mgaunard

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901.
by mgaunard 3y ago
I fail to understand how one could invest in anything without the concept of interest. Without the notion of investment, then you're limited to short-term superficial things that you can do or build.
902.
by mgaunard 3y ago
That's Obelix. An obelisk is a type of pillar from Ancient Egypt.
903.
by mgaunard 3y ago
The company could have been incorporated in such a way that it would have prevented this. Always make sure you get your own lawyer whose goal is to maintain your interests to review any paperwork of this nature.
904.
by mgaunard 3y ago
It's absurdly profitable precisely because it resells things way above their real price. People use AWS for the same reason they rent houses: less investment required and you can change things more quickly.
905.
by mgaunard 3y ago
Non-disclosure, non-compete and notice are different things that you're mixing together. Notice is compulsory -- you simply cannot let go of the employee immediately and must continue paying them for 3 months (or up to 4 months in some
906.
by mgaunard 3y ago
In Europe, for some jobs, you'll be granted garden leave, i.e. you can stay home during your notice and still be paid. It's essentially a mechanism where they avoid having someone with a negative mentality that's not going to
907.
by mgaunard 3y ago
They get paid 30% of the salary of whoever they secure an offer for. They act according to whatever they think befits their interests.
908.
by mgaunard 3y ago
S&P annual return is 8% on average. A good hedge fund would be able to offer higher than that still.
909.
by mgaunard 3y ago
This being HackerNews, I would have expected most people here work for a company that is aiming to disrupt the status quo through technology.
910.
by mgaunard 3y ago
Was before 2022 indeed.
911.
by mgaunard 3y ago
A business only makes sense if they're aiming to be better than others at a specific angle. They need to get the very best for their particular thing that makes them different. Other roles obviously don't matter as much.
912.
by mgaunard 3y ago
Now think about being the people doing the recruiting, offering to 1% of the candidates they interview and still failing 30% of them during their trial period. Hiring is a huge time sink for all people involved. The best people are hard to
913.
by mgaunard 3y ago
Usually the idea of marriage comes from a romantic idea of building something together with a partner. If you ignore the romance, and only consider the practicalities, there is no good reason to get married. It doesn't offer significan
914.
by mgaunard 3y ago
I got divorced in the UK and my understanding was that it was not possible for the two parties to simply agree to have a divorce. I had to sign a paper where I agreed I committed all sorts of "faults" just for the court to process
915.
by mgaunard 3y ago
There is no scenario in which cloud is cheaper than bare metal to operate. What's cheaper with cloud is that you don't need upfront costs, but here, you already have the whole infrastructure already there, up and running. Why woul
916.
by mgaunard 3y ago
So you have a return of 3.2% on investment, which is in line with inflation. Not a particularly good investment I guess.
917.
by mgaunard 3y ago
Because that takes years, tons of effort and uncertainty, for a mediocre outcome at best?
918.
by mgaunard 3y ago
If rent keeps going up, why don't people just buy to let?
919.
by mgaunard 3y ago
If you don't like the job and/or the working conditions, isn't the simplest thing to just quit?
920.
by mgaunard 3y ago
In the ultra-low-latency space people just use PPS, either one pulse per second or 10Mhz. WhiteRabbit and the like allow you to transmit such a signal with great accuracy. There are timestamping layer 1 switches and NICs that support taking
921.
by mgaunard 3y ago
If machines aren't important, why do you have them at all? Because it's an university and we don't care about justifying costs?
922.
by mgaunard 3y ago
People more consistently work seriously and assiduously in an office.
923.
by mgaunard 3y ago
At this point working from home has become some kind of weird religion that refuses to accept the truth.
924.
by mgaunard 3y ago
Why invest time fad-of-the-month technology at all? Invest your time into foundational pieces of the technology stack instead.
925.
by mgaunard 3y ago
this is still lacking a lot of important rules (group by nature of dependency, sort alphabetically within a group, sort groups per dependency level, use angle brackets for third-party only) and is still only barely scratching the surface of
926.
by mgaunard 3y ago
The only appliances I ever had that failed on me are those that I inherited from a previous owner or tenant. Having a good reliable appliance is just a matter of buying good stuff and caring for it properly.
927.
by mgaunard 3y ago
Touch interfaces are awful and a step backward.
928.
by mgaunard 3y ago
If the code to write is repetitive, then just write some code that does it; no AI needed. Presumably what matters in this project is correctness, not how many unnecessary cycles you can burn.
929.
by mgaunard 3y ago
What about 401
930.
by mgaunard 3y ago
There is no requirement for TCP to be implemented in the kernel; if anything all of the highest-performing implementations are in userland.

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