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by rpcastagna 7y ago
I dunno, if you look at the legacy of DigiNotar it seems like you're dealing with a lot of potential headaches for a couple thousand bucks that your customers hate paying you anyway. (DigiNotar, of course, famously gave out a fraudul
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by rpcastagna 8y ago
It's important to realize this post doesn't make any assertions about the fundamental merits of people who are rejected by Google.
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Google doesn't hire losers(rpcrpcrpc.com)
40 points by rpcastagna 8y ago|16 comments
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A new form of literacy(rpcrpcrpc.com)
1 points by rpcastagna 8y ago|0 comments
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Suicide Rates After Discharge from Psychiatric Facilities (2017)(jamanetwork.com)
5 points by rpcastagna 8y ago|0 comments
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by rpcastagna 8y ago
"Google Cloud Security and Compliance Whitepaper" linked elsewhere on this thread: https://storage.googleapis.com/gfw-touched-accounts-pdfs/goo... Relevant bits start at page 12: "G Suite customers own t
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by rpcastagna 8y ago
(I'm a software engineer on Google Drive.) The answer is no. To the point where it's actually a pain in the ass for us because developing any ML-assisted capabilities for G Suite requires us to only get training data from specific
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Find what's useful(rpcrpcrpc.com)
1 points by rpcastagna 8y ago|0 comments
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by rpcastagna 8y ago
If it makes you feel better: Hospitals of reasonable size typically have an on-site clinical engineering team that handles those kinds of situations. Important (that is, capital expense category) hospital equipment will typically emit all k
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Take real chances, dick(rpcrpcrpc.com)
1 points by rpcastagna 8y ago|0 comments
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by rpcastagna 8y ago
It's weird to me you would treat this state of affairs as a static and universally-holding position. I think it's obvious (with several current examples coming to mind) that investors and business partners can be branded as "
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The merits of being unrelentingly thorough(rpcrpcrpc.com)
1 points by rpcastagna 8y ago|0 comments
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by rpcastagna 8y ago
These experiences also exacerbate the perception that I referred to before that can basically be summarized as "every previous attempt at making this better ended up being completely terrible ". A whole slew of people want to imp
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by rpcastagna 8y ago
Healthcare industry insiders joke: Any theory of the current state of medicine that involves a cardio-thoracic surgeon feeling like they are not completely irreplaceable, one-in-a-trillion geniuses/minor deities, put here on this pla
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by rpcastagna 8y ago
It reminds me of Moneyball ; in it, the author points out that the statisticians were frustrated by their inability to get traction within the MLB, but their pitch essentially boiled down to "you guys don't listen to statistics,
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by rpcastagna 8y ago
I was thinking of Andre 3k at the OutKast reunion tour with the "sell out" thing here. I'm also a software engineer at Google and I think our stock price has gone up too? I might be wrong.
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by rpcastagna 8y ago
The problem with sports analogies is that athletes typically actually matter to the success or failure of their organization, and that's both immediately visible to and recognized by everyone involved. Even for athletes, though, you
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by rpcastagna 8y ago
To be honest I don't think the typical corporate strategy is irrational, either, because employees can be wrong about product and business decisions in exactly the same way that executives can be, and, ultimately, the construct of the
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by rpcastagna 8y ago
I don't have the context on the "engagement industry" or whatever that I think I need to appreciate this post as the specific criticism I think it's trying to be, but I think people really are bitterly unsatisfied with t
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by rpcastagna 8y ago
You're so low it's actually kind of uncomfortable.
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Advice on “making it” in tech(rpcrpcrpc.com)
1 points by rpcastagna 8y ago|0 comments
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by rpcastagna 8y ago
+1000. Working in the warehouse at the bottom of a hospital would get weird sometimes because you had absolutely no indication what time of day it was -- working third shift could feel like the middle of the day since it was always so well
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by rpcastagna 8y ago
Binary files (arbitrary example: images used for golden screenshots in tests) have no line counts and are likely skewing the numbers here -- in the way you're (logically) looking to interpret them at least. From a system design perspec
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by rpcastagna 10y ago
I think it's disingenuous to try to appeal to what you see as the norms of "professional IT culture" when Linus founded the Linux community, and with it, its culture. I think invoking the "Ugly American" concept whe
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by rpcastagna 10y ago
I wouldn't say it's universally necessary, just like it's not universally necessary to speak any given language to convey information. We just all have our own natural ways of doing things and it's not necessarily produc
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by rpcastagna 10y ago
I think ldfdr made a good point in his sibling comment that deeming something as "unpleasant" is highly tied to your personal perceptions of what civility is, etc, which is generally rooted in your culture and where you grew up. I
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by rpcastagna 10y ago
> I would challenge that notion that using an aggressive and diminishing language doesn't imply being a jerk. It's 100% a cultural difference. While you see it as personally aggressive and grating, a lot of people see "ove
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by rpcastagna 10y ago
>> What do they gain from removing advertising from any video? Any money you make is money they make. > They would gain more advertisers paying them money to advertise with them. I don't really understand what you're sayi
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by rpcastagna 10y ago
I'm not totally comfortable with the fact that the knee-jerk reaction here is that an allegation of racial discrimination in hiring is wrong on its face. Although Asians certainly aren't a significantly underrepresented minority i
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by rpcastagna 10y ago
> I've founded my own company and I'm voting against any progress of women. I'm not sure you're going to establish a moral high ground by explicitly opposing the progress of equality... I understand you have concerns

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