devdas

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by devdas 6y ago
Not really. I find apartment blocks without an enclosed garden to be annoying, but other than that, it doesn't matter too much.
152.
by devdas 6y ago
The "best" process is one that fits your business context. The "best" sound system is worthless if the acoustics of the room it is in aren't upto it.
153.
by devdas 6y ago
People would just live farther away.
154.
by devdas 6y ago
A repurposed cruise ship.
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by devdas 6y ago
Alternatively, no one enters the market because the monopoly company can still undercut them. Another bigger problem is that the monopolist pushes the low cost of delivered goods or services on third parties (see the gig economy). That race
156.
by devdas 6y ago
And for introverts, the reverse. Your sampling migt be biased (anecdotally, in my team of 8 people, 2 want to be in the office, and 6 would rather keep working from home).
157.
by devdas 6y ago
Domain renewal fees are a small fixed amount, and not periodically revalued.
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by devdas 6y ago
Specifically, back people loot. https://www.aclu.org/blog/smart-justice/mass-incarceration/b... https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hurricane-katrina-looters/
159.
by devdas 6y ago
That small minority sounds to me like the NRA types.
160.
by devdas 6y ago
The paycheques of staff at these firms come from following process. The big perk they offer competent employees is to get a US or EU work visa and be deputed on-site (that is easily a 10X salary hike for people with less than 10 years of ex
161.
by devdas 6y ago
The presumption here is that white and Asian men get extra help by default, and the rest are penalised. This has enough evidence in favour that I would call it a theory and not a hypothesis. Making this view more public would help.
162.
by devdas 6y ago
FOSS software can still be paid for.
163.
by devdas 7y ago
The government buys the airlines after they declare bankruptcy. Sell them to the highest bidder when the market recovers.
164.
by devdas 7y ago
Cut the military budget, you can save a lot of money that way.
165.
by devdas 7y ago
The numbers so far suggest you need tropical heat and humidity to slow down transmission speed. That would need to be 35C+ weather, and no air conditioning.
166.
by devdas 7y ago
What you are saying is that written communication is also a lot less noisy. Of course, you could learn to write better and convey the same information over text.
167.
by devdas 7y ago
They create a Delaware C corp, and if the product is found bad, the company just goes bankrupt. Replace with a new one.
168.
by devdas 7y ago
So don't use a contractor. Open an Indian office and hire people directly.
169.
by devdas 7y ago
This could be solved for cheaper with better public transport.
170.
by devdas 7y ago
That assumes that running a business is your thing..
171.
by devdas 7y ago
Then you'll just be suicided in a cell.
172.
by devdas 7y ago
It's someone who used to be at Booking when the software was written.
173.
by devdas 7y ago
It doesn't say anything about when they are looking for. It's a lie by omission.
174.
by devdas 7y ago
There are currently plans to do new stuff in Java. A rewrite of the old code base is impossible. Most of your code will be deployed as an experiment, so you are more likely to throw away that code instead of refactoring it. Developers can p
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by devdas 7y ago
Refugees get sent to Libyan prisons in an attempt to prevent them from entering the EU at all. https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/10/libya-migrants-un-iom-r... https://www.theguardian.com/world
176.
by devdas 7y ago
Goldratt is excellent for optimising processes with well defined goals. This is ofen true in business software. If you want to optimise a learning process, The Principles of Product Development Flow is more relevant. The two books (The Goal
177.
by devdas 7y ago
If you are a cloud customer , you probably don't need to function at Youtube scale. When you need to serve millions of customers, you get space in a datacenter with multiple telecom providers and start peering at various exchanges. Yo
178.
by devdas 7y ago
It's a lot cheaper to get fat pipes than to pay for data transfer in the cloud at scale.
179.
by devdas 7y ago
640 km is about 2 hours of non stop high speed rail travel.
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by devdas 7y ago
The mistake in both cases was getting caught.

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