johngalt

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by johngalt 14y ago
I didn't think the talk itself was needlessly partisan. Only reason I'd say it shouldn't be posted is that a basic intro to keynesian economics isn't particularly new or noteworthy. If I gave a TED talk that just was a fisher-price version
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by johngalt 14y ago
"Men aren't oppressed in our society..." how did you arrive at this conclusion? Majority of homeless: men Majority of crime victims: men Majority of workplace fatalities: men Majority of prisoners: men
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by johngalt 15y ago
You're selling to the wrong party. Don't sell it to the hospitals, sell it to the insurance companies. Hospitals will be thinking 1. "will insurance claims be rejected for non-standard treatment?" 2. "If something goes wrong with my malprac
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by johngalt 15y ago
#1 'Andromeda strain' I'm sure that scientists will the first to study anything returned from the first mined asteroid. #2 The asteroid they are returning will weigh less than the ISS and be parked further away. Tackling the control/directi
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by johngalt 15y ago
Max career length depends on how the young engineer sets himself up. Early in your career you want to bootstrap yourself with some hot new technology to get your foot in the door. Once you are about 3-4 years in, you need to switch gears an
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by johngalt 15y ago
Circumvention tools soon to be available for black boxes in new cars.
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by johngalt 15y ago
Programmers shouldn't be on-call, but they should probably listen to the sysadmins who are. I'll never understand why it's so common to use programmers as IT/Sysadmins. Operating a working system is fundamentally different than building it.
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by johngalt 15y ago
A more detailed way of saying: "Taking too much VC money will close more doors than it opens, and you should know which ones are closing" I'd assign weight 0 to 'interested acquirers' opinions. Until there is a deal on the table, there is n
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by johngalt 15y ago
Wow, good enough to give me flashbacks to my old days as SysOp. Needs more door games. LORD and Tradewars anyone?
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by johngalt 15y ago
Good for you, can't wait to see your progress. My favorite part about learning programming? The utility gain is linear. A novice learning to use =if() in excel is immediately more useful. At the top there is plenty of new ground for experts
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by johngalt 15y ago
Statistically significant yes. But 90 percent more of 0.00002 is 0.000038. It would be like avoiding conductive jewelry because you're worried about lightning.
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by johngalt 15y ago
If you're inspired by success, chances of emulating it are much higher. If you believe that someone else's success takes something from your own, you will walk through life being depressed by every success story.
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by johngalt 15y ago
I'd expect the converse. The harder it is to fire someone; the more paranoid you get about the hiring process.
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by johngalt 15y ago
This post points more to the absurdly litigious nature of hiring/firing. It's an interesting exploration of the matter. Approaching the problem of employee privacy at an oblique angle. It won't scare any HR departments though. Most have sys
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by johngalt 15y ago
Questions I've received from the newer guys getting into IT. "Why did people have computers with no internet? What did you do with it?" "What is a BBS?" "How did you know what to type at a command line?"
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by johngalt 15y ago
Tl;dr A bunch of politicans with geopolitical goals made central policy on how to direct a bankrupt nation in turmoil. A nation which has existed in perpetual corruption under collectivism. Yet this is described as a failure of privatizatio
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by johngalt 15y ago
Google Arizona v. California. It's the reason states like Arizona oppose 'environmental' legislation. Because it always seems like what's good for the 'environment' is whatever allows CA to steal more water for itself.
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by johngalt 15y ago
Rational carriers and android hardware manufacturers would understand what's at stake here. Do they really want to hand the entire mobile device market to Apple because of a few updates?
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by johngalt 15y ago
And Steve Jobs never wrote a line of code for the iphone. So he didn't create it right?
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by johngalt 15y ago
I've dealt with e-discovery sets. No one really has answers to what to do when you have a litigation hold on data. Legislation commonly requires "retention of anything related to X case", but how do you know what's relevant and what isn't?
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by johngalt 15y ago
For schools; we've been turning the money dial up for decades and the results meter hasn't moved it's needle. No amount of cash solves "why should I learn this?". Figure there are 50million kids in public schools and we spend 12k a year per
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by johngalt 15y ago
Attitudes toward risk are a lot different now as well. No one would bat an eye at ships being lost at sea, or a ship returning with a quarter of her crew. It was considered inherent that any chance at exploration or glory would come with mo
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by johngalt 15y ago
The velocity counter means airspeed. The reason you aren't seeing the results you expect is that the shuttle launches in a ballistic arc to enter orbit. The boosters also follow that same trajectory, but lack orbital velocity. So what you s
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by johngalt 15y ago
<translation>Code me an app. What do you mean I have to call you and discuss design? No way I'm calling a developer and dealing with all the geeky stuff. Just list me a flat price and timeline per app. </translation> Even if
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by johngalt 15y ago
You need to acknowledge and own the power you have to tell assholes to go pound sand (phrased nicely like OP of course). Learn it early and practice often. If you produce value then the employer has more to lose than you do. If every employ
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by johngalt 15y ago
This is the #1 reason, and the common explanation, but lets examine it further. You risk your life getting into your car every day. You don't pick the most expensive car? Choosing air travel is commonly an exercise in finding the lowest pri
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by johngalt 15y ago
I question the assumption that this is zero sum. Just because Apple makes money doesn't mean they are taking it from developers. If you're still stuck on how unfair it is, I encourage the you to move up the risk chain. If you want more of t
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by johngalt 15y ago
There will be a need to re-create support infrastructure as smartphones and tablets supplant laptops/desktops. The more important and expensive devices become the more likely people will pay to fix rather than replace them.
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by johngalt 15y ago
Getting a full nights sleep every night does wonders for concentration as well. Don't think of your body as the jar your brain walks around in. They are very tightly linked. If I wanted the effects he describes I'd spend 30mins on the ellip
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by johngalt 15y ago
For a long time I kept waiting to meet these "job security" sysadmins. The stereotypical 'if things worked better they wouldn't need me' guy. Haven't met him yet. Most admins I've met are automating everything that is reasonable. Many are a

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