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Team finds and restores Mullard Blackburn vacuum tube manufacturing equipment
3 points by philpem 8y ago|1 comments
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by philpem 8y ago
Sounds a bit like "sign-blindness". When you put so many warning signs on something that they all just fade into the noise...
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by philpem 8y ago
This only really works with governments which give a damn about public perception. If rolling strikes on national infrastructure and marches in the streets won't do it, where next?
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by philpem 8y ago
Or companies based in Europe... so move your server farm and HQ to the US, stick up a handy "451 Unavailable for Legal Reasons" linking to a "find your MSP and email them about this" page... and you're done.
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by philpem 8y ago
Can't say I didn't expect this, or the politicians' "I can't and don't have to tell you why I voted like that" attitude. (see ericdykstra's comment). Maybe this is the one single solitary positive to
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by philpem 8y ago
"Only half of people talk to their employer about health and MH issues" Well there might be something systemic there.. like the culture of a lot of companies to "manage out" what they see as "troublesome" emplo
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by philpem 8y ago
These are usually the first clauses I query ;) This works pretty well as a response: "Okay so I maintain some open-source stuff, it's all on Github. I appreciate you want to maintain your IP, and I agree to give you first-refusal
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by philpem 8y ago
This is the first time I've heard of the Dead Sea Effect, I just had to look it up. Thanks for the informative post, it explains a lot about "churn" in a few organisations I've worked for in the past.
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by philpem 8y ago
I'll second this. So many bugs become easy to solve when you try to explain the problem to a co-worker. At my last job, we had a rubber-duck in the middle of the development floor. The first test was "Explain your problem to Ducky
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by philpem 8y ago
Definitely a big thing for me. I've spent a couple of years as the "smartest person in the room". As much as it's great to teach, but it's even better to learn. Or maybe that's just me. The skill gap has been h
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by philpem 8y ago
The difference is, it's rarely an on-the-spot firing (at least in the UK). There are usually a few levels of "performance improvement" / "how can we help you get back on track?" before you get anywhere near &qu
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by philpem 8y ago
A literal Rockstar head of development. Wow. :)
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by philpem 8y ago
Excessive check-box rulemaking certainly does. Clean-desk policies, bans on "personal items" (want a photo of your family on your desk? nope), strict uniform policies ("failure to wear the company polo shirt AND jumper, even
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by philpem 8y ago
I'd argue that any company who'd judge me based on the colour of my tie, or (hypothetically) the Pride entry wristband I forgot to take off -- is probably not one I'd want to work at long-term. (Experience bears this out, tho
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by philpem 8y ago
3%! Luxury! Best I've pulled off for sitting around is 0.9%pa. "I have an offer from OtherCo. But I'd like to stay here. Could you match it?" "We don't negotiate salaries."
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by philpem 8y ago
What a great idea! Might be tricky to make this work with fine-pitch QFPs, but for QFN and wide-pitch ICs (e.g. SOIC) I can see this working really well.
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by philpem 8y ago
"Milkshake Duck is a valued and respected member of the organisation and has been here many years..."
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by philpem 8y ago
I give it five minutes before this is on all the plagiarism checker of all those "coding challenge" sites recruiters/HR love to throw out in pre-interview screening...
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by philpem 8y ago
See my post upthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17505091
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by philpem 8y ago
Fair point... except ARM were kind enough to leave the main infographic on their own website as of two minutes ago. https://www.arm.com/-/media/global/company/arm-risc-v-infogr... Probably fair to assume