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by mratzloff 7y ago
"What happens to the firemen and teachers?" is a more important question than "What happens to the tech workers?"
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by mratzloff 7y ago
Was the tenant happy when you increased it? Increasing rent 12% in one go effectively kicks out most tenants. A smaller annual increase will give them time to adjust to market conditions and choose over a longer period whether or not to mov
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by mratzloff 7y ago
Not to mention a sudden, unexpected expense in a situation where renters are on a tight budget and likely don't have much or any savings.
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by mratzloff 7y ago
They're starting to do this at some stops, like mine. Presumably it will be rolled out to all of them in time.
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by mratzloff 7y ago
They've sent several of these out already (one orbits the sun, one is on Earth, another orbits Earth, and this is on the moon) and plan to send on the order of one thousand.
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by mratzloff 7y ago
Every time you roll your own, you need to attach a future cost: bug fixes, documentation, testing, training, and so on. Your future costs can quickly spiral out of control when you implement your own solutions. Furthermore, because these ar
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by mratzloff 7y ago
Have you ever open sourced a large, complex, closed-source project of a similar scale, developed by one or two people? I built a project with a friend that was half the size of this one and less complex. At one point we had to decide whethe
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by mratzloff 7y ago
I mean, it's obvious why it's taken so long from the slides. He has built an entire literate C project as well as a CLI test project, both entirely independent of Inform; an intermediate output format; and has worked toward an int
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by mratzloff 7y ago
The bigger issue is all these satellites outnumbering the total number stars visible from Earth. It has astronomers worried. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/01/science/starlink-spacex-a...
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by mratzloff 7y ago
I buy physical copies. In the cases where I buy digital media, I strip the DRM. I also support DRM-free vendors, like gog.com. You can't depend on companies to honor their agreements in perpetuity, especially when there's no direc
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by mratzloff 7y ago
Yep. I refused the backscatter scanner when they first came out because of radiation and nude scans, but now that they've changed that I think it's fine.
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by mratzloff 7y ago
Yes, this is the one addendum to the presentation. An organization must periodically refresh itself in order to continue to attract talent. As an organization ages, it acquires more and more code to the point that rewriting becomes unfeasib
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by mratzloff 7y ago
Why?
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by mratzloff 7y ago
Fun fact: the original Assassin's Creed game was originally a sequel to Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time called Prince of Persia: Assassin . In the original concept, you protected the prince instead of playing the prince himsel
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by mratzloff 7y ago
These big tech companies are unaccountable to anyone except shareholders (and even then, not always). Your only hope is having a friend in the company, which is a ridiculous way of solving problems. Given a bad situation, the best solution
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by mratzloff 7y ago
I wonder how different humanity would be if anger and the fight-or-flight response could be disconnected, or the dopamine response from self-righteousness could be severed.
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by mratzloff 7y ago
It's Americans who are inconsistent with acronyms. Do you write LASER or RADAR? If it's pronounceable as a word, it's written as such. If it's pronounceable as letters, it's written how you would expect.
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by mratzloff 7y ago
LaCroix
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by mratzloff 7y ago
I've been waiting on Apple's Mac Pro announcement to decide if I would be buying their new pro monitor. I have previously owned an Apple Cinema HD Display 30", which was great, but started to show its age over time. I believe
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by mratzloff 7y ago
A few years ago I just decided to give up caffeine entirely. It wasn't worth the impact on my sleep or the stop-everything-and-find-caffeine headaches I got. I became uncomfortable with the fact that, in some small way, a substance exe
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by mratzloff 7y ago
This quote reflects my sentiments exactly, and expands on them: What’s been more depressing than the Notre Dame fire itself is the aftermath. The alt-right hate crew roll in to blame the Muslims (for, um, sneaking inside the roof space to
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by mratzloff 7y ago
Skeptical at first, but came around quickly. The quote is apocryphal.
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by mratzloff 7y ago
I attended a UX seminar once. We split into groups and were assigned a scenario: improve the check-in experience at a fictional hotel (acted out by the organizers). Literally every other group began their presentation with, "We built a
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by mratzloff 7y ago
It's not a true story. People wanted less manure and fewer horse corpses. They were thrilled with the automobile because it neatly solved their top two transportation complaints.
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by mratzloff 7y ago
I believe it is because of a weird distinction between "direct" and "indirect" calls in javascript. The spec says that an indirect call is guaranteed to execute in the global context, but a direct call will execute in w
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by mratzloff 7y ago
"You can learn how to be a lawyer in a few months in your spare time if you're cut out for it" would be considered a ridiculous statement. Perhaps you could learn enough to be an assistant to a legal secretary. The same appli
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by mratzloff 7y ago
No, that doesn't make sense at all. When we discover a hidden tribe in the Amazon, we don't give them iPhones and Camrys.
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by mratzloff 7y ago
I haven't found any academic research about this specific area, although there is of course a wealth of research into interviewing in general. The closest analog to a technical exam is probably in the finance industry. My suspicion, ho
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by mratzloff 7y ago
I strongly agree. A good engineer can compensate for bad product management and occasionally bad leadership, but can't do much about all the other things you listed. There's no way to guarantee a successful engineering hire, but o
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by mratzloff 8y ago
I agree. The majority of homeless people I encounter in NYC are mentally ill. Many are drug or alcohol dependent. It's not uncommon at all to see someone having a shouting argument with themselves. Most reek of urine. This is not how a

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