iamdave

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by iamdave 8y ago
Why is it different? How is it different? The behavior and impact isn't, is it? Can you give us something more than "it's not the same" because this response isn't wholly convincing.
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Thanks for the recommendation, I will look it up.
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by iamdave 8y ago
If you disagree with a new story you can simply claim it’s “fake news”. Wonder if this is an entirely new phenomenon, or if with Trump we just got some new, and easy to prescribe nomenclature for this phenomenon you describe. Edit: is the
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by iamdave 8y ago
This is something that's been in the noggin for a while, kind of like a bottle of some spice that sits in the back of your kitchen cabinet; you know it's there, but never really use it or even touch it-but you always remind yourse
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by iamdave 8y ago
That being said, Apple pays people peanuts down there, $32k/yr as a contractor ain't much. This is a problem across the entire tech industry. When it comes to staff and employees who don't have three letters following their
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by iamdave 8y ago
Contesting this on the grounds that until a line-item on my paystub starts showing up for the cost of a free lunch, I don't think they're comparable at all.
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by iamdave 8y ago
And is already stretching that tiny town thin wrt housing. I gtfo. Felt like the San Francisco of Texas, and not in a way I felt like fighting/putting up with.
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by iamdave 8y ago
I have to pay rent and for the infrastructure. And at the end of the day, this is why IMO you shouldn't have to justify your pricing to anyone who isn't already a-or ready to commit to becoming a paying customer. It's the
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by iamdave 8y ago
"if you can avoid the bad parts like spam" An engineer I once worked with used to joke that the best way to fix flash was to uninstall flash. I wonder if this precedent holds for avoiding LinkedIn spam by just avoiding LinkedIn. (
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by iamdave 8y ago
Probably paid for by their publication.
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by iamdave 8y ago
we need journalists who are more interested in neutrally reporting accurate facts and news rather than engaging in poorly thought out social advocacy I feel like we have lots more of those than you may be giving the industry credit for-or
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by iamdave 8y ago
who cares about landlords page I really hope this is just autocorrect getting hilariously overzealous, heh.
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by iamdave 8y ago
It feels weird jumping to someone's defense here, but it's been equally weird watching so many people completely mischaracterize what the grandparent (great-grandparent, I think?) comment said: S/he is not the one asking for
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by iamdave 8y ago
what might be the "spilled urea tank" moment in a software startup's office? maybe something related to the CEO's personal information being leaked. Yeah probably this. The number of people who I observe walking away f
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by iamdave 8y ago
Hrm. You might be right. Ego and power are quite symbiotic-in that regard, at least in my opinion. But I can definitely see the inherent distinction that you're trying to draw.
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by iamdave 8y ago
This entire comment thread began because the person you're replying presented a situation where they are the person sitting arms length away from the messenger. At least, that was my impression, having sat back and watched this thre
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by iamdave 8y ago
Don't overthink it. This isn't asking antagonistically, it's a legitimate ask, so I hope you'll understand my tone isn't one of aggression: How am I over thinking it? The proposed idea is to require leaders sit wi
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by iamdave 8y ago
I don't disagree but It should be required that whoever makes these decisions should have to dogfood them. By what mechanism would this occur? I've spent enough time in the military to know human ego will never allow this to hap
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by iamdave 8y ago
The only thing surprising that with so much evidence of how it hurts workers, the people making those decisions do not seem to care. And by that I mean not surprising at all. You know that one quote from Upton Sinclair? "It is diffic
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by iamdave 8y ago
decision-makers continue to pretend they're fun and/or foster collaboration That's because 99 times out 100, those decision makers don't subject themselves to the open office. They always get their own quiet nook of th
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by iamdave 8y ago
Seems to me people that have a job title where the first letter begins with "C" and rhymes with "Reef" are given a much wider berth when it comes to the types of thing that would get the average worker thoroughly passed
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by iamdave 8y ago
Relatedly, in case you don’t know this, never think you can call a marine a sailor based on the lineage you’re discussing here. As an Army veteran (who doesn't really like announcing himself as such when doesn't add to the discu
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by iamdave 8y ago
The joke in that scene always baffled me, because the Marines are born of the Navy and still carry a lot of the Navy's epistemology-why would they be taught something so fundamental so differently? (Yes it's a joke but sometime
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by iamdave 8y ago
Don't think I (personally) ever have. But pondering the question, if I were to make the distinction: working remotely would intimate simply taking a day to work from home as an exception to one's general/typical location of b
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by iamdave 8y ago
Never before has access to so much knowledge been available from MIT courses to marketing books Sure, but do these mooc/online courseware platforms teach one how to apply these new tangential skills and translate them into CV languag
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by iamdave 8y ago
Am I having a generational moment? I have fond memories of 1994's "Internet" with a capital I It just looked and operated like a whole other beast then. In part and parcel it practically was a different aninmal.
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by iamdave 8y ago
Are you deliberately ignoring the "all the time" part of the comment you're replying to? This is the entire fulcrum that their point resides on.
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by iamdave 8y ago
Admittedly a pool table is probably on the extreme end of examples I could have given; been fortunate enough that in both places that actually did have a billiards table-they had dedicated game rooms so the clatter of a cue-ball breaking an
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by iamdave 8y ago
Do you mean "not a full-blown word processor"?
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by iamdave 8y ago
See, that statement alone makes me think of something. If more developers put that line in their feedback to HR, and you analyzed that data, how much you want to bet the people who are fed up and tired with "open offices" trend on

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