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by maire 6y ago
Erich Gamma worked for Object Technology when VisualAge was being developed so using XP/Agile before the XP book does not surprise me. I worked with Erich before Visual Age when he developed the Presentation Framework. He came up with
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by maire 6y ago
The driveway was put in by my father - so no it is not a roadway. I think there was wishful thinking since many of the OSM maintainers are mountain bikers and the Santa Cruz mountains has some desirable mountain biking paths. The back part
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by maire 6y ago
> What App are you using. I used the OSM web page. Just type in the address with zip code, and it takes you to a completely different different zip code. This is a relatively new bug. I find it interesting that I am down voted by 4 point
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by maire 6y ago
I use only 1 metric to compare maps - are they accurate giving directions to my address? Google Maps used to be great - far better than Map Quest. Waze was pretty bad. Apple was initially bad. Open Street Maps was pretty good except they t
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by maire 6y ago
I had the same reaction - Silicon Valley is not Bangladesh. I am moving my comment below to you. Hans Rosling (RIP) did a great job of defining poverty and visualizing the changing nature of poverty. His area of focus was on child mortality
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by maire 6y ago
My apologies. Congratulations on being a successful extrovert engineer. I am also a unicorn - but a different kind. I used to always have to defend being a statical outlier so I know where you are coming from.
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by maire 6y ago
Most engineers are introverts and relatively humble - so interviewing is difficult. We have to remind ourselves that we are pretty good. I always went on 2 practice interviews before the real interview and it worked.
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by maire 6y ago
In colloquial english we usually put an "or" in front of else. It really breaks down when you put it in boolean form because the "or" implies other actions when true rather than actions if false. Removing the "or&qu
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by maire 6y ago
Sorry - I was being flippant because your argument involved time travel. After the fact an event has 100% probability that it did occur but before the event it does not. The entire field of chaos theory is to make chaos deterministic so you
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by maire 6y ago
> If we live in a materialist deterministic world - which many would cite as an axiom for simplicity - then there really is no probability. Everything happens with 100% certainty. I don't know who "the many" are - but I th
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by maire 6y ago
I was painfully shy and started my own business. There is a lot of value in the startup experience even if he does not stay in the startup world. How did I do it? I had small goals each day and each week and focused on those goals rather th
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by maire 6y ago
Yes - some periods TLT does have negative correlation to QQQ. I was pretty surprised when I saw this since Bernstein did not see this in his analysis. As I said it had been 15 years since I have been actively managed my investments. When th
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by maire 6y ago
Here is my correlation between QQQ and major sector ETFs going back to 2005 when Bond ETFs were introduced. QQQ 1 XLK 0.9952440282 VCR 0.9813656495 SPY 0.9774334512 VHT 0.9749607257 DIA 0.9738966572 XLI 0.944646275 MDY 0.9418372572 XLP 0.93
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by maire 6y ago
My favorite book on investing is The Intelligent Asset Allocator by William Bernstein. This is what made me aware of issues in correlations. I still believe in diversification. If an ETF is sufficiently diverse I will buy the ETF. Some ETFs
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by maire 6y ago
I actually investigated this strategy (only buy index funds) because it was highly recommended in a book my daughter read. I thought it was bogus and it turns out that it is. I haven't been an active investor for 15 years so it took a
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by maire 6y ago
Abstraction. When my kids were little I thought I would teach them programming. The biggest problem I had was teaching them what a variable was. They finally did figure it out after a lot of work. Abstraction is the same barrier between ele
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by maire 6y ago
I am surprised that Dark Forest is not on the list given they have a whole section on alien life. I now judge all first contact stories against Dark Forest. It does have Gateway on the list which had implausible black holes - so I don'
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by maire 6y ago
They are hoping the immunity lasts 12 months. Then you would take a booster in your annual flu shot. I could live with that.
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by maire 6y ago
Sorry for the lack of clarity - I was thinking of Gopher.
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by maire 6y ago
I seem to be repeating myself to young whippersnappers, but the web is not the same as the internet. Here is the early history of the internet/arpanet: http://mercury.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/arpageo.html The in
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by maire 6y ago
I don't think resentment is a real thing. It is lack of flexibility when a company grows large enough to defer decisions to hr. When my children were young my employers were very supportive of granting flexibility for my family respons
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by maire 6y ago
I disabled my Quora account when I discovered it was selling my data.
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by maire 6y ago
Yep - I started building personal tools when I realized that purchased tools are to benefit someone else - not me. Their goal is to make money for them not to make me happy. Once I realized that I automate my own processes and I am so much
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by maire 6y ago
I remember when there was a crackdown on software independent contractors. What most contractors did was go through an agency that managed your services. The difference in pay was usually 20% since the agency took 20% of your pay. I suspect
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by maire 6y ago
The goal should be self repair. I want the manuals and parts so I can make my own repair.
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by maire 6y ago
If you work in Silicon Valley you will make friends that will pull you from company to company. All of the companies I worked for in my career (except 1) I got a call from a friend. The one exception was they knew about me even though I did
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by maire 6y ago
There are less expensive ways to get the social experience of college. My husband and I both worked our way through college. I didn't get the social experience at school. There is nothing like working for your degree to keep you laser
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by maire 6y ago
I was at 2 successful companies that went against the normal VC path. Vitria was able to move the VC % lower because they were already profitable and demonstrated potential before approaching the VCs. They were only using the VCs for their
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by maire 6y ago
This reminds me so much of when I joined vmware in 2006. vmotion had already been around for a few years - but I believe this was the first release of vCenter with DRS. A couple of months I joined, a room full of customers chewed us out for
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by maire 6y ago
Thanks for the clarification!

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