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What would be good and bad examples where personalization excels and fails?
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This is Chrome extension that is asking to read browser history. Why?
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> Kubernetes isn’t just a 2018-era buzzword. And then he goes on to throw buzzwords. Yet another poorly written article as is now the norm for Kubetnetes.
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Palantir Technologies, $20B Peter Thiel-backed government contractor
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The many sides of Microsoft’s new two-screen Surface Duo phone
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The Unseen History of Audio and Acoustics Research at Microsoft
(microsoft.com)
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6y ago
You are interpreting it all wrong. Staff augmentation happens all the time who do same work as employees. The fundamental difference is amount of time you are hiring the person for. If you say I need person to augment my existing staff only
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6y ago
This has been going back and forth too much. I am not even sure why single person (judge) wants to make such sweeping decisions. These drivers work on their own whims. They may decide to show up or not. They can cut short day anytime. Uber
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6y ago
Do you have any recommendations that can be purchased from Amazon or elsewhere?
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I am far less impressed by Indian system. First, it is almost impossible to use regular credit card in India that otherwise works in rest of the world. Indian POSes expect pins and most international credit cards do not have one so they get
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That's not the solution at all. Many of current media like Breitbart/Fox as well CNN/MSNBC leverage a fundamental bug in human psyche: emotional and shocking content keeps our attention! So these media try to hype/spice&
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I worry when I see movies like Star Wars which preach believe your instincts (aka trust the "force"). In reality vast majority of our instincts are either flatout wrong and works only in very narrow situations. In fact, virtually
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TLDR; It is now four months since the start of the pandemic, and I haven’t seen a single covid patient in over a month. When I do test someone because they have a cough or a fever, the test invariably comes back negative. At the peak three
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There is a lot of negativity in your response without even deluding to what's really wrong with the advice. There are tons of very successful founders recommending focusing on adoption instead of revenue in initial period. Freemium is
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If you want to get traction, you need to be far more creative in your business model. The main application of background removal is online meetings and its already well implemented but it leaves a lot to be desired. One thing you can do is
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Just in case people are wondering reason this explosion: there was 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored without safety measures in a warehouse that went off.
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This is just the evolution of thought process. This is bullet list phase which essentially just gathering data. Next phase should be to digest this data to reveal patterns, identify best practices and that article would be more interesting
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6y ago
The metric reflects the level of responsibilities. If you are managing and making decisions that directs activities of 100,000 people, then you do have that much more responsibility. So your comp as % of total comp of your report is good me
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If you are responsible and accountable for $5B revenues and associated decisions, won’t you agree you deserve 0.5% of that revenue? This is generally accepted reasonable management fees for things like index funds. Your credit card comp
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I'm curious how long this work took. Did you encountered many negative results before you got good results? What inspired you for the main insight?
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Unpopular opinion: For big companies, if you take all of the exec pay (C suits) and give it out to rest of the employees, the average employee income only rises by 3-5%. While CXX packages are extra-ordinary, one has to understand that its
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These are eye opening results: minimum 2X to almost 4X increase in fine for unattractive people! In a way attractiveness plays out everywhere starting from college admissions to careers to finding mate. We don't want to admit it but th
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The folks like this should actually do a startup. Hardening security is often just keeping up with and following checklists, installing proper monitoring, backup and audit software however for large majority of company it is impossible to h
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How Bad Is Your Colormap? (2014)
(jakevdp.github.io)
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Verisign Monopolized the .com Domain Registry
(webmasters.stackexchange.com)
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A Beginner’s Guide to Lithium Rechargeable Batteries
(hackaday.com)
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Just curious, does work at these companies require any algorithm design skills or is it usual web/app/database development work?
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Good story, bad title. There is no real lesson on how to survive ransomware except that company called Hydro was able to use employees to rebuild some of its data needed for running plants. Most companies deal with databases that cannot be
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Not sure why being conformist or not is important. Isn’t the more desirable thing is how you reason that your belief will lead to your desired result? What evidence have you taken in account and what risks you are aware of? How do you deal
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TLDR; Famous Painted door test: https://briandavidhall.com/the-painted-door-test/ A painted door test lets you gauge interest in a new feature, product, page, or piece of functionality … before you’ve built it. It inv
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