almeria

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by almeria 5y ago
Very helpful, thanks
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by almeria 5y ago
Thank you. I am now enlightened.
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by almeria 5y ago
Thanks for the detailed and nuanced response. Which, if I can attempt to boil it down to one sentence, would seem to be: "Tests don't seem to be a good predictor of college success, even when taking GPA into account. But they do
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by almeria 5y ago
Anything more about Kafka you can tell us? Seriously, the one time I was in a situation where much of the team seemed hellbent on this "just put all in Kafka" idea (without really understanding why, exactly) the arguments they cam
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by almeria 5y ago
And what about predictions based on GPA and test scores? As has been in use at UC and just about everywhere else, up until now. In math terms: just because predicts(A) > predicts(B) , it does not follow that predicts(A) > predict
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by almeria 5y ago
Agreed, and you made an excellent call there. If network ops is your bag, then yeah, maybe you "ought to" know about what's in the article. Otherwise -- it's just pure FOMO-based clickbait.
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by almeria 5y ago
Depends what you mean by "good". For the ruthlessly cynical and basically destructive ends toward which this man has devoted his life - his judgement is arguably quite effective. That is, after all, how you get to be "America
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by almeria 5y ago
Did we ever have any reason to believe that slogan?
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by almeria 5y ago
The $500k fine is of course a complete joke, considering the seriousness of the matter at hand. But "as the company enjoyed booming and historic sales with its stock price doubling, Amazon failed to adequately notify warehouse workers
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by almeria 5y ago
The fact that you don't see a need to offer any justification for that statement ... proves PG's point.
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by almeria 5y ago
The same way we ramp up on anything: by building a system that (actually) needs it. The XYZ (service mesh, provisioning, etc) will fall into place, from there. Or not -- if it isn't really needed. But in general: learning by building
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by almeria 5y ago
The room was lit by a small upper window, and shows no evidence of having had any wall decorations. So even slaves at Pompeii had a window to get light from, we see.
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by almeria 5y ago
Who cares about recruiters? The point there's no need to feel smug about people who are dealing with seriously nasty stuff.
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by almeria 5y ago
If you are a toxic moron who will start badmouthing their former colleagues Or are dealing with a genuinely painful day-to-day work situation and are struggling to keep a lid on it. I get the point that venting about the problems of one&#
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by almeria 5y ago
The situation is in no way symmetric. I think we can let it go at that.
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by almeria 5y ago
He didn't merely call him "ignorant", but "crazy". Both are ad-hominem attacks. What I don't get here is why you're trying to soft-pedal this very obvious fact. "Crank", "Toxic" &quo
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by almeria 5y ago
It wasn't "embracing the outrage"; rather facing up to the fact that -- whatever the merits or lack thereof of his proposal -- the donor's language was intrinsically manipulative: This windowless thing is just a bunch o
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by almeria 5y ago
https://archive.md/64mW2
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Amanda Knox Was Exonerated. That Doesn’t Mean She’s Fre(nytimes.com)
1 points by almeria 5y ago|1 comments
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by almeria 5y ago
https://archive.md/frXgb
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Lawmakers Ask Biden to Rescind Medals for Wounded Knee Massacre(nytimes.com)
1 points by almeria 5y ago|1 comments
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by almeria 5y ago
The idea of making adults share bedrooms is very bizarre. True, but if you're asking why anyone would put up with that -- it has something to do with money.
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by almeria 5y ago
This windowless thing is just a bunch of crazy suppositions by an ignorant man. Wow. For the sake of its reputation, legacy and future funding from other sources, which, over time, will utterly dwarf the dollar amount of this toxic &qu
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by almeria 5y ago
I mainly found that people who are miserable at a job were miserable at every other job too. That's not what I find at all - I can't even count the number of times I've been a shoulder to cry on for friends caught in misera
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by almeria 5y ago
The flip side of this sentiment is expressed quite eloquently in a sibling comment. In fact, we might even say the commenter is "crushing it": One challenge is that even in sucky workplaces, there always seem to be champions tha
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by almeria 5y ago
Take the Time to Actually Research Someone Nice sentiment, but it's never gonna happen. Recruiters are spam bots, period. Their job is to smash square pegs into round holes. Use them or don't use them... but the sooner everyon
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by almeria 5y ago
There's little worse than a friendly but incompetent teammate, who will often get too many passes and second chances (because they're well liked) before being terminated. Except of course for the perfectly (if narrowly) competen
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US border agents engaged in ‘shocking abuses’ against asylum seekers report says(theguardian.com)
4 points by almeria 5y ago|0 comments
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by almeria 5y ago
Just great, you can be sure - as soon as their options vest.
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by almeria 5y ago
For high school students with aspirations in the tech field it is like the MIT, Caltech and Stanford all rolled into one. It may be sort of comparable to that in terms of fostering startup-oriented skills and business connections . If th

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