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by mseebach 8y ago
"Smart" isn't a single-dimensional space where you're either smarter or dumber than someone else. You're probably a lot smarter about your domain than anyone else, including top brass. The trick is that those other
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by mseebach 8y ago
It's a really poor metaphor, though. ICOs are stupid, but really easy to avoid (just don't put money into them). Certainly not "awful" in the way losing a loved one to an early, excruciating death is. They're not de
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by mseebach 8y ago
> I never understood this logic. How is Kara being offended a smart and socially conscious decision? Because Kara is a human, and humans are weird, emotional creatures. Our primary instinct is to scan any interaction for signs of attack.
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by mseebach 8y ago
When we do destructive testing in engineering, it's because we know for a fact that stuff fails for any or no reason, and while it might be rare, it happens all the time at scale. When the framers of the constitution designed strong se
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by mseebach 8y ago
It's not an exhaustive, binary checklist, they are signals to watch out for. They are basically surrogates for trust. If you're selling something that looks like it might have been stolen, you have to come up with a compelling rea
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by mseebach 8y ago
Then spend the 20 minutes, or don't. Writing "the answer to your question exists" isn't a meaningful contribution.
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by mseebach 8y ago
If you're buying something expensive, require an original invoice and check that the serial number matches. If someone is apprehensive about that, somehow they lost the invoice for the brand new unopened PS4 they bought last week, or s
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by mseebach 8y ago
Not spending time considering hypotheticals you don't imagine to be true at all is a pretty rational thing to do.
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by mseebach 8y ago
Is flatware logistics really a separate field? I get that the general logistics of handling "cabin consumables" is a big deal, but it seems to me that most flatware is integrated in the food carts? Semi-relevant anecdote: I once r
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by mseebach 8y ago
> This is interesting, so are these like a rogue group of MP's who actually take their job seriously and think government should return to its non-theatre basis? This is possible, but the theatrical value of these (televised) hearin
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by mseebach 8y ago
> Further, there's no good literature on what one's supposed to do in this case, or how to architect one's organization to be resilient to such situations. Perhaps not specifically tailored for open source software project
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by mseebach 8y ago
For years? That's very out of sync with my experiences. Yes, since 2012, it's generally been feasible to find a taxi that accepts cards, but far from the default experience. I took a black cab from the rank at Paddington almost ev
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by mseebach 8y ago
There's something awe-inspiring of big halls full of identical racks fitted with identical machines, with thick, even bundles of colourful network cables straining against their strips. Each unit -- of row, rack, server -- anonymously,
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by mseebach 8y ago
Seems highly unlikely, at a quick glance there's no overlap. From the FAQ: > Why the name “Salsify”? > It's not a very interesting reason. Salsify comes from an older project called “ALFalfa,” for the use of Application Laye
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by mseebach 8y ago
The problem is that the proposed solution doesn't "count" for the purposes of this experiment, which uses a great circle definition of "straight". The easiest way to visualise a great circle, is to place a piece of
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by mseebach 8y ago
I think that is considered idempotent in the REST-sense of the word: you can multiply a number by two as many times as you like, the result will be the same (and no state is mutated). I looked it up, apparently there's a formal definit
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by mseebach 8y ago
I'm pretty sure euthanizing a dog by gunshot (if done properly) has never legally been considered animal cruelty. It's very common in rural areas. There's something mildy shocking about the whole affair, especially the contra
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by mseebach 8y ago
No, doesn't bother me. I'm pretty comfortable with the idea that when I want to look for a new job, the onus is on me to articulate what I want to do, and in the meantime, the cold emails give me a bit of intelligence into what&#x
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by mseebach 8y ago
> Email was meant to be Email isn't a religion and originalism isn't a meaningful framework for analysis. Email started as a simple answer to a simple question, and has evolved from there to answer increasing hard questions. Th
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by mseebach 8y ago
It's not "secure" and it's not "enforced", at least not in the strict senses of those words. It's a protection against accidents and carelessness, sensitive information being reply-all'd around in lon
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by mseebach 8y ago
Have you tried actually asking for that? It is counterproductive (and a bit arrogant) to assume that other people, especially strangers, are able to deduce what aspects of a job you care about. My observation is that the recruiters cold-ema
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by mseebach 8y ago
Slack has a scheduled do not disturb feature, you can set a period every day when you don't want to be disturbed by notifications. If someone DMs you, Slackbot tells them that you're in do not disturb (and gives them the option to
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by mseebach 8y ago
But was the alternative in that case to fire the two employees? It sounds more like the case that they wanted to cut the product. Specifically, in the case of the article, spinning off the redundant employees leaving them in a new firm with
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by mseebach 8y ago
You seem to imply that those top people receiving these large compensations are obviously unfairly and massively overpaid, and that this is an uncontroversial fact. This clearly isn't the perception at that level. At least some number
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by mseebach 8y ago
Can you elaborate on the idea that companies should spin off departments? On the face of it, I don't see how that could work, but I probably don't understand your idea fully.
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by mseebach 8y ago
But surely that's due to environmental pollution, not any (human) health concerns?
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by mseebach 8y ago
EasyJet and especially Norwegian are "premium Ryanair" products. They are rarely as cheap as Ryanair, but still cheaper than legacy. The hard product is pretty comparable, but the whole experience feels a bit more toned down and l
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by mseebach 8y ago
> Expect people to abandon in droves when similarly priced travel comes along. I would expect Ryanair to be fine with that. Their business model is that a very large subset of passengers select their flights based on price, and price alo
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by mseebach 8y ago
They're not arbitrary, they are well know and well documented, to the point of being really, really annoying for those of us who knows we don't want them. They were perhaps a bit unconventional ten years ago, but perfectly middle
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by mseebach 8y ago
No, a hibernated machine is powered off, you're thinking of standby. Hibernation dumps a memory image to disk which is then loaded on next boot. As laptop standby power modes has gotten much better, and memory sizes bigger, hibernation

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