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541.
What is your company's on-call compensation scheme?
21 points by jyounker 8y ago|25 comments
542.
by jyounker 8y ago
Chicken and egg problem. It doesn't tend to work reliably because of middle boxes so there is no push to implement it widely. It is not widely implemented so there is little pressure to update middle boxes.
543.
by jyounker 8y ago
The news that I'm hearing now is that Boeing has been working on a software fix for this problem since at least January . Where were the glaring safety warnings to the airlines, their customers?
544.
by jyounker 8y ago
^^^^ This. A thousand times, this. ^^^^^ As a supporting example of the arguments, I recently had to replace a subtly corrupted table in production with one rebuilt from trusted sources. The table was about 160k rows and core to the operati
545.
by jyounker 8y ago
The problem with plasic bags isn’t so much that they go to landfills, but rather that they end up going into the wider environment where they pose significant dangers to many kinds of wildlife.
546.
by jyounker 8y ago
To support your point, twenty years I heard an oncological researcher say, "If you're a mouse, and you have cancer, we can cure you." These days we have even more cancer cures for mice. Most of them do little to nothing when
547.
by jyounker 8y ago
I think we in tech get rather full of ourselves. Lawyers are specialists in negotiation, mediation, organizational procedures, persuasion, analysis of edge-cases of language and rule sets, evaluating the motives and thoughts of other humans
548.
by jyounker 8y ago
We have the technologies now. We're just failing at the political and societal organization.
549.
by jyounker 8y ago
The dinosaurs tried to do that by bringing the Chicxulub asteroid into Earth orbit for easy mining. Look how that turned out.
550.
by jyounker 8y ago
There isn’t a fine line. One is based on a person’s beliefs. The other is based on a person’s genetics.
551.
by jyounker 8y ago
I’ve seen it happen. I’ve seen them shouted down by the bar tender and patrons too. Generally though the people in the ranter’s vicinity get up and walk away.
552.
by jyounker 8y ago
What was the cost to the business when it wasn't timely?
553.
by jyounker 8y ago
Corporate greed and incompetence seem to be constants though.
554.
by jyounker 8y ago
Arguably Solyndra failed because the Chinese government pumped far more money into their solar industry then the US did, managing to produce developments that dramatically reduced traditional solar production costs.
555.
by jyounker 8y ago
Clearly there was an organizational reason, but those reasons had nothing to do with what she actually needed according to her physicians, which was rest and painkillers . What you've just said supports the article's argument tha
556.
by jyounker 8y ago
And on top of those 60-80 hours per week you need to add all the time prepping for exams and boards, correct? That study time is work too, and that pushing up to 120 hours per week.
557.
by jyounker 8y ago
Five years ago in Switzerland I could get a full blood panel from my Dr's office in the mall within twenty minutes. The blood came straight out of my arm, into the vials, and into vials went into the analysis unit. Maybe there needs t
558.
by jyounker 8y ago
So, my partner had the option of either going home directly after surgery or spending the night in the hospital. The hospital staff wanted her to go home. She wanted to stay. (She has issues with post-surgical pain.) If the hospital staff
559.
by jyounker 8y ago
Doctor's are notorious for not understanding their patients' experiences, and how that impacts them. I've just witnessed this with my partner's recent bout with cancer. While her oncological surgeon completely understan
560.
by jyounker 8y ago
Vault is usually hosted in-house. Vault offers features such as short-term secrets which are unique to each client. Vault itself manages creation and destruction of the credentials on the server, allowing it to enforce credential lifetimes
561.
by jyounker 8y ago
Sub-Saharan Africa had some pretty advanced and successful civilizations before colonialism.
562.
by jyounker 8y ago
Ncdu is really useful for identifying space hogs.
563.
by jyounker 8y ago
The view of pairing as a form of continuous code review is not a new insight, but it's also not a widely recognized or appreciated one.
564.
by jyounker 8y ago
That doesn't strike me as odd at all.
565.
by jyounker 8y ago
People at the bottom of the wage scale getting a few bucks more an hour will not drive up costs. The additional demand is spread across categories of goods. You also assume that businesses are incapable of increasing production (or improvin
566.
by jyounker 8y ago
If you lower the federal payroll taxes then won't companies correspondingly lower wages for new employees?
567.
by jyounker 8y ago
This is fascinating. I grew up with a schizophrenic parent and relatives. My interpretation has been that the disease is a defect in the systems that weights between internal models and external evidence. It’s interesting that to know that
568.
by jyounker 9y ago
I'd argue that IntelliJ is a structured editor. If you look under the hood the entire system is build around a tree-representation of the code. The "text editor" is a thin varnish on top of that syntactic representation.
569.
by jyounker 10y ago
Code reviews are one of the best ways we've found to improve code quality. If you're not familiar with it, then you should read up on it. There are plenty of resources out there discussing code reviews (e.g. http://dl
570.
by jyounker 10y ago
Aslso, please correct me if I am wrong in what I have just said.

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