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by steffan 12y ago
Employees always (in my experience) are explicitly restricted from trading company stock based on non-public info. There are also [usually] specific windows in which employees cannot trade in the company's stock. Additionally, I have
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by steffan 12y ago
I'm sure that emergency friction braking could be implemented along with other aerodynamic measures to brake the pods at a rate probably only limited by the human occupants. More importantly, (never say never, but...) this will not act
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by steffan 12y ago
These instances are exactly why it is worth chasing your dreams. We are all going to die, the issue is only _when_. Don't you want to have spent your time doing something meaningful to you?
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by steffan 12y ago
Congrats on the launch! Any idea whether there is or will be support for IPv6 on the Photon? Particularly for this sort of device, I think it is important to have that support.
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by steffan 12y ago
Dublin does have a pool of talent from the existing companies based there, so any effects will be trailing; they won't show up immediately. My understanding is that a number of Europeans are not all that interested in relocating to Dub
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by steffan 12y ago
This is horrible advice! In the real world, you will encounter a variety of bad outcomes utilizing it. If you are ready to leave, you're giving up control of when and how once you tell your boss. It's exceptionally naive to think
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by steffan 12y ago
> “When the belt experiment was over, Wächter felt lost” It seems slightly cruel to me to give someone a device to augment their senses without some provision for them to continue using it if the experiment is successful. I suppose it&#
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by steffan 12y ago
In San Francisco, Portland, and certain places in Los Angeles, there is a significant number of homeless people who make use of the library. I don't begrudge them the access to books, internet, learning, and a quiet place, but there i
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by steffan 12y ago
Impatient, too
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by steffan 12y ago
Scala / Play (and Spray) / Postgres Starting to use Angular, experimenting with Akka / Spray
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by steffan 12y ago
I realize you're being facetious, but these already exist. They're called “hotels.” It doesn't take a huge stretch of imagination to think that if the marginal costs of operation were similarly reduced by automation that it c
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by steffan 12y ago
You're attributing this trend to iOS autocorrect? Such an optimist.
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by steffan 12y ago
Hyperbole much? If a man or woman is that put off by this sort of comment, they're probably more suited for another field of endeavor.
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by steffan 13y ago
Junior engineers are more likely to be affected precisely because of this reason; they have far less bargaining power than a top engineer and are subject to the standard “This is the salary band based on our research on our competitors&#x
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by steffan 13y ago
Because it indirectly affected the salaries of everyone who works in tech in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, and possibly a larger portion of the U.S. tech industry. It's standard practice in HR to calibrate salaries based on what oth
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by steffan 13y ago
If the only thing keeping your people from leaving is lack of opportunity, there are many, many things wrong with your organization.
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by steffan 13y ago
I think disallowing negotiation is ill-advised for several reasons. If an explicit salary negotiation is banned, people will find other things to negotiate instead. You will likely lose potential hires because you refuse to budge on salary.
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by steffan 13y ago
Also, I'm surprised at the response to my OP since my original complaint was about the misspellings.
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by steffan 13y ago
Nowhere did I make any claims as to the representation of women in the engineering / SV population other than that it is a non-zero quantity. Is it really that unreasonable not to ignore their participation?
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by steffan 13y ago
I'm not trying to white-knight here. I know plenty of women engineers that fall into those categories as well - engineer/hoodie, sales/suit, etc. Would it be that hard in the Bay Area to find a woman engineer in jeans and
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by steffan 13y ago
Besides the obvious omissions of women, it's always hard for me to take an article seriously when there are obvious spelling errors.
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by steffan 13y ago
Your numbers are fine, but I wish I could downvote you for the passive-aggressive “...please down vote me for citing these numbers.”
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by steffan 13y ago
I'm very happy with Stripe. I would almost call their API beautiful. It's simple and well-designed, and has been very easy to integrate using stripe.js and stripe-scala.
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by steffan 13y ago
I'm using a 4K monitor with a late-2013 MacBook Pro
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by steffan 13y ago
In (two, I believe) U.S. states, marijuana has been decriminalized. That is, enforcement won't be applied at the state [roughly equivalent to a province] level. At the Federal [National] level, however, there are still laws that proh
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by steffan 13y ago
I found this rather amusing: “Among the compromised data are 41,000 credentials used to connect to File Transfer Protocol (FTP, the standard network used when working from home)”
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by steffan 13y ago
https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&q=pontiac+aztek... https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&q=bmw+i3
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by steffan 13y ago
I am a big proponent of electric cars, but it seems to me that BMW missed the boat on aesthetics. This looks like a German Pontiac Aztec.
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by steffan 13y ago
I couldn't bear to part with my Model M. I've modded one of them to have have the converter inside with a USB Type B socket. It was made 22 years ago and still works great. It'll probably outlive me. I've periodically
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by steffan 13y ago
The air-hockey element is most likely implemented as a cushion of air around all sides of a vehicle inside a tube - this would explain the "crash-proof" assertion. It would provide near-frictionless travel as well as preventing v

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