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by muench 5y ago
COBRA means you’re still getting insurance through your (former) employer. How much does the same insurance benefit cost if you buy it fully on your own? In my experience you can’t even buy a similar plan as an individual. And definitely no
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by muench 5y ago
It seems yes there is a reason if you need integrals. From TFA: "You can also try having Wolfram Alpha compute it, and it will time out. We will need to be more creative."
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by muench 5y ago
One of the editors of that book wrote about Derek Jones’s book “I think (at least I hope) this will influence software engineering education [more] than anything I've ever done” https://twitter.com/gvwilson/status&
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by muench 6y ago
Greg Wilson writes about a useful tool for thinking about types of documentation [0] incorporating the novice-competent practitioner-expert framework. It looks like he was at least partly inspired by this article [1]. [0] https:/&#x2F
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by muench 6y ago
Something like "But I'd suggest..." is a good example for using "'And' NOT Bbut'" [0] to avoid the connotation of contradiction implied when using 'but'. Very useful like in this case where
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by muench 7y ago
I find this quote very powerful. I'm thinking I could re-use it. Is it yours or if it's sourced from somewhere could you share the source?
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by muench 9y ago
Thanks for the summary and links. You seem very familiar with the topic, are there any books you recommend on this?
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by muench 9y ago
The distance from earth to the moon is 384,400 km, and in the smaller detail picture that earth to moon distance is about 23 pixels. Or about 16,700 km per pixel. And note they describe that small picture as "zoomed in", So I figu
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by muench 10y ago
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Steve Blank has been saying this since 2011 when the economist hosted a debate between Blank and Ben Horowitz. All respect to Steve Blank though for his other work. The Economist seems to have broke
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by muench 11y ago
Thank you for the most insightful comment on this story. I find it bizarre that so many are unable to understand that making the decision to 'kill' wasabi today does not necessarily mean that it was a mistake. This whole story is
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In Conversation with Ben Horowitz at Columbia – The Hard Thing About Hard Things(youtube.com)
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by muench 13y ago
Does anyone have a recommendation for a good primer on IPv6? Is there something significantly better than reading the IPv6 wikipedia page or googling 'IPv6 primer'?
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by muench 13y ago
thanks, you're right. edited it now. I'd claim that I subconsciously 'corrected' it, but let's be honest: what good would a post about a typical HR error be without a typical programmer error!
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by muench 13y ago
Agile is only 12 years old [1], so it might be related to the old programmer joke about HR posting job ads that require 'x' years experience with 'y' year-old tech, for some x > y. But that's grasping at straws,
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by muench 13y ago
We believe the best defense is a good offense. (fixed that for you!)
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by muench 14y ago
This link from the article on his analysis of preventing the Super Bowl power failure is pure gold: http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2013/02/04/ThePowerFailureS...
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by muench 14y ago
The link in the original post labeled "high frequency quoting" led to a page [1] that makes a more concrete claim. Basically they say that the NBBO (national best bid and offer) are being manipulated to be small when there is no trading and
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by muench 14y ago
That's an award of $52 million restricted stock units for compensation in 2010. If he had $52 billion in apple stock he'd be near the top of the list of billionaires.