mingusrude

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by mingusrude 4y ago
No spanking. Ever.
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by mingusrude 4y ago
Yes, this is very true. My experience is that as you get older you make fewer new contacts. It's not illogical, at first there is school, then university, then kids. All of these are excellent at making new friends but once the kids ge
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by mingusrude 4y ago
We had a party this summer, my wife turned 50 and we wanted to host a party in our house for all our friends. We thought it would be a blast but there were problems. First problem, we don't really have that many friends. Back in the da
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by mingusrude 4y ago
Maintaining tests that only test that things haven't changed can be a nightmare if you actually want things to change (like when you're making a change to the logic of a system). They can also be a real pain to maintain since if t
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by mingusrude 4y ago
In the last three years, I have lost my dad and my mother and father in law. Don't worry, you will leave puzzles behind you whether you want it or not. Taking care of the administrative remains of a modern human being is a big big puzz
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by mingusrude 4y ago
I think it becomes even more obvious with team sports. Among males, Sweden is a top-tier ice hockey-nation but an absolutely disgrace in rugby while the opposite is true for New Zealand. There's a significant overlap in the talent pool
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by mingusrude 4y ago
Started IF, not sure if it paid off but it's pretty cool knowing that I can go without food for a longer period of time.
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by mingusrude 4y ago
When we had kids I realized that I had to get new hobbies because I wouldn't be able to keep doing the old ones. I pretty much decided that cooking and looking after house plants were going to be be my new hobbies since I knew that I w
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by mingusrude 4y ago
When I interviewed for my current job, I had to take psychology test and I'm very skeptical to those kind of tests. The guy that ran the test explained that this wasn't about putting me into a colored box but trying to figure out
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by mingusrude 4y ago
We bought a number of Carbons (Gen 9) to the office and all of them (5) have had some kind of technical problems. It's been malfunctioning fans, a motherboard that stopped working, a screen where colors were awful etc. We might have go
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by mingusrude 4y ago
In the book "A year without pants" by Scott Berkun where he spends a year with Wordpress and their then somewhat unique remote model, he emphasizes that it's still important for many to meet, it's just not necessary ever
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by mingusrude 4y ago
We've had some mishaps with Azure billing and they did call for a couple of days before they switched things off.
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by mingusrude 4y ago
My sister has a small farm and in addition to cows and horses she also has rabbits. Every spring, parents show up to buy a rabbit to have at home. When the deal is done my sister takes the parents aside and tell them that if they plan or fe
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by mingusrude 4y ago
I love this old video from their "weekly search meeting": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtRJXnXgE-A
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by mingusrude 4y ago
Something similar worked for us, even when the kids were young. Both my wife and I enjoy cooking (side story, when we got kids, I realized that I'd be spending a lot of time cooking and so I decided to make it an interest of mine since
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by mingusrude 4y ago
I recently switched Twitter to strictly timeline and that pretty much fixed Twitter for me. I still use it but it no more doom-scrolling.
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by mingusrude 4y ago
How does this save me a google search? Either it can swim (someone's seen it swimming) or it can't (nobody has seen it swim). If it maybe can swim, I have to google it.
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by mingusrude 4y ago
> Tell them that the are right to be mad, disappointed, and even to hate you for choosing their head to roll. This is OK. > Tell them that you are upset. Tell them that you haven't slept. No, no, no. Never talk about your own dif
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by mingusrude 4y ago
For Swedish employees it's not as easy as calling someone into an office and lay them off. You can of course tell someone that you want to lay them off but from there to actually doing it you have to negotiate with the union and/o
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by mingusrude 4y ago
There can be, laying off people in Sweden is hard and one of the ways to do it is to claim that there is no work for an employee and so doing a reorganization can make it easier to claim that. Sweden's also got fairly strict last-in-fi
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by mingusrude 4y ago
As commented above, you have to do it this way in Sweden, you have to announce in public that you are going to lay off people and then from there on you negotiate with the union if you plan to not do stack-based firing (last-in-first-out).
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by mingusrude 4y ago
I too came back to chess. The weird thing is that now at age 48 I'm obsessed with it while when I was young (I played from very young until approx 15) I never really liked it. It was something that you were just supposed to do. I playe
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by mingusrude 4y ago
There's a general election in Sweden in September. If you are correct then I suppose the outcome of the election will show massive losses for the parties that stand behind this decision and so democracy will win.
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by mingusrude 5y ago
Swede here, it is a different world in the US. Firing is easy, two weeks at the most to get someone out. The other way holds true though, it is equally difficult to find replacements but usually once you do, they can join sooner than in Sca
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by mingusrude 5y ago
I am not denying that there are problems for truckers in Sweden caused by open borders to other EU-countries and that those problems should be fixed. However, without EU there would probably be a lot less stuff to truck around.
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by mingusrude 5y ago
> Saying that fixing a bad hire is easy is a very USA-centric view of the world. In some European countries it would be very hard to get rid of such people, so the cost is hire. Most EU countries have laws around probationary periods at
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by mingusrude 5y ago
Last autumn there was a podcast done with chess world champion Magnus Carlsen (in Norwegian) and one interesting thing he says is that he practices a lot but only when he wants to otherwise it's meaningless. Of course there is a differ
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by mingusrude 5y ago
I worked as a consultant with a phone operator who were insourcing their inhouse sales (telemarketing) after having it outsourced. What they had discovered was that by outsourcing that function they had lost a large chunk of their overall t
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by mingusrude 5y ago
On that page, I clicked on your name ( http://dario.im/ ) for what I suppose was going to get me to a page generated by zas. You may want to take another look at it :-)
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by mingusrude 5y ago
Of course country roads are plowed too if need be. Every small city where there are roads that needs to be plowed are plowing their roads. Depending on where in the country you are and how common it is with snow, roads may be plowed sooner

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