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by ryanobjc 11y ago
The problem with your reply to the article is you are overly precise and it doesn't add to the overall conversation. Yes the doctor and ENT advice is imprecise, but also it doesn't make sense giving people advice that isn't
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
Ah well done. People might get down on this article because of it's negative framing, but the reality is to improve the situation, one has to really understand what has been tried, why it did or did not work. Great stuff here.
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
Someone pointed out that it's really hard to erase white boards. While it's trivial to erase a blackboard. Better for top secret stuff.
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
The thing that stuck out to me the most when I was reading this was the notion of 'anti-fragility' -- the business structures resulting from the leveraged buy out apparently could not handle the shocks of 2008. The question is, do
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
TAKE THAT YOU DAMN TECHIES (whatever they are)
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
the new international dance sensation!
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
thc aint nuff, gotta have the psychedelics
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
"You must not be from around here, are you?" The problems with the suggestions here is #1 and #2 are both vigorously defended by different parties. So your proposal is a no-go politically. The Dems won't lower or get rid of
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
I feel like Saclay won't rival Silicon Valley any time soon. To me, part of the magic of silicon valley has little to do with Stanford (although the article references Harvard??) or the mega businesses, but the overall culture of north
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
I like it! A good test of an organization or person isnt how they are, but how they adapt. And the signs are promising here.
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
not so because options and RSUs mean that until the vest you don't get ownership of the stock. So if you keep it for an ADDITIONAL year then you get taxed long term on the _additional gain_. Basically options and RSU = normal income
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
not sure why you've been downboated, perhaps people disagree on the numbers, but the basic fact is, in my opinion, not disputable. VCs dont just pick winners, they CREATE winners. How much of an effect this is debatable but it certain
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
I think the problem is even though it sounds like a lot, $1.5m/year is not really some kind of "Tony Stark"-like riches. Yes, they might be able to temporarily stop working and live off savings, but probably not for that lon
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
This feels like a "modern art" moment. The key question is, who is your audience? For a lot of modern art the audience is other insiders. And also, possibly, buyers. The average person may not find it so compelling. And so it is h
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
enh shows how much i know. Honestly, I'm pretty excited for Rust. Having a strong proof of lifetime enforced by compiler is very compelling idea.
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
Is now the time for D? I really wonder, I am not really sure. Certainly a lot of languages go thru a period of obscurity before success, but I'm still uncertain. The one issue that sticks for me was the dual standard libraries. Just
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
I think I covered that with the whole 'conservative canadian companies' aspect.
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
well except the coop office positions it as endlessly a good idea. and in CS it just may not be.
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
books about internal corporate communication dont exactly advocate "Dense ideas" at the executive level. After all, who is going to read a 30 minute long email? Only if you are threatening their jobs (and Tony is!)
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
Kind of reminds me of... scientology. Replace sea org with teal organization, and auditing with 'tension meetings' and you got yourself a new cult! Then again, I'm just jealous since I always wanted to start a cult :-(
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
When I saw a missive which is commanded to take 30 minutes to read... my immediate thought is, ok they're doomed. Every book on business management and communications repeats the "keep it simple and clear" over and over. Con
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
I did software coop at UBC, and I can say without a doubt that the coop model is purely an invention of a highly conservative business culture. For those with the skills and the desire, I say skip it. The loss of community with the rest o
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
The best part of this article is the "RMS" comment. It isn't the real RMS because he never surfs the web, only via email. So his comment is still at least another 24 hours out. Nevertheless, I like the whole "NSA+Googl
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
Shovel data around at speeds that push the boundaries of hardware performance. That isn't systems programming?
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
Except that, why would people need to stop thinking that? Because, its very obvious that, at the very least, becoming part of y combinator sets you up for major success. Just like being part of an Ivy League. Sure, you can have success wit
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
Also partition in the system definition can be as little as 'single node failure'. But I've seen plenty of systems that handle single node failure, but really get fucked when you have a network split where 50% of the nodes ca
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
The concept listed in here is either (a) too complex or (b) not complete enough to provide a full rich mental model. CAP was highly successful because it fits in with an existing meme - 3 things, you can only get 2 of them. It's simpl
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by ryanobjc 11y ago
Classic blog from 2010. The idea didn't catch on however, and no one uses these terms. PNUTS is still completely closed source inside Yahoo -- this is because PNUTS depends on an internal queuing system. As for YCSB, it's common
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by ryanobjc 12y ago
I'm not sure I'd call Java for systems programming is a "sane" choice, but ok! I think with a very modern C++ approach and very careful coding you can rock out. Yeah not everyone has this, but the losses from using Java
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by ryanobjc 12y ago
but as a guy, its biologically fun to be aggressive. Now what? :-(

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