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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I have Kaiser through my employer and I like it a lot. Maybe they don’t have the shiniest and best but it’s solid, simple and predictable.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Hospitals are for-profit but with no price transparency. So they can make profit but their customer (patient) has no chance to make an informed choice.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
“If I went as a contactor in the UK id expect 2x to 3x when compared to a FTE at a similar grade.” At least in the US that’s often not how it works. The agency takes a big cut and the contractor probably makes less than an FTE. In my compan
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Fine with me. Maybe this will put an end to the conspiracy theories about suppression of of cold fusion experiments.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I think if there were more primary care doctors people wouldn’t go to emergency rooms. You shouldn’t have to go to an ER if you have fever.
426.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
B&H generally has generally pretty good quality items.
427.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
I would hope that maybe people will become more aware of work conditions that lead to burnout. Harassment is not OK anymore, so are a lot of other negative behaviors, maybe people will become aware of the dangers of overworking.
428.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
A lot of dangerous, stressful or painful experiences are fun as long as you know you are getting out Ok on the other side. People would probably enjoy it much less if there was a chance that they may get killed in that machine.
429.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
I also generally have had good success with guessing a number and then multiplying it by 5 to get the time when it’s completely done, tested and documented.
430.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
I understand that estimates are important and I give estimates. But recently in my company it’s fashionable to talk about “commitments” and I won’t give those. In my view this is just a way to get overtime and weekend work out of people onc
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
That seems to be secret for managers anyway. Always appear eager and motivated and then run away.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I passionately hate being asked for "commitments". If it's stuff of any reasonable complexity or novelty I will have no idea how long it will take and therefore can't make any commitments. The only thing I can commit to
433.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
"So, one could immediately ask, if I'm able to work in SF with an SF-commensurate salary, and pay this low in rent, why is no one else doing this? As far as I can tell, people even living in SF are very lucky to have less than a 3
434.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
Windows paths can be really infuriating. We constantly run into problems with the 255 file name length limit and even if you use the APIs to create longer paths then Explorer or other apps can't deal with these names. It's hard to
435.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
They often have call back numbers from what I have heard.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I would hope that my parents could tell me from another caller :-)
437.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
Also tell them about phone scams. Over the last year I have received several very convincing phone calls and voice messages from people pretending to be the IRS or cops. It takes a lot of willpower to convince yourself that they are scams.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
"it always makes perfect sense to borrow money at a lower interest rate than you can make via investments." Only if you actually invest and the returns are guaranteed.
439.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
Totally agree. Whole companies run on Excel spreadsheets maintained by non programmers. Maybe they are not up the quality of good software engineers but they are good enough. When I was contractor I saw in one company the IT department taki
440.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
Visual Basic definitely opened up programming for a lot of people that otherwise never wouldn't have written software. You will never be able to create something everyone can use (unless it can do mind reading and even then I am not su
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
"But then, one of my attorneys advised me against this. Basically, the concern was that if I publish something publicly about my understanding of GDPR, and it contains an error of understanding (after all, IANAL), then I could be held
442.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
Should we also abandon the regulation on not stealing things? It makes my startup idea much more difficult too. Individuals' rights over their data should just be another human right like property rights and not being harmed by others.
443.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
My recommendation is to have a lot of meetings to create PowerPoint slides with some metrics that may be remotely related to what you are doing :-)
444.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
Maybe a few but for most of them it's more about knowing about the problem. It's hard to write unit tests to find unknown behavior.
445.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
Just remember that you are trading in an upmarket. All your knowledge will be worth nothing in a downturn. It's a totally different game. Learned that in 2000 :-)
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Exactly. Individuals are far away from the actual organization goals. In my yearly review I have to categorize my achievements by stuff like "Supporting growth", "Fueling worldwide expansion", "Increasing customer s
447.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
Seems this tends to go exactly the way Scrum and Agile did. If done correctly by the whole company it works well. But in most cases it will probably be a mandate by top management and the rest has to come up with some nonsense metrics and o
448.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
You can use forward slash quite a bit but there are a lot of exceptions.
449.
by maxxxxx 7y ago
Or they invent a lot of bullshit metrics because in reality a lot of work is very hard to quantify.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
That’s a huge problem with the whole idea of providing value to the business. Some people can show real metrics but a lot of us are several layers away from anything quantifiable so either you have nothing to show or you have to make up som

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