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by bdavis__ 4y ago
i have seen a scrum master code. ScrumMaster = NULL; there you go !
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
"individuals and interactions" is how you make great things happen. "processes and tools" is how you make boring things happen at scale and with high quality. very few teams are willing to admit that they need to be mak
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
Easier but not better. If you have a performance problem, there is a process in place to to deal with it. Not easy, but it gives the employee notice and the opportunity to improve. Vs. Gone.
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
Then repeat until you are proud of the work.
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
The moral compass points to the money
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
12K? What is that 5 to 7% of the total employment. Just don't hire for 120 days. Accomplish the same results and you don't even need to make a press release.
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
dallas / ft worth you pay about $125 an hour for shop labor. lot's of places have a placard with a $200 rate, but they never charge that much. (replaced headlights, they broke a wire, spent all morning on the car, cost was $250 in
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
There are no fat POW's.
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
I know that you are trying to make a point, but I think meth would be a viable treatment option for some people. Medically supervised and monitored. If you need to lose 100 lbs, it might be worth the other tradeoffs. For a short period o
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
optimization. every human activity has been optimized to make more money. there is no capacity to deal with exceptions.
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
someone has to fill the right side of the bell curve. except in Wobegon, Minnesota. of course.
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
someone should calculate this. "Dieing from covid is like winning $1000 in the lottery" // It sure isn't like winning $1 Million. // And it sure isn't a $2 winner // Somewhere in between.
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
engineering
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
It was a DS-20
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
ssh'd to a live alpha server at work last year. there were some files on there I wanted to look at. the machine has to be at least 20 years old at this point. but it feels fast. bash. find. xargs grep. command line stuff very respo
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
How about proprietary "non unix's"? Anyone running VMS? RSTS/E ? Or on rare hardware, OS-32 on a PE 8/32, or MPX on any SEL 32 family? MPE on Harris ?
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
if you work for a defense contractor, it's every 6 minutes (tenths of an hour)
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
I think he missed the cloud revolution. Linux / containers and the browser is where the action is in 2020. windows is just a truck that holds a web browser.
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
Starting about 5 years ago, I noticed that when i type letters show up out of order. seems to be more prevalent on newer keyboards. also, the interaction with automatic spelling correction / word completion can make mistakes show up th
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
voluntary, i think this is a great idea. whenever a new hire starts, and they have any kind of military training (enlisted, officer, drop out from service academy, JROTC, ROTC, or CAP) there are a couple of things that are never problems. #
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
My experience in the USAF. The tech school I was in lasted about 7 months. Every week we had tests. Drop 2 tests, and you moved over to "Bakery Operations School" two buildings over. It was a 2 week class and they always had
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
People wash out of training all the time. You don't join to be a SEAL, you join to be a Sailor. The AF is full of Security Police that though they were going to be Para-Rescue, and washed out of the training pipeline. Don't buy th
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
Lubbock. Tyler. El Paso. Places where real estate is cheap, and there are no democrats to have work rules.
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
Meta is down. Maybe a time to buy. The sheep still are spending every waking hour on facebook.
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
That is business insight. You can generalize that to say the average HN reader knows how to run anything better. 90% of management is equal to or worse than calling random() to make decisions. If the margins are large enough, and the compe
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
That's called a Tony Soprano layoff. HR comes to the employees cubicle at lunch, two silenced shots to the head, and they drag out the body. Nobody sees nothing. But everyone talks about it, and says "why isn't management ho
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
fortran works fine. it has a compilation model very similar to C. (Note this comment is based upon F77 / F90. Fortran modules may be different). ada support in cmake is terrible. in the end you have to call gnatmake several times,
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
But you still have to deal with it. It exists!!
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
From memory. (The original) VAX 11/780 was a 1 MIPS machine. 32 Bit. pdp 11 was a slower machine. plus it was 16 bit. slow clock, a relatively cheap o'scope could be used to snoop the buses.
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
The same issue comes up when trying to sell (high fidelity) aircraft simulators for general aviation aircraft. Simulator for an A380? It's a bargain. For a Cessna 172, umm not so much.

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