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by speby 9y ago
Putting out a new professional-grade (and thinking developer-style laptop) in 2018 without at least a 24GB or 32GB RAM option is a non-starter in my mind. Apple is also notorious for this having had 16GB RAM be the maximum for literally yea
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by speby 9y ago
People do this a lot. This is a well-known and old issue known as "Hidden City Ticketing" and goes by other names, as well. It is against the typical Contract of Carriage agreement passengers have their airlines, though it's
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by speby 9y ago
I've got some news for him ... sometimes people invest in their 401Ks and GASP.... when they might want to withdraw from it in retirement, if the country is in the middle of a depression or a recession, guess what? It's worth a fr
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by speby 9y ago
How would he have lost everything? The pension would stay no matter what.
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by speby 9y ago
Not sure if this would count but I'd say some of the software that implemented Shlaer-Mellor OOA and code generation tools of the late 80s/early 90s might be included here too. Unfortunately can't find a great screenshot othe
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by speby 9y ago
I would think a variety of training courses could benefit from this kind of interactive, almost hands-on, fidelity.
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by speby 9y ago
Google is notorious for this behavior. Don't you remember the years-long "beta" status for GMail?
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by speby 9y ago
Imagine the ego you could curate when you believe you can upload your mind for eternity. How special you are!
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by speby 9y ago
This is great. I've heard of lab-grown diamonds for over 10 years now (and they've been making them longer than that). If the diamond market gets shook up over time, which I believe it really should, I hope the engagement ring mar
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by speby 9y ago
> Banks must be rolling in lost/new card fees. It's not like that at all. There are tons of exceptions that can occur when charging a card. Yes, cards get lost but more often than that, cards will get canceled or closed for var
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by speby 9y ago
9 seems mind-blowing to us all at first. When you unpack it a bit more, you realize that there are literally tens of thousands of different kinds of business selling so many different kinds of products and services. Ask yourself, how many o
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by speby 9y ago
That's nice but averages aside, anything less than 50% for on-site candidates (or final round interview candidates) that don't get an offer means your process is very likely broken somewhere else upstream and you have work to do o
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by speby 9y ago
And this is kind of the problem with politics. Something I've never understood with people is why they have a desire to punish others who disagree or don't share their political beliefs. Sadly, it is this opposing views between pe
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by speby 9y ago
Absolutely. This story is totally unreal. The fact that it is true and actually happened makes it extremely appetizing for a movie to be made.
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by speby 9y ago
A benchmark made by a database vendor that shows that the database vendor performs well, if not the best, overall. Whether it is actually true or not, the result being published is entirely unsurprising.
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by speby 9y ago
In a word, no. But in startup-land, where the total number of people on the engineering team is, say, less than 10, chances are good that the CTO will also play a lead engineer and/or architect sort of role, in which case they will pla
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by speby 9y ago
But he isn't being paid for being 1% faster .... he is being paid because he is the FASTEST. It doesn't matter if he was 0.5% faster, 10% faster, or any other percentage. It matters that he is the FASTEST. That's the label th
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by speby 9y ago
> ... distributed systems are easy to build and use ... I would not say distributed systems are easy to build or use. I think Kubernetes makes distributed systems _easier_ but definitely not easy in general, or at scale. Just easier than
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by speby 9y ago
After reading this article, it sure seems like they're counting people who are more on the research side of AI. And yet a lot of what I've been reading or hearing about has been almost just as focused on application of machine lea
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Just How Shallow Is the Artificial Intelligence Talent Pool?(bloomberg.com)
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by speby 9y ago
Not grumpy at all. Of course you are right but solving this problem and making features like this available in dynamically typed languages is a bit tougher and in some cases, not at all possible as certain things might only be known at runt
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by speby 9y ago
It might be just about the mutation rate being "higher" or "lower" but also about the volume of reproduction. Even with higher or lower mutation rates, failed embryos/offspring can be offset by higher levels of repr
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by speby 9y ago
As somberi commented awhile ago, people leave due to managers -> company -> cause, in roughly that order. So even good managers will lose people if the company has traction issues or the cause is unclear or there is no future. So it a
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by speby 9y ago
> I think this article misses an important point, which is that managers, or at least line managers, are often the messenger for decisions made in upper management. You are 100% correct on this. In many, if not most companies, though def
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by speby 9y ago
Nothing to see here ... move along please. Any industry, anywhere, anytime, that has even the slightest threat to their existence from bad news coming from scientific data being published to the mainstream will always have industry players
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by speby 9y ago
Yep, this is a common case with everyone's favorite repeat offender: Which city gets to host the Olympics? And that has been shown, time and again, to be a huge money loser and not at all something that invigorates the economy or someh
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by speby 9y ago
That's so strange! They're so progressive and liberal there, though. I can't believe they'd let their fellow citizens struggle to get by and live in poverty!
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by speby 9y ago
I feel ya there .... sometimes we simply refuse to successfully understand our own follies, especially as long as the Republican mindset is one where the belief is that the US has the "best healthcare delivery system" in the world
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by speby 9y ago
No one cares about government pay scales. You don't have to work FOR the government to work for the government. Many top NSA specialists work for contractor firms and do earn tremendous compensation from their employers. Those employer
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by speby 9y ago
Value received (perceived or real) does not necessarily equate to the amount of real dollars a customer would have been otherwise willing to pay.

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