zoomablemind

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by zoomablemind 8y ago
'Overvalued' or rather 'overpriced'? Real estate just as any other market instrument can be objectively overpriced. Asking price is often set higher to pad for negotiation, as giving a discount is a phychological incenti
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by zoomablemind 8y ago
Feeling good about oneself is obviously very personal. From your post it seems that you're mostly satisfied with your flow. So your motivation is a key for the adjustments that you're seek. If your motivation is about advancing in
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by zoomablemind 8y ago
This watch is not a prescription, nor a doctor ordered monitor. Even more, as mentioned its detection quality/history is not as reliable as to what currently a doctor would trust (as in case of 12-probe ecg). Heart risk is serious and
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by zoomablemind 8y ago
I think the article's title question has to be restated as 'How much value can you build up from $10K?' Obviously the title amount is in 'retrospect'. Also it does not imply any specific time-period. A lot of grou
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by zoomablemind 8y ago
Burn-out is real. Maybe it's not necessarily tied to 20yrs in programming, but to stay long in this field, one needs to develop an ability to sustain or recognize burn-out. Personal and on team level. Especially while young and seeming
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by zoomablemind 8y ago
When offered to 'move up' into a Manager's role - the first thing is to understand what has changed in the Team or Company. If the position has been vacated by someone who just left, you may see what expectations on the role
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by zoomablemind 8y ago
Curiously, in the days of OpenVMS this was called 'severity' level and was a global system concept [0] related to status code of execution. Info, Warning, and Error are degrees of Success or Fatal/Severe. The status would the
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by zoomablemind 8y ago
Petty, charted off 'areas of responsibility' that hamper natural collaboration. These may be cozy to some middle-managers to protect their domain, but ultimately this slows down the project flow via scrolls of email, request ticke
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by zoomablemind 8y ago
In a simple example of a free market a consumer could select a provider based on prices they advertize. With the exisitng and prevalaent fee-for-service healthcare this 'fee' is not the price. It's different even functionally
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by zoomablemind 8y ago
Also a big factor here is a team that would receive the new hire. Hiring managers may not exactly be people readers to knowingly identify a 'culture' or what makes this particular team stable/ performing. Skillset is one thin
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by zoomablemind 8y ago
"Not my job" may be due to dysfunctional team dynamics, where team-members are not empowered enough to feel secure about their areas of responsibility. Basically, a situation when the areas are guarded (via seniority, permissions,
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by zoomablemind 8y ago
That's exactly the reason why the culture fit is not clearly defined in companies. Any newcomer brings a potential challenge to status quo. The 'culture' is in fact may be quite the opposite to the proclaimed values. This may
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by zoomablemind 8y ago
Shouldn't then the job descriptions just mention that so it's obvious for the applicant beforehand?
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by zoomablemind 8y ago
The very notion of the present Internet is grounded on the network infrastructure that is formed through ISPs. Everyone needs a gateway and a 'bus' to reach the desired end-point. Most ISPs still limit the upstream bandwidth for c
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by zoomablemind 8y ago
Clangers [0]. Really unique cartoon, slowpaced and fun. The knitted characters communicate with whistles, and interpreted by a narrator. They recently had a 'reboot' of the series, narrated by William Shatner of the StarTrek ... a
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by zoomablemind 8y ago
Very practical approach. Reviewing the saved info is what makes this real knowledge. I find that any kind of knowledge search system eventually gets saturated and requires increasingly more time to scroll through partial hits to find what w
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by zoomablemind 8y ago
The resentment may come from mismatch between personal and job goals. It could be anything, projects, salary, bosses, colleagues. It may be clear from the beginning, or pop mid-course. With no resolution to the mismatch, it leads to self-re
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by zoomablemind 8y ago
It's not clear which aspect of the pairing makes it tiresome for you. Do you feel that you are the 'typer', or that you feel pushed, or being corrected too often? Maybe for a change you may reverse the roles, or swing the pai
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by zoomablemind 8y ago
You like the company, and would want the tools get better. I bet the lead can vouch the same. But the tools break too often. Track it! And make it visible to everyone both devs and non-devs. Especially non-devs, as they are likely the users
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by zoomablemind 8y ago
Nice to peek into personal preferences. It seems a lot is revolving around immediacy, basically small mundane actions treated as time-wasteful. I find all of the seeming incoveniences are often interaction points, chances to bump with the
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by zoomablemind 8y ago
It's curious, as a lot of etiquette norms are grown out of simply practical considerations (in this case, dominant right hand considered safer for knife).
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by zoomablemind 8y ago
Listing Palin on the ballot did an unjust disservice to McCain's campaign chances. It was easy to understand why she was picked, yet it turned the whole run into a farce and diluted his message. A meaningful lady VP (maybe Condoleezza
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by zoomablemind 8y ago
Touching elegy. It's striking how difficult it is for the children of transplants in the US to preserve (and pass along) the family language and traditions. There're communtities, there's a diaspora, books etc, yet somehow th
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by zoomablemind 8y ago
I wish the author pointed the spotlight at an increasing bloat of the general Internet traffic. Comparing to Internet early days we now have communication pipes of gigantic bandwidth... yet somehow they get overrun, ISPs still peddle more b
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by zoomablemind 8y ago
The article seems to narrow the scope of problem with Internet to its effects on social dynamics. All means of communications held at some point the manipulative powers over the socium (TV, newspapers etc.). New means will have them too.