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721.
by spoonjim 5y ago
Cheating in a medical exam can get an unqualified person licensed as a doctor. It can have serious consequences and kill lots of people. In a regular college exam I think criminal charges are a bit much but for a public safety related exam
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by spoonjim 5y ago
Securing a system is like flying an airplane - if one thing goes wrong, the whole thing is fucked. At large scale, a good CISO will be more of a process fiend than a whitehat hacker, the same way that Jetpack Guy is probably not the guy you
723.
by spoonjim 5y ago
The majority of software engineers on Earth are working on problems that are known-solvable. If you're working on novel battery charging algorithms for Lithium batteries you are in the minority -- most people are working on time tracki
724.
by spoonjim 5y ago
If you joined a late stage private company recently, your options are completely underwater and as soon as the stock market seems to have stabilized you should jump ship, even just resign and re-interview for your existing company to get ne
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by spoonjim 5y ago
Apple probably has the most sophisticated pricing data and analytics of any manufacturer so if they are doing it I assume it works.
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by spoonjim 5y ago
The author makes a good case for why private coaching in DMs is an effective way of improving the Quality of the Discourse(TM) but not why anyone would invest the effort to do this.
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by spoonjim 5y ago
Aren’t those Deel and Remote?
728.
by spoonjim 5y ago
This looks awesome but also at least $200 just in parts.
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by spoonjim 5y ago
After several startups shut down and caused me to scramble to export my data and change my workflow I've decided to put much less of my life in things that other companies can tear away from me. I use Dropbox, iCloud, etc. that I expec
730.
by spoonjim 5y ago
That's a flaw with the notification logic.
731.
by spoonjim 5y ago
Other cities may be having other results but San Francisco is having terrible and inhumane results from its policies.
732.
by spoonjim 5y ago
Who is actually getting to take advantage of the parallelism here? I still buy for single core.
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by spoonjim 5y ago
That is grossly immoral if the software is paid for.
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by spoonjim 5y ago
I’m only going to do an automated interview if it gives me access to a huge number of companies. Otherwise the in person interviewer is a good check on the amount of my time they would be willing to waste.
735.
by spoonjim 5y ago
One of my favorite Alexa “hacks” was just someone shouting through their wall to order shit from their neighbor’s Alexa while they were on vacation without Internet access and stealing them from the doorstep. They never saw the order confir
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by spoonjim 5y ago
Kinesics Freestyle if you need configurability, Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic if you don’t
737.
by spoonjim 5y ago
The part about waiting 3 days for a reply was shocking. If you have a serious problem (with anything) get on the PHONE.
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by spoonjim 5y ago
LOL did you miss the part where he said his dad has 100 employees and is one of the biggest bike dealers in the country? How successful is your company?
739.
by spoonjim 5y ago
No, the Tank Man picture isn't surprising at all. The defining property of that image is that he is small, but willing to stand up to those tanks. My memory was correct -- it is a picture of a very small object standing in front of sev
740.
by spoonjim 5y ago
I notice a lot of companies avoiding hiring remote workers from Colorado. This may exacerbate this, even though I don't think it's bad policy.
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by spoonjim 5y ago
For severely disabled children most parents hope to outlive their kids because they know that nobody will give them a parent's love when they are gone, even with Satya Nadella-level money. There have been some (tragic? bittersweet? I d
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by spoonjim 5y ago
Satya shared some information about Zain’s story about 5 years ago: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/moment-forever-changed-our-li...
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by spoonjim 5y ago
I was at the airport at this time and just randomly saw it. Didn’t even know this plane existed. You can imagine my face and that of everyone around me.
744.
by spoonjim 5y ago
Poorly thought out policy (migrate domains in 1 week?) made in the heat of the moment when everyone has a better place to be directing their attention. Expect a reversal within 72 hours but a permanent loss of customer trust (I have five do
745.
by spoonjim 5y ago
I saw it once at an airport and wasn’t expecting it. It was a real WTF moment.
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by spoonjim 5y ago
Christianity
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by spoonjim 5y ago
Most of creating a roast chicken that good is in sourcing the chicken. Breeds optimized for flavor rather than economics, fed a chicken’s natural diet, grown at the chicken’s natural pace, and handled carefully, slaughtered shortly before c
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by spoonjim 5y ago
The absolute best way to network as an introvert is to write. If you write something great and promote it on Twitter etc. it can create huge opportunities for you. Articles like this very one are an example.
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by spoonjim 5y ago
The feature parity minimizes how much better the iPhone was, even at launch when it was clearly rough around the edges. It’s like comparing a 1988 Hyundai with a Tesla Model S. The features are all the same: 4 doors, 4 seats, steering wheel
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by spoonjim 5y ago
> Apart from war there may be no human activity in which fairness applies less. Agreed, which is why it was a big collective fuckup for Western societies to migrate from the societies where premarital and extramarital sex was condemned,

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