michael_storm

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by michael_storm 9y ago
Everyone is different, so good managers set targets based on past performance. If you set the bar at what you can accomplish by working 3-5 hours per day, they'll assume it takes you 8 hours per day, and give you work based on that. If
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by michael_storm 9y ago
Please produce the research you claim to have conducted, instead of simply calling others incompetent.
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by michael_storm 9y ago
Nah. Sounds like you fired everyone who didn't drink the Kool-Aid, then told yourself that whoever remained was smarter than those who'd left.
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by michael_storm 9y ago
That's exactly what we have a court system to answer.
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by michael_storm 9y ago
Fair enough, but lack of evidence in this one case is not evidence that IFE systems are invincible. That's quite an extraordinary claim.
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by michael_storm 9y ago
So we're supposed to just take your word for it, in the face of contradictory evidence?
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by michael_storm 9y ago
> You cannot become good in software engineering if you only read HN and work 9-5. Yes, you can. I know several people who are and do. > Ask the candidate to bring a laptop Which would screw people with desktop PCs or do not own t
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by michael_storm 9y ago
> Subtly different, dirty journalism. Or it was a mistake. Journalists sometimes make them, too.
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by michael_storm 9y ago
Good to know. I hope that your essay will be updated to reflect that.
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by michael_storm 9y ago
Thanks for updating your post. > History is about people making decisions. It wouldn't make sense to write about the history of nations without naming any names, and I think it wouldn't make sense here, either. Historians usu
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by michael_storm 9y ago
> Today, I specifically want to call attention to two commits by the lead maintainer of Git, Junio Hamano, that left the deepest scars. Why call the maintainer out by name (and continually do so throughout the essay)? What purpose does
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by michael_storm 9y ago
> So it's a hugely clickbaity title. The article provides no new evidence or even offer any possible causes as to the accident, it just details what happened and wonders why. That's how news works when something is still being
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by michael_storm 9y ago
There are a host of obvious reasons why even a "simple" human will beat an L4 car hands-down: * Lack of software bugs due to careless programming. * Millions of years of brain evolution allows adapting to unforeseen circumstances.
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by michael_storm 10y ago
Neither party is contesting that the documents were stolen [1]. Everyone is basically assuming that he did it; Uber's defense in this preliminary-injunction hearing is that the stolen documents never made it to Uber. [1] http:/&#
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by michael_storm 10y ago
Well I guess that's settled, then.
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by michael_storm 10y ago
Have to disagree. If you've bought a home on the open market in San Jose in the last three months, the median price you paid is $1 million. That's what a "typical home in San Jose" "costs". Homes not on the ope
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by michael_storm 10y ago
I'm curious -- why is that? Marketing agencies/consultancies set up on prime real estate in order to impress clients, whereas software companies typically wouldn't care so much about location?
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by michael_storm 10y ago
Sorry about that; I misunderstood your comment.
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by michael_storm 10y ago
Oh, you're right. Whoops.
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by michael_storm 10y ago
You're both right. I only replied because you responded to points that btrask hadn't made, then claimed he/she misunderstood the topic.
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by michael_storm 10y ago
> Existing key distribution systems may or may not be encrypted, but the reason for encrypting the channel is far more to protect the interests of the requestor than the integrity of the key itself. btrask wasn't saying that encry
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by michael_storm 10y ago
I think open-sourcing the code in the first place was a great start to contributing to OSS. Facebook isn't a newcomer to the community.
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by michael_storm 10y ago
Quit, if you can. Those policies will not change. There's a good reason why that company plays dirty (winning), and the executives are not interested in hearing your thoughts on the matter. Nobody else is, either -- which is why they s
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by michael_storm 10y ago
For another laugh, try https://blog.expensify.com/2016/06/17/expensifys-comp-review... . This quotation sums up both the pretentiousness and the bullshit nicely: > We don’t negotiate during the hiring proc
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by michael_storm 10y ago
Proposed improvement: mark the actions that are legally required. I've waded through enough technically-ambiguous regulatory language to know that having a clear requirement/recommendation distinction can be pretty helpful. Other
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by michael_storm 10y ago
> Quit being a shill. Please don't name-call on HN. It ruins one of the reasons I like it here.
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by michael_storm 10y ago
How do you propose the mayor's office identify senders and recipients from e.g. that law firm without combing through every message? What if their email domain has changed? What if someone used their personal email address? If they lef
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by michael_storm 10y ago
Question for someone who knows more about satellites than me: > In satellites, the STT typically gets a good fix and sends the data to the IRU. The IRU uses the data to set its current reading and to measure how far it drifted since the
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by michael_storm 10y ago
> Even if Jeremy had signed a stock agreement, he wouldn’t have reached the standard 1-year cliff for founders to vest any equity. How is someone not fulfilling hypothetical terms of an agreement that doesn't exist an argument that
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by michael_storm 10y ago
How is lack of extant tooling swalsh's fault? Would you like to write some?

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