topkai22

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by topkai22 6y ago
One thing I haven't seen any mention is that there are well understood methodologies for mapping business analysis constructs to OOP code. I still see a lot of "person fills out this form, then it gets validated, and then it sends
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by topkai22 6y ago
Is Disney doing another reboot of the Rocketeer?
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by topkai22 6y ago
The history of the company town is not all negative. Many company model towns were truly built to provide a better quality of life for workers, albeit with some very paternalistic overtones and often a desire to make them better workers as
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by topkai22 6y ago
Yeah, the $200k/year threshold excludes something like 97% of individual income earners ( https://dqydj.com/income-percentile-by-age-calculator/ ). That's not relatively low, its a significant barrier to entry.
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by topkai22 6y ago
I'm less driven to leave the house that many, including my wife. That being said, I have small and smallish children and they drag me out a fair amount, I do enjoy hiking/walking/running at least once a week, and I'm eng
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by topkai22 6y ago
I find it very interesting how different people deal with this aspect of life. I've been WFH for 5 years now and mostly work out at home, and I'm fine with it. The exception is when the kids are home all day, which makes WFH a lot
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by topkai22 6y ago
Hurricane season is getting worse with rising average temperaturs, in the sense that storm frequency is increasing, but its also getting "worse" because so many more people and more infrastructure has moved to the gulf of Mexico a
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by topkai22 6y ago
Probably, but I bet the 1/5 of drivers that support the getting classified as employees represent a disproportionate amount of driver hours spent on the app. If you are logged in 8.5h a day as your primary source of income, becoming an
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by topkai22 6y ago
I suspect it will be really serving areas where that is unlikely to happen (rural areas and over ocean transportation).
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by topkai22 6y ago
I was on a project where we added 6 people to an 8 person team in 2 weeks. Velocity stayed exactly the same as before for a sprint or two but quality issues jumped. We then spent an enormous portion of time on bug fixing. It took about 2 mo
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by topkai22 6y ago
I should find this more mortifying, but with the EU Court of Justice's decision on the privacy shield, India's ban on Chinese apps, and the great firewall + other nationalized internets, the US just seems like a late mover on nati
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by topkai22 6y ago
I think Bill Gates is worried that assets acquired in a $30B deal may take inordinate amounts of time and attention from senior leadership, at the expense of the rest of a $1600 billion business.
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by topkai22 6y ago
They underlying interview is pretty amazing, mostly not about this subject: https://www.wired.com/story/bill-gates-on-covid-most-us-test...
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by topkai22 6y ago
From the underlying study, I wouldn't even assume that all of those 48 minutes are actual "work" either- they just use the difference between the first and last email sent in a day. The flexibility of being at home in many ci
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by topkai22 6y ago
It might have been seen as OK on the business community, but people in the national security community have been freting over it for a long time. For reasons good and bad those views are now in the ascendancy in the political sphere.
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by topkai22 6y ago
Depends on if he really has customers accessing the system "all the time." Besides, as pretty much everyone has noted, running a zero-downtime system on a single physical machine in what sounds like is just a normal cable room is
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by topkai22 6y ago
I think you’ve got it wrong, at least for large and profitable companies- driving up the average reported salary just accelerates wage growth overall, for all levels and performers as everyone asks for more pay. Conversely, driving down ave
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by topkai22 6y ago
Domestic ownership requirements are common throughout the world. In comparison to many other countries (look at the UAE, at least till last year) the US has traditionally been open to foreign ownership. The thing that is notable is that the
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by topkai22 6y ago
In the US context- A) Copyright terms have increased 5 fold over the centuries. B) The Supreme has ruled, at least in many contexts, that creating a backup copy of a work is fair use. I believe generally this applies so long as the backups
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by topkai22 6y ago
To be clear, I'm talking about views and understanding in broader society, not the scientific community. 35 years is a long time- roughly half the humans in the US weren't alive 35 years ago. It'd be surprising if nothing had
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by topkai22 6y ago
90% of press releases were pro-climate action, only 10% were anti-climate action. That’s makes it less newsworthy if an org is pro climate action. Let’s also talk about scale in the study- it looked at 1,794 press releases. Only 10% of thos
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by topkai22 6y ago
I’m with you- REI does premium retail really well and that involves more then being just a brand. You can save money elsewhere for equivalent gear, but you won’t get the same service.
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by topkai22 6y ago
Rare, but this method is asking them to smell saliva samples all day. That’s a level of exposure very few dogs would have.
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by topkai22 6y ago
6% seems amazing if you can enable mass screenings at, for example, schools. As for consequences, you’d presumably be isolated until a secondary test could confirm the results. That’s better than a 14 day quarantine for everyone coming into
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by topkai22 6y ago
It's high compared to the general population. https://www.ibsf.org/en/athletes?nationality=CAN&gender=M&la... lists all make national team members going back to at least 2010. There are less than 500 natio
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by topkai22 6y ago
The key here is "repetitive". It sounds like the repetitive exercise was the exact same cardio + weights routine every day, excluding any coordinative active, while the dance routines were explicitly varied and sound far more inte
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by topkai22 6y ago
Embedding surveillance and comms capabilities in fishing fleets is an old trick- there is even a reference in Wikipedia for the Soviets doing it in the 80s ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spy_ship ). That's not to d
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by topkai22 6y ago
That $100k figure really isn't true at all. To pick a school, Washington State University is $13k/year in all academic fees. Even if you take 5 years to graduate, that's still about $65k in fees. Yes, if you include room and
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by topkai22 6y ago
There is a free version of Teams now: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/microsoft-team... Office web apps also have free tiers, although I don't know if there are business licensing restrictions.
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by topkai22 6y ago
For reference, the US Government runs thousands of grocery and convenience stores via the US Military exchange (PX) and commissary apparatus. I remember these stores being a fantastic benefit of being a Navy brat. The structure also hints a

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