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by maigret 13y ago
I pretty much agree - as long as this is healthy untrust. Why redo something running for little benefit? But I know many people who dismissed smart phones at the beginning, or other pretty big things like AJAX. Their decision wasn't mu
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5 Paths To Doing Great Work At A Terrible Company(fastcodesign.com)
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by maigret 13y ago
The sales folks I know are all very hard workers who often get yelled at for flaws in the software that the engineers didn't care much about. They have an overall view of the product that many engineers should but don't have. They
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by maigret 13y ago
You may find it a flaw but remember this belongs to the bigger cultural environment. So for example, in another country you might see people being shy about self promoting, but you'll also have difficulties engaging them in small talk,
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by maigret 13y ago
It always surprises me that people need such an event to rethink their life. I put my life and goals in question around every month, if not every week. Could you tell more about why you didn't do that before? Would be interesting for m
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by maigret 13y ago
No. (Ideally) a patriot does what is good for his country, whatever the government does, good or bad. That can include helping the government do what is right for the country and its citizen.
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by maigret 13y ago
My suspicion: peoples with little idea on the topic vote it up, while the knowledgeable vote it down.
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by maigret 13y ago
It's already the case. You cannot refuel (I think for safety reasons, but not sure), so to get a weight advantage you have to take as little fuel as possible at the beginning of the race. So I don't expect changes. And yes, it hap
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by maigret 13y ago
They are going to have high load services in any case. Check "Internet of things" and "systems of engagement". Your traditional enterprise application is probably not the future of enterprise. It will continue to exist,
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by maigret 13y ago
Good point! I just found the Nasa has published on this topic: http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/585584main_UARS_Status.pdf Risk expected is one in 10000, but for every object if I understand it well. And the current one is rath
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by maigret 13y ago
Let's try to get an order of the probability... Let's say the parts land on earth with an an angle of more than 45 degrees. I'd take 1 sqm for each human, understanding the angle would reduce that number. Which makes around 1
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by maigret 13y ago
- He gets to work on what he probably considers to be much more "interesting than average" projects. - He's building a reputation of innovator in the company, which is certainly not bad for the next promotion or raise. - He&#
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by maigret 13y ago
Like Warren Buffett? Please note that Jason Zweig actually put tech in relation to Graham rules. Very interesting. EDIT It would be nice for you to give some data to support your point.
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by maigret 13y ago
> Also "record financial record" thing can be very misleading for a company. Benjamin Graham supported the opposite. It may be, in some minority cases, but generally it is not. Companies who consistently delivered generally keep deliver
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by maigret 13y ago
Not that I disagree much with your point, but I remember Richard Stallman himself told to have almost no customization in his Emacs (can't find a reference now but feel free to prove me wrong). This tend to be very useful while using the ed
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by maigret 14y ago
Indeed - definitely agree on this!
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by maigret 14y ago
So how do you measure $productivity_cost accurately? Do you account for cases like where employee A, B and C come in the shared office with a new kind of idea going to rocket your business revenues to sky level?
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by maigret 14y ago
Indeed. I can only advise you to read "The Information Diet" if you haven't yet. The state of the media influences a lot the state of politics as well - and not only that, our whole culture. 24/24 news watching is more than popcorn, rather
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by maigret 14y ago
Nope, but someone else would get the money instead of his client. Think about you engage a negotiator for buying a house and he only gets 5% bargain when another one could have gotten 10% - the seller gets the money you'd have otherwise.
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by maigret 14y ago
Agree with all your points. Additionally, MS is probably seeking to get back a bit of the developers love, who are influential in the browser popularity game.
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by maigret 14y ago
I found this scale excuse used multiple times (in European countries as well, and for all kinds of topics) but never got any proof for it, rather the opposite. If scale was an issue, how could the US have become such a technology leading na
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by maigret 14y ago
Yup, still this is a move against RSS from one of the biggest Internet company. Such a company sets trends and moves markets. So it matters.
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by maigret 14y ago
In this case, the blog should be where the readers have migrated - G+, FB, Twitter, etc. If they were on the limit, it is probably because they couldn't capture an audience big enough anyway. I'm concerned about the standard. Because having
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by maigret 14y ago
| Even if there were millions of email providers running this OSS Gmail, the government would just knock on their door, point to (e.g.) the PATRIOT Act, and surveillance would begin. Having some servers abroad would make that much more comp
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by maigret 14y ago
Script is code too. But I don't think you get there with plain sysadmin skills. How do you sync up the data between the regions? I have worked on a similar case not long ago, and there were definitely more than just "sysadmin" skills involv
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by maigret 14y ago
Because this is much more than sysadmin skills involved. You've got to get a scalable application written first. It doesn't need to be complicated, but it needs to be robust and keep data consistent... etc. Also, this type of skills is badl
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by maigret 14y ago
Kent Beck tweeted a very fitting comment: 'Programming contest problems shouldn't be algorithms, they should be like "set up continuous deployment of a multi-region Django app on AWS"' https://twitter.com/KentBeck/status/299528659746840576
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by maigret 14y ago
Yes, in Europe as well, I can confirm. In IT, Python is the programming language. On Google, even typed as a single word, it appears also on top of the search results beneath the animal.
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by maigret 14y ago
Meaningful life != happy life. http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/01/theres-mor...
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by maigret 14y ago
Maybe this has something with us having different friend types, but most people I know put quite acceptable, and in many case fine pictures.

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