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by pnathan 8y ago
The conflict of interests here are pretty apparent to a cursory view. Unfortunately. The right thing to do is ground the plane and figure out a proper remediation going forward.
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by pnathan 8y ago
That installation has acquired a certain noteriety - when the White House requested an art piece, the toilet was offered... https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/the-white-h...
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by pnathan 8y ago
After getting into painting a few years ago, I dug into aesthetics a bit and quickly ran into the same fundamental problem: most abstract works are, prima fascie, giant heaps of crap. I mean, I sat down and tried to read different intros to
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by pnathan 8y ago
One of the basic tenants of engineering is "why is this feature appropriate"; much of AWS can be sliced away with this razor, much of the time. Appropriate tool for the appropriate time. A lot of the AWS systems simply are special
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by pnathan 8y ago
I thought so as well. But, if he's okay with it and the numbers pencil out well, there's not a lot of reason to improve it: probably better ROIs elsewhere.
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by pnathan 8y ago
> Back then, memes were exclusive to 4chan. naaaah fark and somethingawful had them in, idk, 2002 or so.
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by pnathan 8y ago
These titles are interesting. I have, myself, like pretty much everyone on this planet, never built a billion dollar company. As much fun as it might be to be that rich, it's never seemed to be more realistic to think that than to thin
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by pnathan 8y ago
To be precise, the US public has been told the government is rotten, and the play is to sell off/contract out the infrastructure to private firms, who then make huge profits and build crap. The problem is the propaganda and the desire
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by pnathan 8y ago
The WA AG is a bit on the antsy activist side too: this is like a great poster case for the anti-gig-worker advocates. in any case, this is really awful for the poor drivers. I had no idea.
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by pnathan 8y ago
Then the rules for firing toxic and under performing employees can be written into the union contract and how the union conducts its business... This isn't an unreasonable ask, no one is going to want to be saddled with a toxic person
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by pnathan 8y ago
Politely - You're management/executive at this point. It is obviously in your interest to be anti-union. It is also the case that unions serve the interests of those who are not "rock star developers" more than those who
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by pnathan 8y ago
Do you have a better term for that late '00s phenom? Because that really was an Eternal September shift, although not in September, and not in '93.
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by pnathan 8y ago
LJ had a much more pleasant culture in terms of interacting with strangers. I'd call that an artifact of the number of weirdos, along with the pre-Eternal September Internet world in general. The text orientation also helped. There wer
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by pnathan 8y ago
yes, I was peripherally involved with that world, and fundamentally there was a disinterest in the users prior to the Russian takeover - and with the Russian takeover, it was clear that things weren't okay anymore.
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by pnathan 8y ago
As someone who straddles SRE and SWE (with a classic CS background), I would agree with this analysis - the market is changing, and prioritizing programming skills heavily.
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by pnathan 8y ago
a lot of long and good answers. but, a traditional trial by fire is to write an operating system.
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by pnathan 8y ago
The policy we are taking is to have specific expectations, but vast freedom outside of those expectations. We specifically are interested in allowing our child (~2) to have highly unstructured play, within specific limits. - Child does go
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by pnathan 8y ago
Not a specific thing, no. It tends to be trade knowledge or bits of history & beliefs that were printed, or orally known. I have a certain store of oral history regarding a few 20thC movements that was passed down, for instance. But the
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by pnathan 8y ago
Yes, I don't buy most of what the essay said, but that was bang on, generally. I disagree heavily with the last sentence, but the bit about how we've generally shifted from models->actuality is very, very true. It's acut
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by pnathan 8y ago
The interesting thing in the article is that there is no story, yet it holds the writer's interest. Narrative is not a hard requirement. Same for, e.g. Minecraft, or Legos, or other common toys. And also, Dwarf Fortress is essentiall
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by pnathan 8y ago
Talking to people who had worked at higher levels of the weather world in government and academia, this is a generally common view of that kind of company.
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by pnathan 8y ago
This kind of tiny piece by piece interaction with the world is something I desired in the late 90s, dreaming as a teen, but my rudimentary O(n) skills showed me was beyond the computers of the time. It's gorgeous & I love the poten
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by pnathan 8y ago
Providence DIG | Seattle WA | Onsite | Java, Node, AWS, Go, Kubernetes Innovation group working for Catholic non-profit health system. We develop products - right now apps/websites with electronic health record integrations - that impr
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by pnathan 8y ago
I spent meaningful amounts of time this summer with TAOCP. The unusual ways of thinking, the diligence, and building solutions from the ground up were astounding. There are ways of thinking in there that, I think, can be ported into the mod
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by pnathan 8y ago
That was my impression when I ran Freenet years ago. A few cool materials, a horrifying amount of pedophilia and other really skeezy stuff.
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by pnathan 8y ago
Logistics, essentially, and the advent of globalism caused more and more centralized approaches.
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by pnathan 8y ago
that sounds like a bucket shop....
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by pnathan 8y ago
You are equating a fetus with a fully developed human being. That is not medically verifiable.
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by pnathan 8y ago
Talking with a Lyft driver near Seattle the other day who drives for both, his perception was that Lyft was for weekday riders, Uber for weekend riders.
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by pnathan 8y ago
Same; the church we are at now is an ecumenical affiliate of a Baptist group and a Presbyterian group. Very progressive. Growing fairly rapidly too right now, mostly people without grey hair; lots of toddlers and preschoolers.

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