mgkimsal

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by mgkimsal 5y ago
"decentralized" meaning ... your crypto may go through facebook.co.uk, or facebook.fr, or instagram.co.jp or facebook.com.au, instead of being centralized at facebook.com. much better security for peace of mind. ;)
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
I see the 'European' connection moreso than some other cities here in the US. I've visited Boston twice - once just a few weeks ago - and I could definitely see some attraction of living/working there. It seemed way to
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
Well, their output is measured differently too, so I'd expect their work actions and locations to be different. If the ceo was expected to produce output that was suited to working in a cubicle, they would do that, but that's not
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
Whenever I've "started over", I've sometimes longed for going back to pre-existing stuff and evolving it. Sometimes, but not always. Whenever I've 'evolved' existing systems, I've almost always wish
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
"Just take a guess - we have to have a number in this box by the end of the meeting". I was literally just told that yesterday. No one else who would look at that number will know it was a totally random guess pulled out of thin
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
Bose's "hearphones" seem to be trying to make inroads in to that space. What's your view on those?
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
> I gotta tell you that unless you're working with absolute bozos, nobody is looking at estimates and saying "oh duh, I am betting the farm this will complete on that date." Apparently I've worked with a lot of bozos
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
> It's functionally equivalent to standing in front of that 18th century slogan. I don't think it quite is. There's references to phrases from founding documents - which Americans often invoke ("we the people",
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
I switched payroll providers a few years ago away from Quickbooks Payroll. They hosed up my stuff so bad I was dealing with the fallout for close to 2 years afterwards - overpaid, underpaid, refunds, fines, it was a mess. The new company I
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
Indeed, one of the things you'll hear from "older" developers is "you gotta keep learning new stuff" and "learn how to learn". You might find yourself with some extended contract for maintaining a legacy
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
I was primarily thinking of environment when I wrote that comment, but I think there's probably some other things that are, in some ways, worse.
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
I had some stories from my grandfather (born in 1910) usually around Christmas time, where he'd ... I guess it was complaining - complain we were too spoiled as kids. "When I was your age, I got an orange for Christmas, and I was
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
Not directly related to the farmer, but I was reminded of this clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4CCFObSEAU The guest, as a child in 1865, witnessed Lincoln being shot in Ford's Theatre, and was on a TV show in 19
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
worked in a place that did these... I think monthly. for "problems" it was a time to review/discuss some issues that came up recently but that may not have been important enough at the time to interrupt the other party (inte
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
> I had 4 terrible managers I've fallen back in to "I've had bad managers" but do wonder how often I was the "bad managee". I know it was true in a couple of cases that were obvious to me. And... I can usu
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
AHA - makes far more sense now. That pesky old 'adjusted for inflation'.
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
I mostly take your point(s), and really... $3m is not a large amount for someone who's worked and been moderately diligent about finances. You don't need to have insider knowledge or bend the rules to have saved $3m over 60 years
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
> Thinking about it, I don't even know where I am on the 1-100x scale. Where you are is dependent on the rest of the team, and the structure of the process. The notion of "X" times as a measurement implies a comparison to
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
It's a completely context-dependent assessment. I was part of a team a few years back where I was certainly not a 10x dev. It was a team of... around 8-9 folks. 5-6 devs, PM, testers. There were jr/sr divides, but it was rela
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
The comment I was replying to was "The problem is that you can't measure a developer." You can measure. One way you measure is years of experience. Another can be time to deliver against a spec. Another can be number&#x2
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
> So you can't say someone is 10x faster or better You can absolutely measure something . I have a colleague going through this right now - he's got... 24 years of experience in software - mostly web - across multiple proble
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
Always strange that 'cuts' often involve spending more money. I guess the size of the pile is relevant, and I get that it's offset against potential future cost/commitment. Person X at $100k is given ... $40k to quit no
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
Funny you bring that up. Rewatching this with my wife - haven't seen it in... 18 years? That's one of those lines that has stuck with me the last couple days (midway through so far). Really, much of the last 5 episodes are a bl
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
Or the OP's standards are higher than yours? Things you may gloss over or accept as 'good enough' are unacceptable to people looking for "just works" on par with a comparable windows install on the same hardware.
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
Money is “cheap” and people think in terms of monthly payments only. Done larger builders are pitching things in terms of monthly costs only; they don’t even publish prices, just payment estimates.
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
"If high prices held you back from building, you are in luck, as the tables have now turned" Except... many builders will find some other reason/excuse where prices are high to keep prices high. We were looking at building a
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
networking events, conferences, previous colleagues. face to face encounters, most of which have been severely cut back the last year.
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
Exactly re: who won't pay. If I'm losing hundreds or thousands, I'll pay $150 just to get a real person's attention - most scammers won't. And yeah, it was MS I was initially thinking of, but haven't been in
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
Would 'paid' support help? Like pay, say... $150 up front, which is refunded (partial or all) depending on the outcome (error on their end, you get refunded?) It runs the risk of turning 'support' in to a profit center,
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
"Most doctors are technicians, not researchers" Thanks. Very succinct, and helps me frame my medical interactions a bit more clearly now.

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