captain_perl

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by captain_perl 8y ago
"The reason people are quitting today is because the labor market is so competitive that the only way they can get a significant increase in income is by quitting and going to another job." Well, no, the opposite is true. Employee
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by captain_perl 8y ago
> you should be very suspicious of any conclusion that requires you to assume that all the world’s experts have missed something extremely basic. This is hugely mistaken. If you're an expert in compliance in one field, often your in
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by captain_perl 8y ago
For those confused by the use of the word "fraud" here, the US government today considers fraud to cover both financial misdeeds, as well as (their) rules violations where no money is involved. If you follow the news, you'll
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Well, those are inflated prices from being listed on Trulia. You can buy thousands of houses in Detroit at auction for $5,000 plus back taxes. They all will need rebuilding. However, the soil is contaminated with heavy metals (I would check
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by captain_perl 8y ago
> And yet we're told by the MSM that foreign ownership is 5% When non-residents own 5% of a market that typically only has 1-2% listed at any time, prices quadruple like in Vancouver.
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by captain_perl 8y ago
As far as being able to visualize what it's like to be a 10x developer, such a person can continuously type whatever is needed to get to the next step, whether it's code or sql or whatever, while maintaining adequate performance a
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by captain_perl 8y ago
MySQL with Innodb is easier to manage in large replication clusters, doesn't require connection pooling, and doesn't have write amplification problems. MySQL out of the box is more secure and easier to configure than Postgresql be
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by captain_perl 8y ago
I read the article, but they missed an important point. A lot of landlords are only choosing well-known brand chains because the value of their property increases - ie. the brand attaches to their portfolio, aside from the fact that chains
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by captain_perl 8y ago
> They're different ways to describe the same phenomenon. Well ... they're actually different ways to incorrectly describe the same phenomenon. Wind tunnels are still used for aircraft design because we can't accurately mo
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by captain_perl 8y ago
If you think that's weird ... I've done some reading of the Facebook public legal documents. Facebook control passes to his heir from what I read ... like a feudal monarchy. Let the games begin!
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Well, this is an American site, and Americans can communicate in any language as long as it's English. French is one of the most difficult Western languages to master, so keep that in mind. Think a year of formal study. Even for German
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Gartner is helpful to 3 groups: 1) If you're a business manager who doesn't live and breathe IT, then their opinion is a good sign-post. 2) If you need "proof" to backup your purchase position, then it can serve as ammun
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Did an evaluation, works as advertised. If you need a HIPAA BAA, talk to them before the evaluation to avoid misunderstandings.
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Me too. My understanding is the minute Allen overheard that, he walked out of the Microsoft office and never went back. Hence why whenever you heard about him, it was from his yacht. I bet Gates and Ballmer have remembered that every day fo
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Yes, Boundary is agent-based. I visited their office in SF when they were 2 guys. :) We used Boundary at Netflix to monitor Cassandra clusters - you can see mentions of that on Slideshare. VividCortex takes the Boundary concept a step farth
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by captain_perl 8y ago
The issue with cruise above Mach 2 is that you need a lot of fuel, exotic materials and involved processes. None of which are compatible with the civilian airline industry. From a military perspective, high cruise reduces range, involving m
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by captain_perl 8y ago
You forgot the crystals.
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by captain_perl 8y ago
The B-29 was the first nuclear strategic bomber. They were decommissioned in 1960.
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by captain_perl 8y ago
The ILS is not necessary for landing in VFR conditions, although non-USA pilots tend to rely on it as a crutch.
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by captain_perl 8y ago
After V1, the accelerate-stop distance, the pilot is committed to continue flying. The cargo area of most airliners is not pressurized, so the gash is not an immediate problem. In a case like this, the pilots would want to climb to several
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Canada has oil, uranium, water ... the resource list is endless.
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Anybody know if he got any royalties from Signetics?
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Bitcoin ICOs, Mars colonization ... whatever happened to critical thinking?
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by captain_perl 8y ago
It was worse than that. The sidewinder worked fairly well, but the other missiles took 4 seconds to arm, so got many US pilots killed. Top Gun was created because the US was in a draw with the Soviet-advised N. Vietnamese air force.
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Nobody is going to let you cook in a food truck where permits are required. There's just no way to do that safely with a random truck. Even fast food franchises do all their salads centrally to avoid the Chipotle scare that happened a
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Most US "elite" female athletes are just Title IX beneficiaries, who otherwise would not be in sport at all: http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/inclusion/title-ix-frequ... So for most female athlet
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by captain_perl 8y ago
> It could not tear up thousands of contracts, so it tried a more subtle tactic: policy holders were sent new papers, with the offer of 100 francs for the trouble (about £10). It is a measure of the bureaucrat’s art that almost all did s
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by captain_perl 8y ago
"IC equivalent of manager and above" Managers are not IC's. "keep a high salary in a lower cost of living area" Most companies will offer you a lower salary, especially if you tell them that it's a lower cost a
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by captain_perl 8y ago
For those who are not familiar with them term "native advertising", it means integrating the ad into the page content in such a way that it doesn't appear to be an ad at first glance. In other words, using the same style as t
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by captain_perl 8y ago
According to the excellent article, he's not a warm-weather runner, and he's indifferent to the Olympic Games. For those HNers who think practice is more important than natural talent, basically everybody in this article agrees th

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