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by oconnore 7y ago
Whether or not they can afford a bottom quartile home is a different question than whether it's reasonable to expect them to afford a median home (and I don't think we have any evidence regarding that question here). They certainl
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by oconnore 7y ago
> Cranks and pedals are not a solution at all if we decide to cling to an energy-intensive lifestyle - but then, neither is any other renewable (or even non-renewable) energy source. The main problem with our approach to pedal powered ma
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by oconnore 7y ago
I love that your website is “god arch[itecture].com”. Was that intentional?
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by oconnore 7y ago
> Yes, a part of that might involve involuntary commitment to an institution (though CA has lost its ability to do that for the most part), but... damn, "wall these people off from the rest of society"? That's pretty heart
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by oconnore 7y ago
Did they discuss that with Amazon prior to publishing? That seems like a completely silly assumption to make for a product that’s been around for only 13 years.
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by oconnore 8y ago
Why were you unwilling to lean into the process? You could have said: these OKRs have to describe my actual work... here are my attempts to document what that means, and what to look for if I do a good job at that. If they had pushed back o
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by oconnore 8y ago
This is the usual salary vs. contractor thing. You can almost always make more as a contractor because you're shifting risk from the company onto your LLC. They pay for a la carte results instead of paying for an employee who could hyp
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by oconnore 8y ago
The New York Times has been running a series of hit pieces on McKinsey over the last few months. see: https://www.nytimes.com/by/michael-forsythe#latest-panel
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by oconnore 8y ago
How on earth did this turn into an ad hominem about my technical pride? Because I’m ok with slowing down the pace of a conversation?
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by oconnore 8y ago
For real time communication— I’m not sure why people find high latency to be so difficult. You just pretend everybody is taking a moment to think. Virtual “talking sticks”, or radio etiquette is not hard to add either. What is difficult is
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by oconnore 8y ago
Total chaos. Even when we were 20 people in an office folks coming in for interviews or to fix the WiFi/Coffee machine/plumbing would either be totally lost, or the person sitting near the door would be significantly burdened with
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by oconnore 8y ago
This seems totally reasonable. Google is primarily focused on building Chrome -- a product, with business oriented product goals. Anyone using Chromium has already agreed to be a tag-along. That was always part of the deal. In general I fin
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by oconnore 8y ago
Lots of things are path dependent. Probably the threat of an unmaintained email client is why they got enough donations to hire full time developers.
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by oconnore 8y ago
> Change my mind? 1) regulators are bringing first rounds of sanctions against Google, Facebook, and large Banks. 2) the sort of data GDPR protects is typically only valuable for larger companies -- you're definitely not running a s
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by oconnore 8y ago
These things are not vaporware [1], and the claim (by experienced operators) is a fairly conservative 7-10% fuel savings. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotor_ship#/media/File:Uni-Kat...
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by oconnore 8y ago
My point basically boils down to this: making parental leave about something other than enabling parents to recover and take care of their kids is really kludgey, and probably would have made our experience of raising our son more difficult
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by oconnore 8y ago
I meant valuable in terms of what I was contributing to the family ... when I took 9 months of part-time paternity leave. I feel like you didn’t really think about what I was saying. All of this was the result of lots of planning and long d
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by oconnore 8y ago
This seems really heavy handed. In my experience what’s valuable for men is flexibility, not some set number of weeks you have 100% off. I (as a father) went back to work at Fivetran 4 weeks after my son was born, but at 20 hours a week. Th
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Data Warehouse Benchmark: Redshift, Snowflake, Azure, Presto, BigQuery(fivetran.com)
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by oconnore 8y ago
Yesterday there was a thread about predicting negative consequences of tech, and the dominant narrative was “how could lowly CS folks predict the future”. But is anyone really surprised here?
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by oconnore 8y ago
> not everything maps 1 to 1 from real world to digital world We are in violent agreement. The point is not that digital learning is bad. It's that people are making hand wavy assumptions about it being good without much evidence, w
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by oconnore 8y ago
Smart kids reading and writing a year before kindergarten is not a new phenomenon since the development of education apps. It’s wonderful that she’s doing that, though!
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by oconnore 8y ago
That’s not obvious. You are saying that “shadows of the real thing” have more value than other ways they could spend that energy, which seems unlikely. If you want to let your kids play video games, fine, but the hand waving to support your
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by oconnore 8y ago
Perfect is the enemy of good.
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by oconnore 8y ago
If ddg registered gogle.com and gooogle.com would you think that’s fair play, too?
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by oconnore 8y ago
Think about the 1700s, when printing presses had existed for a few hundred years (since 1439) to transfer data between people. Books were expensive, though. Would you have been able to imagine that in 1975, printed paper would be created ea
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by oconnore 8y ago
It's a shame that there isn't the regulatory flexibility to subsidize desalination plants, because desalination plants are sort of like insurance policies in that you usually don't need them that much until a drought hits and
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by oconnore 8y ago
This is a really weird critique of the idea that people with fewer opportunities should be given a few more chances to show their skills. It's directly increasing the metric you're interested in, but you're still against it f
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by oconnore 8y ago
What online service is giving you 480mbps or better?
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by oconnore 8y ago
> Locale should be picked up from the surrounding system; it's just that unfortunately the surrounding system is usually not configured correctly. And around and around we go

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