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by ojbyrne 3y ago
Some luck perhaps, but also a reputation (well deserved imo) of working very very hard for a very long time. His predilection for 4 hour long concerts was well known in the eighties.
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by ojbyrne 4y ago
Seems like a typo. There is a federal correctional facility in Bryan, Texas: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Prison_Camp,_Bryan
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by ojbyrne 4y ago
It's right next to I-40, so if you happen to be driving from the east coast to the west coast on that highway (as I once did), it's hard to miss.
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by ojbyrne 4y ago
I got to meet Ed Yourdon several years ago (he came to interview me, amazingly). No one else at the company knew who he was.
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by ojbyrne 4y ago
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bard Most commonly associated with William Shakespeare.
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by ojbyrne 4y ago
I had similar experiences in the 90s. CASE and 4GLs were the bogeymen of choice.
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by ojbyrne 4y ago
I found myself thinking that yes, you should still learn to code, but no you probably shouldn’t bother to write blog posts about why you should still learn to code.
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by ojbyrne 4y ago
"The one standout is Triplebyte. Their graduates are 6 percentage points more likely to pass interviews —a serious boost, albeit not enough to dispel the negative signal that all the others carry." I believe that interviewing.io a
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by ojbyrne 4y ago
Define “invest.” Banks invest. That’s literally what they do. People deposit their money rather than put it under their mattress, and the banks reward them by giving extra money to them. Then the banks figure out a way to put that money so
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by ojbyrne 4y ago
I think the point the previous commentator was trying to make was, why can't they let them expire and issue new options/RSUs of equivalent value to the same people.
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by ojbyrne 4y ago
A comment further down says the sale price was 3.5 billion dollars, revenue of the company is $600 million. If the profit margin is 10% (not unreasonable for a regulated utility) that works out to an interest rate of 1.7%. So basically a $3
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by ojbyrne 4y ago
https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/for-95-percent-of-human...
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by ojbyrne 4y ago
Yeah, it's a deceptive headline. In the article it says "For those who have been with the online behemoth the longest, up to 50% of their total income is balanced on market outcomes." So if it goes to zero. Though presumably
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by ojbyrne 4y ago
My understanding is that the campus they took over from Sun was all offices until Facebook ripped them out.
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by ojbyrne 4y ago
There may be a reasonable qualitative argument to favor Velocity over Impact, but the pseudo-quantitative argument made in the article is not really useful. You could easily adjust the numbers chosen to support the exact opposite argument.
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by ojbyrne 4y ago
My experience is that AI is generally better than humans at _syntax_. Leaving a word out seems to be exclusive to (rushed) humans.
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by ojbyrne 4y ago
“Meta did not immediately to Engadget’s comment request.” I don’t really see much value to the numerous hurried regurgitations of the original story (from the Financial Times), though I guess this link is a form of that. The beatings will c
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by ojbyrne 4y ago
Before the tech layoffs we have had: 1. A global pandemic that has killed nearly 7 million people worldwide. 2. The start of a large war between a nuclear power and a country in Europe supported by another nuclear power. 3. Minor thing, an
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by ojbyrne 4y ago
The entire article is about wash sales, basically describing ways to circumvent the rules.
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by ojbyrne 4y ago
When I did that, KDE did not give me a popup, and also there's no browser installed. Had to install Firefox over a phone hotspot. Not a great experience.
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by ojbyrne 4y ago
One minor but glaring thing for me is it’s really challenging to connect to any Wi-Fi (hotel, airplane) that requires accessing a webpage to acknowledge T & Cs. This seems like a core use case.
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by ojbyrne 4y ago
As someone who was laid off, this is because while the announcement was in November, the WARN period meant we were all on the payroll until into 2023.
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by ojbyrne 4y ago
I don’t think that’s correct. They announced a future increase of $40 billion. And I don’t think share repurchases affects net income anyway.
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by ojbyrne 4y ago
I believe they’ve talked about this on earnings before, as an area with very significant potential for increasing monetization.
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by ojbyrne 4y ago
Right in the first section: “ Free Cash Flow3 was $78 million in Q4 2022, compared to $161 million in Q4 2021.”
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by ojbyrne 4y ago
I think “As Return to Office Stalls” is a bit of wishful thinking. 18000 employees gone, probably more to go, trimming real estate is just another cost cutting measure.
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by ojbyrne 4y ago
The headline seems to describe the rest of the story. A bill was introduced to ban TikTok nationwide, and according to the article there is "increasing pressure" on the executive branch to introduce a nationwide ban.
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by ojbyrne 4y ago
Today: https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS50146623
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by ojbyrne 4y ago
Maybe it's just me, but when I have done that, the first one or two are the hardest, then you get in a groove, and become more aware that its just a numbers game.
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by ojbyrne 4y ago
There’s an arrow right next to January 2023 in the date selector.

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