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by lostdog 5y ago
I was talking about the general election not the primary. (If we used a decent voting system, then all popular candidates could go to the general).
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by lostdog 5y ago
So many plugs for approval voting in these threads, but it just seems so terrible for what people really want to express. For example, in 2016, plenty of people wanted Sanders more than Clinton. Who are they supposed to "approve?"
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by lostdog 5y ago
Has the NYTimes fixed its cancellation process yet?
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by lostdog 5y ago
> Optimizing for a short commute is a choice that people can make if they want It's a choice until your office moves or your job changes (and you had to balance other priorities). Mostly I agree with you though--if getting to the of
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by lostdog 5y ago
Private schools also have fewer hiring restrictions, which lets them lower salaries. I know a couple people who did not get the qualifications to work at a public school, and now teach at private schools. (Not for lack of ability, by the wa
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by lostdog 5y ago
Strange, I was just thinking about this story yesterday... The best stories are puzzles of neverending questions. I'm finally satisfied with most of my answers to Harrison Bergenon, but then I started wondering: when the weights are re
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by lostdog 5y ago
> What does cut off mean? AWS probably has a thousand product manager and tens of thousands of engineers, and can't come up with some reasonable options for default limitations? I bet that these 10x overruns have common causes: infi
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by lostdog 5y ago
It certainly sucks for everyone sitting at a neighboring desk. It's horrific, but I expect this to be "accepted" behavior once we return to office.
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by lostdog 5y ago
The company could put their money where their mouth is. Are you truly being honest about keeping them on? Write up a contract that guarantees them X years of employment, at Y severance per month if terminated early. More realistically, you
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by lostdog 5y ago
Typically, actors are required to give media interviews in the lead up to a film's release too.
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by lostdog 5y ago
It's the one bug involved in a huge outrage and a statement from the CEO. It's the one bug that they announced publicly that they fixed, despite absolutely knowing that they didn't. So yeah, just one bug. (Nothing against thi
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by lostdog 5y ago
Do be careful. If the amount is large enough, you owe estimated taxes during the year.
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by lostdog 5y ago
I work in a domain that requires C++-like performance, but I'd really like to stop hitting all the usual issues with C++. Rust can free me from difficult std::move rules, no global build and packaging system, incoherent error checking,
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by lostdog 5y ago
Both this VC's post and coinbase's post ignore the 90-day exercise window on stock options, so they're getting rid of the "golden" but keeping the "handcuffs."
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by lostdog 5y ago
Maybe you could stop spamming this thread please?
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The Oral History of the Dinosaur Input Device(vfxblog.com)
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by lostdog 5y ago
Some of the videos from the Marble Machine X project show Fusion 360 cracking under the pressure. A big problem is that you need each part at full resolution when you're editing that part, but when you look at the whole machine, you do
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by lostdog 5y ago
Nobody cares about what materials you used in your bridge! https://www.courthousenews.com/34m-settlement-reached-for-de... But seriously, they call it "tech debt" for a reason. It's not a problem until sudden
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by lostdog 6y ago
All these specialized jobs--best not, gaffer, makeup--really highlight what's different between software and movie production. On a movie set, nearly everyone is doing exactly the same thing they did on the last movie set. In many soft
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by lostdog 6y ago
Ok, I see, you're just saying the NPE is justified, and not the rest of the patent troll system.
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by lostdog 6y ago
How is this argument remotely good? These lawyers, and more importantly, these shell companies, are being labeled as patent trolls because they're filing nonsense patents and then spraying nonsense lawsuits around to try to capture ran
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by lostdog 6y ago
Some companies don't separate ML roles by title, but that still leads to problems. Without management-driven separation, too many people try to work on just modeling. You wind up with nobody labeling and cleaning the data. Everyone com
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by lostdog 6y ago
In what percent of real-world scrum situations do you think the team has control over their own processes?
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by lostdog 6y ago
Exactly. If the standard library's sorting function executed in O(n^5), I would consider that a problem with the standard library.
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by lostdog 6y ago
The post explained the problem with getting deposits back very clearly: > This is because apartments at both of these levels quite accurately assume that you can’t afford a lawyer - while it’s normal to put down a month or two worth of r
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by lostdog 6y ago
Non-competes are being used everywhere: https://www.npr.org/2018/07/10/627682297/regulators-investig...
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by lostdog 6y ago
It's probably hard to win a case without concrete evidence that the badmouthing is happening and hurting their future job prospects. The best bang-for-buck is to have a lawyer send the company a letter asking for all the concrete evide
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by lostdog 6y ago
The only truth about ergonomics is that everyone needs different things. I used a goldtouch for years to manage some early RSI symptoms. In the beginning it helped a lot, but later my symptoms changed a bit and it stopped helping. Elevating
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by lostdog 6y ago
> Due to a bunch of mistakes early on, we did not own substantial amounts of equity and had a pretty bad relationship with some of our board members. Or maybe your work-life balance could be worse AND your equity stake could be meaningle
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by lostdog 6y ago
This is the first time I've heard about subscribing being a privacy violation, so no, this is not "obvious."

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