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by topkai22 8y ago
Core engineering, not really, although Xamarin might be an exception. Customer facing engineering, consulting, support engineering, and other field based software dev roles are primarily distributed, with varying degrees of travel. Ive been
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by topkai22 8y ago
We are hiring for field (consulting, support, tech sales/architecture and some customer facing engineering) positions remotely, with varying degrees of travel. Core engineering teams are still largely on Prem, although I’ve been delive
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by topkai22 8y ago
Microsoft | Consultants, Architects, Software Engineers, and everything else| REMOTE, INTERNS, WORLDWIDE Microsoft is recruiting across all technical roles. Our engineering roles are primarily located in the major tech hubs (Seattle/Re
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by topkai22 8y ago
I use amazon smile and am happy it exists, but I’d challenge Amazon to do even more. Walmart does $300M a year in giving; Target, Microsoft, and Google do around $150M each. http://fortune.com/2016/06/22/fortu
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by topkai22 8y ago
Code review aren’t meant to find defects- they are meant to prevent them. Every study I’ve seen on code or peer review effectiveness (and there are many) demonstrates that when code reviews are added into an orgs development process, produc
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by topkai22 8y ago
Oracle isn’t just good at convincing oblivious executive types- once they are at an organization they start spreading “oracleness” everywhere. When a huge portion of the orgs DBAs, developers, and IT managers get their training and expertis
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by topkai22 8y ago
And here is a quote from one of those guides that pretty much sums it up: “Pay attention to how your kids act during and after watching TV, playing video games, or hanging out online. If they're using high-quality, age-appropriate medi
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by topkai22 8y ago
Order of magnitude (base 2)?
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by topkai22 8y ago
Douglas Engelbert, “Augmenting Human Intelligence” from 1968. Introduced the world to the mouse (and therefore the GUI), video conferencing, revision control and basically the modern personal computing environment. Also known as the “Mother
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by topkai22 8y ago
About half (the expensive ones) of those listed are suburbs or exurbs of major cities, not really what the article is talking about, and they are all pretty large. It’s probably fair to say that university towns see prices go up relative to
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by topkai22 8y ago
It sounded like questionable methodology- students had access to notes and slides, but it noticeable didn’t mention videos. Professors can communicate what they consider relatively important (and therefore what’s likely on the test/eva
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by topkai22 8y ago
As follow up- there still is space within some of the walled gardens, primarily YouTube and Twitter, and I’m sure some emerging media will support amateurs early as well. I certainly don’t want to go purely back to webrings, marginal search
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by topkai22 8y ago
It’s not so much the web apps, but the professionalization of content that makes me nostalgic. The charming thing about the early web is that almost all of it looked equally terrible- even the sites made by paid experts looked only marginal
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by topkai22 8y ago
One problem for adults in the US at least, the center of gravity for many institutions is on the East Coast, New York for finance or DC for the government. Huge numbers of people on the west coast start their workday at 6a or 7a to align to
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by topkai22 8y ago
Don't know if it applies to dentists, but I know surgeon's offices are open only 3-4 days a week because the other days they are doing surgery. When I saw my dentist office was only open 4 days a week, I figured it was similar- th
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by topkai22 8y ago
Very interesting post, as it helps me see things from the perspective of someone at a different life stage from me. I’ve been leading a distributed (my preferred term) team for 2 years now. I’ve got 4 other humans + associated animals in my
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by topkai22 8y ago
Yeah, but at least with a fine you can contest prior to paying. If a car is seized most people don’t have the luxury of being car less for the length of the appeals process.
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But... the city should just disallow coercive towing generally, unless it’s a public safety concern. Ticketing, fine, but roving packs of tow trucks really only add value to the towing companies. Having lived both in a city where it was nig
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by topkai22 8y ago
Old thread now, but the reason I said they can’t compete on price is states subsidize state universities to the tune of $7100/student/year ( https://www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/funding-d...
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Also it’s almost impossible for private entities to compete with heavily subsidized public institutions on price, so they need to compete in other ways, like superior marketing, ease of financing, or “quality” If states let their subsidies
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In summary, the reason (from a spending perspective) presumably non-profit colleges are so expensive in the US is that US colleges spends 2x/student as much on staff and faculty as many OECD counterparts. College faculty, staff, and ad
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Personal anecdote- i bought a house with a wood pellet stove as a primary heat source. There was smoke damage to the paint everywhere.
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They touch on it in the article, but in my area most elementary schools have in school after school programs, typically running about $60/week for after school care. That seems like the easiest way to go, you get rid of transport costs
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You could break off the network itself from all the other businesses, including the ad business. The network would then have to provide a regulated interface to all advertisers, with strong regulation of what data they are allowed share and
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Interesting take on remedies, but I wish it had linked out to a serious exploration of why the consumer harm standard isn’t sufficient and what would be future legal grounds to justify regulatory action. Just outright banning any big compan
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Judging from my company- lots of travel, either to the home office or to customers.
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As terrible as it was, that Therac-25 remains one of the most frequently cited examples of software engineering flaws hurting people is somewhat encouraging for the profession. 3 deaths is a tragedy, but the Hyatt bridge collapse a year ear
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The real problem with higher education is really how we finance it. Give the lenders the ability to discriminate based on major and borrowers the ability to default easier and all of a sudden you’ve got some banks seriously motivated to ens
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The article says the EU claimed that non standard chargers create 51000 tons of ewaste per year. That’s roughly 100M lbs. My charger and cable weighs 2 ozs, so that’s 800M chargers tossed per year. That’s actually a reasonable number. Of co
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IBM Watson Recommends Unsafe Treatments(gizmodo.com)
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