
A 7% average return across 50 years is very different from a 7% return year in, year out, because the former fails to account for generational risk. You don't have the option of just withdrawing $0 on your "down" years. p.s. if you can find
594.
by hapless 13y ago
You don't have to feel guilty, but you still might get fired. Jason Freedman answers only to shareholders, not a boss, which is why he can decide whether he feels guilty or not.
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by hapless 13y ago
San Francisco is much less dense than Brooklyn, the Bronx, and even Queens .
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by hapless 13y ago
San Francisco actually has the same problem as the valley. Housing prices are going through the roof because the city REFUSES to re-zone for higher density. The last time there was significant re-zoning, there was a great deal of whining
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by hapless 14y ago
As long as it's closed source, I have only your assurance that you don't have keys. I doubt you or your cofounders set out to deceive users or spy on them, but there are many, many government-related reasons to lie to your users about priva
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by hapless 14y ago
It is worth mentioning that Lenovo has a very significant "Certified for Linux" program. Virtually every laptop model has at least one "Certified" SKU. http://lenovo.com/think/linux This is the major reason I ended up with a PC instead
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by hapless 14y ago
Reducing their level of effort in fundraising didn't mean the lights went out overnight. It took six years for it to dwindle to where there was more cost (the cost of incorporation) than benefit in PDPC's continued existence.
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by hapless 14y ago
Another way to put it: PDPC existed to pay for Rob Levin's house/car/children. Without the need to support Rob Levin, the other freenode volunteers didn't have as much drive to solicit donations.

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