jmccree

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by jmccree 12y ago
For people early in their career, a job interview can be one of the most stressful experiences in their entire life. I still remember every interview I've had. Writing code on a whiteboard with "everyone's eyes on you" c
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by jmccree 12y ago
I feel like widely distributed teams have a whole different set of problems than remote in the same time zone.
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by jmccree 12y ago
In my personal opinion, if you need to set aside 15 minutes per day, killing at least 45 mins of productivity, for people to communicate, then your communication processes are broken. All of the things you mention could be communicated thro
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by jmccree 12y ago
Glad I wasn't the only one to think this was going to be about an NSA program and outrage they would name something SWEATSHOP.
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by jmccree 12y ago
Interesting timing. Just as I started reading this article while watching the superbowl pre-game, a segment offering a guac recipe aired sponsored by avocados. I'm reminded how the Patagonian toothfish was renamed as "Chilean Seab
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by jmccree 12y ago
Netflix runs most of their operations on AWS and Amazon prime is one of their largest competitors.
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by jmccree 12y ago
The TSA "officers" do not have arrest power and are forbidden by policy from using force (to perhaps perform a citizens arrest if allowed in state for a state law violation), so they really don't have the ability to take anyo
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by jmccree 12y ago
This subject is interesting to me. I've worked remote my entire career, and mostly positive experiences. One negative experience was at a place struggling to fill positions and opened up to remote team members, but they did not change
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by jmccree 12y ago
Have you tried doing a daily standup where everyone calls in individually from their office? In my experience things work the best when everyone is operating remotely with the same "communication handicap".
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by jmccree 12y ago
I'm unaware of any dedicated provider that will let me take a $20/mo small instance and scale it within minutes to an insanely beef 8 core instance for a day for about $20 and then back down, with less than 15 mins total downtime.
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by jmccree 12y ago
It's the difference between a census "combined statistical area" and "metropolitan statistical area". The CSA combines all the metro/micro statistical areas in a general area. See http://en.wikipedia
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by jmccree 12y ago
Using nginx/varnish as a caching reverse proxy in front of apache/php is rather common. You get all the ease of use of Apache (mod_rewrite instant .htaccess rule changes, mod_php, etc.) , ability to use whatever cpu intensive plug
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by jmccree 12y ago
Every tipping thread on HN becomes an example of why the rest of the world hates the SV/startup community. You have people who likely make more in one day than the wait person will make all week arguing over whether 15% or 20% to tip.
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by jmccree 12y ago
Have you ever worked at popular sit down restaurant during a dinner rush? It's a mad house... Not easy at all. Good service is knowing the menu and wine/drink list. Being able to provide recommendations and advice on what to order
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by jmccree 12y ago
You're not being scammed in the US. You're given the ability to give immediate feedback on the service you received by adjusting your tip amount. What I don't understand is people saying they are "forced" to pay ext
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by jmccree 12y ago
I would say 18% is the standard tip as that is what most restaurants (in GA at least) will charge as "automatic gratuity" for parties of 6 or more. The math on 20% is easier so a lot of people default to 20%
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by jmccree 12y ago
Tipping is the original crowd funding.
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by jmccree 12y ago
It's really not that most restaurants wouldn't make up the wages to the minimum. The minimum wage in most US states is not for most people would call a "living wage, it's around $15k/yr. It's not uncommon in a
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by jmccree 12y ago
So to preserve democracy, we must sacrifice freedom of speech?
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by jmccree 12y ago
I've worked remotely my entire career and one shared aspect of the most successful teams was a chat room named "watercooler" or similar where people were free to chit chat. Everyone knows to ignore the room if busy, so there&
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by jmccree 12y ago
This is one reason I love Penn & Teller. They never insult their audience by claiming to actually have magic powers. It's hard to beat their cups and balls trick using clear plastic cups while explaining exactly how the trick is be
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by jmccree 12y ago
None of these are particularly new questions. There are federal buildings and federal leased space in every major city across the US. The feds have their own Federal Protective Service Police that respond to incidents on federal property in
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by jmccree 12y ago
Do you have a problem with people being tortured, American citizens or no, when that's the best viable way to prevent greater violence?
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by jmccree 12y ago
I believe the suggestion was more along the lines that plenty of people who voted for the "evil torture party AKA:GOP" were not actually knowingly voting to support torture, but instead voting for the candidate that espoused econo
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by jmccree 12y ago
I would hesitate to say "no threat". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyote_attacks_on_humans#Others list several attacks, including a few where responding officers shot the coyote. To be fair, a much bigger con
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by jmccree 12y ago
We have coyotes in the city limits of Atlanta, GA and black bears are regularly spotted in the nearby suburbs. (In counties with population over 500k) I would hesitate to say there's only a handful of areas with bears/coyotes&#x2F
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by jmccree 12y ago
There's two things that seems to be missing here with regards to routine patrol officers being armed in the US. First, Great Britain is smaller than many US states. The population density of ~780/sqmi is higher than all but 3 of U
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by jmccree 12y ago
State borders are not any more arbitrary than the border between Canada and the US. In the US, "States" are sovereign states that gave up some limited amount of sovereignty to join the Union. They are not simply administrative div
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by jmccree 12y ago
Checks and balances. Wyoming has 1 representative in the house, California has 53. When you combine the house and the senate, it should (in theory) be much harder for a bill to pass without approval of both the majority of the states and th
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by jmccree 12y ago
The senate represents the states and the house represents the people. It would be entirely unfair if a small number of high population states could easily impose their will on a large number of small population states. States and their citi

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