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by pridkett 6y ago
Shortly after Marissa Mayer became the CEO of Yahoo she made it so, in almost all cases, remote working or working from home, was not an option. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jennagoudreau/2013/02/25/
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by pridkett 6y ago
iOS has been slowly making HEIF more common. It’s just that it takes a long time for the entire tooling chain to support it.
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by pridkett 6y ago
Not quite a fair comparison because most software engineers are salaried, not hourly (at least in the United States). I’m trying hard to think about what cheating would be in the software world. Here’s a few things that I see: * Grabbing an
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by pridkett 6y ago
It seems like MS Flight Simulator 2020 might hit the right place at the right time. Like many people quarantined, I’ve got a wicked sense of wanderlust right now. Going through MS Flight Simulator 2020 is different than just fooling around
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by pridkett 6y ago
This isn’t unique to Disney. Delta Airline has been pushing #SkyMilesLife and other assorted hashtags for a while and they’ve had fine print that says they get a license to use the content with those hashtags. It was even on the signs hangi
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by pridkett 7y ago
Note that the reference week in this month’s job report only went through March 12th. That was before the back to back record weeks of first time unemployment claims of 3mm and 6mm. Despite all that, the job report was still significantly w
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by pridkett 7y ago
That $100 a year is a solid value to support the profession - especially if you take advantage of the Safari membership. Heck, just being able to point people, both executives and new hires, to the code of ethics has saved me several times.
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by pridkett 7y ago
Between the name being “New World Order”, the phrase “happytalism”, and the abbreviation as UNIDOH, which makes me think of Homer Simpson, I honestly can’t tell if this is an elaborate parody or not.
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by pridkett 7y ago
There’s also the issue that data scientists often want to go running to hyperparameter optimization and neural architecture search. In most cases improving your data pipelines and ensuring the data are clean and efficient will pay off much
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by pridkett 7y ago
It’s not that simple. The Indian government literally bans maps that depict the national boundaries as different. It’s even a question on their customs forms [0]. Taking a position like you suggest is always a debate and is rarely black and
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by pridkett 7y ago
It took me forever to read this article. Because I got distracted when the article mentioned VGA Planets still existed and was actively maintained. That game was incredible back in the BBS days. Delightful to find a memory like that lives o
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by pridkett 7y ago
Ancient? Ughh. I remember using SoftICE to cheat in games back in the 1990’s. Wonderful software, I wish I would’ve been knowledgeable to do something more useful than making myself invincible in Mortal Kombat or giving my characters super
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by pridkett 7y ago
This is common. Amazon lets sellers tweak their product pages. What unscrupulous settlers have realized is that you can slowly change one product into another and keep the reviews. This allows them to have fake products with hundreds of ver
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by pridkett 7y ago
I missed a tiny arrow on the bottom. This led me to wonder why they felt the need to break scrolling. Maybe it’s less obvious on other platforms.
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by pridkett 7y ago
Maybe I’m missing something here, but the Meeting Owl just shows up as a Webcam and doesn’t directly connect to the videoconference. There is a network interface, but it’s absolutely not needed. The beauty of the device is that there are no
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by pridkett 7y ago
The challenge is that if a system only offers a four or a five number passcode, you can still attack accounts by just guessing passcodes for account names/numbers. This is addressed a little bit by pointing out that it’s sometimes not
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by pridkett 7y ago
The question is much of an outlier is it from normal? My taxes often vary significantly due to restricted stock units, sign on bonuses, crypto transactions, etc. 36% higher than the mean might still be within a standard deviation if it&#x2
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by pridkett 7y ago
It was remarkable how at peace I felt when I took a liveaboard to Darwin and Wolf islands in Galapagos. Yes, there was an emergency satellite phone as total backup, but it was great knowing that there was generally no way to contact me. Did
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by pridkett 7y ago
I really liked this article. A lot of the things mentioned seem to be necessary because the author has “passing privilege”, but some are necessary due to poor management practices. Stand ups and in person meetings are two spots where this f
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by pridkett 7y ago
Thanks for the clarification. This led me down a fun rabbit hole of understanding Brazilian exports. I would not have guessed that Lebanon and Saudi Arabia were the third and fourth largest importers of Brazilian beef after Chile and the Ne
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by pridkett 7y ago
79% of Brazilian soybean exports go to China. Very very little goes to the US as it’s a net exporter (by a significant margin). Source: https://oec.world/en/visualize/tree_map/hs92/export/bra/sh
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by pridkett 7y ago
I wouldn't entirely call it clickbait. The article does a nice job showing how difficult these problems can be track down and the consequences of a seemingly harmless action.
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by pridkett 8y ago
I also used to work for Watson. It remains one of the best jobs I've had. There's a number of useful services available through Watson on the IBM Cloud. I'm a little biased toward Watson Assistant which can be nicely customiz
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by pridkett 11y ago
Have you seen or were you at all inspired by Analytica from Lumina Decision Systems ( http://www.lumina.com/why-analytica )? It's been around for about twenty years and is often used in the field of policy analysis when
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by pridkett 11y ago
It's not an unauthorized mirror. The whole deal was that I was serving the content from an old computer off a residential broadband line. Well, it wasn't even broadband - it was this interesting wireless service in Chicago from Sp
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by pridkett 11y ago
I wrote this article 12 years ago and it took me until I saw my own name in the comments to realize it was my own article. Now I want to take the advice of the commenters and make it work for YouTube videos our animated gifs - except have t
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by pridkett 11y ago
Is this a general comment or is there a specific service that you're having problems with? There are IBMers around here (for example, me) that really want to create a great platform. If it's a specific service that's causing
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by pridkett 11y ago
That's a really interesting idea, but that's incredibly advanced thinking and would require some pretty wicked engineering. Most of the different Watson tools share various code elements - for example, we're not writing a new
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by pridkett 11y ago
If you'd like to get an idea about the different ways people are using Watson Technologies, check out some of the Watson Ecosystem Partners ( http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/ecosystem
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by pridkett 11y ago
I work on the team that designed and built Chef Watson, both the current app that is available at https://www.ibmchefwatson.com/ and the food truck that we had at SXSW 2014. If you have questions about the technology or Wat

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