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841.
by ponker 6y ago
The 747 is aviation’s Taj Mahal — revered not only for its history but its sheer beauty, which in all the years since its introduction has not even come close to being matched.
842.
by ponker 6y ago
It doesn't really matter to the person getting fired how many people it took to make it happen.
843.
by ponker 6y ago
Yet, the vast majority of minimum wage workers have found somewhere to live.
844.
by ponker 6y ago
The government has executed innocent people, I don't know why it would be so hard to imagine getting a conviction on circumstantial evidence.
845.
by ponker 6y ago
Not really, every sell has the equal and opposite buy, so a "sell-off" is also a "buy-in"
846.
by ponker 6y ago
I think addressing the perception gap is part of this. No doubt that a lot of people equate "Southern accent" with "stupid." I've seen many lists of "Top 20 black engineers" or "Rising female executiv
847.
by ponker 6y ago
I saw a flight attendant being yelled at by a horrid passenger and knew that she might get a “bad letter” from them so I sent in a good letter for her about how she handled the abuse with aplomb. Glad to hear it was worth the effort
848.
by ponker 6y ago
One thing that I'd like to mention is that the author of this post attended Mississippi State University. I mention this because there is a widespread stereotype of the Deep South as a place teeming with racists, rubes, the willfully u
849.
by ponker 6y ago
Huh, this gives me the same kind of frisson that a middle school football-crazy boy must experience when his dad takes him to a football game when Tom Brady is in town.
850.
by ponker 6y ago
Huh, thanks, I think I’m starting to get it. Is it that the connection-based model needs the data “copied” into each user’s stream on the server-side while the “stash the files in a bin” stateless model allows the networking hardware to cac
851.
by ponker 6y ago
You mean all those Twitch streamers see their chats More than 4 seconds after the relevant video has elapsed? And can you explain what you mean by “stateful”? Thanks
852.
by ponker 6y ago
This isn’t for consumer streaming — those people will still use Twitch. This is for people building things like corporate meeting software for which the users will never be close to 20,000 concurrent and the costs of $30k don’t even get loo
853.
by ponker 6y ago
A lot of people would rather use 20 mediocre products from one vendor than 20 fantastic products from different vendors. I’m like this with Target —- I don’t want to go to multiple stores so I limit my household items to things that Target
854.
by ponker 6y ago
Have any links to overview resources?
855.
by ponker 6y ago
Totally true that people with no self-doubt/impostor syndrome overperform their ability level in whiteboard interviews compared to people with more self-doubt, who are often the better engineers. I am personally a beneficiary of this.
856.
by ponker 6y ago
Well it’s often thought that if you buy expensive real estate that you will be safe in it — low crime areas, good security, etc. that’s why it’s news.
857.
by ponker 6y ago
Anything anonymous is destined to implode from toxicity unless it's very actively moderated.
858.
by ponker 6y ago
> superfluous I do not think that word means what you think it means.
859.
by ponker 6y ago
First thing I do on a business trip is ask for extra towels and put the Do Not Disturb sign on. I don't take it off until I check out. The staff re-plugging the TV makes sense since their checklist likely requires them to ensure that t
860.
by ponker 6y ago
There are situations where the system is 90% sure that something is correct but needs the pilot to confirm. For example, you start flying off your planned course. Should it correct automatically? Probably not, there might be a reason the pi
861.
by ponker 6y ago
Sounds like the CTO was the Godwin's law violator, albeit obliquely.
862.
by ponker 6y ago
You can always find people better than you. But if you focus on continuous improvement that number will shrink while the number that you are better than will grow.
863.
by ponker 6y ago
There are 100 Senators, chosen by the same types of processes that put Donald Trump in the White House, why is being a Senator an automatic qualification for publishing in the NYT? Such a famous newspaper should be more exclusive than that.
864.
by ponker 6y ago
If someone is mentioning Hitler in a code review someone is at fault.
865.
by ponker 6y ago
The two biggest line items are not easily measured and thus not included: The removal of an external dependency that you don't control and may not evolve with your needs, and the loss of the continuous improvement in that dependency wi
866.
by ponker 6y ago
I don't think that social media users encounter less diverse news, it's that they encounter news that's specifically engineered for distribution via social media. This is not always written from a particular point on any poli
867.
by ponker 6y ago
Godwin's law was not the reason that your code reviews needed to be locked down, it was that your employer had a terrible work environment, terrible employees, or both.
868.
by ponker 6y ago
If you think it sucks that your idea was done before you by... Google ... you need to cut yourself some more slack.
869.
by ponker 6y ago
More like the Koch brothers. Inherited a vast company with tremendous financial and political resources and made them even vaster and more deeply rooted.
870.
by ponker 6y ago
Not really, people whose status is beyond question can do stuff like this just because they feel like it. I attended a high school play at a fancy private school in Texas and to my surprise the parking lot attendant was Michael Dell, who ha

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