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by topkai22 6y ago
I think a fair amount of cyberpunk also had an eye to the past, with the East India company and others like it serving as reference points to the mega corps of the “future” The East India company is gone, the railroads and US steel aren’t w
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by topkai22 6y ago
In the wizard of oz, the “great and powerful wizard” is actually a tiny old man with no powers who uses stage magic tricks, which is revealed at the climax of the movie by a tiny dog pulling back a curtain. It means that something is reveal
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by topkai22 6y ago
A while back, possibly on HN, there was an article about why it’s generally harder to make friends or find a community after graduation. It outlined some of the requirements for developing strong friendships and community. The ones that st
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by topkai22 6y ago
A "game of thrones" divorce sounds like quite a bloody affair.
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by topkai22 6y ago
US government background checks explicitly ask about foreign financial holdings, and those investigators check.
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by topkai22 6y ago
Interesting choice since the extension of copyright ended in 2019 and works have started entering the public domain again.
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by topkai22 7y ago
A while back (like 2012) I saw a paper making the claim that video games reduce violence. The idea was that video games are so popular amongst the teenage and young men that they end up not getting into trouble on the street. It seems like
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by topkai22 7y ago
There are large number of self taught people in my area of the company (services). Experience in another industry is plus- we are the people who directly help customers build on top of Microsoft’s products. The biggest thing we (my division
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by topkai22 7y ago
I suspect the constraints made it better. You’d already dropped a small amount of money on the magazine, built up the anticipation of getting it home, and now you were definitely going to give the demo a good whirl. Also, demos /sharew
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by topkai22 7y ago
And not really web at all, but I miss buying a gaming magazine at the grocery store and getting a cd full of demos included with it. That was fun
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by topkai22 7y ago
GameSpy and the planet network, especially thier hosting / match making systems. Maybe it was just being able to know a couple servers and run into the same people over and over, but I remember liking that a lot. The Happy Puppy game
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by topkai22 7y ago
Microsoft, in consulting services, yes. https://careers.microsoft.com/students/us/en/microsoft-aspir... https://careers.microsoft.com/students/us/en/job/795772/Full...
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by topkai22 7y ago
Absolutely - we have a dedicated "water cooler" channel, and as a lead I try to ensure people feel comfortable going "off topic" during small group meetings.
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Like most things related to remote work, you just have to be more formal in the the approach. Our team has successfully developed several cohorts of college hires remotely. You have to give them consistent (daily, for hours) access to mento
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by topkai22 7y ago
I suspect the increasing dominance of open source and free (as in beer) software for the last decade is at play, too. Companies selling development software/libraries can pay for teams of content developers and evangelists. They also w
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by topkai22 7y ago
Pluralsight has videos/training series that do that. It might still generally be below exactly what you are looking for, but it’s pretty good and where I go when I have to ramp fast.
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by topkai22 7y ago
You interview the identified case to determine who they’ve been in close contact with for the last several days, get their contact info, and then test them. Repeat for any new positive contacts. If they were in any public areas you can pull
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by topkai22 7y ago
Absolutely, the efficacy of contact tracing has been known for a long time. That being said, we’ve also been doing interview based contact tracing for a long time. The current IT systems for doing contact tracing leave a lot to be desired
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by topkai22 7y ago
The major question I have about smartphone based contact tracing is if it is effective, and if so how much more effective is it then existing techniques. Bluetooth based contact tracing could be a valuable tool in public health, but as many
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by topkai22 7y ago
In always say it depends on the meeting. I have a lot of meetings that are really working sessions, were we are constantly communicating and co-building. Those can take hours. That being said, there are generally bo more than 5 people on th
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by topkai22 7y ago
I find YAML distressingly hard to work with. Just one example- because it’s white space delimited, copying and pasting a block of code will often blow up between docs based on nesting levels. This is intensely frustrating when the setting i
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by topkai22 7y ago
As an interviewee, I have a particular distaste for take home questions, at least if given before doing a couple phone screens- I want to see a company invest time in me a bit before spending half a day coding. Besides, having been an i
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by topkai22 7y ago
I feel like a lot of the authors recommendations for Slack are talking points in Office 365 keynotes.
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A good meeting should generally be transmitting information effectively or driving to a decision. If a meeting is unable to do that, it should be stopped. Stopping a meeting in the middle of the planned duration is a bit dramatic, but if it
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by topkai22 7y ago
Had under tested, the rate of testing has increased drastically in the last two weeks. It’s not where we need it to be, but the US is now testing at a rate comparable with any other country.
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by topkai22 7y ago
If you are just checking boxes, WGU is probably the way to go. My understanding is that things go very quickly for people with real world experience.
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by topkai22 7y ago
I believe you can hook into apis to shut things down, but it’s not super straight forward. There are many Azure services that can’t be set to zero dollar billing without data loss, so I’m not sure how Azure could deal with those in a unifie
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by topkai22 7y ago
I think this is how utilities evolved in many places- local monopolies arose, so local governments either built their own system, took over service delivery or created laws on top of the service delivery.
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by topkai22 7y ago
My opinions, this all depends on the unknowable future, and utilities are typically regulated at the state level, so the answer will vary by state. 1) Probably about the same. I suspect law enforcement might end up with “easier” access (mos
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by topkai22 7y ago
Agreed, I don't want to minimize the impact on them. I was responding to the article's DSL population. For your uncle- I know that both suburban and rural providers in my area are providing various "COVID19 lifeline" dea

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