thomasmeeks

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by thomasmeeks 8y ago
I can see that, and perhaps my experience has just been unlucky. I missed usenet by a few years.
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by thomasmeeks 8y ago
I’d add arguing by using inline quotes. Example: some snippet of text from parent comment I disagree because x, y, z. another snippet This is wrong because a, b, c. (End example) Doing so obliterates context from a position, especially
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How One of the Internet’s Biggest History Forums Deals with Holocaust Deniers(amp.slate.com)
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by thomasmeeks 8y ago
I am really impressed that Melissa is not only living in the gray, but defending the wisdom of doing so.
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by thomasmeeks 8y ago
I find myself in a very nuanced place with these sorts of discussions. I don't know what the right answer is. I _don't_ think the right answer is anything goes (even if you attempt to let the community police that with voting). I&
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by thomasmeeks 8y ago
I'm not sure -- I haven't worked long enough at a company where managers had their own office & everyone was in an open office plan. My experience was that everyone, including the CEO, was in an open office (40+ person startup
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by thomasmeeks 8y ago
I think that is a large part of it, I strongly agree. However, I think there are two other factors that come into play that are very tough for people to vocalize when they are defending an open office. 1. Open offices are more appealing vis
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by thomasmeeks 8y ago
I had this same realization. In this context it doesn't work as well, anyway, because senior leaders are in meetings so often that their desk is fairly meaningless. But to generalize at a higher level -- "by what mechanism do we f
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by thomasmeeks 8y ago
So your description of his response really struck a nerve with me. The founder is the leader of the company, not the board, and the founder(s) regularly give up equity in order for a company to be successful. Yes, it might require board app
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by thomasmeeks 8y ago
How's a kid supposed to make money mowing lawns if their parents cannot afford a mower? How are they supposed to do that if they live in the inner city & there are no lawns? What if their neighbors can't afford the service? I&
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by thomasmeeks 8y ago
The alternative is encouraging people to wait for treatment and tests that they can’t afford in the hope that the problem isn’t serious. Put another way, if this family does need the trauma unit for their child next month, will they hesitat
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by thomasmeeks 8y ago
Yep, when fear creeps in around modifying a part of an application it is time to have a very serious conversation about fixing that. It is one of the few cases where I find the refactor vs. creating customer value argument is more clear cut
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by thomasmeeks 8y ago
Honestly, I'd lean towards /r/AMA to get a higher signal-to-noise ratio & limit trolling. The smaller user base means you're more likely to bring genuinely interested parties into the conversation -- people watching
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by thomasmeeks 8y ago
This country's willingness to dump massive entitlements on the coal, etc. industries while simultaneously deriding individual entitlements is the height of hypocrisy. Really makes me wonder what the breaking point is for this particula
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by thomasmeeks 8y ago
In a nutshell, it is more complex & expensive to run a c-corp compared to, for example, a LLC. The way taxes are handled is a meaningful part of the issue.
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by thomasmeeks 8y ago
If Vermont were a company I'd assume a play at cheap advertising: no far-reaching benefit, but a lot more eyeballs researching the state for far less than the cost of running an ad campaign.
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by thomasmeeks 8y ago
No, not at truly large companies -- Amazon could never fill its halls with just references and such. Even at smaller companies, however, there's some pushback to network hiring because it isn't particularly great for getting a div
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by thomasmeeks 9y ago
The cost to produce quality content is quite high. Even if you are "only" putting together a screencast, the cost of learning that content, planning how to teach it, editing it, and inevitable retakes can all easily stretch to 20x
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by thomasmeeks 9y ago
It really depends on what we use it for, what strings are attached to the money besides interest (official or otherwise), how that would affect our credit rating / percieved value of the dollar with other countries, our effectiveness i
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by thomasmeeks 9y ago
Sure they can, static site generators can still include client-side javascript.
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by thomasmeeks 9y ago
To my recollection there was a meaningful amount of evidence that this wasn’t a bug. Rather it was optimizing for the test in such a way that it essentially faked the results, and the company was aware it had been done. So, yeah, where I si
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by thomasmeeks 9y ago
Yah, agreed. I've used arch for a long time as well, and gentoo before it. I've actually had less breakage with gentoo back in the day. Their notification system for breaking changes is truly awful (or rather, does not exist). I&#
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by thomasmeeks 9y ago
My time in Gentoo was absolutely worth it for the same reasons. There are dozens of us! Dozens! I still recommend it to people who are serious about diving into Linux.
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by thomasmeeks 9y ago
We could not have GPS, and still be trying to fly planes over other countries. I'm a fan of cost reduction, but it is more nuanced than this.
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by thomasmeeks 9y ago
It is a fair point and I know plenty of people like that as well. However, to give another perspective on it. When I think of changing an unequal situation, I look at the situations you described like this: "Did something happen early
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by thomasmeeks 10y ago
You can sue for anything, so yes, but in this thought experiment they would lose the lawsuit. In order for a defamation/libel lawsuit to be successful, the statement must be untrue.
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by thomasmeeks 11y ago
Turn the craft around halfway to your destination and burn to decelerate at the same rate you accelerated. Keeps a nice 1G on the body the entire time.
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by thomasmeeks 12y ago
I am running the dell xps 15, works beautifully. Though the refreshed xps 13 is likely worth a look as well.
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by thomasmeeks 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Business_Bureau#Criticis... (there's more citations there)
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by thomasmeeks 12y ago
Environmental doesn't necessarily mean it is something we've done to the environment. Even if the world's environment were reverted to "untouched by humans" status, you can still get melanoma from too much sun expos

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