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by icehawk219 11y ago
For anyone interested in more information on this, or on Ponzi himself, I'd highly recommend giving Ponzi's Scheme[0] a read. It's a great book on the subject. [0] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0812968360
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by icehawk219 11y ago
Also summed up in the old saying: "A jack of all trades, a master of none." The world needs both in different places at different times.
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by icehawk219 11y ago
This video[0] on Youtube does a good job explaining the whole "video technology didn't exist" part that most people, myself included, don't realize. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGXTF6bs1IU
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by icehawk219 11y ago
I used to be a dev who brought in JIRA because I like it out-of-the-box and it can grow with a team. But I always tell my manager to NOT TOUCH THE WORKFLOWS and to just let things grow organically as the needs of the team grow (or don'
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by icehawk219 11y ago
I've always joked that the more I work with i18n and l10n the more I become a fan of one world language, currency, and time zone. I know that would be rife with its own problems but hey, an exhausted developer can dream.
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by icehawk219 11y ago
That makes surprisingly good sense. The more you know. :) Thanks.
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by icehawk219 11y ago
One thing I'm curious about with stuff like this is how some of the information gets given to the authorities and how it's allowed to be used in court. I imagine I can't just walk into my local police station, file a report,
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by icehawk219 11y ago
I thought the entire purpose of SpaceX was him wanting to take a vacation.
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by icehawk219 11y ago
You don't need a report to tell you that. I ride the subway every day, just go down there and take a look and you'll find that the phrase "it's falling apart" is very literal. Cracks in the walls, floor, and ceiling
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by icehawk219 11y ago
Except that everyone going to Wal-Mart for the cheaper goods has driven you out of a job because most of the stores in the area are now shut down and your significant other who does work at Wal-Mart makes exactly minimum wage and not a penn
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by icehawk219 11y ago
Personally I've become a big fan of tea. Hot and iced. In my opinion most teas don't require any sugar or require very little to offset a bit of bitterness. 9 times out of 10 I use no sugar at all. And that 1 time I do it's m
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by icehawk219 11y ago
I've been working on my own at https://getneutrino.com I built it for myself for the exact same reasons and then decided to open it up. It doesn't have e-mail integration or git/GitHub yet but both are being worke
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by icehawk219 11y ago
The book Predictably Irrational[0] has a good section on how making the salaries of CEO's of publicly traded companies public information is one of the things that has helped lead to their salaries spiking so incredibly in recent years
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by icehawk219 11y ago
Sleep is something I've kind of battled with for some years now. I have a job with a long commute and long hours but like to still be able to come home and make dinner and watch an episode or two of some of my favorite shows but when I
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by icehawk219 12y ago
Im hesitant to say that's the intended result but it is what happens. I found myself planning new districts entirely around this problem with bus, metro, and pedestrian walkways (maybe its just me but right now commuter rail seems to b
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by icehawk219 12y ago
The mod scene is great so far. Auto-bulldoze and changing the direction of one-way roads are fantastic things to have that I really hope they bring into the game as actual features. From what I've heard they haven't opened up too
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by icehawk219 12y ago
Skylines is hands down my favorite game right now and is directly responsible for my highly unproductive, but fun, weekend. But it's not without faults. For me one of the telling things will be how they handle a very similar problem th
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by icehawk219 12y ago
Haven't they been making that claim since the first release? I remember their entire marketing strategy being convincing people that MongoDB solved any and all DB use-cases better than all existing tech. Which is why so many people who
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by icehawk219 12y ago
But lets say he does show up with broken fingers, what then? Nothing can, or will, be done about it so if anything it just adds to the NSA's overarching goal of turning him into an example.
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by icehawk219 12y ago
I agree that the extreme application is the bigger problem. I consider being politically correct a problem as well though because it creates a sense of entitlement. Now on its own that's not necessarily a terrible thing, it only really
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by icehawk219 12y ago
What this story really tells me is that what I considered to be an extreme application of political correctness has reached absolutely absurd levels. If I go down to the store and buy the materials and make an exact copy of this sign in my
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by icehawk219 12y ago
I agree. If you insist on having it be animated make it a video. I'd actually just prefer a few screenshots showing the key things that I can go back and forth between so I don't have to sit and watch something that could be summe
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by icehawk219 12y ago
In a way I'd argue that Google suffers from the same real underlying issue that started to cause Microsoft to fall: complacency. They see themselves as a king of the world that can't be beaten. And in a way they aren't strict
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by icehawk219 12y ago
To me this is the other side of the double-edged sword that not many people take time to consider. It's easy to say that the "right to be forgotten" will be used, and abused, by people trying to bury their sordid past in the
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by icehawk219 12y ago
There's also something to be said about the margins realized by being a monopoly. There's a reason you see fewer companies in cut-throat industries doing stuff like Microsoft Research or Google X. Research is expensive and that me
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by icehawk219 12y ago
Sadly that's exactly how most companies view their employees. I especially love hearing PM's refer to me and fellow tech team members as "resources" instead of "people". Nothing like being dehumanized on a dail
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by icehawk219 12y ago
I don't have a problem with Stack Overflow, I have a problem with its community and, as a result, have completely abandoned the site. I no longer ask questions there nor do I answer them. If I need help my circle of friends is often ab
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by icehawk219 12y ago
The US system is about punishing people as harshly as possible, not rehabilitating them. It's all about fear. And it's allowed to happen because if you polled the population you'd find that an uncomfortably high number of peo
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by icehawk219 12y ago
In my mind this sentiment can be summed up as: "The more humane we make war, the more of it we'll have". And the simple reason is ... why not? When _we_ no longer suffer casualties why should we care about sending a pack of m
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by icehawk219 12y ago
We already have irresponsible over use of drones and so far all we have are ones that can fly around and drop bombs on people. And the government goes to great lengths to make sure people are totally emotionally uninvolved in the decision a

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