JamesVI

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by JamesVI 3y ago
Restaurants. Usually just before opening or just before the dinner rush. You go over specials. assign sections, etc. Construction. Scrum is (allegedly) inspired by the morning briefing on a construction site where the electricians warn the
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by JamesVI 3y ago
One has lower capacity than the other (probably due to small differences when they came off the manufacturing line resulting in them aging differently). Or maybe the difference in distance between the AirPods and the signal source is just e
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by JamesVI 4y ago
"i've "known" this guy for ~10 years now" Ha. I have one of those too. His wife keeps getting it wrong too, so I get emails asking my opinion on various purchases/kitchen renovations. I used to reply "wron
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by JamesVI 4y ago
Separate post on HN https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221015.html Image of the same event from the Fermi LAT. The Fermi GRB is one of the instruments listed in the article as detecting the initial burst and would had genera
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by JamesVI 4y ago
The situation you witnessed and heard about made you sufficiently uncomfortable to create a throw-away account to ask HN for advice. That level of discomfort is sufficient to report it to HR. For all you know there have been other complaint
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by JamesVI 4y ago
At this point I would say no, Document and hand off to HR. If the colleague comes to you and asks if you reported to HR then you can be honest and say you did because you were concerned for their well-being. Talking to them doesn't rea
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by JamesVI 4y ago
Like LinuxBender said, document everything. You don't say where this happened; local laws and customs will prevail. In California (for example) most companies will require you to report sexual harassment (which is what you are describi
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by JamesVI 4y ago
All I’m saying is that the schedule of payments for medical care in the US is largely driven by what Medicare pays for each treatment code. The Medicare payment schedule is set by a board that is largely dominated by “procedural” doctors (s
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by JamesVI 4y ago
Assuming you are in the US, a psychiatrist isn’t going to involuntarily commit you unless you threaten to hurt yourself or someone else. (It’s fine to say that you’ve had those thoughts in past, but if you say that you are thinking of doing
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by JamesVI 5y ago
Stack ranking is a terrible way to measure performance. If managers can’t figure out how to objectively measure performance using tools like skill matrices then they are just bad managers. I’ve left companies because they used stack ranking
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by JamesVI 5y ago
It’s mostly a benefit for employers. It reduces the penalty for underpaying people. No one is going to up and quit because they get paid more than people on the team who they perceive as equals (or even if they get paid less than people the
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by JamesVI 5y ago
That’s great for the cofounders and current execs, who are probably all getting very low interest loans secured by their equity. How do the rest of the employees and ex-employees get to realize the value of their efforts?
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by JamesVI 5y ago
Correct. Atherton isn't a great example. There's literally no downtown, so any homeless people would have to set up camp right outside some (very rich) person's (giant) single family home on a street with no sidewalk. Even in
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by JamesVI 5y ago
What PragmaticPulp said. I also watched an acquired founder act out. Although in my case they exited without leaving a bunch of money on the table, they made life unpleasant for people in both the acquired and acquiring company before and a
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by JamesVI 5y ago
The main problem I see with scrum (and agile generally) is that it has wandered away from where it was originally conceived into places it just doesn’t work. If you are building a product with a very close partnership to the end user with a
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by JamesVI 6y ago
No I’m sitting in the middle of it, outside a wine bar, right now. The calculus of where to hire people is the same as it was ten, fifteen, twenty years ago. When the restrictions end the investors are going to want to meet founders in pers
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by JamesVI 6y ago
+1 I also encourage the person I'm meeting with to add items to the agenda running up to the 1:1. Sometimes I'll respond async before we meet and just check that I answered their question/resolved the issue so we can spend ti
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by JamesVI 6y ago
Rounds of investment and acquisition are both complex transactions. The simple way to think about it is that when a VC or other investor invests in a company the company creates new shares that are issued to the investor. So a company might
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by JamesVI 6y ago
800k is San Mateo county only. The whole Bay Area has a population of closer to 8M.
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by JamesVI 7y ago
I had a manager who was big into amateur dramatics so I used Director/Actor.
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by JamesVI 7y ago
I think it is reasonable for you to be compensated according to the skills you have and the performance you demonstrate. I think it's reasonable for everyone with similar skills and performance to be compensated the same. You are movin
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by JamesVI 8y ago
Off the top of my head: How do you evaluate performance of your direct reports? How often is compensation reviewed and who make the final decision on any compensation adjustments? What criteria are used in promotion decisions? How and how o
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by JamesVI 8y ago
It depends on whether your boss is competent or not. Generally, yes. You should be able to discuss this with your immediate manager and they should (1) understand or (2) educate themselves. This evening I had a long conversation with a dire
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by JamesVI 9y ago
Your severance agreement probably includes a non-disparagement clause (you can't bad mouth the company after you sign). That clause should be mutual (they can't criticize you either in public or to a future employer). Even without
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by JamesVI 9y ago
How is this solving the problem in a better way than Elastic Load Balancer?
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by JamesVI 9y ago
He appealed the ruling and the appeal was only heard a couple of weeks ago.
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by JamesVI 9y ago
Yes, most of the best resumes I have seen have had limited or no references to tech. Instead they describe the various business problems that the person solved in any given role. My own resume deliberately has no direct references to langua
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by JamesVI 9y ago
This has nothing to do with the battery. The claim is that they have solid intelligence that someone is trying to fit a bomb inside a laptop/tablet and it would be hard for screeners to tell the difference between legitimate devices an
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by JamesVI 9y ago
Look at ToS and privacy policy from existing, respectable companies in your market (or just use Google, Facebook, LinkedIn etc). Pick one that you agree with/works for your business, mark up with modifications you think you need (but h
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by JamesVI 9y ago
Stormpath was recently acquired by Okta and the Stormpath API is being shut down in August.

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