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by kevstev 7y ago
At a place I considered very dysfunctional I once had a record of 8.5 hours of meetings scheduled for the day. I went to my manager and said "we have way too many meetings" and he replied back "if you don't like meetings
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by kevstev 7y ago
I believe you may be confusing "stand up" from scrum/agile with a "standing" meeting meaning a meeting with a weekly or some other recurring cadence. A stand up done right is IMHO not a problem and effective. Variou
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by kevstev 7y ago
This is a lot different though. Banks were the actual dealers of the securities in the big short- you were actually buying and selling to the bank itself. Robinhood and stock brokers, you aren't buying and selling to them- their primar
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by kevstev 7y ago
There are special benefits provided for those under low incomes in many jurisdictions. If you go from $24,999 to $25,000 you may see some supplemental food income benefits go from $400 a month to $200 a month (not an actual example- but you
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by kevstev 7y ago
A lot of this happens when people lose sight of the goals of doing agile, and instead become focused (you might even say obsessed) with just the rituals involved- IE the daily standup, the burndown chart, etc. These also tend to be the orga
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by kevstev 7y ago
you should be happy someone explained it to you- I feel that notation was overlooked tremendously in my math education- I actually just brought this up in a thread yesterday. It was like "oh, we have this dx now... k."
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by kevstev 7y ago
Do any of you all have some tips for understanding mathematical notation? I feel this is often poorly explained, and it feels like a language all its own that just does not speak to me. I did pretty well in calculus, but I still don't
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by kevstev 7y ago
Not really. Aside from the warez and books and a few tech channels, I found it really really difficult to make any meaningful connections or even have social conversations there. You go into one of the larger channels and its a hundred peop
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by kevstev 7y ago
At a typical investment bank: President/CEO --> CTO (may also hold corp title of Managing Director, maybe "Senior Managing Director") --> Managing Director --> Director --> VP --> (possibly) AVP --> Peon. Wh
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by kevstev 7y ago
We attempted to be cloud agnostic (using terraform instead of CloudFormation for example) and then later multi-cloud. The amount of complexity and cost around it was just too much. If AWS goes down, more or less a good portion of the intern
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by kevstev 7y ago
I never successfully made it through LFS, maybe this is the year :)
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by kevstev 7y ago
This sums up my issue right here- its one thing if they said that they won't support holographic 8k audio or whatever future thing they come up with, but I can't understand what they would need more memory for in the end devices,
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by kevstev 7y ago
I guess it depends on whether you really like music. I find it very nice to just open up the Sonos app and I can play whatever I want wherever I want- and can even play different things in different rooms. Its not just a holiday thing, its
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by kevstev 7y ago
Isn't low precision something like +/- 15 feet? For ATC, that seems more than good enough when they keep jets a mile+ apart. It just needs to be more precise than radar.
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by kevstev 7y ago
Maybe I am just wired differently, but every budgeting program is just annoying at best. I get "scolded" because I went over my $40 clothing budget budget because I bought a coat or a suit, or took advantage of a sale. I don'
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by kevstev 7y ago
Nice! my 6502 kit arrived today! And there is snow in the forecast this weekend- Really looking forward to building this.
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by kevstev 7y ago
This gets thrown around a bunch in personal finance forums as well, but its a bit dishonest IMHO- it saying that the avg balance for a 401k account is 36k, not that the average balance across all 401ks account for an individual is 36k. Cons
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by kevstev 7y ago
Yes- layoffs typically happen for bigger reasons than just performance. It is a bit of a red flag, I mean clearly you were not the most critical person the company could not do without, but its happened to me and it has not been an issue. I
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by kevstev 7y ago
Over the years though, I have found that shady creators find ways around this. I paid about $10 on "Scrabble Free" a bunch of years ago to get rid of ads. What EA did was essentially abandon this version of the app, and eventually
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by kevstev 7y ago
No, but I am surprised that 6.6% growth is a cause of concern, even if it is lower than whatever the previous number may have been. The last time we saw growth rates above 5% in the US was during the .com boom and even in the midst of it th
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by kevstev 7y ago
I found it surprising that 6.6% is "slow" or "strained." Those are numbers akin to a massive boom in the US.
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by kevstev 7y ago
My big takeaway from this is that religions can be quite bizarre. You have this omnipotent god with all these crazy rules that are required but will be totally ok if you find a loophole... maybe it's just people that are strange?
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by kevstev 7y ago
Just curious- did you use Joi or anything similar to try to at least verify at some point that you had a valid object?
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by kevstev 7y ago
I kind of alluded to it in my reply, but I tend to agree- they spent a lot of time and hard work- looking in all the wrong places! Its hard to imagine how they missed the forest for the trees so badly here. Worse is- they never really expla
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by kevstev 7y ago
JSON existed before protobufs is really it. When I left the node world 3 years ago, protobufs were the new hot thing. Any new project should start with them over JSON imho. There is some friction to them though, and I think a lot of it is t
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by kevstev 7y ago
I can appreciate your suspicion of a dynamically typed language, but type script isn't really a "hack" its a superset of the language. I am not a huge fan of it, to me its kind of the worst of both worlds- if you need type sa
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by kevstev 7y ago
My background was doing low level C++ in HFT/Algorithmic trading for years, with a bit of Java interspersed, before doing this whole complete right turn of doing webdev in js for ecommerce. In C++, doing web stuff was very difficult, b
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by kevstev 7y ago
It will get queued, until one of the 4 requests in front of it has its task, to return the file, complete.
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by kevstev 7y ago
I was building scalable node applications a few years ago for a very large e-commerce player- millions of customers. I think node.js is a great platform, but its apparent simplicity means there are hordes, and I mean like 90+% of the commun
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by kevstev 7y ago
> For example I have worked in a top-tier investment bank. One year, they had a particularly bad year (because markets were just bad), so while traders in some cases still got bonuses, nobody in the entire Technology Division (since they

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