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by nataz 5y ago
I'll second this comment. Armchair evaluation of CEOs suffers from survivorship bias. Decent/good CEO keeps the business moving. A bad CEO can sink a company. Boards/owners (dependant on corporate structure) can mitigate resu
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by nataz 5y ago
Yay, another Rick Beato fan. Found him over the pandemic. Great music theory/engineering/producer channel.
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by nataz 5y ago
Oh man, the industry expectation of delayed payment was my largest headache as an independent contractor. When I was first starting out, and still struggling to get a good stable of clients, delayed payment was often something I let slide i
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by nataz 6y ago
Generally when you are on salary, you get paid a set amount of money for some number of hours worked annually. You don't get paid different rates for different work. While it is possible to have a salary position with expected outputs
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by nataz 6y ago
If you miss a deadline or delay the launch of a product does the company dock your base pay? Look, I'm not saying you shouldn't optimize for your own goals. You do you, no judgement. What I am saying is that running a successful c
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by nataz 6y ago
It's not a counterpoint, both statements are true. Also, the post was in response to why do managers feel this way, not how do I feel personally. The company pays you $$$ in exchange for your time and talent. That's the deal. You
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by nataz 6y ago
Because $/resources are fungible, and your task isn't the only thing in the organization that needs resources. Assuming you are on salary, if you can legitimately do something in half the time, great, you should then move on to do
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by nataz 6y ago
This is one of the most important lessons driven people have to learn!
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by nataz 6y ago
If you are only going to visit one location, or if you have young kids, or you want to hit up the other smithsonian museum's the Air and Space museum on the mall takes priority. That said, I've been to the Air and Space museum a h
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by nataz 6y ago
The more famous Smithsonian Air and Space museum is in D.C. right on the national mall, maybe 10 min from national airport (technicality in virginia, but right next to DC). You visited the udvar-hazy center which is out by Dulles airport in
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by nataz 6y ago
The kindle is probably a good test case for this hypothesis. The base version has an option to show ads on the off screen for a nominally reduced purchase price. I wonder how many people choose ads. I also wonder what kind of price sensitiv
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by nataz 6y ago
location: DC metro area Remote: No Willing to relocate: No Technologies: link analysis tools, remote sensing, data visualization and GIS (tableau, SIG-IMINT analysis) Résumé/CV: Not a software dev, but I do have a track record of manag
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by nataz 6y ago
>>People kill people with avalanches That one hits close to home. When I was about 20 yo my friend and I were almost killed in an avalanche. It was an early spring slab climb, after a hard New England winter. Sunny, blue skies, unseas
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by nataz 6y ago
Maybe I missed it on your website or your post, but when will you be up and running?
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by nataz 6y ago
Ha, I'm currently a federal government program manager, so I am thinking about it from the government's side right now. I've also been a consultant cog in a mega-corp and run my own small consulting business, so I've see
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by nataz 6y ago
This guy gets it. Development is literally the simplest part of the problem set. The intersection of domain expertise, contracting/procurement creativity, and technical evaluation is the tough part to wrangle. Getting to the point wher
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by nataz 6y ago
It's a lot harder to get a missile to turn around. In theory (specifically US nuclear deterrence) each leg of the nuclear triad has a different purpose (and institutional stakeholders). Bombers flying at a target are slow enough that i
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by nataz 6y ago
Good luck. A lot of "if" statements in your comment. The ones I saw were clearly not manufactured in the USA, and based on the comment sections were clearly understood to be suppressor components. Lots of YouTube/internet &qu
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by nataz 6y ago
Interestingly enough, after I reported the first two ads I was shown I clicked on a link that was supposed to show why I was targeted. The companies had targeted me by gender and age, and a couple of other broad identifiers I cant remember,
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by nataz 6y ago
I'm seeing adds for illegal pistol and rifle suppressors (aka "silencers") only barely disguised as "fuel filters" and "solvent traps". The companies selling the suppressor kits claim they are legitimate a
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by nataz 6y ago
I grew up in Maine and pursued all three hobbies. Climbing in Acadia and the White Mountains, surfing on the coast, and skiing at Sugarloaf or Sunday River (or the white mountains). Surfing and skiing were hardly world class, but both sport
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by nataz 6y ago
location: DC metro area Remote: No Willing to relocate: No Technologies: link analysis tools, remote sensing, data visualization and GIS (tableau, SIG-IMINT analysis) Résumé/CV: Not a software dev, but I do have a track record of manag
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by nataz 6y ago
Most of the glasses I've seen online are scams. Just plastic lens with UV blocking. The ones that come with a "special blue light Lazer" to demonstrate that's it's working are definitely a scam. In order to block bl
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by nataz 6y ago
National Labs (and sites, e.g. Y-12) are either DOE or NNSA facilities. The government uses a government owned, contractor operated M&O (management and operations) contract to run the labs. M&O contractors are usually public/pr
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by nataz 6y ago
Federal civil service does not let you retire with full salary. With 20 years of service (plus minimum age requirement) you'll get about 25% of the average salary of your top three years.
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by nataz 6y ago
To be fair, GS-12 isn't that common in some agencies. Because of hiring wickets, you'll see a lot more GS-11 or 13. I don't know any GS-12s that don't have a Masters. Most would have come in as an 11 with a Masters, then
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by nataz 6y ago
location: DC metro area Remote: No Willing to relocate: No Technologies: link analysis tools, remote sensing, data visualization and GIS (tableau, SIG-IMINT analysis) Résumé/CV: Not a software dev, but I do have a track record of manag
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by nataz 6y ago
It's not a cover for a 3 letter agency, Energy IS a three letter agency. Most people don't actually know what DOE is. For starters, it's officially one of the 17 USG intelligence agencies. It houses the national nuclear secur
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by nataz 6y ago
Valid point. Weird in its own way. White is a skin tone, Asian is a geographic location. Defending either definition would be an exercise in absurdity and I'm not even going to try.
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by nataz 6y ago
Man, I remember appplying to colleges and being rather selective about how I self identified. I'm half Asian, and half "white" (which is weird in itself because it's technically a bunch of different races bundled into on

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