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by jwsteigerwalt 4y ago
This is reassuring. At the end of the day, google is a business. While innovation is key to their brand, they are not a nonprofit (like Apache) or an educational institution. The entire tightening of belts may be symbolic to investors ac
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by jwsteigerwalt 4y ago
Refreshing to see dynamic and nimble solutions from a large organization.
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by jwsteigerwalt 4y ago
Integrals -> Derivatives -> Series -> Limits? That’s not a progression I am familiar with. In trigonometry and precalculus I learned Series then Limits, then in calculus derivative first then integrals. There are definitely new dir
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by jwsteigerwalt 4y ago
It was Matt Crump’s saga about his cheating students at crump lab.com. It was taken down, but it was a great read.
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by jwsteigerwalt 4y ago
I really like #9, this seems like a simple way to make your site unusable except via the methods you desire.
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by jwsteigerwalt 4y ago
This explanation helps understand the video.
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by jwsteigerwalt 4y ago
There are scummy players all over sales. In some industries, a minority of bad players give the entire group a bad name.
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by jwsteigerwalt 4y ago
I’ve been a software developer building systems to support door-to-door sales professionals for 15 years. Great to see journalism that shows the legitimacy of the profession.
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by jwsteigerwalt 4y ago
I built an integration from our CRM to a sales team messaging platform. For users that exist in the CRM, it worked great. The problem was the side uses of the messaging platform for users that were not active in the CRM or never in the CRM
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by jwsteigerwalt 4y ago
This is really starting to hint of a James Bond/Superman plot. The billionaire villain gently takes control of the worlds timekeeping systems then covertly or overtly started making changes for their own benefit…
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by jwsteigerwalt 4y ago
There is a disconnect between “tech talent” and the overlap of layoffs. Sure, some firms have downsized across the board, but plenty of layoffs we are seeing in the last 12 weeks is focused on areas other than engineering.
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by jwsteigerwalt 4y ago
Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants Ignition breaks down the fallacy that huge innovations come from large professional teams. It demonstrates that getting the right mix of risk tolerance in your team is a large par
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by jwsteigerwalt 4y ago
Talk, listen, reflect… Talk, listen, reflect… Talk, listen, reflect… Keep going until someone is willing to pay.
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by jwsteigerwalt 4y ago
One sentence from the article should be emphasized: “Double-entry systems are more reliable at tracking money than any other viable alternative.” So true, 100’s of years and no better system has ever evolved. I would argue that any blockc
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by jwsteigerwalt 4y ago
Great post. This is so overlooked. I had a career in accounting and finance before technology and consider myself so lucky that the accounting concepts important to business and financial database design are no problem for me.
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by jwsteigerwalt 4y ago
I’m optimistic that it could be a vulnerability to attack Deer’s abuses via a legal proceeding opposed to the political process. I support much of the Right To Repair platform, but the current progress is so slow.
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by jwsteigerwalt 4y ago
The FOSS licensing issue is huge. I have followed the entire Deer anti-right-to-repair saga and this is the first time I have seen that item.
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by jwsteigerwalt 4y ago
Listen to the full Reason interview with Nick Gillespie, it’s a great discussion.
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by jwsteigerwalt 4y ago
Microsoft’s entire subscription process is a mess, it’s not a surprise that Azure follows suite. Just try and start a visual studio pro subscription, it will take you well over 30 min if you are lucky. On the corresponding side, open an A
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by jwsteigerwalt 4y ago
Don’t be a sucker. Either get paid or get real assets that have a real likelihood of ending up liquid and worth something. Corporate governance matters, startup/vc arrangements are inherently tilted toward the execs, founders and exter
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by jwsteigerwalt 4y ago
They are in a desperate situation. When you walked, the balance of power was on your side.
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by jwsteigerwalt 4y ago
I’ve used nod-red in corporate production for: (1) Mapping partner leads that could only be provided as an email into our CRM endpoint. (2) Synthetic canaries for application connectivity. (3) Other integrations where an existing service pr
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by jwsteigerwalt 4y ago
The usefulness of an audit is heavily influenced by whether the process is cooperative or adversarial.
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by jwsteigerwalt 4y ago
This is such an awesome book. I was delighted when it came back into print a few years ago.
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by jwsteigerwalt 4y ago
From a consultative standpoint, a good lawyer is can be a reflection of being a good client. The same applies to business departments working with corporate counsel. Keeping questions and asks objective leads to objective response.
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by jwsteigerwalt 4y ago
Seems like it would work, but it does not. A bike pump will overheat and ruin the seals before you can get a fully deflated auto tire up to pressure. I’ve lost a good pump thinking I could do it.
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by jwsteigerwalt 4y ago
There’s a clear agenda when accessibility is the 3rd course.
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by jwsteigerwalt 4y ago
Unfortunately there is a huge amount of data that you have to learn to confidently understand and make decisions about billing.
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by jwsteigerwalt 4y ago
Lamp on bedside table on a z-wave plug controlled by node-red. Light turns on 10 min before my alarm goes off.
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by jwsteigerwalt 5y ago
It’s very possible you will not ultimately get the next job. Most competent firms that are near competitors will ask if you are bound by a non-compete as part of the recruiting process. Even if ultimately unenforceable, a “yes” could stop

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