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by rcurry 7y ago
You don’t have to be good at war, you just have to be better than everybody else. And that’s what sets the US military apart.
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by rcurry 7y ago
One of the most diplomatic ways to deal with a problematic manager is to help them find a new job.
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by rcurry 7y ago
After a number of years in the space I’ve come to the sad conclusion that many (not all) companies succeed despite their leadership rather than because of it. There are often a large number of true believers involved in keeping the ship sai
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by rcurry 7y ago
This. If you want to be respected, use a service provider that values your business. Google ain't one of them.
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by rcurry 7y ago
I got hit by the exact same type of attack about two months ago, except it was against my Verizon Wireless account. I was surprised at how convincing they were - I'm a former intelligence guy and I almost fell for it, lol.
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by rcurry 7y ago
I’ve used Amazon for years, probably spend between $5k to $8k a year and have never encountered any of the problems you describe. The primary value of Amazon is that they have a superb return process - if you’re a legit customer who does a
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by rcurry 7y ago
My favorite is the voice recognition system in my Toyota 4Runner. It seems there are no lengths it won’t go to to keep from just calling the person I want to speak with: Me: “Call Bob Smith.” Car: “Bob Smith ONLY has a home number, do you w
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by rcurry 7y ago
I’m just sketching around here, but maybe you give up certain rights in return for being a high level decision maker at a large company. For instance you’re the CEO of a big oil and gas firm, but you don’t get to lawyer up and hide behind t
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by rcurry 7y ago
I’m not sure if I’m about to get laughed out of here, but what do folks think of something like the Uniform Code of Military Justice being required for executives of publicly traded corporations - not literally the UCMJ, but I mean a separa
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by rcurry 7y ago
I can’t wait for the Amazon Prime Steakhouse.
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by rcurry 9y ago
If you're not part of the solution, there's good money in prolonging the problem.
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by rcurry 9y ago
I misread the title and thought it said NYC Subway Time Travel Map. Boy was I disappointed.
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by rcurry 9y ago
Uber's mobile app was hilarious - I got banned just for trying to sign up as a new user. There's a screen where they ask you to click a button to validate your mobile phone number, I guess they send a code or something, but the UI
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by rcurry 9y ago
There'd be a lot more flying triangle chokes in MMA, that's for sure.
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by rcurry 9y ago
Apparently, countries conduct intelligence operations against each other.
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by rcurry 9y ago
I should know better by now, but I'm still surprised by the relentless pursuit of the shiny that some teams get mired in and even more so that their management allows them to do it. There are an awful lot of problems that can be solved
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by rcurry 10y ago
Well, you MAY owe AMT; it's not certain, and depends on your specific financial situation. Also if you pay AMT then you are eligible for an AMT tax credit which can offset the taxes you have to pay later on when you sell the shares. I
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by rcurry 10y ago
"Worse yet, by exercising options you owe tax immediately on money that you never made." For NQSO this is true, for ISO this is false. The exercise of an ISO grant is not treated as ordinary income.
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by rcurry 10y ago
What kind of WPF applications are you writing? I'm just curious because I always liked WPF but I don't hear about too many people developing for it these days.
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by rcurry 10y ago
This made my day. I only wish I could have read it around 3:00 this morning when I was still up writing code.
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by rcurry 10y ago
Anybody else having trouble with the link that they provide to their "Quick Start" documentation? I can't see all the code unless I zoom out on it: https://react-router-website-xvufzcovng.now.sh/quick-start
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by rcurry 10y ago
I didn't even know what one was until I watched the movie Mr. Holmes (2015) a while back - a glass armonica is part of the story.
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by rcurry 10y ago
I read it when I was a kid, and loved it. It's pretty cool to see this on HN, I almost never run into anyone who has read this book.
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by rcurry 10y ago
I honestly don't know how they recovered from it all. I think they were able to recover parts of it from some people's workstations, but still had to rewrite an awful lot of their code.
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by rcurry 10y ago
I actually witnessed a funny incident, similar to this, when I worked at a National Laboratory some years back. A team I was working with had a big project that formed the core of a larger system, so they created a directory named "cor
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by rcurry 11y ago
I'm just blown away by how much Microsoft is changing their direction these days. These are heady times, for sure.
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by rcurry 11y ago
I just dig that they play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star when you fire them up. It's just such an oddball thing, that I get a kick out of it every time I use it.
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by rcurry 11y ago
"The first interviewer started with "your degree is not from a good school" like the very first sentence right to my face." That's just nuts, what a horrible experience.
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by rcurry 11y ago
"I never heard from them again and all of my attempts at communication were ignored." Unfortunately, this seems to be par for the course these days - I have a lot of friends who complain about the same thing. It's just indica
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Jeff Bezos Lifts Veil on His Rocket Company, Blue Origin(nytimes.com)
275 points by rcurry 11y ago|116 comments

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