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by jbn 4y ago
multivalent PDF tools from http://multivalent.sourceforge.net/
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by jbn 4y ago
> What Animal Will I Get? That's the question for O'Reilly, but now how does Manning decide what goes on their covers (that's the only other publisher that has somewhat interesting ones... the Packt ones look more vanilla
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by jbn 5y ago
what happened was not luck, Putin's force must have targeted this administrative building on purpose. The goal is to scare the opponents and the world at large, and to show determination. IMHO it's not incompetence, it is a strate
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by jbn 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15076642 is the one OS that originated this (I believe?).
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by jbn 5y ago
having 4 computers running software (the same or different software, it doesn't really matter) is known to not give you fault tolerance. See http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/nver-tse.pdf
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by jbn 5y ago
here is a phd thesis on the topic: http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/publications/thesis/phd-gagnon/sa...
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by jbn 5y ago
It's funny how people recommend Master and Margarita, I found it unbearably difficult to read. The constant jumps between story lines (if I recall correctly) threw me off. Would absolutely avoid, but YMMV.
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by jbn 5y ago
Thank you sir for this wonderful book (and then thanks Brother Guy for making you write it that way), it is a very memorable read. The description of your original plan for the book sounds great too (just as interesting to me), and I would
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by jbn 5y ago
can't really do this for very long. the local country will usually want to collect its own business/employment taxes on employed work.
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by jbn 5y ago
overengineering can be fixed as well, usually by undoing things and doing them over again in the underengineered style. I would grant you that overengineering is typically more work and harder work to fix, though.
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by jbn 5y ago
not to nitpick, but "quality" usually means some desirable aspect... here I would have used the word "characteristic" :)
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by jbn 5y ago
this is very well put, indeed both parties are set up to fail: - the interviewer has an incentive to fail the candidate, whereas the interest of the employer is to actually hire someone eventually.. - the interviewee is rated on something
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by jbn 5y ago
"Paying people living in one place more than people living in another place for the same work" <-- is this not what companies all do, they use COLA adjustment to pay 2 different wages in 2 different places. Note also that take-
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by jbn 5y ago
Without trying to be mean, I find it ironic that you suggest using spell checking, yet spell the word "sentence" as "sentance" (as easy enough mistake for a non-native speaker). Sorry I don't mean to pick on you, I
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by jbn 5y ago
the fire metaphor still works: we have arsonists (that build up tech debt or just bad practices) that turn firefighters (by fixing in emergency mode). Of course not all tech debt is bad, the trick is know when to use it to good effect, not
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by jbn 5y ago
3x sounds about right for France, but that's an outlier. The multiplicative factor in the US is more like 1.25x AFAIK.
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by jbn 5y ago
"the govt is effectively hiding .5 of tax liability from the employee " <--- this. this is the important part. that extra 6.2% isn't a tax on the employer at all! it is a tax on employment, and it really is part of the em
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by jbn 5y ago
What a great HN comment. This is super-informative, thank you. This makes my day and guarantees I will come back on HN for more!
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by jbn 5y ago
a self-employed contractor is an employer of one person, as such he needs to pay the employer portion of healthcare insurance cost, employment tax, social security, etc... (in the US that's another good 30% on top of salary, in France
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by jbn 5y ago
what's the actual title of this book? I couldn't find it (my google-fu probably isn't very good, but "Nicholas Carson" is not a very unique patronym...)
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by jbn 5y ago
> If you lose weight faster than 100gr per week is it even possible to have weighting accurate within 100gr?? > However if you lose 6-7kg in a month Ah! this I can measure reliably.
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by jbn 5y ago
"But I’m also quite stupid, so take this with a grain of salt" <-- this sounds like genuine humility, thanks for this, we only see this rarely.
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by jbn 6y ago
on the contrary (and to your implied point, if i'm not mistaken), it's more like a cartel bent on extracting the most value out of the "consumer"...
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by jbn 6y ago
that's because there are 2 kinds of complexity: essential (or intrinsic) complexity and accidental complexity. When one uses k8s when one doesn't truly need it, it's accidental complexity. However some problems require k8s, w
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by jbn 6y ago
in the US, the employer also pays a share of the employment tax (split in 2 between employer and employee) and doesn't always show you the true cost of benefits... all of these should appear and employee should be able negotiate the co
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by jbn 6y ago
Yes! this cannot be highlighted enough. It is scandalous that this is not listed on salary slips, this is an invisible tax and it makes people think insurance and health care have little cost.
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by jbn 6y ago
"given before taxes" as in "given before income tax", but by that time a whole lot of other taxes have been substracted...
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by jbn 6y ago
This is a very good explanation of a major source of confusion. Indeed "employer's taxes" really does NOT belong to the employer, it is very much a part of the employee's salary. Some left-wing parties in France are star
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by jbn 6y ago
>Especially people in the managerial caste, as the reigning dogma there is that management is a universal skill. This would be funny if it were not also so true and sad... management as a skill (and it is a skill, it is not IMHO somethin
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by jbn 6y ago
>> We’ve gamified and standardized the process so much that it’s starting to resemble case studies at consulting interviews. Love the way this is put.. it is so true :(

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