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by ticmasta 7y ago
Well they have to do something to make up for their continued decline in performance. You don't get to stay the industry darling by living on your historical record forever...
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by ticmasta 7y ago
I believe (as do many others) that they've got the causation backwards; you don't search for work you're already passionate about, you grow passion by doing meaningful work that is deeply rewarding. I read most of the post wi
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by ticmasta 7y ago
The only legit use-case I've ever seen is "lift-and-shift" out of a self-hosted IIS environment to a container that can be hosted publicly. Now your business has a "SasS Offering"! We had MS in our office a few week
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by ticmasta 7y ago
With what shareholder majority?
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by ticmasta 7y ago
Well, we saw with the USSR that decades of Cold War couldn't be defused politically but Levis and Coca Cola went a long way towards bridging the divide. Now we have China which is basketball-mad but the problem is we can't use the
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by ticmasta 7y ago
So you allocated scarce resources to the best available candidate you could find? ...or there's something I'm missing...?
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by ticmasta 7y ago
I'm not currently looking for a job, but I have stock answers saved over the years that I combine and tweak for these sort of essay-based, open-ended questions. I might spend an hour composing and editing an application for a senior po
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by ticmasta 7y ago
cigarettes are a very close substitute for vaping and much cheaper
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by ticmasta 7y ago
>> Why is vaping perceived as so dangerous? Compared with cigarettes its damn near harmless Vaping is also much more expensive than cigarettes. If Juul contributes to getting huge amounts of young people addicted to nicotine what do y
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by ticmasta 7y ago
Have just one experience with an inattentive driver for you or a loved one and then tell me the priority should be "driving convenience".
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by ticmasta 7y ago
heaven for bid we impact "driving efficiency" for something as low-priority as public safety...
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by ticmasta 7y ago
One thing that is unclear is that the two independent images, one showing an individual using a phone where they may be personally identifiable and a second showing the car's license plate. So they fine the registered owner of the ca
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by ticmasta 7y ago
The short answer is yes. How you approach this is very dependent on where you're coming from (i.e. existing solution) but with WPF and Winforms now part of Core 3.0 you can then build a native, single exe by specifying the target archi
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by ticmasta 7y ago
Back in the day when 3rd party antivirus on windows was a must, these guys were the best price-performance trade-off. Then windows added defender as a standard that was as good, with the added benefit of a shared best interest of making win
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by ticmasta 7y ago
"he" is a huge powerful collective of similar viewpoints. If you don't feel the need to win them over how do you expect to ever affect change? "he" is not just some evil, fat-cat oil company exec; they are entire co
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by ticmasta 7y ago
1. Their using the word subsidy to trigger an emotional response; when we determine economic cost this is not what the word means and they know it 2. By calling it a subsidy they treat the cost as a precise quantifiable value which is most
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by ticmasta 7y ago
The biggest carbon emitter is the individual collective. There's nothing wrong with your concept and I don't think it's controversial at that level, but it sure creates dissension when we try and figure out what exactly &quot
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by ticmasta 7y ago
>> source their wood pulp from boreal forests in Canada, which are very old and take between 20 to 50 years to regenerate. This is an oxymoron; an old tree between 20-50 years? Young lumber trees are a least twice as old as this.
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by ticmasta 7y ago
well, learning Java serves you well for C#; skills with C and C++ have huge transfer value; maybe you haven't been tasked with "figure out the cost of this algo" but I hope intuitively you've used some Big-O, linear pro
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by ticmasta 7y ago
I've have degrees from 3 different universities; the one I enjoyed the most was at a school that evolved from a community college over the past 30 years: small classes, profs who care about teaching, administrators trying to build some
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by ticmasta 7y ago
This is the attitude of someone with a good job or lots of opportunities and seems pretty common on HN. Many (most?) people do not have the luxury of high-minded ideals like this. Plus, you do realize you're categorically ruling out
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by ticmasta 7y ago
Does the idea of having a degree mean anything to you? If the only thing between degree-you and non-degree-you is "4 easy online classes" would you be doing this for the accomplishment or the piece of paper? >> Should I just
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by ticmasta 7y ago
PTO is purely discretionary; I've never turned down a request. Lately I've been dealing with a lot of "can I work remote while I go visit my girlfriend for a week" or "I need an entire sick day to go to the chiropra
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by ticmasta 7y ago
I'm a middle aged manager with several brand-new grad hires. I try to be open, accommodating and flexible; it does not work. They are one of: 1. confused and frustrated without a (rather strict) set of baseline rules to guide them, 2.
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by ticmasta 7y ago
Actually, a library is a specific legal context that does allow it to do many things similar to what you're describing. It can't steal movies for archiving, but it certainly can purchase and share legally procured copies. Digital
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by ticmasta 7y ago
As an engineering manager I try to answer truthfully to these probing questions because (1) If someone quits after being hired under false pretenses it's more work for me, (2) I'm relatively new to the position so naive/earne
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by ticmasta 7y ago
We often (twice in the past 3-4 months) sent desirable prospective hires for coffee with a current employee to allay some of their fears. Both accepted jobs shortly after this, and likey would not have if we didn't give them relatively
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by ticmasta 7y ago
The only real differences I can see are: 1. The numbers are a magnitude larger, instead of 100's of millions we're talking billions for the individual players. * Today's villains are far more disingenuous about their motives.
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by ticmasta 7y ago
HN comments? It's as much "news" as the vast majority of major sites...
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by ticmasta 7y ago
The challenge is getting the tractors into the right locations and keeping their operators out of the spray. It would be harder to get precise application so they are more likely to use more and higher concentrations of pesticide. The most

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