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by rbetts 4y ago
Theodor Kaczynski the Unabomber? That would be an odd place to find life advice, if so.
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by rbetts 4y ago
Q2 revenue was $1.18B on 237.8M mDAU. If they want $590M (50%) in subscription revenue, that's 24.5M subscriptons @ $24 per quarter. So they'd need to convert about 10% of the reported mDAU to subscribers? https://www.p
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by rbetts 4y ago
It's hearsay said by an antagonist during a negotiation. This quote isn't by itself trustworthy enough to be news.
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by rbetts 4y ago
One of the richest people in the world overpays capital holders and slashes labor by 50% in order to own "the world's town square". Remarkable demonstration of labor weakness.
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by rbetts 4y ago
Fwiw (maybe not much :-)), for me the the killer feature of obsidian is the combination of markdown + inline image rendering + local storage. My notes are typically screenshots + text. Being able to drag and drop a screenshot into a note is
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by rbetts 4y ago
You might enjoy this paper - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/... Other vendors evaluated skip lists ahead of memsql’s use and chose other implementations for their purposes. W
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by rbetts 4y ago
Norway: population of 5M people. Incredible oil wealth. Massachusetts is larger in population that Norway. It's not a reasonable comparison. Sweden: population of 10M people. Roughly the population of Michigan, for example. Just electe
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by rbetts 4y ago
I used to feel the same. But in reality, we prove our identity daily - every credit card transaction, banking, electronic tolling, bill payment, health care visit, tax payment, legal proceeding, employment opportunity, voter registration …
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by rbetts 4y ago
Retaliation for union organizing is not legal, actually. It is not lawful to terminate someone for exercising their rights to collective bargaining - even in at-will employment. For example: https://www.msn.com/en-us/ne
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by rbetts 5y ago
A monorepo assumes all your IP is either open or closed or you need a very reliable way to extract the OSS bits and publish them to a mirror without putting exposure of closed source IP at risk.
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by rbetts 5y ago
I was curious about this case and googled a bit - seems to be this person? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10037721/Terror-sus...
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by rbetts 5y ago
Comparison to historical death rates contradict this speculation. See for example the Economist link provided in an earlier comment.
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by rbetts 5y ago
We're too busy working generating our own electricity and designing our own CPUs.
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by rbetts 5y ago
Or maybe isn't a native English speaker and did a wonderful job in a second language?
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by rbetts 5y ago
Is NY hydro largely generated at Niagara Falls?
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by rbetts 5y ago
As managers, we've had many individuals tell us "everything's fine; I like it here..." and then leave because "I'm ready for something new." So we often hear "I'm fine" and translate that to
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by rbetts 5y ago
In my experience, teachers are strong communicators, highly self-organized, aware of organizations, able to work with others, and able to create and follow a plan. They have a demonstrated history of continued learning - and know a lot abou
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by rbetts 6y ago
I wonder if other industrial-revolution monopolies in history also led to corporate-disobedience - akin to civil disobedience - where employees intentionally break rules considered unethical.
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by rbetts 6y ago
Unsafe content.
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by rbetts 6y ago
But at some point, an engineering manager identified and hired those leads and helped to facilitate a path for growth for those sr. engineers?
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by rbetts 6y ago
I was born in 1974. Netscape's browser (what became Mozilla) was released my junior year of college. It was a cute alternative to gopher and ftp. Then, newspapers were published once or twice a day. Magazines weekly or monthly. Publish
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by rbetts 6y ago
That kinda hurts. There are 100k's of happy InfluxDB users -- untold millions of completely open source Telegraf deployments doing meaningful work for people -- integrated into our products and our competitors' products. We make
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by rbetts 6y ago
(I'm the VPE at Influxdata). I appreciate this sentiment. We've been focused on a building a SaaS version of Influxdata and are committed to a paired open source version of that. The open source version has been lagging as we work
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by rbetts 6y ago
This is also confusing what you search for vs. what the vendor thinks you will buy. Product catalog searches often intentionally return items outside your search parameters.
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by rbetts 7y ago
I hope readers follow that link and read the full text.
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by rbetts 7y ago
> The MCAS system didn't fail. It operated exactly as it was designed, it received faulty sensor data which in turn flew the plane into the ground. "It worked on my airplane"
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by rbetts 7y ago
Or try to type nested bulleted lists.
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by rbetts 8y ago
Any good examples of small companies that pull this off and the bots/CI/tool whatever they use to do it?
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by rbetts 8y ago
Unless you are pure OSS or pure closed source - you end up with a poly-repo strategy regardless as you split open and closed code, suffering the annoyances of both systems.
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by rbetts 8y ago
> A number of unknowns make this tech a questionable solution for its stated purpose. We have no idea how many hot list criminals were scanned and not matched I don't think the article's author had sufficient information to ma

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