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by pards 5y ago
> What happens when you have a restricted pool of people, but insist on doing 100s of things? Some leaders simply treat this as an "org structure" problem, not a problem of focus. They slice and dice the org until the 30 peo
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by pards 5y ago
> In my experience a lot of engineers leave because they feel that they deserve to be promoted I've found the opposite. Nothing will make an engineer resign faster than promoting them to tech lead.
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by pards 5y ago
Read "Playing the Moldovans at Tennis". According to that book, most of the manhole covers had been stolen for scrap.
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Ask HN: Why did Chrome stop auto-updating?
2 points by pards 5y ago|1 comments
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by pards 5y ago
In Canada, there's a large gap between full-time and contract rates but it's nothing new - it's been that way for at least 15 years. Companies here address the gap through other forms of compensation like discretionary bonuse
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by pards 6y ago
The 2nd link is a duplicate. Here's the correct one The 5 Stupidest Habits You Develop Growing Up Poor: * ( https://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-stupidest-habits-you-deve... )
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by pards 6y ago
TD Bank in Canada require the use of Expedia to redeem travel points on some of their credit cards. They run their own version of it, too, under the sketchy "tdrewards.com" domain (instead of the unspoofable rewards.td.com).
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by pards 6y ago
Logitech's line of Harmony remotes were (are?) great for this. Physical buttons, programmable sequences, and a touch screen.
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by pards 6y ago
Same in Sydney, Australia - it's 'give way' signs or roundabouts, and they're much more efficient IMHO. Mythbusters did an episode on it, too, which supports my view. There are very few 'yield' intersections he
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by pards 6y ago
Is there a good solution for only building the projects that have changed? We looked at bazel.build but found it to be too complex.
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by pards 6y ago
> Code is law Oh please! Remember the Ethereum fork? It's mob rule at best. If code was law then the founders of Ethereum would be broke having lost their fortunes to the genius that exploited a bug in their code.
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by pards 6y ago
I'm ok working from home - I just wish the Ontario government would reopen schools so the kids weren't cooped in the house all day. The biggest downside to WFH for me has been the significant increase in synchronous meetings. Whil
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by pards 6y ago
I'm in Canada. In 2010 my son was unwell, having issues with lethargy, balance and vomiting. We took him to the local children's hospital and he had a CT scan within 2 hours and an MRI an hour after that. As part of his ongoing tr
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by pards 6y ago
There's a small typo on the main page: >> CorePlus ofers a simple way...
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by pards 6y ago
Koho Financial Inc. processed more than $1-million in allegedly fraudulent transactions after users exploited a glitch. The transactions took place between July, 2019, and early March, 2020. In all, there were more than 1,000 transactions t
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Glitch in Koho Financial system led to fraudulent transactions(theglobeandmail.com)
1 points by pards 6y ago|1 comments
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by pards 6y ago
To be fair, this is how placement agencies work for contract staff here in Canada, too. The agent maintains separate contracts with the client and the candidate and takes a cut (often 30-40%) for the duration of the contract. In return for
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by pards 6y ago
Hahaha ... has that ever worked?
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by pards 6y ago
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/cor... Ontario is now doing contact tracing
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by pards 6y ago
As a Canadian, I find this disgraceful. This data breach poses a significant and life-long financial risk to all those impacted. For example, insurance companies could obtain this data and use it to increase premiums for individuals they de
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by pards 6y ago
> What bothered me was this feeling of being ruled by the habit. This. It only became apparent to me when I was out of my usual routine such as while travelling abroad or attending a training seminar. I hated that vacations were punctuat
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by pards 6y ago
I did it for about 3 months while backpacking around South America in 2007 (before smartphones). I occasionally use the internet via 'internet cafes' to send a few emails and to research destinations. I kept a hand-written journ
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Vantablack(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by pards 7y ago|0 comments
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by pards 7y ago
Pre-authorized payments for bills (phone, gas, electricity etc). There are so many upsides to this: - Zero stress - Avoids late charges - Improves credit rating (see previous point) Edit: formatting
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by pards 7y ago
This is a great suggestion - many of the big name consulting companies (Accenture, Ernst & Young, McKinsey, CGI, Capco) will happily subcontract out the work that they've sold, or bring on external consultants to fill out a team.
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by pards 7y ago
> To find old friends, and find that they’re gone That line almost made me cry.
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by pards 7y ago
This. The 'working holiday' program offered by many countries is such a wonderful opportunity. It's a shame more don't take advantage of it. The British call it a Gap Year, but it's common in many cultures (Australi
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by pards 7y ago
The review is written by the university that employs him, and the book was published by another university. This sounds like an echo chamber.
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by pards 8y ago
This is such a heart-warming tale. As one who's struggled to cook on my father-in-law's Big Green Egg, I fully understand the need for such a controller. Cooking on the Egg always fills me with performance anxiety. The world nee
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by pards 8y ago
Out of the tarpit. Moseley & Marks 2006 http://shaffner.us/cs/papers/tarpit.pdf

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