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by spitfire 10y ago
> I'm comfortable with the idea that people can distinguish between rules designed to protect society and rules cynically implemented to protect entrenched interests I'm not. Or rather, I'm not comfortable that some player
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by spitfire 10y ago
Nice looking building. Looks like they throw a excellent Casino night/circus night, I think I saw Gavin Belson there. On a serious note I am scared for the 20-somethings I saw in the videos. Downturns come with every upswing, and a lot
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by spitfire 10y ago
Hollywood is way ahead of you. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102800/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
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by spitfire 10y ago
Stripe Atlas does exactly this for you. https://stripe.com/atlas
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by spitfire 10y ago
Damn. They beat me to it! This was going to be my secret weapon when I became a VC and funded "generational startups".
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by spitfire 10y ago
Paywalled.
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by spitfire 10y ago
Well, except for hiring. When they get to that again. Sometimes just vocalizing things came lead to new insight. I like their approach, minus the salary transparancy.
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by spitfire 10y ago
How about just making Canada competitive so Canadians want to stay?
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by spitfire 10y ago
Over the last 16 years we've seen several boom/bust cycles in speculative markets driven by interest rates. First the bursting of the first tech bubble. Then Greenspan's housing bubble in 2001-2007. Then interest rates were h
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by spitfire 10y ago
IBM AS/400 did this decades ago. It has a unified address space - you only see "space" not disk/ram split.
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by spitfire 10y ago
They can't find or build alternatives? they could have the same impact at the Unix level that they've had on the high-level GUI. It could certainly use it.
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by spitfire 10y ago
Will they update the unix layer? A lot of the CLI tools there are positively prehistoric. Maybe while they're at it they can add a real package manager too.
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by spitfire 10y ago
But will they Carlie Fiorina you on the ink? History says yes.
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by spitfire 10y ago
SEEKING WORK - Victoria, B.C. or remote. Data scientist with more than 10 years experience. I'm a data scientist with more than 10 years experience in machine learning and analytics. I focus on money sink problems for business, the sor
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by spitfire 10y ago
Since this is appropriate to the (coming) subject, I'll post this here. Tokenadult isn't around to chime in here, so I'll take his place today. Hunter and Schmit did a meta-study of 70 years of research on hiring criteria. [1
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by spitfire 10y ago
Tokenadult isn't around to chime in here, so I'll take his place today. Hunter and Schmit did a meta-study of 70 years of research on hiring criteria. [1] There are three attributes you need to select for to identify performing em
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by spitfire 11y ago
It's not about software companies. It's about the cool kids' club. Think city/country club membership You might be doing well, but if you aren't in the club, you're nothing. For all the talk of "techies&qu
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by spitfire 11y ago
They were trained to be inquisitive. Silicon valley socializes to not rock the boat. Boyd FTW.
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by spitfire 11y ago
A VC payday? Seriously though, that's what many of these people /will/ get. Worse, they'll actually believe it was their own talent that got them there. The world is a cruel and unfair place.
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by spitfire 11y ago
Was hoping someone would mention the mittelstand.
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by spitfire 11y ago
Champing at the bit.
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by spitfire 11y ago
Name them and shame them. Spread the news within your network. Keep a record of the behaviour - they are burnt for the rest of time.
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by spitfire 11y ago
I wasn't confused at all. Technically there is a difference between a language, an API and a platform. That's all true in the case of NodeJS and the like, but not true for web browsers. There the language the API and the platform
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by spitfire 11y ago
I wonder if along with these byte code engines we'll get capability grained control systems too. Somehow I doubt it though. So in the future, when you visit a website they'll be able to Eg: open windows, pop up unblockable modals,
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by spitfire 11y ago
Tokenadult isn't around to chime in here, so I'll take his place today. Hunter and Schmit did a meta-study of 70 years of research on hiring criteria. [1] There are three attributes you need to select for to identify performing em
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by spitfire 11y ago
US nuclear missiles still use 8-inch floppy disks. Presumably on some 8-bit micro from the time. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/01/floppy-disk-nuclear... And of course we're still using operating
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by spitfire 11y ago
The US marines in particular went through a massive transformation int he 80's after their experience in Vietnam. The name people want to look up is John Boyd. I would hazard a guess the average Marine officer knows more about Kurt Gód
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by spitfire 11y ago
Is there a version of this available for Safari?
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by spitfire 11y ago
Okay, so it's not the Javascript $FOO of the week then, good. As long as it's not overly hot like machine learning, talk to your suitors. If you think you'll get a durable increase in quality of life/freedom/stabili
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by spitfire 11y ago
You always talk to them. Whether you do more depends on the situation. Do you have a skill with a short lifespan, or is it a more grounded skill that will last forever? If it's a short lifetime, take the cash, if not, optimize for qu

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