donmaq

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by donmaq 4y ago
>No offense intended, but most PMs I've met are fucking useless Beyond basic horse sense, technical credibility, customer outreach, market sense, & roadmap development by nurturing sheafs of competing priorities while constantly
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by donmaq 4y ago
> [junior engineers] overhear stuff and get drawn into conversations. Or more senior engineers join in conversations between them and another senior Even on-prem before 2020, this happened most often in slack at least in the tech startup
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by donmaq 4y ago
>IMO I don't think it's mentally healthy to not at least 'enjoy' your work and have decent professional relationships with your coworkers. You can have "decent professional relationships" with coworkers whil
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by donmaq 4y ago
> Single humans are wrong about a lot, multiple humans arguing are way more accurate. I think this is only true if the commentors are SME's & operating in good faith. We've all seen whole threads hijacked by erroneous group
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by donmaq 4y ago
> You cannot, for instance, fire someone for being black So now companies don't put that as the termination reason, & fire them anyway for 'culture fit'. Or leave the term reason blank, b/c 'At-Will'. &q
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by donmaq 4y ago
Nominations are by peers. Overall winners are voted on by the entire academy, & thus often a popularity contest.
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by donmaq 4y ago
> The Oscars are not decided by critics. They're decided by peers. That's the Oscar nomination process: it's by peers. The entire Oscar Academy (ie all previous winners in good standing) get to vote on the winners in all c
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by donmaq 4y ago
> Neither side of the political aisle has a monopoly on lies and bad faith attacks, far from it. Some political movement are more guilty of it than others, but no political movement is fully innnocent, and no political movement can be de
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by donmaq 4y ago
> the hacker spirit was about working relentlessly towards a goal. PG would say the same. Whether that ultimate achievement benefits accrues financially just to you, or a larger corpo, is not that relevant This sounds like Boxer in &quot
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by donmaq 4y ago
> - On top of that slack threads are lost forever in time unless pinned. The conversation rarely gets translated in to wiki or email or whatever so decisions are sometimes made and forgotten. I've literally been requesting a "e
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by donmaq 4y ago
> I know how to fall (intellectually). How do I translate that into the real world? As a martial arts instructor, here's my advice: The first month or so of aikido classes is a great way to learn rolling. Start on your knees, on a p
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by donmaq 4y ago
Or notice how the core of his manifesto is ignored: that of all the police who horribly beat Rodney King & sent him to an early death, all were significantly rewarded in their careers and/or retirement. No lasting institutional cha
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by donmaq 4y ago
And how can we just ignore the waste problem? [1] In many cases, containment pools are full to the brim with spent rods [2], which is both environmentally hazardous, & a target for terrorists (dirty bombs) 1: https://www.ucsu
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by donmaq 4y ago
> Nuclear is much better for the planet than fossil fuels and is the only option to bridge the gap required to operate the current renewables. That's a strong declaration without any solution in sight for nuclear power-generated was
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by donmaq 4y ago
> We stopped repairing stuff because stuff is cheap However, OP's main example is the NYC metro system, which is decidedly not cheap. A similar problem occurred in SF: BART cars are being replaced with multi-$M cars full of electron
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by donmaq 4y ago
> You spend a long time arguing the opposite with your bicycle argument. The government never forced them to standardize and they did. They really didn't though. From different axel widths forcing older ones obsolete (ie my 10yo $45
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by donmaq 4y ago
> I don't like externalizing problems to other parties as a business model You just described the entire gig economy
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by donmaq 4y ago
> I worked with a "brilliant" product manager whose idea was to onboard several of our enterprise customers right after our first major deliverable FWIW, I recognize it's fun to target PMs for ignoring technical constraint
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by donmaq 5y ago
He might like r/antiwork, r/latestagedemocracy, & r/hermancainaward Theres
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by donmaq 5y ago
...or that pesky problem of nuclear waste. Which nobody has solved. Every 'solution' today leaks. Websearch Yucca Valley; do you want your aquifer to be downstream of that?
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by donmaq 10y ago
There is a third option. The vast majority of people I've met [SF Bay Area] have no clue how easily a nuclear accident, let alone a nuclear war, could occur. The generation growing up with Reagan had the ability to 'choose'
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by donmaq 10y ago
SF Bay area, I've had 3 formal house assessments, & each time they "start with" Zillow et al to look at "reasonable values in the neighborhood". Which seriously affects your ability to refi, etc. So Yeah Zillow
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by donmaq 10y ago
Totally agree. Live View photos on my 7D feels broken compared to the viewfinder: much slower AF, shutter-drop & recycle rate. & you really need a hood/3x magnifier to confirm critical focus. The only time I use photo Live View
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by donmaq 10y ago
This is very cool. I know this is a serious problem in my daughter's school with 5th graders... ie 10 years old & they aren't allowed phones at school. I wonder if there a viable asynch solution, ie via a browser...
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by donmaq 11y ago
It may be worth delineating "how much" taxpayers have paid for it. For example, many H-wood productions leverage huge tax benefits in their budgets, to the extent of pitting states against each other for better discounts or outrig
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by donmaq 11y ago
Closer to 2 stones between 2 dan pro & 9 dan.
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by donmaq 11y ago
Not true. Profession go players read out 20+ moves consistently. Go Seigan's nemesis Kitani Minoru regularly read-out 30-40 moves. As an AGAAmateur 4 dan I read 10 moves pretty regularly, that's including variations. And if the se
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by donmaq 11y ago
Awesome maxims from the aspirational side. From the more practical side- the time you spent 'wandering' can pay big dividends over those who are more tightly-focused, when you get to a more strategic role. Having tons of varied ex
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by donmaq 12y ago
I'm interested in transaction support for e-commerce. Magento users can experience significant performance issues on MySQL, and the upper tier are always interested in more RDBMS performance, eg via NewSQL solutions. So what can Aurora