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by troupe 5y ago
If the worst performers on the team weren't creating negative value (the team would be more productive without them) then that was an incredibly good team to start with.
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by troupe 5y ago
It is not just the tax break that makes it cheaper for corporations to buy insurance. Companies with a lot of employees pay a lot less than individuals because they pool the risk. Back before ACA you used to be able to get in a pool with, f
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by troupe 5y ago
I figure (perhaps too optimistically) that if enough people say to turn the cookies off, they will eventually decide it is better to just leave them off and get rid of the decision banner.
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by troupe 5y ago
> That just can't be more productive over the long term, though. While you can type a lot more by having two people type in parallel, some programming is much heavier on the problem solving aspect of things and those types of proble
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by troupe 5y ago
I'm not sure why a company needs to work in a certain way just because some people don't like to work in that way. It is like saying a java shop needs to use c# as well just because some people are more comfortable with c#. No. Th
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by troupe 5y ago
How to Win Friends and Influence People is well worth a read. It helped me start to think more about how to put myself in others shoes and ask, "how can I make this person feel good about themselves and important?" Focusing on th
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by troupe 5y ago
> I know shaming companies with their name is not nice, but ghosting candidates also isn't nice From my perspective, your post is courteous. I doubt that any of those companies want other people to have your experience. If you don&#
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by troupe 5y ago
Agreed. You have to be able to type, but Dr. Racket makes it easy to create, import, and manipulate images without dumbing down the coding process. This seems to be the best of giving good fun visual feedback while still letting kids experi
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by troupe 5y ago
The How to Design Programs with Racket seems to be a very good balance of letting kids work with picture and things that are visually rewarding while not insulating them from writing code. Our family avoided Scratch for many of the same rea
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by troupe 5y ago
My experience with using Dragon Box with my children was that it gave them a way of thinking about Algebra patterns even without knowing all the details of what they are doing. When they actually studied Algebra, they would often look at th
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by troupe 5y ago
Audible is specifically a service where you can get one book per month by paying $15 per month. If you want to sell your book for $50, then you should probably list it somewhere that all sales are for $50. Presumably this author thinks it i
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by troupe 5y ago
If you want to sell your book for $25, then putting it on a site where people get one book per month for $15 is stupid. They are literally agreeing to sell it for less than the list price in order to have access to Audible's customer b
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by troupe 5y ago
When I speak in a classroom or auditorium, I always expect to see people's faces.
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by troupe 5y ago
So the in person equivalent of everyone coming in with a bag over their head or standing in the hall and dialing into the phone bridge in the room. :)
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by troupe 5y ago
I know Cisco Tendberg and others have really invested a lot of money in trying to create "telepresence" and create setups where the technology is as transparent as possible. But I don't see that companies have worked very har
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by troupe 5y ago
While Zoom may be kind of terrible, there are ways to make video conferencing work a lot better. Having a separate big monitor for the video conferencing with the camera above where you see the people is a good start. Having multiple large
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by troupe 5y ago
We tend to judge OOP by the worse way we've seen it used. To really be fair, we need to find the best usages of OOP and see how those have faired over time. I'd suggest looking at NextStep as it seemed to be created by a team with
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by troupe 5y ago
I think I was at that talk. If I remember right the Sussmans were there as well and Gerry was the first to his feet giving Rich a standing ovation after that talk.
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by troupe 5y ago
My point is that it is very possible to create a good academic environment online. It is also possible to create a horrible academic environment online and most of what I've seen people complaining about "zoom classes" are cl
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by troupe 5y ago
Well now the airtags give the thief a way to locate the airtag and remove it--in addition to telling them that the air tag is there.
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by troupe 5y ago
I'm not as familiar with Zoom, but WebEx and Cisco video conferencing hardware use ultrasonic sounds to let you start and transfer meetings from the mobile and desktop app to video conferencing devices. With WebEx you can turn this off
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by troupe 5y ago
I have two kids who take classes from an online school. All the classes are taught in a virtual classroom and have been for years. It is an incredibly rich academic experience. Most teachers have their PhD in their fields and there is prett
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by troupe 5y ago
If we kept the threshold for poverty at the same threshold it was 200 years ago, we'd probably say that capitalism reduces poverty. But as the standard of living moves upward, the threshold for poverty moves up too.
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by troupe 5y ago
Here are some pictures from an apartment sold in 2021: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/100-Kenai-St-510-511-Vald...
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by troupe 5y ago
There was another study that found that people remember things better when reading a heavier book instead of a light one. The obvious solution is to glue a brick to the back of your phone... But seriously, the form and tactile sense of the
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by troupe 5y ago
Interesting point on drastically different moral codes. I'm curious if, during the height of immigration to the US, the "melting pot" tended to consist of people immigrating from areas with mostly similar moral codes. It appe
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by troupe 5y ago
> first being specific about what we agree upon. Or even just trying to define the goal you are trying to accomplish. I've seen many disagreements on software projects because people's definition are completely different. The a
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by troupe 5y ago
My guess is that is it possible to have great diversity of thought and experience while still having high social cohesion. During the height of immigration in the US, there was high social cohesion within communities of people who came from
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by troupe 5y ago
An app or webpage is also a very good way to figure out what you want when you have 3 or 4 family members involved with their opinion and negotiations.
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by troupe 5y ago
Keep in mind there is also the chance of false positives on those types of tests. So anything you can do to do them only on people where there is a higher chance of them being meaningful saves not just the cost of the tests but mental angui

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