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by ci5er 6y ago
Reading two hours gives you 22 hours to "mull" (Not disagreeing at all, btw)
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by ci5er 6y ago
Yeah - that all makes sense to me. I'm thinking that maybe small projects: "Hey! Let's build this together" would be more productive. The book club(s) where I have worked have been more cross-functional, which I think is
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by ci5er 6y ago
This seems about right. I do not agree with some people, but I want to hear them and do not want to censor them. It seems that this favor is not returned.
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by ci5er 6y ago
I'm sorry ... I don't! My father expected me to do so, at the age of 7, so I did. I don't think of it of speed reading - maybe it is. I did lose half my speed when I lived in Japan for a decade (learning to read in Japanese s
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by ci5er 6y ago
Yes. I don't know how regular it is, but Austin Ventures used to regularly kill founder CEOs after Series B (maybe (probably?) correctly), but replace them from a bunch of bench-players (we used to call them "the Boys Club".
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by ci5er 6y ago
Fred may have this opinion, but I assure you that he is speaking from a position of corporate governance in this article.
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by ci5er 6y ago
The VC, on the board, has a fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders: directly, his firm; the other shareholders, including the founders (!); and indirectly his LPs. It is the board's responsibility to hire and fire executive manag
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by ci5er 6y ago
1) I have for a long time. Now with Kindles, I don't have to load 10 paperbacks into my computer bag every time I go on a global jaunt. A lot of time in airplanes and hotels gives you a lot of time for this (on average - which is why I
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by ci5er 6y ago
I guess it depends on workplace culture? I have worked and/or consulted at places where I would not have been (in general) afraid to be bold. Books like "Think" by Simon Blackburn don't bother me to comment on. They are
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by ci5er 6y ago
How does the "Book Club" thing work? By briefly observing it at my pre-Covid work-place, it seemed that (somehow) a book was chosen, people would buy and read it within about 30 days, and then sit around the lunch table and discus
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by ci5er 6y ago
That's a great point, and after re-reading your blog-piece, I'm not sure that point came through so clearly as you just declared it here. A LONG time ago, I used to use it (tcl/tk) to do quick-and-dirty apps on X-windowed U
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by ci5er 6y ago
I don't know. The science and engineering has quietly moved quite a bit over the last 40 years. These [0] SMRs can, for example - there are several other approaches - can be assembled on a standard assembly line, shipped in a couple of
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by ci5er 6y ago
This is a fair beef. But, at the same time, sometimes when dev-teams build a system/product named after a single short common word (Looking at you, go!), or a single letter, it gets to be hard to search for and find relevant results. (
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by ci5er 6y ago
Thanks! I love to read this kind of stuff!
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by ci5er 6y ago
That seems more-or-less intuitively plausible, but I often find missing from these discussions, is the aggregate employers' contribution to health insurance plans. If, for example, my employer's contribution to my health insurance
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by ci5er 6y ago
Well, we do replicate. Maybe not as much as rabbits. And, recently, we die less in childbirth and infant-hood. So - even with falling childbirth rates, we still tend to multiply a bit. But given that absolute and relative global poverty rat
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by ci5er 6y ago
The nature of government is reactive, not pro-active. Except when they are stepping forward to propose a solution that won't work for a problem that doesn't exist for virtue/positioning points. Star Trek is a great fantasy, b
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by ci5er 6y ago
> Every paying software job I've ever had was in some way involved getting people to click on ads. That's an amazing fact. May I ask how old you are? I've been designing SOCs, DSPs, Control Systems and a lot of software fo
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by ci5er 6y ago
Wow. A man after my own heart. I finally gave up (partly because FF can be quite the memory hog when left open for a long time) and utilize OneTab a bit and have multiple tabs in each of multiple windows and use TabSession Manager to let me
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by ci5er 6y ago
Google domains sometimes dumps you onto GoDaddy. Which is/was unexpected and unwelcome. Sometimes you have to buy a domain and that's the way through. I typically don't use them by choice (I actually like the AWS admin for DN
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by ci5er 6y ago
Are you the guy (person) to talk to about feature/functions/satisfaction? I've recommended or installed DropBox on over 200 SMBs over the last (close to a decade - I don't know how long specifically). There are things yo
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by ci5er 6y ago
Well, yes. As since obesity is (a bit) skewed by race, depending on the age group, you'd be looking at disparate impact lawsuits. Whereas PPE is purely individual choice. I would expect a fair amount of judicial respect for the former,
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by ci5er 6y ago
The peers are of the same age group (largely), so as a comparative tool within a cohort, would it still not be relevant?
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by ci5er 6y ago
I constantly give estimates that are about 1/2 ~ 1/5 of the actual because I am overly optimistic (and the thing about unknown unknowns). I have done this for 20 years, so you'd think that I would get over it, but apparently
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by ci5er 6y ago
IMHO - you would be wrong. It is a perfectly good word. This horse-shit has to stop.
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by ci5er 6y ago
Well played. Still - sometimes I would like to rank answers somehow, like: 1) I was there, 2) My best friend was there, 3) I have a PhD in that theory, 4) I built something from theoretical blocks, 5) My friends and I got high in college, a
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by ci5er 6y ago
Maybe! I always found Shimizu delightful, but worked in Tokyo for about 12~15 years (depending on how you count gaps), so I certainly can't criticize anyone for choosing that path! If I had it all over to do again, I would probably cho
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by ci5er 6y ago
May I ask why you find that unusual? EDIT: I don't know what country you are in.
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by ci5er 6y ago
May I ask? In English: "I presume" means that "I have no data and am speculating". I that correct? If that is correct, why would you give an answer? My query should not imply any criticism - just that I don't unders
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by ci5er 6y ago
Yup. It is soul-crushing. My company failed in the back-wash of the "dot-bomb" (we were not strictly a dot-com play - but close enough that we got caught in the back-wash), and while I would have preferred IPOing (not really possi

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