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by pjbk 7y ago
I have worked in several industries so I have a rather large network of contractor contacts and outsourcing services. I usually get a handful of cold requests and service offers per month, but this year my inbox has received that number of
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by pjbk 7y ago
As the article mentions, many people really never got out of the last recession. If we have another one, for them it will be just a continuation of a large one, making recovery even more difficult that it is now. Lost time, opportunities, c
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by pjbk 7y ago
It wouldn't surprise me if some day we discover they were there before us, anyway.
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by pjbk 7y ago
Certainly touches a nerve. I generally love my career and consider it more a hobby than a job, so I "work" very hard and I don't mind doing that. However in my life the most money I've made and what most people would con
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by pjbk 8y ago
> Not to the same degree. Yes, in the same degree. It is a street vehicle. They even published their safety manifesto some months ago: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57bcb0e02994ca36c2ee7... However you may
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by pjbk 8y ago
Exactly. If you regularly do this everything falls in place by itself. No need to worry about being productive.
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by pjbk 8y ago
"We are so Agile that we are not agile anymore"...
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by pjbk 8y ago
We tend to think that the state of technology is the main driving force enabling this to happen, but if you look at history it is far from the truth. For good or bad, the tolerant and complacent condition of modern life means that all those
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by pjbk 8y ago
Just like the show, many times the fake Steve was more real than the real Steve, and spot on how some things eventually unfolded. Dan is an excellent journalist and a candid visionary. Finished Lab Rats last week, and contrary to Disrupted
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by pjbk 8y ago
Judging the programming performance of an engineer based on how they fare at an interview is like determining the looks of someone by how they appear in a single snapshot.
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by pjbk 8y ago
That is exactly what it is! In the real plane you get exponential growth: the rate of change is equal to the current value. In the Argand plane you get a curling action due to the quadrature effect of the imaginary unit. The rate of change
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by pjbk 8y ago
http://bleyer.org/dw/doku.php?id=geometric_algebra
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Rethink Robotics Closes Its Doors(therobotreport.com)
14 points by pjbk 8y ago|4 comments
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by pjbk 8y ago
Employee #40 at a medical device company after working as a contractor for one year and then asked me to join. Received a first round of ESOP options a bit under the valuation price ($20 at the time). Then RSUs as bonuses for the next 5 yea