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by unreal37 7y ago
I worked in software development within companies for 20+ years. The "why does it take so long" conversation has come up a lot. So on one hand, I see the argument. Simply opening unknown code, and making a change no matter how sma
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by unreal37 7y ago
Agreed. This post is one long excuse. If I was the client and you sent me this blog post as an answer to "why is it taking too long?", I'd fire you. Because you spent more time writing the post than it'd take to update t
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by unreal37 7y ago
At least try to understand the issue, even if you don't agree. Maybe it's OK to you to live in a world where you car can only be repaired by the dealer. "No big deal!" A valid opinion. But that's fine until they wan
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by unreal37 7y ago
One phenomenon in the "concert ticket" space is that promoters have discovered a way to dynamically price tickets. So you'll pay the concert promoter $1000 to sit front and center. So instead of all floor tickets being $100,
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by unreal37 7y ago
The fix is to always hire contractors, let the bad ones go, and convert the good ones to full time if you can.
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by unreal37 7y ago
Seems like an over-reaction. "Destroy user trust in Mozilla?" Really? Because your extensions got disabled for a day?
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by unreal37 7y ago
Right, anyone can take a picture of you in a public place, such as an airport, without consent. You give your picture to the government for passports and drivers licenses. You don't have to consent to them comparing the two.
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by unreal37 7y ago
You have not had this knowingly. You have not posed for a photo. But surely, the government has plenty of cameras in customs areas and face recognition has been a thing for a decade.
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by unreal37 7y ago
Yes, that was a funny thing she tweeted. So surprised that a few KB of data was transmitted on a high speed network in under a second. :)
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by unreal37 7y ago
They say that the photos are discarded after being compared by the government on government servers with the original. So you're saying, they're lying. Which might be true. But you'd need to prove that.
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by unreal37 7y ago
Most countries of the world have maximum visit lengths as part of a visitor visa. And those maximum visit lengths are counted on an annual basis. So you can only visit the US 179 days out of 365. So they need to know when you came in and wh
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by unreal37 7y ago
They say they're not storing the new photos. Just matching them and discarding.
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by unreal37 7y ago
Why would Pluralsight, a training company, be interested in this. At $170 Million? Not sure why they thought it was a purchase that helped them in their mission.
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by unreal37 7y ago
(Gotta love all the non-lawyers arguing with a corporate lawyer over corporate law.) If people could be criminally charged "in absentia", then Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, etc would be convicted of things while they were in hid
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by unreal37 8y ago
When I was hiring developers, I wrote the job role hoping for the perfect rock star candidate. "Must have experience with the Home Depot vendor system" I mean, what if someone fulfilled all my "musts"?!? That'd be t
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by unreal37 8y ago
It was redacted by U.S. Attorney General William Barr who reports to the President.
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by unreal37 8y ago
"Death by PowerPoint is a real thing. Sometimes literally." So tacky. Treating human deaths as a punchline to a joke.
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by unreal37 8y ago
The US doesn't have lower taxes like you think it does.
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by unreal37 8y ago
Does European law apply after Oct 31? #brexit
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by unreal37 8y ago
There really aren't any companies that compete with Udemy. Why would a course creator accept 0.1% of the sales Udemy brings, in exchange for a slightly smaller fee? Competitors to Udemy really need to do better marketing. The fee doesn
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by unreal37 8y ago
There are thousands of people still proud of their MVP badges. You vastly underestimate their worth. It's like being given a blue checkmark from Twitter or Instagram. People want it.
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by unreal37 8y ago
Correcting typos is a really poor form of argument.
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by unreal37 8y ago
You created a throwaway for this?
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by unreal37 8y ago
I think there was a time not too long ago where you could say, "the US spends more on it's military than all other countries of the world combined." That's no longer true (thanks China!) but it's still not too far o
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by unreal37 8y ago
Yeah, that's the thing. The true cost is somewhat hidden because of the employer part of the premium. And the costs you pay out of pocket when an actual health event happens. I imagine you can still pay $1000+ out of pocket to have a b
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by unreal37 8y ago
Sure, you can find the records others have shared and not share your own. But the purpose of these sites is finding family members. Let's stop being shocked that this means the DNA info voluntarily submitted is public.
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by unreal37 8y ago
The purpose of FamilyTreeDNA is to compare your DNA with all of the people already in their database to find distant relatives. There should be NO surprise that going to FamilyTreeDNA (or Ancestry.com) results in your records being public
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by unreal37 8y ago
The purpose of Ancestry (and FamilyTreeDNA) is ancestry research. You don't go to Ancestry to get your DNA tested for diseases. You go there for ancestry research. The entire purpose is sharing.
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by unreal37 8y ago
Those must be new businesses / startups. The world is full of companies more than 20 years old.
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by unreal37 8y ago
> The top ~20% of tech companies actually care about quality Most companies are not tech companies, fyi. So you're talking about the top 20% of a very small subset of business.

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