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by mbillie1 13y ago
There's already debate over the merits of introducing this in the Utah public schools. I think it's a great idea.
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by mbillie1 13y ago
Depending on who you are, half a million dollars a year is not necessarily 'petty' cash. Also, people risk jail time over petty cash constantly in all walks of life.
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by mbillie1 13y ago
I couldn't agree more. Not to mention, in virtually any reasonably sized metropolitan area there are generally plenty of places that simply make better tasting coffee.
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by mbillie1 13y ago
> By that logic, Bush and Rice met their promises. They didn't say they wouldn't invade anyone, they said they wouldn't do nation building. I think NotOscarWilde is making a more general point about American politics here.
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by mbillie1 13y ago
I suppose my point is that, when a law is selectively enforced, minorities and the poor are the ones who tend to get "selected," which I do think is relevant to selectively enforced laws - they are often enforced in a discriminato
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by mbillie1 13y ago
> It's only an invitation for police harassment if you're breaking the law. Edit: it is often more of an invitation, however, if you are a minority or poor.
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by mbillie1 13y ago
It is, but that's nothing new. The cops in NYC have been known to give the homeless a McDonalds meal and a bus ticket up the coast. I'm curious what the prevalence of work-from-home software jobs will do, over time, to the ridicul
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by mbillie1 13y ago
It's not terribly shocking to learn that OkCupid's obvious publicity stunt against Brendan Eich was merely a publicity stunt.
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by mbillie1 13y ago
> I ended up donating it because I just wanted to get rid of it. Having someone sell it for me would definitely have been worth it. I just did the same thing for similar reasons. If there was no hassle for me, I would've sold it. 2
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by mbillie1 13y ago
It would be nice to see a list of the airports in question (not that I have any doubt about the awfulness of US airports, having been a twice-a-week-traveling-consultant for 2+ years). LaGuardia would be my personal nominee for US Airport H
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by mbillie1 13y ago
Trello isn't bad for managing projects - it's free as well. In terms of managing people, that's a significantly more difficult topic.
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by mbillie1 13y ago
I guess a personal donation, to me, of a material-but-not-enormous amount, toes the line between "personal views" being thrown out there in the public, and things that are pretty much ones own business. I have no problem with an o
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by mbillie1 13y ago
All of this over a $1,000 donation, apparently. I think it's a bad cause and a bad donation, and I don't have any sympathy at all for the anti-gay-marriage types, but it's crazy to me to hang someone over a thousand dollar d
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by mbillie1 13y ago
Accepting it is exactly what I don't want to do - the only way common biases (like "it's weird/uncomfortable/etc being the only man speaking in a group of women") change is when they are overcome rather than ac
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by mbillie1 13y ago
Agreed. Many times when you are approached with nonsensical requirements it is wise to try to figure out what problem the asker is trying to solve. This is doubly true when you receive technical requirements from non-technical people.
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by mbillie1 13y ago
> You can either be awkward or the center of attention. Or you could, say, not radically alter your behavior based on the genders of the people around you.
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by mbillie1 13y ago
I don't know that I agree - I find really bad humor to be sometimes worse than no humor.
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by mbillie1 13y ago
> It's okay to be silly sometimes, it's actually important. I agree with this entirely, but I think the argument here is that none of these corporate April Fool's jokes are silly, or funny, or clever, or interesting. They
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by mbillie1 13y ago
> mutable state on the ApplicationController and the models Well, mutable state on the models seems pretty fair, unless I'm misunderstanding you. It's rather unforgivable on ApplicationController though. Edit: and the slow sta
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by mbillie1 13y ago
A nebulous description of a vitally important quality - someone who your existing team won't hate. It's one-sided to claim that people only use it to unfairly reject candidates. Being an a hole is something I'd like to see
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by mbillie1 13y ago
I'll never go back to that site. Absolutely atrocious.
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by mbillie1 13y ago
I think this is honestly good advice. Every employer will want you to live for your job, but for the vast majority of human beings this is not realistic. There's nothing wrong with doing a good job and then going and living a fulfill
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by mbillie1 13y ago
Did that actually go into effect after all?
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by mbillie1 13y ago
Just an example - I'm curious though, what other examples are there?
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by mbillie1 13y ago
Losing your phone is an issue, yes - much like losing your keys with a conventional lock. Suddenly deciding I don't want a smartphone anymore would probably be a life event radical enough to justify replacing my smartphone-dependent l
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by mbillie1 13y ago
I think I'd rather go this direction: https://lockitron.com/ ... having my physical key info backed up in my phone sounds fine, but I think I'd rather avoid physical keys anyway, if possible. Despite the somewhat
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by mbillie1 13y ago
This sort of reaction is surprising to me. Java has been a useable, performant language for some time now. The tooling is excellent, the JVM is astonishingly good, and it will run circles around Python, no less Perl. I don't think m
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by mbillie1 13y ago
> That said, I don't think I could ever go back to reporting to a manager, especially a non-technical manager. After working in a flat organization (I'm 99% sure we're talking about the same place here) like we do/did
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by mbillie1 13y ago
> The extreme position is inevitably simpler than moderate ones, and thus acts as a more solid common ground for group formation. While I certainly agree with you that this is true, and while I am certainly not surprised finding this sor
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by mbillie1 13y ago
Eh. I worked at a reasonably holacratic/flat organization (a high-profile agile consultancy, actually), and when I say it was flat, I didn't know who my boss was, or who to give notice to when I quit. It was honestly very flat,

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