tboyd47

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by tboyd47 7y ago
Really? Why do parents want to please the administrators?
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by tboyd47 7y ago
Well, going by the PTA's promotional material at our school, it's their top priority.
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by tboyd47 7y ago
Update after added info above. Without knowing much about your team, my advice is this. The request from your manager should be taken as optional. Unless it's part of your contract explicitly, it's really the manager's job to
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by tboyd47 7y ago
They want the government to force all their competitors to do the same.
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by tboyd47 7y ago
You can always start floating out your resume. Replace #2 with "transfer companies." Honestly, smaller companies are not the best places to get into management because there aren't that many people to manage. The key point is
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by tboyd47 7y ago
1) Start doing as many management- or senior-level activities as possible without being asked and without asking permission. You may encounter some resistance from above, but just be polite and persistent. Have the mindset that this is just
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by tboyd47 7y ago
The way to grow juniors is to feed them very narrowly defined programming tasks across a range of difficulty, give them ample time to complete them, and provide measured feedback along the way. If you're not in a managerial position ov
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by tboyd47 7y ago
Thanks for sharing! Great article.
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by tboyd47 8y ago
That looks funny, but really you'll want something like this drafting stool: https://images.globalindustrial.com/images/275x275/NOS_B1691... Notice the height and the circular foot bar around the base. Hookin
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by tboyd47 8y ago
I still think some kind of Medicare-for-all legislation or "Trumpcare" is Donald Trump's ultimate goal for his presidency. "I am going to take care of everybody... Everybody’s going to be taken care of much better than t
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Wow, I can't believe you took the time to reply to a question of mine from two years ago ! Ultimately I ended up with the same solution. The keyboard tray under the desk made a huge difference. You have to sit as if you're riding
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Agreed. Productivity is just another word for control. The trend is to transfer control away from the developer and to the identity provider (OAuth2), app store (Apple/Google), search engine (AMP), cloud provider (AWS serverless), cont
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by tboyd47 8y ago
I can answer on the hiring side when it comes to programming jobs. In a 100% honest world, you wouldn't even need to interview for technical positions; you could look at the person's resume and tell instantly whether or not they a
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by tboyd47 8y ago
If a physical commodity is backing the currency, then there has to be some official body (similar to a bank) to make sure the commodity matches the digital balance, and how would they enforce that rule other than censoring transactions (a.k
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by tboyd47 8y ago
A cryptocurrency "backed" by anything other than cryptography is just a currency.
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by tboyd47 8y ago
I should have added "for any given metric of performance." You have to use SOME kind of objective metric, to check your own personal biases if nothing else. But you're absolutely right in that performance metrics will never d
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Because "easing out less competent people" a fool's errand. There will always be high performers and low performers on a team, both in a relative and absolute sense. Good managers don't make it their responsibility to cl
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Is being able to smile for a camera a "soft skill?"
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by tboyd47 8y ago
American court decisions are strongly based on precedent. If these contests were to move through the court system naturally for a few years, don't you think that over time the volume of work would diminish as each decision became prece
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Your 5% stake is not 5% of a full-time job. It's compensation for the work you've already done. You earned it already. Value your time at the same rate anyone else with your skills would command. Even if you're waiving compen
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by tboyd47 8y ago
What I'm trying to say is that inasmuch as you consider the current legal and cultural environment of America to be utilitarian, procedurally fair, and representatively fair, any system that could be built using AI can achieve the same
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by tboyd47 8y ago
> There is no design of AI that can be simultaneously utilitarian, procedurally fair, and representatively fair. AI is just tools of humans. Any system that can be achieved with humans can also be achieved with AI. These AIs take us back
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Client-server distinction. It sounds easy ("derp, back-end is server, front-end is client") but it's really quite a mind bender when you think about it. Take a given piece of website code in a given language. Where is it bein
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Ask HN: What topic instantly will spark a great conversation with you?
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by tboyd47 8y ago
I didn't downvote you, but I worked in adtech a couple of years back, and observed the opposite. We saw direct-sold contracts overtake DFP income almost immediately after the team started looking for them. It was a mid-size company (ab
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by tboyd47 8y ago
You do have a point. Perhaps it was rude of me to butt in here; nevertheless, I stand by my view, misplaced or not.
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by tboyd47 8y ago
> In the military you often don't get a vote upon the technology, the environment, the people you work with, or really anything. You realize you are an adult. You suck it up and try to make the best of it. As crappy as that may at f
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Here's a simple, free-market solution that no one seems to have thought of: start a health insurance company that pays for medical tourism. That would provide consumers a cost-effective alternative and put pressure on the American hosp
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Anybody who is making a TED talk clearly has resources and skills that put him/her over and above the majority of candidates, so I'd take that example with a grain of salt. If you're putting out your resume and not getting an
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C-SPAN: Col. John Boyd's Testimony to Congress about U.S. Military Reform (1991)(c-span.org)
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