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by phonebanshee 6y ago
To be fair, companies don't get to make that excuse. Having pockets of bad is the definition of a bad company.
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by phonebanshee 6y ago
I don't have a lot of experience with hospitals, but what I do have (via relative with life-threatening heart issues, including most recently a pacemaker) says that "I was feeling 80% well when I went in, I was only there because
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by phonebanshee 6y ago
Except that it also depends on the definition you're using for "implies," so the normal use of English breaks things if you're really asking about logic. For example, dog implies "likes dogfood" is a reasonabl
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by phonebanshee 6y ago
IMHO no one reviews resumes like that. You're almost always going through a huge stack of resumes, spending very little time on each one.
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by phonebanshee 6y ago
Businesses should have the expectation that they can hire zero H1B workers. The suggestion is that they do something in exchange for that privilege.
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by phonebanshee 6y ago
Is this just a small sample size? There aren't that many EEs working on software, certainly compared to the whole universe of software developers.
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by phonebanshee 6y ago
Or change the law. Not particularly likely with power shared between two parties of course.
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by phonebanshee 6y ago
Isn't that easy to game? You set up a bunch of shell companies that offer jobs. Problem solved.
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by phonebanshee 6y ago
You vastly underestimate the desire of people for things to look 'nice' where 'nice' is defined by exactly what they mean when they say it. If you want a 'nice' display of data that's input by users, you&
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by phonebanshee 6y ago
Interesting that I was wrong - another data point in the "it's more complicated than you think it is" column. I always thought you were supposed to drop them (because I was explicitly told so by a French engineer I worked wi
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by phonebanshee 6y ago
That's completely language+locale dependent. For example, here'an alphabetical list of Irish surnames - https://www.duchas.ie/en/nom?txt=M . You'll notice that sort order ignores an initial O or Mac (or
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by phonebanshee 6y ago
toUpper is definitely language-dependent. For example, in Irish there are initial letters that are written as lower-case even in all caps. Wikipedia's example is amusing, since it's a photo of a government passport office sign -
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by phonebanshee 6y ago
Don't forget that idea is inverted for lots of the US (like Florida and Arizona). You gather indoors during the summer, in air conditioned spaces. Winter is when you're outside more often.
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by phonebanshee 6y ago
Thinks are very different here in Seattle. No one I know is gathering with anyone indoors. You might have a couple friends over and stay outside, but indoor gatherings with multiple people are shocking insanity and just wouldn't happ
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by phonebanshee 6y ago
That reasonable level is certainly nothing below C level. Bezos, sure. Some VP at AWS? No.
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by phonebanshee 6y ago
And it depends on existing skillsets too. I did a recent project where I almost certainly would have used Terraform if I already knew how. But the choice was between "learn Terraform" and "do this in a Makefile," and t
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by phonebanshee 6y ago
I'm guessing that you work on server-side stuff, because most people who do mobile/desktop work would say exactly the opposite if they desperately had to come up with a general rule: do whatever you want for servers, but you have
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by phonebanshee 7y ago
You're a member of the Deer Defense Corps, though, and this time you're much better armed than the hunter. You've also had twenty years of training for your mission. It's just that the hunter is really hard to see. Yo
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by phonebanshee 7y ago
Sure, history has definitely been useful for me. But I've been involved in a few version control system changes, and as long as the old system continues to be available for reading, cutovers are fine.
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by phonebanshee 7y ago
You're misunderstanding the tool. It's only calculating a small part of total costs. "These values account for only the O&S costs of units (not acquisition costs or other costs)."
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by phonebanshee 7y ago
People have been saying variations of this for several decades. So far they've been wrong.
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by phonebanshee 7y ago
Read the last paragraph first. In fact, only read the last paragraph, where the author explains that they have zero expertise and are basically just making it up based on a bunch of pages they found on Google.
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by phonebanshee 7y ago
The problem is geography. He wants to serve his constituents. Email makes it far too easy for people who aren't his constituents to take vast quantities of his and his staff's time.
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by phonebanshee 7y ago
You just described email.
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by phonebanshee 7y ago
Not really. You often need to make extensive changes in those kinds of external dependencies, so you really do want them in your source tree.
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by phonebanshee 7y ago
That's not a thing in California. Loans on residential property are non-recourse, so if you owe more than it's worth you just stop paying.
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by phonebanshee 7y ago
Our vet did point out that cats eat carbohydrates; they tend to love the innards of their prey, and those often contain the undigested things mice etc eat. No idea what percentage of their diet that makes up though. (It wasn't a conv
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by phonebanshee 7y ago
It's not. Many things taste awful, including other kinds of juices.
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by phonebanshee 7y ago
You live in a world where the dominant programming languages include things like JavaScript, PHP, and Python. It's not that no one cares about functional programming, it's that almost no one cares about _any_ kind of structure.
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by phonebanshee 7y ago
None. Music by it's very nature is designed to draw you into it's world. If you want background nose, use background noise.

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