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by joshyeager 10y ago
Companies like that definitely exist. I work for one: we make a great product, work hard to make our customers successful, and charge enough to make our business successful as well. I don't know of a universal rule for finding companie
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by joshyeager 10y ago
Do East Asians have a higher likelihood of types of cancer that could be linked to alcohol use? I've never seen that claim, but it would be interesting if it were true.
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by joshyeager 10y ago
I believe the parent means "make sure you are in the US for no more than 30 days in a year" not "leave the US for at least 30 days".
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by joshyeager 10y ago
We invest a lot in training and mentoring, especially for a small company. Someone once asked "what if we train them and they leave?" Our CEO replied "what if we don't train them and they stay?"
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by joshyeager 10y ago
Hours in a weekday: 24 - Sleep: 7 - Work: 8 - Commute: 1 - Personal maintenance (grooming/eating/etc): 2 - Be a good dad: 2 - Put kids to bed: 1 - Household maintenance (dishes/laundry/etc): 1 What's left: 2
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by joshyeager 10y ago
But if you have loads of queries and do the "join" in your application code, you will suffer serious performance problems with any reasonable data set. If a programmer is going to be writing SQL for anything larger than a toy prob
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by joshyeager 10y ago
Our product is on the small side of "enterprise". We have many configuration options that are customer-driven, but we're not trying to replace bespoke software. For example, we have 5-6 different settings for password policy.
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by joshyeager 10y ago
Yes, that is what I've found too.
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by joshyeager 10y ago
I'm interested. My email address is in my profile.
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by joshyeager 10y ago
I think your first step is to delegate some of your responsibilities ASAP. If you stop writing code and building estimates (but keep doing code reviews!) and hand off parts of the new hire training, that will free up time for other responsi
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by joshyeager 10y ago
Fluorescent lights don't use filaments, they use electrically excited gasses. The reason this technique improves the efficiency of incandescent lights is that they produce their light by heating the filament. The hotter the filament, t
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by joshyeager 10y ago
Yeah, that happens too. (-:
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by joshyeager 10y ago
One tip: I've found that it's useful to make a standard bi-directional NDA that has exactly the same terms for both parties. This frequently lets you skip the two weeks of back-and-forth getting agreement on the NDA terms. You jus
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by joshyeager 10y ago
Our escrow agreement is just a two-paragraph addendum to our main agreement that refers to our escrow provider's standard agreement. You sign a three-way agreement with each client and the escrow provider. We use NCC Group as our escro
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by joshyeager 11y ago
One big reason is that with this restriction his algorithms almost certainly won't be included in any of the common security standards (FIPS 140 and NIST 800-53 are the primary ones in the US), which means that anyone who needs to foll
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by joshyeager 11y ago
Testing complicated failover systems is hard. Testing backups is not. Especially if you just do a full nightly backup and not something more complex. The options range from "manually restore a random 10%" to "write a moderate
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by joshyeager 11y ago
If the manager-employee relationship is not good, 1:1's do have the problems you described. But the cool thing is that 1:1's can also improve relationships and build trust, which actually resolves those problems over time. This do
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Availability – MTBF, MTTR and the Human Factor(blog.lastinfirstout.net)
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Strip Charts for Easy Network Traffic Analysis(blog.lastinfirstout.net)
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My Lightbulbs Hacked My Network(jobtraq.com)
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Rotten Apple or Overreaching FBI Intrusion?(jobtraq.com)
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by joshyeager 11y ago
You can file 1040EZ if you don't have any deductions, and it's pretty simple. Probably simple enough for the IRS to pre-compute it for you. If you want to claim deductions (healthcare expenses, mortgage interest, charitable donati
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by joshyeager 11y ago
I use my W530 on my couch frequently, with no issues. The main cooling happens in the back corner, where there are vents on both the side and the back. I'm not sure what the bottom vents are for, but blocking them doesn't cause is
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by joshyeager 11y ago
Bandwidth to/from Mars wouldn't be too bad with enough power output. Latency is the big problem. So I think there will be massive caches on both sides. Accessing any popular content will be pretty fast because it will already be c
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by joshyeager 11y ago
My grandma tells a story about when her husband and her brother were running an experiment in grad school that needed computer analysis in the middle to tweak the final run. The problem was that their lab was on one side of Oakland, and the
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by joshyeager 11y ago
I wonder what the reasoning is for this. In Maryland kids can stay home alone at 8, and I've never heard of problems with that. Requiring supervision until 12 seems extremely restrictive. Kids alone by themselves learn responsibility,
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by joshyeager 11y ago
Thanks! I have never seen that option, although I don't usually fly United. I'll look for it next time.
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by joshyeager 11y ago
I would definitely pay 50% more for an extra 3" of leg room. Maybe even just 2". Take out one row and you could add that much to 10-12 rows. I must be missing something, because that seems like it would be an effective option. It
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by joshyeager 11y ago
We used Skype IM for a long time (inertia). It wasn't just the iPhone. Skype message delivery was erratic on all platforms. It got better, but even now there are occasional delivery delays when I chat with someone who hasn't switc
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by joshyeager 11y ago
You are correct, you have to make time for reading by reducing other entertainment time. I hit 100 books last year without too much trouble, but I've really struggled with my goal of 125 this year (123 now, and two days left). 2 books

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