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by snoman 8y ago
Is VFX any different? You'd be amazed that a majority of it is government/state funded. Good podcast on it here: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/no-hollywood-ending-visual-e...
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by snoman 8y ago
It's a good thing your taste in art & entertainment isn't the bar by which the medium is measured then.
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by snoman 9y ago
> A good engineer retained can often deliver 2X to 10X the value of a new hire. The company treats them them [sic] accordingly. The turnover rate is generally less than 2 years.
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by snoman 9y ago
People deride unions, but collective bargaining has also been a very effective solution in the past.
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by snoman 9y ago
> In my opinion the real solution here is to be more understanding to stupid things people have done in the past. If you think the real solution is to change the way the world thinks about, and judges, everyone else then you're bein
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by snoman 9y ago
Of everything on the page, this was particularly clever.
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by snoman 9y ago
It's not far from it. Software development is in small company with respect to the need for constant re-education and skill maintenance. The vast majority of developers with skills from just 10 years ago are wholly unemployable right n
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by snoman 9y ago
That's a pretty strong, derisive, opinion to have for tens of millions of people you've never met.
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by snoman 9y ago
I think nebulous1 is is pointing out that it's one thing to say "We're just following the letter of the law to the best of our ability, because we want to be 100% above board." It's another thing to say "We&#x2
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by snoman 9y ago
If I could be given a bit of latitude to generalize for a second, I've noticed that America has a very "self-focused" culture wherein the individual is often seen as being solely responsible for everything relating to their s
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by snoman 9y ago
> No, hang on, I get what the OP says and it's a reasonalbe assumption. It's definitely an assumption, which is a problem to begin with, and it's not a reasonable one. Interviewers often go through training to avoid pre-
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by snoman 9y ago
Wow. Lots to digest here, and I think I detect some strong frustration. My sympathies on that. I have worked at the big 4 (MS) but I'm a consultant now. I do a fair bit of interviewing and what I propose is that you don't actually
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by snoman 9y ago
The trend certainly will continue, if only because that's how it's always worked - even before twitter, or even the internet. TV, radio, newspapers, publishers, etc. have always had this power - you had to market yourself to enoug
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by snoman 9y ago
> E.g. I spend less overall than I did a few years ago but each item I buy is more expensive... An app that capitalizes on people coming to this realization (and knows how to market and execute it well) could make a killing. I think that
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by snoman 9y ago
I'm just guessing that it's because it's not a stock or a bond. I don't ever hear what the market cap is for the yen, or any other currency.
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by snoman 9y ago
Ostensibly, that already exists: https://www.statuspage.io/
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by snoman 9y ago
Most of the time these status pages sit on, and store data in, the same infrastructure as the things it's supposed to be reporting on.
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by snoman 9y ago
It references the primary concept, and it also looks like much of the information from MMM is already distilled into this - which is not hard to do; MMM is a bit verbose if I recall correctly.
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by snoman 9y ago
> ... at the end of the day a job is about money. This is short-sighted. A job is what you make of it - you can get lots of different things out of it. Otherwise pro-bono work, internships, etc. couldn't exist. If all you're i
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by snoman 9y ago
If you're doing trades through coinbase or similar, you'll get hit with large fees. Going to the exchanges is much cheaper.
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by snoman 9y ago
Wow! That was an incredible talk/demonstration. Thanks for that!
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by snoman 9y ago
Bitcoin is no less safe than any other asset re: civil forfeiture. One might even make the argument that it is moreso because there aren't the established communication mechanisms that exist between law enforcement agencies and banks t
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by snoman 9y ago
You tried to do the right thing. For what it's worth, that's very commendable. It's reasonable that you'd be upset because you're going to be burdened by the efforts required to further legitimize those earnings in
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by snoman 9y ago
Yes, which is immediately a problem when Netflix is competing with the cable company or one of its subsidiaries (which is the case) that don't have to pay those costs (or as much). It allows the cable company to effectively tax the com
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by snoman 9y ago
> I don't think there is a "technical profit" to be had, though. Ostensibly, every net-new feature increases the pool of people for whom the software, as a whole, solves a problem. The performance and usability of that fea
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by snoman 9y ago
> ... if one was to put equivalnet amount of time in another field, say learning how deep learning works... I see what you're getting at, but these are two different things. The vast majority of humanity as a whole is just not capab
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by snoman 9y ago
Or run it in a VM, or compatibility mode, if I don't want to pay for an update.
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by snoman 9y ago
If only it weren't GitHub only. I've got a couple projects in Bitbucket that I'd like to use this with.
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by snoman 9y ago
> In that case, the database will perform a failover in those instances so there isn't downtime. Have you done that? I have and there's been downtime every time (~5m).
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by snoman 9y ago
As far as Multi-AZ is concerned, it's a bit of a wash. A month ago when the east coast had its issues, Multi-AZ didn't do anything. Every time I need to reboot an instance, with failover it is down/inaccessible for the same a

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