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by pm 9y ago
The company I currently contract for (not my own) has some of these right. The hard part, of course, is getting everyone to sign to a standard. Sometimes they're good, sometimes they're bad, i.e., IoTivity, which is a steaming p
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by pm 9y ago
Hope they're better than the SA Angels. Half of these angels orgs function like cabals.
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by pm 9y ago
Jobs was a bully who got the big picture right, but often got the details wrong; folklore.org has plenty of stories about people going round Jobs to get shit done. Linus is abrasive, but he usually has a good explanation for why the target
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by pm 9y ago
None of us are dealt an equal hand in life. Having a genetic predisposition that advantages or disadvantages someone does not absolve them of the responsibility of their actions. If we were unchanging machines, that may not be the case,
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by pm 9y ago
Indeed. Anecdotally, I can really FEEL the sun here compared to other places. I was on holiday on Hydra (one of the Greek islands), and outside for 8 hours on a clear sunny day, and got a light tan... I would've been sunburnt within
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by pm 9y ago
80 hours to 160 days? Or do you mean 80 hours to 160 hours?
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by pm 9y ago
Handy to know. I didn't know if there was a subtle difference between the Magic Mouse 1 and 2 other than the charging port (which honestly is in a ridiculous position). I started using the original in 2010 and haven't looked bac
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by pm 9y ago
How does it compare to the original?
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by pm 9y ago
I think there's something to be said for biting the bullet and just doing a proper rewrite if the investment increases your market size. There's also something to be said for solving problems at the right layer. How much time cou
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by pm 9y ago
Except that implies that someone who remembers how to invert a binary tree but doesn't have an open track record is a better hire than someone who couldn't remember but created, maintains and improves a popular open source project
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by pm 9y ago
Melbourne is liveable; Adelaide is a retirement village. The population has been stagnant for two decades, and the brain drain continues to worsen. I can count the number of people worth working with on both of my hands. I'm in the U
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by pm 9y ago
No, I wish. The closest you'll get is companies that might hire on transferrable skillsets (e.g., Ruby <-> Python). The best thing you can do is have a portfolio of work that shows your understanding. It's what we had to
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by pm 9y ago
There's also gulf a between what companies think they need, and what they actually need. Almost everyone hires on technologies and not the abstract skillsets required to learn said technologies.
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by pm 9y ago
I would agree with the "simplistic view" comment, except for the fact that I live here and have seen it happening for at least the last decade. Foreign investors are literally buying up streets of houses, without regard to the pr
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by pm 9y ago
I'm assuming this is a technical co-founder in the stricter sense, rather than an early-employee CTO. If the case were the latter, I'd most likely be inheriting a dumpster fire built by an agency or a jilted technical co-founder
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by pm 9y ago
Honestly, even that's a crapshoot. In fact this article presumes that it should be an interview, when it should really be a conversation. If a non-technical founder wanted to "interview" me, I'd tell them to shove it.
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by pm 9y ago
I'm sorry to hear, I thought this was a good idea.
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by pm 9y ago
That seems strange, and the example you give is less applicable than one might first think. A letter is private correspondence; the date it is written is essentially the date it is published. A manifesto, on the other hand, could be consid
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by pm 9y ago
There are plenty of counter-examples to this. Just look at Google's messaging efforts (Gmail chat, Hangouts, Duo, Allo, etc.) as a great example of fragmentation without any obvious benefit.
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by pm 9y ago
Agreed. While I'm not a fan of the writing style either, the premise was enough to keep me interested until the end. It wouldn't surprise me if it wasn't too far off the mark for the next 50 or so years.
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by pm 9y ago
Solitude and leadership https://theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/
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by pm 9y ago
The beneficial aspects of organised religion are overshadowed by the abuses they enable. It continues to segregate based on race, sex, culture, sexual orientation, not to forget other religions. It restricted knowledge to those deemed acc
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by pm 9y ago
Sure, but when we say the backyard, we're probably talking further inland than the capital city.
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by pm 9y ago
Honestly I would love a spaceport in my backyard, seeing as we just hosted the International Astronautical Congress too.
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by pm 9y ago
Neither did I, and I'm Australian!
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by pm 9y ago
Curious how you came up with the name... Wallaroo is a town in my state, and it's originally an Aboriginal word (though I don't recall the meaning).
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by pm 9y ago
It's not getting the problem in your head, so much as where you are at a certain point in time while attempting to solve the problem. If you get knocked out of flow by interruptions after 20 minutes, it can take quite an amount of tim
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by pm 9y ago
> Do not label the cats. They do not like it. I feel this is the "take out all the brown M&Ms" moment in your reply. I did laugh a lot though - the timing was unexpected.
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by pm 9y ago
As I said in another comment, it could be anything, I was just using my experience as an example that sometimes it's not necessarily burnout, but an actual physical issue. Burnout is such a common problem with programmers that we just
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by pm 9y ago
It wasn't the fatigue. I had rectal cancer, was bleeding out of my rectum after drinking too much (first 8 months of last year I stopped drinking because I thought that might've been the issue). I didn't think much of it un

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