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by katzgrau 6y ago
I wouldn't call it alcoholism, but I do think there's too much emphasis on alcohol in team building. Getting trashed with your team and making memories (or lack thereof) is kind of a fast track to becoming tight. But there are hea
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by katzgrau 6y ago
I don't really buy this. True colors do tend to show when someone is being careless in general, especially when they're drinking. But someone who really wants to give you a false impression of themselves or their motives will prob
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by katzgrau 6y ago
I contracted at Automattic and P2 was critical, but boy do you spend a lot of time reading and writing. You really don't want to half-ass a P2 post for a lot of reasons (a good thing), so what you get is very thoughtful but fairly verb
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by katzgrau 6y ago
My original post referred to national security coming first — and evaluating any actions taken via court, if it's questionable.
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by katzgrau 6y ago
#2 always wants to be #1, #1 wants to stay #1. This has played out many, many times throughout history. Pick your loyalty.
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by katzgrau 6y ago
I said if it's a matter of national security. > TikTok is not a national security problem, no more than Whatsapp or Telegram or Skype is a national security problem. Yeah, you don't actually know that. What we don't know
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by katzgrau 6y ago
> The President shouldn't have authority to ban anything at all let alone an app available through privately operated app stores. If it's a matter of national security, yes, he should. Whether it's ultimately seen as an ab
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by katzgrau 6y ago
> The marginal cost — both psychological and financial — of supporting additional projects would drop to zero Great idea for redistributing existing funds and preventing winner take all, but the bigger hurdle is increasing the overall fu
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by katzgrau 6y ago
It's hard to pin scientific progress to reliable testing. We also had dramatic advances in communication, travel, collaboration, computing power, and access to education, for instance. Not to mention more and bigger wars which always m
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by katzgrau 6y ago
I've been thinking about this exact same problem. I also think that unthinkable for one person is not necessarily unthinkable for another - because people tend to create their own mental models, however robust or limited, to help them
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by katzgrau 6y ago
Humanity has historically taken a trial and error approach to most things - medicine, engineering, cooking, etc. Advances in technology are usually the result of tinkering as opposed to directed research or science. The science usually come
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by katzgrau 6y ago
Remember the first mp3 player you ever saw? A kid in my middle school had one that ran on a single AAA battery. Mind immediately blown. Meanwhile I was carrying around a $20 CD player and a packet of CDs.
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by katzgrau 6y ago
Oh wow, foobar. I forgot that I converted to foobar for a couple of years before streaming music became a thing. I think I actually listened to a much wider variety of music back then. These days I pretty much listen to the same Spotify pla
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by katzgrau 6y ago
So much nostalgia. The era of Music Match, Winamp, Napster (and friends), 32-128mb mp3 players and CD-R drives. It was magical.
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by katzgrau 6y ago
> I no longer have that box of serial adaptors and my wife somehow can’t remember where it went since we got maried. I used to have a glorious box of ram, spare drives, and every cable and adapter imaginable. My box also mysteriously dis
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by katzgrau 6y ago
This sucks, but plenty of companies don't get paid when they want to. If they hold 25% for 28 days and that's a huge issue, you can either switch providers or get a line of credit to give you some cushion for these events. Credit
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by katzgrau 6y ago
... and after you've solved for the truck problem, you have a potentially infinite list of other things to plan for, some of which you will not foresee. And of course, there's probably an upper bound on the time you can spend prep
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by katzgrau 6y ago
> The whole idea behind resilience is to cover unforeseeable risks Speaking of things that don't make sense... if it's unforeseeable, one will have a difficult time adequately preparing for it
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by katzgrau 6y ago
It does make sense, and it's paradoxical, I know. > If you design for resilience, you get more resilience and you build confidence as you see the evidence how the system works in real world. You simply can't foresee or eliminat
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by katzgrau 6y ago
And you will still be exposed to being blindsided by something out of your control. It's really only in your control of you can think of and plan for it ahead of time. And there will certainly be things that we don't consider. You
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by katzgrau 6y ago
I'd argue that you're probably holding yourself to a standard that is more/less unachievable in such an interdependent world. It's idealistic and idealism is a square peg in the funny shaped hole of reality. Taking accou
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by katzgrau 6y ago
Yeah, luckily our customers are a little easier to deal with than that, despite the very real impacts to their businesses. You have to know/understand your customers in order to know when you can relax. But the plan B in this case is s
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by katzgrau 6y ago
I was on a call with an investor and an employee mouthed to me, silently, "everything is down!" Immediate hot flash. After I got off the call (thank god he had an appointment to run to), I checked it out. Our internal dashboards w
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by katzgrau 6y ago
I agree, which is part of why C2H isn't as bad of a deal as the parent thread is implying
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by katzgrau 6y ago
In my experience, with C2H you typically earn more in the contract phase than you would with a base salary, which is helpful in covering benefits or out of pocket expenses. Maybe that's not always the case, but salaried employees usual
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by katzgrau 6y ago
Yes, pure luck, but that's kind of the fun of it. One minute you're cruising to a win and the next minute you pull the "Plumpy" card and you're back near the start of the board while everyone laughs their ass off. S
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by katzgrau 6y ago
Ah, the locations. As a kid who never had the chance to leave his state growing up, it felt like I was really going somewhere new and fun. I Loved E Hondas stage, Balrog's Casino amd Dhalsims stage in particular. Reminds me of the Twis
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by katzgrau 6y ago
CPU Ken was an absolute terror, especially when if you beat him once and were in Round 2. Then it was just nonstop dragon punches, hurricane kicks, and hadukens
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by katzgrau 6y ago
If you liked playing with E Honda, Chun Li, or Blanka - you probably owned a controller with a turbo button, ha
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by katzgrau 6y ago
Crouch and uppercut will put an end to any of that nonsense :)

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