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by incision 13y ago
> "Looks like you missed this." Or not. When I read this yesterday, knowing nothing of Seattle history I felt a lot like what the parent is expressing because of the quoted bit. The article spends 1200 words basically forcin
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You can get a preview of Packt books over on Safari [0]. Personally, I've found the quality of content and editing in Packt books to be consistently terrible. I won't click on a Packt book in my all you can read Safari Library sub
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by incision 13y ago
What an interesting dance interviewing is. >'Then, when pushed, he had one, but one with parenthetical comments about how he had told them not to make the mistake. We said "culture" but what we really meant was, "He&
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by incision 13y ago
As a (too) long time enterprise guy, this post and the parent are incredibly true to life. I think you've hit the nail on the head with the appeals of SaaS. Something else I would add to that from my "inside" perspective. * P
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Shame this thread is dominated by that single sentence on nonfiction. Some books I enjoyed this year: * The Player of Games - http://amzn.com/0316005401 * A Guide to Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy - http:/&#x
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by incision 13y ago
Clicking into a nearly 30,000 word article describing a very complex issue and boiling it down to a vapid attempt at a witty one-liner is a great way to stay ignorant. Reading Daeken's comment would be a good start toward turing that a
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by incision 13y ago
You've completely missed the point on multiple counts. Discussion isn't a zero-sum game, you don't have to do battle with every comment.
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> "I'm seeing books in there that are awful choices." At the very least, you could mention which and why. There's a hell of a lot more value in... "The ZINC experiment: an economical implementation of the ML la
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by incision 13y ago
Clicked in here to say exactly this. The only thing I would add might be obvious, that consistency is extremely important. Just getting enough actually isn't enough, consistent timing is essential. My second most significant is probabl
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Anecdotally, what's described here would actually be unrealistically optimistic given the context of Government where I have entirely too much experience. First, you can forget about having documentation of any kind or anything as rece
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>"I am sorry we had to delay the production, we all so badly wanted to get it out on time..." No worries. I backed the project as a great idea that happens to provide a reward, not the other way around and I have no reason to
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> "Did they actually ship on time?" Nope. I'm an "early-bird" backer of this. The last update on shipping says they've pushed to January. Apparently, there were complications sourcing the 3G modems they int
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Well put. I often lament that if I could make anything close to my current salary in technology by cutting grass, digging holes, spreading mulch and hammering nails as I did for 10 hours a day at minimum wage in the 90s - I'd jump on t
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by incision 13y ago
Interesting. I'll have to give that a look. I figured someone would have come up with a service like this.
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I have a 50 BTC wallet encrypted with a password I can't remember. Been meaning to figure out how to script something to run through variations on the type of password I would have used.
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Strangely enough, while I disapproved of these changes in theory I've found them to be a fairly positive in practice. I haven't found myself hounded by inane comments because I shared a YT video on G+, just a few extra +1 notifica
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>"More than that, what do they have to gain from doing this?" Gaming console wars are a great example of people who have confused their self-worth with their preferences/possessions. Combine that with viewing the world a
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by incision 13y ago
Yes. I actually have that book as well. I don't know how I forget to mention it. As I recall, it was bit less dense than the other two.
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Very nice summary. I encountered many of these while reading through Understanding The Linux Kernel [0] and The Linux Programming Interface [1]. Both are great books which are primarily about the "how" of the kernel, but cover
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>"Even if you were a total bastard you would get rid of anyone you were responsible for who was pulling that kind of crap, as long as you had even the slightest instinct for self-preservation." You're assuming that real
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by incision 13y ago
Exactly. The author is conflating two things which don't necessarily have any bearing on each other - equating fickle trends in design to mastery. Flat icons, low-contrast fonts, parallax scrolls or whatever else are not necessarily an
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Coming at this from another angle... >"His net impact on the meeting is generally negative, and he makes it 15 minutes longer than it needs to be." Perhaps I'm making the meeting 15 minutes longer by asked pointed questi
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>"This is a distinguishing trait of every great manager that I've worked with." If it's genuine, or at least convincing, I would agree. I've witnessed a few attempts at this which clearly didn't meet that
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>"And, again from my perspective, I wish someone had made clear to me sooner how the world really works, today (and likely always). "Paying your dues". Earning respect. There are environments in which this works. But ther
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I think you're actually talking about a very different situation than the source. The source is dealing with subordinates in each case while you're dealing with peers. I've been in both positions. In the case of co-workers wh
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>"Wanting to box Mike Tyson in his prime is a death wish. Maybe not the best analogy..." Probably not. Though, the thing that Iron Mike brings to mind in the context of startups for me isn't his impetuous style, impregna
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I developed something very close to this for myself a while back and happened on pomodoro when searching for an interval timer. The two most important things I get from these techniques is "tricking" myself into starting unappeali
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Two observations semi-related to this topic... >"The intellectual and physical seduction of young female students by older, male professors—usually in the humanities, and in the throes of midlife crises—is so common in movies and b
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>"I read the whole article and do not agree. Here is Silicon Valley the importance of appearances has become marginal." Qualifying "do not agree" with anecdotal experience in one small area dominated by one industry
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>"I have two brothers in the highway patrol and they believe that it's imperative that they chase anyone trying to get away, in order to make sure that anyone in the future knows that they can't run from the police, despi

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