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by kd5bjo 7y ago
I’m saying that pushing your developers to improve will increase their market value, possibly outside your personnel budget. One possible outcome here is that they decide to leave and join a company that will give them a higher salary to r
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
> But you will, over time, run into edge cases and problems that a mature library has already solved for It’s entirely possible that the new problems you encounter will be different than the ones the mature library was designed to addre
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
That someone may be a direct competitor to you. Giving them access to your R&D may let them undercut your prices and make it harder for you to find clients.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
I heartily agree with all the concerns here, but there are also business and professional development factors to consider, in addition to your present situation: - How stable are your needs? Will your ideal setup be the same 6 months from
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
If 80% of your readers are only going to pay attention to the pull quotes and tl;dr’s, why go to the trouble of writing anything else?
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
> Charitable property owners will eventually be out-competed by ruthless ones. While true, the primary virtue of being an owner is that you’re free to do whatever you want with your property, even if there is a different, more profitab
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
If there’s a real bike lane, the overtaking shouldn’t be a problem as it should be safe for cars to pass in their own lane without needing to take any of the next lane over. Unfortunately, many “bike lanes” are too narrow and too poorly ma
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
That would be fair, if the infrastructure reflected that. It doesn’t, however: often there’s only one lane downstream from the traffic light that can’t be effectively shared, so there’s only one resource to queue for. That’s why we should
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
No, my problem is with the city planners that can’t get their act together and build the appropriate infrastructure to support all the road users. And it’s with bicyclists that don’t understand the idea of a queue for controlling access to
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
So, queue jumping is a moral act as long as the people you’re jumping in front of are bad people? Even if so, they’re most of the population and making someone angry is rarely a good tactic to convince them to help you. It’s possible to di
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Once you manage to overtake a tractor once, it doesn’t ever re-overtake you and make you do that work again. On sections of road with large amounts of traffic and stoplights, I’ve had to wait behind and overtake the same bicycle 5 times be
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
The reason these behaviors are frustrating to drivers is that bicycles are hard to overtake. They’re unpredictable and fragile compared to a car, and so the driver has to give them a wide berth, often having to wait behind them for a lon
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
So are suburban train stations. It’s the natural byproduct of places where people change their mode of transport from cars to something else. Malls are one of the only high-density land uses that people in the suburbs accept, and the surr
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Suburbs, sure, but do malls really favor cars? Where I grew up, the mall was the only place where people would walk from one store to another instead of driving. I’ve also been in plenty of urban malls that have excellent public transit c
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
My usual assumption is that the speaker’s first language uses the feminine pronoun for companies. Outside of English, I certainly have the reverse problem of using “it” for all inanimate objects even when they should be “he/she” accor
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Whenever you have two electrical conductors near each other, but not touching, you have a capacitor. Electrical transmission lines are obviously conductive, but so is the earth, with its large amounts of metal and salt water. When extra el
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
"Suppose that, at a given moment, a certain number of people are engaged in the manufacture of pins. They make as many pins as the world needs, working (say) eight hours a day. Someone makes an invention by which the same number of men
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
In North America, The different shapes of plug for the same voltage represent different current-carrying capacities for the wires they’re attached to. There are twist-lock and non-locking versions of each. If you’re using an adapter to plu
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
I’ve found that tending to my emotional state will make the important stuff get done, because I naturally focus on it. Procrastination, for me, is usually either a mismatch between what my conscious and subconscious believe to be important
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Social clubs of various forms have been a part of society for a long time. You could get a long way if sports clubs were a welcoming place to go hang out and socialize instead of just rentable facilities where you have to book a time and p
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
In my experience, there are a lot more than two sliders but the general idea seems right. By choosing the right program, television can help fulfill all sorts of emotional needs: social, excitement, creativity, escapism, curiosity, etc. Th
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
The trick seems to be to identify your various different out-of-energy states and what activity is consistently restorative for each. Then, get experience with those activities when you’re fresh so that you have less of a hurdle to jump ov
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Too late now; it was over a year ago and in another country; Didn’t bother keeping the dead watch when I moved. I also had enough time with it to discover that I, personally, didn’t get much value out of the “smart” features. This happened
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
There aren’t enough details here to tell whether or not this system is truly useful. If its false negative rate is good and other methods successfully detect the false positives, like traditional detective work, using it as a screening too
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
I owned an Apple Watch for about 2 months before the screen separated from the watch body. The front-line service rep didn’t know what to do about it and took it into the back to show a store manager, who decided it was impact damage and t
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Granted, we made the same evaluation about Wowza a decade ago, but it turned out to be useful as a small piece of a large system. Given how much Twitch has grown since then, no off-the-shelf system would be able to handle the scale. A bran
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
I was long gone by the time the acquisition came along; looks like I was remembering the move into 200 Paul from somewhere downtown (Spear, maybe). The primary motivation was running out of space, but it also coincided with our first for
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
It’s one of the reasons we moved out of there. Moving day was an ... interesting experience: lots of planning to minimize downtime, and everything that was actually planned went relatively well. Unfortunately, what we thought was a 90% pl
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Yeah; my perspective on “late” is probably pretty skewed, since I left as the rebranding was still being developed. I think the favorite new name when I left was something like Xarth; Twitch was a much better choice.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
I really should thank you for the opportunity— not many people would let a new college hire spend months on a green-field rewrite of something so core to the company.

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