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by topkai22 6y ago
A hotel room also isn’t a substitute because it can’t be used as flex space. The pandemic has many of us wishing for dedicated home office space, an extra room serves that purpose. It can also serve as a home gym and hobby project space, so
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by topkai22 6y ago
Man this is taking a ton of stuff out of context. Satya's "when people say you're working from home, it feels sometimes like you're sleeping at work" is about a lack of work/life seperation, not productivity. T
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by topkai22 6y ago
A major shift in American social order I’ve seen in my life time is the move from the centrality of “tolerance” to the centrality of “acceptance.” While there are many good reasons for this, it is also a recipe for conflict and distrust. Wh
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by topkai22 6y ago
The headline is a bit misleading- Satya's actual quote is about work from home specifically, and the lack of boundaries working from home creates. "Sleeping at work" means that because is now work is home with you, you are &q
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by topkai22 6y ago
It sounds like a data processing pipeline rather than a database itself. A systems A...E at hospital push csv files to a shared system F. System G pulls the data from F, passes it through an excel workbook (failure point!) for data augment
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by topkai22 6y ago
On AngularJS- Google could have provided a managed transition to a foundation or non-profit responsible for the continuance of the existing code base. Instead they are explicitly not providing a path forward for the community to take owner
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by topkai22 6y ago
It’s not clear from the official docs AFAIK. While the code is MIT licensed, there might be trademark issues with the name AngularJS and continuing the existing repo. That being said, I’m sure creating a fork of AngularJS and providing paid
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by topkai22 6y ago
Quite possibly the Sun-Microsoft lawsuit from 20 years ago, and the ongoing Oracle/Google drama. [1] https://www.cnet.com/news/sun-microsoft-settle-java-suit/ [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wi
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by topkai22 6y ago
Interesting that this article talks entirely to the complexity of technological systems and business processes. Largely, those aren't the things that make my life complex, it's other people. Being the middleman between two people
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by topkai22 6y ago
As much as I advocate structure, I’ve never gone down there path of formalizing any sort of sharing of personal info, even about songs. However, as a lead I think it’s important to set an example by voluntarily sharing at least some of my
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by topkai22 6y ago
1) Not applicable because I was remote before the pandemic 2) Yes, and I have A LOT. Predicate- I’m the tech lead, so it helps I can set team culture. However, here are some things that help- a) pick up the phone after the 3rd IM. Instant m
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by topkai22 6y ago
Sure, and I use them. However, I went to library systems for the last the counties I’ve lived in and none of them present Gutenberg or associated projects as an options when I looked for eBooks. I think I know why- the process of getting a
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by topkai22 6y ago
I stepped up my use of my library's ereader app (the same Libby mentioned in the article) during covid and was shocked that there weren't any public domain books available. That seems like table stakes for a public library's
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by topkai22 6y ago
I'm a little surprised that there isn't a "buy to own" option in my library's ereader. While I would certainly worry about the perverse incentives that such a feature would create (such as reducing checkout times t
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by topkai22 6y ago
I jumped on this thread to say exactly this. I visited the Vasa museum in Stockholm a few years back. The Vasa is an amazingly preserved shipwreck from the 1600s. There ship is mostly original and looks like bare brown wood like everyone im
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by topkai22 6y ago
Even if it doesn’t entirely “work” for that one person it is still important to address the culture issue immediately and publicly, because it sets norms for everyone else in the room. Even if you are the only other one in the room. Perhaps
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by topkai22 6y ago
Immediately remind the person that doing that goes against our company goals and culture.
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by topkai22 6y ago
Yup, I thought this was a new reactor design.
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by topkai22 6y ago
Gas cost isn’t a great stand in for car trip prices, as there are a plenty of other costs to drivers. The IRS per mileage reimbursement rate is 57.5 cents per mile, putting the “real” cost to an 800 mile roundtrip around $400. A different s
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by topkai22 6y ago
I'm using GitHub pages: https://pages.github.com/ It's human friendly to end users, but very developer centric. Its not going to be human friendly to writers.
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by topkai22 6y ago
The article is talking about two things simultaneously that really need should be talked about separately, or at least in order- the technical criteria for diagnosing an learning disability and the policy response to it. It might be that an
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by topkai22 6y ago
I was at my engineering college reunion around the time this piece was written. It was shocking the number of people that had pivoted from chemistry, physics, biology, or engineering into "software engineering", including people w
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by topkai22 6y ago
On the glamping line of thinking, I've seen some families around here use an RV as a mother-in-law apartment. They are a bit expensive right now, but still way cheaper than full renovation to add the same amount of space. Plus, then yo
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by topkai22 6y ago
We took an entire society from in-person offices with norms structured around a clear delineation between home/work to full WFH basically overnight. There was little to no training, often limited or confused technology rollout, and no
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by topkai22 6y ago
US Government bodies do a lot of public outreach, many have twitter/social media accounts as part of that effort. There are many reasons for this- the aforementioned help at budget time, Government officials geniunely want to be seen a
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by topkai22 6y ago
Open sourcing has to be done with the audience in mind. It generally doesn’t make sense to (publicly) open source a system that is idiosyncratic to a single organization. The only likely interested audience is hostile attackers. A useful g
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by topkai22 6y ago
I don't think they are intending to make money on the clicks itself, but having a bot click on ads would seem to make it appear more "real" and less likely to get discovered.
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by topkai22 6y ago
Given that teaching is happening inside people’s homes, it has to. That being said, this is stupid in the extreme. I can justify the welfare check, but the suspension is insane.
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by topkai22 6y ago
I was going to say this seems factually untrue, because the number of films released each year has been going up for a long time, but there are some interesting parallels on how films are distributed. Looking at https://stephenfo
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by topkai22 6y ago
The issue brought up by the author are real, but I think many aren't necessarily inherent to remote work but are due to society and norms not having adapted to it yet. I've run a remote team for years and quite explicitly encoura

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