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by mseebach 9y ago
You can begin a transition without moving everything at once, or even ever. Start with a policy that all significant new efforts should strongly consider Python 3 (including porting any dependencies). Keep a "scoreboard" for un-po
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It's not the same thing. "Planned Obsolescence" implies purposefully handicapping an otherwise durable product.
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> The statistics point towards users wanting music from the big four labels I'm sure they pointed that way for TV content, too, when Netflix did House of Cards. I think people want music that's "well known", music the
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by mseebach 9y ago
There already exists mechanisms to remove people from opportunity to do harm without due process if there is overwhelming, immediate risk. It's very tightly controlled and very temporary. The same could be applied here. If a child has
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by mseebach 9y ago
Taking a child away from a family is one of the worst violations a government can subject someone to, all the way up there with imprisonment. The argument isn't a binary choice between trusting the mother or not, it's to raise the
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by mseebach 9y ago
I don't think corruption is the worry so much here, it's the erosion of the rule of law when regulators and courts are seen to bask in the popularity of enforcing the law against certain high-profile targets, especially when the p
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by mseebach 9y ago
I didn't mean to imply you did! I was offering a possible explanation of the difference in yours and GPs experiences (culture shock vs energising). Not having to deal with immigration is probably the least of it, at least by the time
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by mseebach 9y ago
I don't know who you're debating. Your original comment used a reference to the weather to argue a point about climate. You can't do that, as your follow up comments clearly explain.
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by mseebach 9y ago
I don't know, I don't know your situation, your background nor which countries you moved between. I'd be inclined to maintain my guess. I struggle to think of any two 2017-era EU countries as different as 2000-Poland and Bost
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by mseebach 9y ago
> Uber has a lot of data, but even they don't know total hours spent before or after shifts in prep for work nor expenses with regard to vehicle maintenance. I would think Uber has exactly the data they would need to calculate this
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by mseebach 9y ago
No, you don't know the difference when you talk about climates and then link to the weather for a single day as supporting evidence.
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by mseebach 9y ago
If German courts maintains that making content available in Germany (ie, putting it on the Internet) gives them jurisdiction over your organisation, your choices are to be compliant with German law, or not to be available in Germany. PGLAF
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by mseebach 9y ago
You seem to have read a different article than the one linked here. The first few paragraphs specifically addresses the concerns in your first paragraph, and I feel that the rest of the article sympathises strongly with your second paragr
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by mseebach 9y ago
Compare the two times the author came to the US, the first time, pennyless, to a distant unknown country in a "yolo" endeavour, the second with financial security to a known entity. I suspect you experience, like mine, is closer t
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by mseebach 9y ago
Climate != weather. I'm sure you can find plenty of examples in recorded history when those areas had roughly the same weather.
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by mseebach 9y ago
It seems to me that the two-dishwasher setup only work if you only have a small, consistent set of tableware, and you use it at a consistent rate (you use close to the entire contents of the dishwasher before you need any of the dirties aga
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by mseebach 9y ago
Was this before UberX? Checking just now Uber quotes about the same as a taxi for UberX in Paris. The premium Uber (called "Berline" in Paris) is 60% more, so matches your experience. The rentals I'm referring to are all Uber
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by mseebach 9y ago
Uber has deals with car rental agencies in several places that doesn't "allow" you to "eat out" your vehicle equity (I've seen Enterprise in CA and, I think, one other place, and Otto in London). The viability
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by mseebach 9y ago
I'm curious as to how they measure hours worked, to come up with the per-hour figure. The brief of the study doesn't mention it at all.
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by mseebach 9y ago
It's shocking that a short listicle on a site named "Nuggets of Thought" would have such a quality to it.
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by mseebach 9y ago
In my (limited) experience with Lambda, there's nothing inherently complex about it. Yes, there's a learning curve, as with anything, but that's a one-off cost. Once you know how, you write the function in a very similar envi
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by mseebach 9y ago
> You could serve 80% of the payroll burden with software that cost $10m. 90% coverage costs $100m. 98% costs $1,000m. And 100% costs $∞ I read something in a trade journal probably probably about 15 years ago, that really stuck with me:
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by mseebach 9y ago
> I also think two pedigree guys from XYZ asset management firm launching a SaaS company will find it easier to raise capital from VCs than a solo founder. If you can sign and retain customers at ~$15k-$100k/yr with any kind of scal
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by mseebach 9y ago
> You can always bring in your friend later on when you need a "management role". Also worth keeping in mind that general purpose managers (as opposed to subject matter specialists taking on managerial tasks) is probably at le
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by mseebach 9y ago
The point is that it's on you to articulate the value of what you're doing. Some activities are "batteries included" when it comes to metrics, but a great many aren't. If fixing bugs in the data pipeline is indeed v
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by mseebach 9y ago
I think that's a simplification. Facebook owns an audience, a huge and (until last month) easily accessible audience. Companies built on renting that particular audience are going to have a bad time, but that doesn't mean all au
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by mseebach 9y ago
That's the bit where the GGP's "optimising for the right factors", or something adjacent to it comes in. Many things can't be objectively measured, and upon realising that, many techies give up. But there is subject
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by mseebach 9y ago
The general idea is that the things that would impress a promotion committee are things that you have done, that are good for the company. That, of course, is not the truth everywhere, but anecdotally it's a lot truer than most people
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by mseebach 9y ago
Yes, if you're selling product to a wholesaler, you should expect to be paid wholesale prices. The alternative is just a subsidy.
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by mseebach 9y ago
The people willing to widely share their opinions aren't always the same people whose opinions matter when it comes to actually making decisions.

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