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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I use a lookup table for arithmetic. Figuring out 5*3 would take me a long time if I didn’t know already.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
It’s probably pretty difficult to square their anti immigration stance with their claim of being business friendly if you consider that most businesses love cheap immigrants. Hard to shape this into a coherent policy.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Very interesting. I guess it shows you always have to read stuff yourself before believing anything . Does this mean that if you run a site where people enter their health data you are not really bound by HIPPA? Makes me wonder about som
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
What makes you think that or are you joking?
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I don't think that's necessarily true. It's just that items designed for the elderly are designed by young people who think this is what elderly people need. My mom uses quite a few items that are supposed to be designed for
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Especially with dementia you can live a very long time. I have watched this with my dad now for more than 10 years and he may outlive my mom even though his mental capacity is not there anymore.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Good point! Looking at the wings of a regular airplane it definitely would be a pretty crazy ride sitting out there while the plane is banking.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
With the push to more and more iCloud I would assume they have a lot of data but I am not sure.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I agree. They are sitting on more and more data they will be very tempted to use if they can’t hit their growth rates in the future. It would be better if no single entity had that much data.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
The crazy thing is that often these people have 150+ hp cars that can accelerate really well if you push the throttle just a little bit.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
The world in We feels a little more like Brave New World to me but I agree that it’s a fun book.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Come to LA and you will see 5 or 6 easily. And LA has the added bonus of having left and right exits which they tell you about only a few hundred meters before. You see plenty of cars going from all the way right to all the way left in a hu
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
"When getting on the Autobahn, there will always be a "Beschleunigungsstreifen" or acceleration lane. Use it to get to speed while watching the traffic on your left (while signalling, needless to say), then merge in." An
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Oh man. Somebody who really knows PowerShell. That's really rare :-)
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I am German and I have no problems with the Autobahn but it always takes me a while to get used to the speed when I am back. I can easily see how it's frightening for people.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
"People here are amazed when I tell that story, 120 in a Honda? Is that safe?" Just watch out for the crummy all season tires cars in the US have. I don't trust those. Otherwise no problem.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Maybe it’s about engineering in general. The marketing or project manager types I know personally definitely have a much simpler hiring process. They don’t have to study algorithms ahead or do homework projects.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Just look at the hiring process. Almost no other profession accepts a lengthy hiring process as crazy as it is for software engineering now. And the meanest interviewers are fellow engineers. Us engineers are often too hard on each other wh
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I think the solution should be to have better excel reverse engineering tools. I have seen plenty of crazy complex spreadsheets that had hit a wall and were hard to refactor but the solution would never have happened if they hadn’t had exce
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I think Powershell made a big mistake going with verb first. I know I want to do something with group but when I type group there is no auto complete. Now I type “add” and I get dozens or hundreds of suggestions which makes auto complete al
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
When I worked remotely there were people that were incredibly needy and every 10 minutes asked me about stuff they could easily have gotten from a web search and others got bogged down for weeks with issues that could be resolved in five mi
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Did anything come out of this? A lot of companies these days are into getting feedback but nothing never comes out of it. I feel like they have departments that collect the feedback and talk to customers with the best intentions but that d
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Let’s stop idolizing or demonizing any big companies. Basically they are all the same. They may look friendly or hostile from time to time. But in the end they are not your friend and should be viewed with skepticism because of the power th
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
This may be interesting. Script languages generally aren’t typed but maybe a language with very good type inference may feel like it’s untyped.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I think consenting explicitly to a 10 hour day would be a mistake. Remote work shouldn’t be a privilege you pay for with more work. When I work from home I generally set a goal to finish something that day. If it takes longer than 8 hours I
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
In general the recommendation is that it’s best to have everyone remote. Mixed teams usually don’t work well.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I agree that remote work needs a certain personality type. You need to be self sufficient but also be willing to reach out proactively when you have problems and not keep struggling in silence as I have seen before. This is a difficult bal
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
"It reminds me of AppleScript, but far worse." I wouldn't go that far :-). But you are right. They did good work with the cmdlets but they put a terrible language on top of them. It would have been much better if they had put
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I have had the (dis)pleasure of learning PowerShell pretty well in the last few months and from that experience I believe forcing different things into the same model doesn't really work. When I read something like "New-Item"
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
What are they going to do with these? Just take a quick look or constantly keep monitoring them?

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