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by redler 6y ago
To be fair, we sort of still don't have MiB even now.
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by redler 6y ago
The trick is to smoothly animate the filling of a random percentage of the remaining unfilled bar between, say, 30% and 70%, with the timing of the advancements themselves slightly randomized. A sort of Zeno’s progress bar. It will neither
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by redler 6y ago
For sure it's hard to compare titles across companies. But P&L would be a pretty hard line at most places, above which are people whose primary responsibility is to financial results, the C-suite, the board, etc. In places you&#x27
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by redler 6y ago
Depending on the size of the company in question, introducing actual P&L responsibility makes your description sound more like a VP of Product, or, in role terms, a "product owner", whatever the specific title. But certainly t
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by redler 6y ago
Surely every jacket, and not just the one?
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by redler 6y ago
It's Bain. They probably did a huge dividend recap, then let the desiccated remains amble away to oblivion with a shrug.
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by redler 6y ago
As has been said elsewhere, atheism is a religion the same way not playing baseball is a sport.
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by redler 6y ago
Climate change can be extrapolated, through science, to a potentially very challenging future environment. Eschatology is about religious constructs like judgment by deities, prophecies, life after death, "end times", and the like
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by redler 6y ago
You’ve gotta love a calculator app that (at least on iOS) includes a driving game and an AR playground that allows you to festoon your living room with piles of calculators — all of which actually work!
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by redler 6y ago
Thanks, I'll check those out.
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by redler 6y ago
A set of a few hundred tabs, spread across a few windows, is like the bubbling organic head of a stream of temporal bookmarks. It would be great if there were some kind of time-based decay -- or ripening, depending on your perspective -- of
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by redler 6y ago
There's already the 737-800. So you're saying companies flying the Max may have in their fleet both a 737-800 (aka the "738"), and what they're now calling a "737-8"?
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by redler 6y ago
To be fair, they didn't say they're making room for their new innovative [sic] products.
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by redler 6y ago
It will go from a conservative majority (typically 5-4 on polarizing cases — now 5-3 after Ginsburg’s death) to an entrenched conservative supermajority of 6-3, far less likely to ever render “non-conservative” verdicts on those cases. As y
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by redler 6y ago
There is a simple three-step process to resolving these recurring problems: (1) Surface the complaint on the front page of Hacker News; (2) Stimulate at least 100 comments on the submission; (3) Wait for someone at Google to sheepishly reve
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by redler 6y ago
I feel this way not only about monitors, but chairs and shoes, and for the same reasons.
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by redler 6y ago
Perhaps you understood me too literally. I mean the customer as boss in the abstract sense — not as if they are making literal management decisions. Customer as metonym. When you seek product-market fit, or decide which features to prioriti
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by redler 6y ago
Ultimately the customer is at the top of the org chart, although one may be many abstract levels removed from their aggregate "management" decisions -- by intervening "middle managers" like the CEO, the board, and VCs. B
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by redler 6y ago
...and with cases pending before the Supreme Court, we're on the cusp of the societal shock of a sudden return to this situation.
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by redler 6y ago
Furthermore, the business goal of health insurance companies is to not pay for health care, to the greatest extent possible, given regulations and market dynamics. They even call it "medical loss". It's right on the tin.
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by redler 6y ago
“For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.” —Field Marshal Óscar R. Benavides, former president of Peru (attributed)
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by redler 6y ago
Oracle: uses IS NULL to check for empty string I don't know anything about Oracle, and I realize the semantics of "null" are subtle, but this seems like a peculiar design decision that conflates two different things. With O
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by redler 6y ago
As Republican Senator Richard Burr said in 2016, after Scalia died, "...And if Hillary Clinton becomes president, I am going to do everything I can do to make sure four years from now, we still got an opening on the Supreme Court.&quot
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by redler 6y ago
As the glib aphorism goes, Democrats want to fall in love, and Republicans want to fall in line.
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by redler 6y ago
If Democrats gain power, nothing changes unless they frame their opportunity as "what would Mitch do?"
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by redler 6y ago
This might pass the senate — so long as we add two more Dakotas at the same time.
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by redler 6y ago
Likewise, consider that these data will be at the complete and unsupervised disposal of any future politically vindictive "acting" (as has become the fashion) director of homeland security.
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by redler 6y ago
Surely it would be an RFP that insists on SLA guarantees, generating profound confusion at Hellman’s and Kraft.
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by redler 6y ago
Exactly. Covering wages would have been a great investment -- preserving countless businesses that would be irreplaceable, or infeasible to start again. As life resumed, the businesses would be right there, immediately ready to go, serve th
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by redler 6y ago
Ah yes, the Internet Yellow Pages by Harley Hahn. Literally thousands of sites catalogued for your browsing pleasure.

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