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by tibbetts 5y ago
Sampling error. Aftermarket suppliers only get involved when they can make and sell a replacement part at a compelling price point.
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by tibbetts 5y ago
Large employers already subscribe to services which tell them what you likely got paid at your last job by geo/title/seniority/tenure.
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by tibbetts 5y ago
I prefer to be paid based on how valuable my work is to the employer, not the cost of living wherever I happen to be or even my personal financial needs.
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by tibbetts 5y ago
ssh -Y came late. For a long time as I recall you just let your X windows server listen on the network and any other machine could just send it windows to draw. You could just manually set the environment variable on the remote machine. Tha
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by tibbetts 5y ago
This post would have benefited from a longer title. As it was I was disappointed to not see a picture of a horse with a gun coming out of its forehead. For anyone similarly disappointed here is an example: https://www.deviantart.
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by tibbetts 5y ago
The pro move, at least with a similar law in Massachusetts, is for the developer to threaten a ridiculous skyscraper with 20% low income housing, and then negotiate with the town to instead, out of the grace of their heart, build a more rea
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by tibbetts 5y ago
100% drop your therapist. That’s why you pay them: to make clear this is a professional relationship, and it’s your prerogative to change it.
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by tibbetts 5y ago
A few dozen, most of whom took a job at a security firm and one might imagine are the type reluctant to maintain a lie like this.
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by tibbetts 5y ago
There are a lot of companies that don’t adjust salaries when engineers go remote, but they also only let engineers they are committed to keeping go remote in the first place.
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by tibbetts 5y ago
Depends when in your career, and what the company is doing. I went from my first starting salary of $72k at age 23 (in 2003) as engineer #2 to $150k as chief architect about 5 years later. After another 5 years we sold the company, and I wa
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by tibbetts 5y ago
I certainly don’t know. Maybe they didn’t, in which case it’s embarrassing.
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by tibbetts 5y ago
I’d be pretty embarrassed if I was JPMorgan and I hadn’t profited at least ten times that much from illicit private messaging.
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by tibbetts 5y ago
I haven’t done the research, but Facebook is generally exceptional. I would expect that on average shareholders of companies that drop on IPO would be better off selling at the open and diversifying than holding for any period of time. I’m
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by tibbetts 5y ago
Utopia of Rules - our culture thinks that if we just had the right set of rules and everyone fallowed them then everything would work well. This is a flawed belief, like other utopias.
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by tibbetts 5y ago
Because there is a natural monopoly in being a trusted provider of legal transaction services. Both for integrations and for the fact that no one wants to risk their job saving a few dollars on digital signatures. And no one wants to explai
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by tibbetts 5y ago
Linking to a 9 year old YouTube video with 36 views and 12 subscribers should have an amusing impact on their metrics.
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by tibbetts 5y ago
I don’t see a lot of disruption heading in the direction of local high skilled technicians doing sophisticated component level repair. If anything I see the exact opposite. Unless we have some regulation forcing companies to account for cos
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by tibbetts 5y ago
Maintaining inventory makes “cost” a weird concept. And I can’t think of any regulation requiring anyone to provide something at “cost” that works well.
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by tibbetts 5y ago
It would be nice, but then you’d probably be in a pretty boring business.
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by tibbetts 5y ago
Goals masquerading as strategy is an incredibly common problem. Good Strategy Bad Strategy is my favorite treatment of the problem. Unfortunately a lot of executives don’t like to be told they are suppose to take responsibility for strategy
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by tibbetts 5y ago
The real change was Intel shifting from manufacturing commodity RAM to creating microprocessors. The 4004 was a major factor. But it was the corporate strategy change, leading to 8008, 8088, etc which really drove the success of Intel and t
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by tibbetts 5y ago
Anybody asking me for money to cure Alzheimer’s I just at this point assume is Theranos 2.0. There are plenty of well informed life sciences investors with very deep pockets.
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by tibbetts 5y ago
No, the one clinging to power despite support from a shrinking minority of the electorate.
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by tibbetts 5y ago
People were incredibly gullible in the 19th century, so I’m not sure your premise is true. I think 99% of people are equally gullible and 1% of people are notably less gullible and so there is a small improvement between the 19th century an
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by tibbetts 5y ago
Depends on the scale of the outcome and whether you are growing in responsibility/impact as the business grows. If you want to make $1+M on a $50M outcome you better be early and hope management doesn’t raise too much money. If you wan
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by tibbetts 5y ago
The idea that the only, or even primary, incentive to do stuff is money is an invention of 20th century economics. It was then tragically taught to most educated people, especially business leaders. That made it a sort of self-fulfilling pr
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by tibbetts 5y ago
My old Brother printer has an installation utility for OSX that doesn’t run under modern Java for a trivial reason. I recompiled it and swapped in a library to make it work. The only point of the tool is to configure the printer (over USB)
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by tibbetts 5y ago
“Chilling effect.” I see the same thing with unenforceable employment contract clauses, where people still avoid violating them just to be safe.
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by tibbetts 5y ago
I think Apple has (with varying success) been making that pitch for several years.
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by tibbetts 5y ago
Breaks down instantly when you try to define which activities count as businesses, or try to define why individuals are offering goods and services to one another.

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