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by jboy55 7y ago
If I try to build up a history of bookstores as I remember them as a consumer, at one point there were many small stores. A mall may have 3-4 book stores, all taking around the same space as any other retail store. There were also 'use
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by jboy55 7y ago
I'm pretty sure his article is only about Sprawling North American cities built around big highways for cars.
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by jboy55 7y ago
I just know that when I place my phone next to the payment sensor, the phone switches to "pay mode". So if my thumb is there, the action is just put phone next to sensor, put thumb on fingerprint, in one fluid motion. For my wife
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by jboy55 7y ago
I can put my finger on it, literally, I love the fingerprint sensor for Apple Pay. I see my wife trying to use face-id for it and it seems very convoluted. Until someone shows me a simple a gesture as holding out my phone with my thumb on t
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by jboy55 7y ago
Because most people don't have an iPhone? Only 40% of smartphone users use iOS. Its fine to be anti-competitive, you just can't do so if you hold monopoly powers. MS only got in trouble when they leveraged their monopoly (OS) in o
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by jboy55 7y ago
My last Fry's trip, coincidentally at the Palo Alto store, I was searching for an 2-3ft HDMI extender, female to male. I figured since this was for connecting to a Raspi, I should start there. Plenty of small HDMI cables, but no dice.
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by jboy55 7y ago
All in all, I agree with your assessments. Its good to note that what you are trying to do is read the amount of light hitting the target. This could always be done with a ambient light meter placed in front of your subject (Studio). The is
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by jboy55 7y ago
Tech Debt, to me, grows with every line of code you write that didn't replace a line of code. Consider how many projects start with the idea, 'I'll rewrite this and get rid of the tech debt'. First, If the original code
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by jboy55 7y ago
I'm a 40ish FAANG Manager without a CS degree. I would point out that while I agree that it is possible to have a great development career without a CS degree, I wouldn't recommend doing it this way if you have a choice. So, if yo
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by jboy55 7y ago
It could be that they're not factoring in the cost and maintenance of their vehicles because they foresee this as being a temporary period of their life. They're borrowing from the future cost of their cars. From my experiences wi
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by jboy55 7y ago
What I've found is that when engineers are sensitive to giving estimates its a symptom of some sort of insecurity around their work. They're probably also feeling that they are 'outside' the decision making/power st
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by jboy55 7y ago
I've had to give estimates for my entire 20 year career, half of which wasn't 'Agile'. So first, Agile has nothing to do with this, in fact, Scrum tries to over come this by splitting up tasks into smaller chunks with fr
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by jboy55 7y ago
Here's a shoutout to all the on-calls who woke up this morning to deal with "someone else's problem". I think everyone who woke up gets to, at least, order a "fancy coffee" and send the bill to Verizon.
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by jboy55 7y ago
tryapl.org if you are curious to try your hand at programming in it.
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by jboy55 7y ago
The discovery of artificial sweeteners is rife with this, Saccharin: Chemist working on coal tar derivatives noticed a sweet taste on his hand from contamination. Aspartame: Chemist working on anti-ulcer drugs discovers his finger's ta
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by jboy55 7y ago
>Sometimes the Amazon protocol comes up (before a meeting, the organizer submits the topic in writing, everybody has to read it before), and I always cringe - in my experience most people just can't write a clear 2 page document [or
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by jboy55 7y ago
I remember seeing a couple of WWII movies, one where the German's had english accents vs Americans. The other with English accents as the 'good guys'. I asked my dad if WWII was a war within England.
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by jboy55 7y ago
First of all, most issues with process issues are more a reflection of the organization and what drives them than the process. I would say you should start talking about, 'Our process' instead of 'Scrum'. >These thing
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by jboy55 7y ago
Most I believe were a CRT focused down to the letter size and a movable plate.
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by jboy55 7y ago
I had a VP, new to my company, come to me and say, 'Your velocity is pathetic, at my last company my engineers were doing 14-16 points a sprint, yours are only doing 8-10'. I tried to explain how that wasn't a thing and we co
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by jboy55 7y ago
I'm going to steal your quote. Sometime I equate the near constant complaint about Agile processes with a hypothetical set of engineers complaining about a 'baseball' process. "The 'Baseball process' sucks beca
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by jboy55 7y ago
It could be that the desire is so great to have your fear justified that the quiet that a lack of reporting from your local Ring community is seen as a lack of quality. "My neighbour's kids are constantly being held hostage by sex
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by jboy55 7y ago
I've come to expect that code quality has a strong link to success but in sometimes its inversely proportional. What I mean, is that at the Seed/Series A timeframe, I doubt you will see a strong performing company, with a codebase
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by jboy55 7y ago
If I recall my time at a main-sleaze email sender, some ISPs will send SMTP retry requests on random incoming email to see if there is a functioning SMTP server on the other side of the originator's email. Often times, spammers won&#x2
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by jboy55 8y ago
I agree its very far away, except for interstate driving. I can see an SDC-only lane, with a faster top speed. Residential, taxi-cab driving is so far away. Hey, if I step in front of this car, I don't get to sue a fairly poor driver,
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by jboy55 8y ago
I've had plenty of poor but not shocking Uber/Lyft rides. Its nice you can rate them and get them out of the ecosystem. However, as time goes on, the bar on Uber/Lyft's drivers will lower, the cars will get dirtier and l
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by jboy55 8y ago
I always felt SDC is the death of Uber. If you had 5 billion to invest in SDCs for a taxi service, why would you become a small investor in Uber, when you could probably build the app for $10 million and just roll your own? Also uber could
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by jboy55 8y ago
So 44% (4.4 billion) of their 2018 revenue was 'Other'. Gain on divestiture 3,214 Unrealized gain on investments 1,996 If this was pure cash going into their bank account, does it mean they ran out of cash in 2018? Their working c
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by jboy55 8y ago
At a Startup, especially one that's "long in the teeth", the senior engineering team are those that have been there the longest and have the largest institutional knowledge. "Why are there 4 unique keys on this table nam
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by jboy55 8y ago
The idea that any process is the blame or can be a success in an environment with sociopathic management is absurd. "Baseball sucks because my manager hits me frequently with baseball bats to make me work harder. Here is my blog agains

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