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by jboy55 5y ago
I worked at a company that instituted a very similar bonus program, it started just after the time the former COO of Ebay joined ... must have been coincidence. Anyways, we had similar formulas, pretty much the same thing. We were eligible
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by jboy55 6y ago
Sorry, but just noticed you were using an English-only term to describe the homeland of someone who doesn't live in your country. The correct term is Deutschland.
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by jboy55 6y ago
Just a note, if you are going to throw away the rule book (standard model) because its 'cold' fusion, you can't then say that hydrogen palladium fusion is a net loss of energy. If being cold changes everything so much, who kn
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by jboy55 6y ago
Was at a company like that, no negotiation, take it or leave it. Turns out executives and desirable engineers/UX got to negotiate. Those that came in believing they hype were indispensable, plenty of 5-star glass door reviews about bei
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by jboy55 6y ago
You don't have to use assumptions just from stellar fusion. You can use the evidence from all the nuclear testing, from fusors or from cosmic ray analysis. The science behind fusion and what byproducts would come from it are also expla
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by jboy55 6y ago
"the engineers are bored and they're rewriting perfectly-good codebases in Common Lisp and OCAML for funsies" Had this literally happen to me, but I was a low level manager and this was happening in another team. One thing I&
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by jboy55 6y ago
This seems pretty bad, hopefully everyone is using Decimal and not floats.
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by jboy55 6y ago
Its pretty much the same number. An L4 at Google makes $250k and an L5 makes 340k on average according to levels.fyi. My experience with countering Google offers would indicate these are a bit low. Edit: Then you have to factor in the free
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by jboy55 6y ago
As with anything with government and helpful programs, a large part of the US thinks, 'It doesn't matter that millions are helped, that a handful was able to take advantage means we should get rid of it'
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by jboy55 6y ago
Your comment about Stadia gave me this thought. What odds would I be willing to bet that Stadia would be around in 5 years. I wouldn't take a even money bet. Maybe 5:1 that they'd still be functioning in 2025? (edit, made the odds
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by jboy55 6y ago
The jobs industry is incredibly scummy. Everyone comes in thinking, 'Wow, I'm going to help people get into a job they'll love!'. You leave because you get tired of pushing Uber jobs on everyone because they have unlimit
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by jboy55 6y ago
>That's not the full scope of it's function, at least in a technical sense. It's also meant to be a utility system-level method and in Java standard library utility methods follow a certain organizational scheme so as to d
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by jboy55 6y ago
I distinctly remember moving to Silicon Valley as a developer from out of country. Realizing that the standard of living bump due to my 2x Salary, was actually a standard of living drop. Then looking around at the company, seeing the IT su
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by jboy55 6y ago
They also were unable to remove any bias towards people self-selecting to be part of the test because they felt they had symptoms of COVID. The bay area has been in lock down since early March, its really hard to imagine someone participati
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by jboy55 6y ago
Also, they weren't able to factor out a bias towards people seeking confirmation tests due to perceived COVID symptoms. This is in the bay area, where people were very quick to self-quarantine. Most people have been working from home s
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by jboy55 6y ago
My company was featured in a story on Herman Miller, where we spent more on Chairs then we had in revenue for the entire 24 months of our existence.
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by jboy55 7y ago
Bing is a bit more clear, https://www.bing.com/maps?q=ryan+island&form=QBLH&sp=-1&pq=r... It might be possible that the 'n' shapped formation on the north east part of the island could flood enough in
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by jboy55 7y ago
Is this a 'man in the middle' attack for 3rd party nefarious purposes, like controlling someone else's Audi ... Or just plain reverse engineering of a communications protocol to hack the software for 1st party education and e
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by jboy55 7y ago
I've come to accept Conway's law, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law , that "organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication struc
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by jboy55 7y ago
I've lost track of the months I've spent building for some specific custom request. I haven't done ERP, but back in the 00s I did a bunch of work customizing software for the 'big enterprise' potential customers tha
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by jboy55 7y ago
The key insight in what you wrote here, "(biggest client just saw our tooling stack and told us we're 10 years ahead of the ad agencies working in the same space)", is the word client. If you are going to build your own E
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by jboy55 7y ago
I got into a debate with a republican over defense funding. I stated how the great bay-area recession of the early nighties was caused by scaling back of cold-war funding. Bases were closed and Lockheed Martin and others laid off alot of wo
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by jboy55 7y ago
They're just turning the big dial that squeezes more money out of every user. They resisted for so long, but now they can't grow YoY without turning it. It's a one-way dial too, you can never turn it back. Yahoo did this, mos
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by jboy55 7y ago
So there is one big distinction in how these systems are used in corporate culture vs sales culture. That is, in the Sales culture the system is trying to describe a personality type based in one context, buying a car, not trying to general
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by jboy55 7y ago
My phone screen coding question, designed to be obvious and quick, was to do pow(base, exp). I would always tell the interviewee that they could use any language they are comfortable in. Thinking ahead, I wanted to be prepared for the event
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by jboy55 7y ago
I will believe Google is serious about supporting GCP when they decide the job of interacting with their customers and partners is worthy of being labeled a 'Googler'. Since it seems the majority of support and service at Google C
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by jboy55 7y ago
If you still use it on multiple sites, and one of those sites is storing it in plaintext, you'll still have the same security issue. Its very rare that someone has broken a password through character-by-character brute force.
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by jboy55 7y ago
In highschool I worked at a pet food store, around 1pm everyday someone would drive behind our store dropping pet food to feed the crows. A neighbour thought we were doing it and was really upset, telling us they hated the crows and all the
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by jboy55 7y ago
In the art school sense, it actually impacts one of the most critical questions an art student has of themselves, "Do I try to make my career defining art now or do I use this time to explore a variety of subjects and mediums?" Th
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by jboy55 7y ago
just put debug=1 into the location bar.

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