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It appears the prior story on this topic got blasted off the front page [1] for whatever reason. Here's what I had to say over there [2]. 1: http://hnrankings.info/7813310/ 2: https://news.ycombinator.c
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>'Just the other week Mark Cuban was lambasted by a desperate journalist/blogger who took quotes out of context and misrepresented his remarks to paint him as racist.' That was incredibly frustrating to me as I thought C
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>'Google and other major tech companies have been the target of increasing pressure to hire more women and minorities...' Time for me to add a profile pic on LinkedIn? Seriously now... I'm not sure what, if anything, to
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12y ago
Sure, I mean to relate more than judge - I've been through similar hoops though surely on a smaller scale.
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>'In our experience, platforms with this network device will encounter this boot-time issue about 10% of the time. The mitigation for this is for an operator to simply initiate another reboot, which we performed on those afflicted
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>'We also take seriously the impact it has when, however infrequently, such a business interruption affects authors. We've offered to Hachette to fund 50% of an author pool - to be allocated by Hachette - to mitigate the impac
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Not only do you consider mistakes the province of stupid people doing dumb things, but you're crediting yourself with a proverb about it and suggesting that you posses the ability to sniff these people out from the 'great' on
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>'Am I the one in a bubble here or are the writers of this article in some strange feedback loop?' It's not just these writers... When's the last time you saw something that wasn't described as beautiful or rev
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12y ago
My anecdotal experience as a lifelong (since birth) lacto-ovo vegetarian leads me to think there's something to this. I can't speak to the conclusions exactly, but the reasoning - dietary deficiencies - rings true to me. I've
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>'What on earth makes these enterprise companies believe That they can take Cisco hardware & believe that they Can be more cost efficient than AWS/Azure.' In my experience, it's a combination of fear, bad math,
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The traditional enterprise IT ship is about to slip beneath the waves and Cisco wants everyone to know they have a sizable piece of wreckage to cling to. Not a bad strategy. I find it funny that Cisco loves to paint itself as prescient when
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My third point addressed this and the OP pre-emptively stated he/she isn't open that at the moment. >'I've had this argument with my stepfather until he became abusive.' That's not terribly surprising give
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>'The probability that I will interact with any one user ever again on a site like YouTube tends toward zero. I have no real incentive to be polite or to put much effort into anything I say.' My sense of a terrible 'comm
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12y ago
To start off on a tangent... I often wonder if the 'Like' button and its kin subconsciously encourage thinking in terms of false dilemmas? As several others have pointed out this question and so many others in life come down to &#
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Right. Is there something specifically wrong with that sort of leveraging? Businesses in the online and physical world negotiate all sorts of things selectively for their own benefit. Amazon doesn't give every publisher the same deal
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Honest questions here... What is supposed to happen here? This article and each of the others linked don't offer much beyond jabs at Amazon. As far as I can tell, publishers are unhappy with Amazon - period. Two years ago the hot new
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1.) Doing things you don't want to do, but are necessary for a paycheck or otherwise is a basic part of being a grown-up. Lacking the discipline to simply get such things done and move on is a huge handicap as it's burning loads o
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Odd article. It feels to me like the author is trying hard not to offend his community and ending up a ways off the point. There can't be 'too many' games any more than there can be 'too many' websites or whatever e
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>'I too used to love exploring arcades and had a similar experience with a crowd forming to watch me beat Killer Instinct in an arcade in northern Italy.' Absolutely. Personally, I have two periods of magical arcade memories.
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>'The question I have is if it is worth paying for a verified certificate?' I'd say that depends on what you want to get out of it. I have a couple of verified certificates. I haven't had the chance to put them on a
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I'm a little surprised at the $250 minimum for the verified track. While that's a tiny fraction of what one could expect to pay for a typical certification prep class and likely less than a single credit hour at an accredited univ
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>'It seems like a number of newer, growing startups are making sure there are individual contributor paths for growth. What would you like to see as a solution?' I think that making available a number of paths for growth is c
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I surely agree with most of what's posted there - a majority of it is straightforward common sense that's barely even specific to management. "Don't procrastinate, communicate clearly" are to management what "
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>"That assumes these people are employable or want to work." I'd say that seems more reasonable than assuming the opposite, but not at all surprising that you would feel otherwise [1][2]. 1: https://news.yco
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> "And of course, presumably (hopefully) the cost will continue to be amortized over the next few years -- more money will surely have to spent on it (continually), but the overall cost per enrollment should theoretically go down, a
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Being quite familiar with some of these projects I'd been saying this for quite a while. I'm glad to see that someone has come out and evidenced it.
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Certainly a terrible idea on every level, but I can't help but sympathize with the intent. Too much of the public simply aren't responsible about driving and there doesn't seem to be any good way to identify and prevent or pe
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I've been fascinated by KWC since the first time I saw Bloodsport. I dug the depictions [1] in Gibson's bridge trilogy too. There's something that draws me to that kind of organic human architecture whether it's Kowloon,
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13y ago
White noise and Pomodoro. That said, I think learning how to start quickly be productive through consistency beats the hell out of chasing the zone. An hour, or even 20 minutes a day, every day or damn near it as opposed to multi-hour binge
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Something unsettling about the feeling (founded or not) that a handful of tech juggernauts have the ability to buy up seemingly whatever they want. This along with the anti-headhunting collusion, sprawling campuses puts me in mind of a Gibs
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