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by pkteison 15y ago
I think most people here on hacker news understand that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and it's execution that counts. There are -plenty- of things to dislike about Zygna before complaining about the fact that FarmWhatzit work
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by pkteison 15y ago
I have 3 friends who have worked for EA recently, in different offices in different states. They all agree that things are noticeably better since the EA wife lawsuit. It's not perfect, but it's not the constant death marches it used to b
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by pkteison 15y ago
Yes, American employers are pretty terribly paranoid when it comes to nipples. What it boils down to is they adopt a strong policy as a defense against lawsuits, so if they are ever dragged into court by an employee claiming a 'hostile wor
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by pkteison 15y ago
I think that was written by an experimental robot, like the automated sports coverage that StatSheet generates.
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by pkteison 15y ago
Bad habits I observed at a very big company: * I don't know [insert new technology here], I'd rather stick with [insert thing I know well here] * That isn't my problem * Is there a ticket for that? * Can you file a ticket for that? * I've h
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by pkteison 15y ago
Yes, much lower. Property taxes in my suburb are around three quarters compared to the nearby city (Atlanta, GA - millage rate 44.435; Gwinnett, GA - millage rate 32.10). Couple that with the fact that houses are much much cheaper, and in
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by pkteison 15y ago
Very simple. Porsche financed their stock buying with loans, but then credit essentially disappeared for everybody in 2009 and so they couldn't keep it up. 0x12 posted some good links earlier. Same sort of reason why Ford did better than
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by pkteison 15y ago
I automatically discount anybody who believes that people are "too old to be familiar with current programming technologies and shortcuts." Aren't we supposed to be a meritocracy and judge on nothing but talent?
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by pkteison 15y ago
You know, that's a lot of words to ask everybody to read, with precious little pay off. I just finished reading the whole thing, and I'm going to recommend that you skip it. It boils down to an egotistical hypocritical jerk uses fights ove
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by pkteison 15y ago
I wish I still thought that was funny, instead of just painful. I can't tell you how many times I have been burned on Is or Get methods with incredible side effects, like IsValid also automatically logs the user in, creates them if they don
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by pkteison 15y ago
Occam's razor: A few hundred people getting e-mails about an event hit the 'this is spam' button. How is this news? At least this time the headline doesn't says "blocked" instead of "censored", but still, it's not like this was a willful m
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by pkteison 15y ago
Wow, looks like I got that completely wrong w.r.t. innodb specifically. Wish I could still edit my first post. :( Thank you. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/innodb-consistent-rea...
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by pkteison 15y ago
There are three possible ways that I know of to handle concurrency issues on shared data: Use some sort of a journaling approach (google keywords 'snapshots' or MVCC), or use locks, or ignore the problem. If it ignores the problem, it's not
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by pkteison 15y ago
The offerings got divorced because Netflix was starting to trip on problems related to too many people on streaming for their existing (cheap) licensing deals, and deals were coming up for renewal at (not cheap) pricing. So they needed to
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by pkteison 15y ago
I think it's weird that wall street responds to customer numbers going down, rather than the announcement that their costs were going up by an order of magnitude. "One analyst predicts that Netflix's streaming content licensing costs will r
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by pkteison 15y ago
Is there a corresponding writeup somewhere? I love hearing about the difficult decisions, and this has some teasers that sound like they'd be interesting stories - especially "fired illustrator over contract dispute", "developers 'need' to
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by pkteison 15y ago
I'm flat out wrong? I see your anecodote and raise you a statistic: "In 2009, employers filed 405,153 appeals to deny benefits to former workers and 36% won, a figure that hasn't changed too much in recent years, according to the U.S. Depa
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by pkteison 15y ago
The employee files for unemployment insurance regardless, lying and claiming they were laid off. You file a dispute, claiming they were terminated for cause. The unemployment office makes it quite clear that you will lose your dispute and s
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by pkteison 15y ago
I think that employers generally don't pay employees significantly above market salaries. Certainly not double, even if they're worth 5x or 10x another employee. Their HR departments won't let them. To do significantly better, you need t
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by pkteison 15y ago
I don't understand why there wasn't an air gap between this accounting desktop and the production key servers. The Excel 0-day vector is interesting, but what this tells me is that even without that, all those secureid tokens could also ha
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by pkteison 15y ago
I don't see the stack overflow model as being a great fit for what facebook api developers need. The main problem I saw with facebook api was that the right way to do things kept changing, and the docs and forum didn't keep up well. You b
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by pkteison 15y ago
Proposal neglects the value of simplicity. If humans can't perceive the link between cause and effect, they invent one, and you end up with cargo cults and other irrational behavior. "Total" and "Average" are -really- easy to explain to so
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by pkteison 15y ago
Bit of a tangent, but a real question: If a writer doesn't approve of a site's behavior (in this case, Glassdoor is desribed as "a site that does not seem to mind when interview candidates violate NDAs"), why does the writer still link to t
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by pkteison 15y ago
I'm torn. On the one hand, I appreciate a good hack. On the other hand, if it's going to be used day in and day out to save lives, a certain amount of quality and versatility is needed so that you can rely on it. If every scout team uses
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by pkteison 15y ago
It's expensive to scale by adding more DB servers. It's cheap to scale by adding more webservers or 'middle tier' servers. You can't just completely ignore the scaling argument by saying "it's no problem, just spend money." Lots of other
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by pkteison 15y ago
I wish I was surprised. I bet the shipping is calculated via Javascript and people with Javascript turned off get free shipping too. Intro to CS courses don't think they have enough time to get into the details of what code runs where and
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by pkteison 15y ago
I wish Bing was giving me some capability I didn't have before. I don't see how it's going to be this awesomely critical fantastic compelling service if it doesn't. Example: Google wanted to make driving directions better. But they couldn
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by pkteison 15y ago
Can anybody confirm (or deny) that all browsers treat 303 correctly?
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by pkteison 15y ago
Paying me, but not on the originally agreed upon schedule, is still a default. What's wrong about calling it one?
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by pkteison 15y ago
Firefox intentionally disables graphics card acceleration by default on certain video cards because they don't want to deal with the support headaches from bad drivers. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Blocklisting/Blocked_Graphics_Drive... How t

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