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by mwfunk 10y ago
Smoking weed is not going to get you fired anywhere , except for the worst jobs in the worst places. Any place that does regular drug testing and/or cares one teeny tiny itsy bitsy bit about employees smoking weed when they're no
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Another way to look at it is that the activity being done in the big company is usually going to be much larger scale and affect many more people than the activity being done at the startup- those small groups of startup people pushing thro
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by mwfunk 10y ago
That's one thing I don't understand. It's great if used as an an aid to quitting, like nicotine gum, but I don't understand why someone would use them otherwise. A nonsmoker buying nicotine gum would be just as crazy. I
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by mwfunk 10y ago
You could say that about almost anything though. I don't need to post on HN, but that fact alone wouldn't justify a tax on HN posting.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Yes, but how? As an American I can try to vote for politicians that are opposed to meddling in the region, but the most that would do is create a non-meddling America. That's not going to affect the policies of other countries. In fact
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by mwfunk 10y ago
This is pretty common with tech stocks. People buy on rumors and sell on news, even if the news is good. I don't get it but that seems to be the pattern. Example: say BigTechCo will be releasing earnings reports a week from now. BigTec
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Why do you think that should be part of the curriculum?
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by mwfunk 10y ago
No, you intuited that that's what the poster meant. :) It's not like this isn't a well-documented phenomenon. I can't even tell you how many times this or that politician, analyst, blogger, or forum poster has defended s
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by mwfunk 10y ago
In my experience, there's a lot of two-way communication and decision-making with good managers and good employees (and perhaps even more is required with bad managers and good employees...). The higher up the org chart someone is, the
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Just because someone has a different opinion doesn't mean you have to strawman them. I don't think he was saying that at all, it read like he was just trying to understand the engineering decisions by trying to understand what the
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Purely anecdotal, but my wild-assed guess is that most middle class Americans spend $20-30k on one every 4-5 years. Some people are enthusiasts and will spend more than that on the same timetable, and some people are extra frugal and will s
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by mwfunk 10y ago
They're still not complying with the GPL though? It's completely cut and dried, it's not an argument where people can have differing opinions with varying degrees of validity. The GPL is a very well-known and widely understoo
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Hannity's an entertainer, not an analyst. The ratings are from the political entertainment industry feeding off of people's darkest fears and pumping them full of imaginary outrage so they can feed off of them some more. It's
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by mwfunk 10y ago
There are plenty of people here in the US that think it's just as strange. I don't get it either.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I don't completely disagree, but who is at fault there? Most people are >= 18 when they go to college. They're adults, and parents are usually also involved in planning how to finance their children's college education. If
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I wonder if the hacked email dumps have actually helped Clinton at this point. Unless the goal was to pull back the curtain and reveal that they're all a bunch of...thoughtful, informed, intelligent, passionate, articulate, ambitious p
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I'm very much in favor of the concept of keeping government as local as possible/practical, but it's possible that the poster wasn't dismissing the idea, rather how the principle tends to be applied in practice. I freque
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I think it's a really common form of irrationality (or cognitive bias?). Antivaxers, 9/11 truthers, moon landing skeptics, Holocaust skeptics, etc. are the same way. I think part of the appeal is that it's more comforting for
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Let's be clear: using the $ was NEVER cool by any stretch of the imagination, it was just a lot more common in the Internet of the '90s. The people who thought it was cool were always the same people who think it's funny to m
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by mwfunk 10y ago
If the endeavor is selling a product for use in a highly regulated industry where the failure case is death, then of course you have to work with regulatory agencies. It's not like the automotive industry is a mysterious minefield hidd
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I'm curious if going public would lead to more transparency about what they do and for whom. Enron was famously opaque to its own investors until it was too late, but I would hope that public companies have greater requirements for tra
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by mwfunk 10y ago
They do security updates for previous releases.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Much more negatively, I would assume. I know I'm much more inclined to cut MS some slack just because it's exciting to see them try new and interesting things. They're still making the computer equivalent of concept cars here
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by mwfunk 10y ago
They're the least cringey maybe, I don't think anyone considers them to be high art or anything though (certainly not in the last 5 years). Large PR events for the mass media are always going to be at least a little cringey, no ma
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Thunderbolt is an Intel standard, Apple was just an early adopter.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Different people are different. Crazy huh?
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I don't think that's the only reason someone might express skepticism of Musk at this point. They might want Musk to succeed at these things very, very much, but fear that his sketchier tendencies might lead to failure.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Yep. Its also asymmetric- people who like open plans can be 100% productive in an office, but that doesn't apply the other way around. Also, IME the biggest proponents of open plans among engineers tend to be people who WANT to pester
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by mwfunk 10y ago
NTFS has a functional equivalent to soft links in the form of reparse points, although I don't know to what degree that feature is exposed in the UI, if at all. Last time I looked into it (admittedly, years ago) they could only be crea
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by mwfunk 10y ago
In the tech industry it seems like growth (or perceived growth potential) is the only thing that matters, profitability far less so (Amazon for example). Growth is what makes stock go up, so investors want to see growth every single quarter

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