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by saryant 10y ago
The job of the jury is to determine the credibility of both the evidence and the witnesses. The idea that this somehow morphed me into a shadow expert witness is a very uncharitable reading.
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by saryant 10y ago
I served on a jury a year ago and I came away with a greater belief in their importance. The case in question a week-long criminal trial of a police detective who tipped off a suspected child predator of his impending arrest. The charges w
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by saryant 10y ago
Bangkok more diverse than Singapore? That doesn't really ring true. That and the fact that Singaporean students are required to study their mother language in addition to English. Also—aren't most Chinese-Singaporeans of Hokkien
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by saryant 10y ago
Negotiation may not relate directly to sitting at a keyboard typing code, but the underlying skill is critical to the profession. Trying to land the projects you want? You're negotiating. Talking the PM into reducing scope to hit a d
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by saryant 10y ago
What law did they break?
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by saryant 10y ago
FWIW, I have a number of friends at Verizon Labs doing some pretty cool work with Scala and Haskell.
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by saryant 10y ago
Boris Yeltsin's grocery store visit: http://blog.chron.com/thetexican/2014/04/when-boris-yeltsin-...
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by saryant 10y ago
Isn't Vanguard already the Vanguard of 401k custodians? (My 401k is managed by Vanguard)
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by saryant 10y ago
After nationalization Venezuela told all PDVSA workers that they either had to be loyal to Chavez or quit. Many of the best left, knowing they could take positions with the supermajors or service contractors in other countries. PDVSA was l
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by saryant 10y ago
The team is Swedish.
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RedCard is processed by Amex.
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Amex already takes this into account.
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by saryant 10y ago
I have ~30 cards and a few get compromised every year. I've honestly never found it to be a big hassle. My daily card has been compromised a few times—Chase just overnighted me a replacement and that was it.
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Many (most?) business checking accounts charge for large cash deposits.
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Why Ferris Bueller Never Existed(theatlantic.com)
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by saryant 10y ago
My experience is the opposite. I find that Scala works just fine in very large teams, hundreds or even 1000+ engineers.
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Chevron operates one of the world's largest Hadoop clusters.
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Curbs on free speech are growing tighter. It is time to speak out(economist.com)
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by saryant 10y ago
I realized that it was going to take me 5+ years to get to the point with consulting where I had any control over my own destiny. Jumping to a startup let me accelerate that timetable and build far more experience far faster than would be
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by saryant 10y ago
Right out of college I made the huge mistake of joining one of the big consulting companies. Six months in I hated it so I just quit. At the time I was living in Houston, where I didn't have much of a network, so I packed up my stuff a
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by saryant 10y ago
I've seen that used in lots of airports in Asia.
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by saryant 10y ago
iTunes and Amazon sells shows a la carte. What's the problem?
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by saryant 10y ago
I'm a little ashamed to say it came naturally (I feel like that's a cop-out answer but I don't have a better one).
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by saryant 10y ago
> It takes 1~3 hours to stick a flag in the Internet about one topic. Having one flag stuck in the Internet beats zero flags, by a lot. I gave one rather mediocre talk at a regional tech conference with maybe ~100 attendees. The video i
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by saryant 10y ago
FWIW, the entire oil industry knew that BP was a ticking time bomb. They were (in)famous in Houston for flouting every safety regulation and best practice the industry had ever come up with. This is why, post-Deepwater, BP wasn't allo
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by saryant 10y ago
Of course there are debit cards, there are just really good reasons to stick with credit cards.
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Those requirements are quite common in Texas and developers still build like crazy.
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Airports can replace the TSA with private contracts. SFO farmed security out to a company called Covenant. They still have to follow TSA policies and aren't necessarily an improvement from a passenger standpoint. I.e., you're s
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by saryant 10y ago
That's what I do. I've got local Time Machine backups (which I have restored from in the past). So far I just haven't had to use my Backblaze backups but I think I'll test that this weekend.
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How's the restore process? I've actually been backing up to Backblaze for about a year now but (knock on wood) haven't had to restore any data. That said, one of my drives has been acting up in the last few days so that mome

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