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by tboyd47 7y ago
Theoretically, 5G will use a higher frequency band of radiation (24Ghz-86Ghz). This band has a harder time penetrating obstacles, so you will need many more transmitters at a higher power level to cover an area. Opponents are uncomfortable
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by tboyd47 7y ago
Are you experiencing physical pain at all, like in your shoulders, back, or wrists?
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by tboyd47 7y ago
Why would you want to? The maintenance phase is the point where most projects finally get into the black after being a net loss for several years.
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by tboyd47 7y ago
"Most placeable candidate". It's just the insider term for the strategy I described above where you find a good candidate and then use them as bait to dangle in front of clients.
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by tboyd47 7y ago
My advice: 1) Don't ever interact with MPC recruiters. These are recruiters who do not have a contractual agreement with a client in place and want to use your resume to sell their own agency to new clients. 100% wastes of time. 1a) Do
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by tboyd47 7y ago
One strange thing about the Agile Manifesto that people usually miss is that it's signed at the bottom by a bunch of consultants. Who are these people and why was it important for them to attach their name to this?
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by tboyd47 7y ago
It's the opposite of the Agile Manifesto. These are 3 practical steps to management that apply to any industry where you depend on workers with diverse skillsets, software included. I actually picked them up from "First, Break all
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by tboyd47 7y ago
The entire category of ideas that agile occupies is utter bullshit, and the alternative to bullshit is just common sense. Hire good people, give clear instructions, and leave them alone. The problem with common sense is that you can't
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by tboyd47 7y ago
This is bound to happen to any platform financed by advertisers. Controversies are like fires to them. If it's not under their control, it's dangerous and has to be put out.
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by tboyd47 7y ago
There's truth to what you're saying, but it implies you have to accept a certain level of pain or physical discomfort if you work in a seated position, and the only way to manage the pain is to get out of your seat. But there are
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by tboyd47 7y ago
Instead of a single spectrum from computer- to human-friendliness, picture a triangle with the third vertex being "task-friendliness" or task specificity. The author is advocating a return to human-friendliness, but what he descri
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by tboyd47 7y ago
It's not bizarre if it's affecting their relationships.
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by tboyd47 7y ago
Downsizing
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by tboyd47 7y ago
It's probably not a single person, but a metric that has become statistically related to revenue.
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by tboyd47 7y ago
> I found myself absolutely astonished that tech founders could be so clueless as to assume that a simple rest api integration should take the same amount of time as a real time transactional distributed ward’s clustering implementation
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by tboyd47 7y ago
Lots of companies do this, but no one calls it "hire fast, fire fast." It's called "contract-to-hire." If you're talking about enforcing a bell curve on your existing employees, then that's called stack ra
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by tboyd47 7y ago
Hi there. This is really neat. It reminds me of a talk I listened to recently on digital privacy, where the guy was using the price of "privacy products" as a way to measure how much people value their privacy. This seems like it
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by tboyd47 7y ago
Many don't. You can always just refuse and move on. I've wasted a lot of weeks on these things. They are a major risk for the applicant because the slow the job search down considerably. The large time investment makes the applica
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by tboyd47 7y ago
I second the Advantage2. Go ahead and get the quiet version because the original can be quite loud.
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by tboyd47 7y ago
This should be the top reply.
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by tboyd47 7y ago
25% is a very low-ball number. Self employment tax: 7.5% Health insurance premium = 15% PTO + other benefits (life insurance, 401k, equipment, etc.) = 15% or more And there should be a premium on top of that for non-perm. The cost of contra
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by tboyd47 7y ago
I agree with you, but how do you address the counterargument that financing health care requires pooling funds at some level, and a company is a logical place to do that seeing as how they have an interest in having everyone come to work on
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by tboyd47 7y ago
How do you know it is "in full" if all you have seen is the embedded quote?
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by tboyd47 7y ago
I'm re-reading it now. Maybe I'm just not able to follow the text-based email chain format, but it doesn't seem to include RMS's original email with his comments except quoted as part of another email, which leads me to
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by tboyd47 7y ago
Can anyone please provide context on this? Why did RMS feel the need to personally step in and weigh in on the Minsky allegations? Was it indeed just carelessness on his behalf, as many are speculating? Or were his comments part of another
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by tboyd47 7y ago
1. Any time spent in management will take away from technical skills unless you are happy to be a shitty manager. 2. For me, it's different. I actually enjoy unblocking developers and being more of a support for other people than playi
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by tboyd47 7y ago
Yes, and "environment" issues can certainly become fixations for some people. For example, VMs. It all comes down to the reason a person holds a certain view and how broadly that view is supported in their own specific programming
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by tboyd47 7y ago
> "1. Fixations... 2. Requirements" Brilliant! But I would have condensed the last 3 into one point: "Productivity." Productivity - accomplishing more with less work - should be the #1 internal goal of every software
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by tboyd47 7y ago
You mean how there are somehow always commenters in every topic ready to leap to the defense of China and major US tech companies?
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by tboyd47 7y ago
I spend 40 hours a week using web-based applications and I saw no performance difference after switching to Firefox.

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