jSully24

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'Right to Repair for Your Body': The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine(404media.co)
7 points by jSully24 2y ago|0 comments
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by jSully24 2y ago
I thought this describes many gamblers: remember the wins, quickly forget the losers, be it pull tabs, blackjack, slots, etc.
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by jSully24 2y ago
Car Play will not enable with Siri turned off (at least in my 2019 Subaru).
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by jSully24 2y ago
Agree.
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by jSully24 2y ago
It is VERY worth talking to a professional about this. It's possible to build your savings in a manner they will produce income via dividends, bonds and other methods that give you a pretty great tax advantage and you don't have t
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by jSully24 2y ago
The title is misleading, they are referring to "Retirement Savings" just counting 401k and IRA dollars only. Personally my "retirement savings" are over 60% in non-IRA or 401k dollars, and I'm retired. Later in the
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by jSully24 3y ago
Pick any industry and this environment we’re experiencing in “CS” is going to occur 3 or 4 times in your working years. No matter if you’re an electrician or a software developer. Do you like building software? Based on your post I get a fe
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by jSully24 3y ago
You mention not being the person making a purchasing decision, who is? Can you connect with them? I would encourage you to put together a story that illustrates the pain being caused by this software and get with the purchasers. Not only mi
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by jSully24 3y ago
> The idea that 5 years of experience is enough to solve most problems is crazy to me. 18 years in the industry, and I’m still very aware of things I don’t know and need to get better at. I know amazing engineers with 40 years of experie
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by jSully24 3y ago
If I go a week or so without some real exercise my anxiety starts to creep up. It does this no matter how good or bad my sleep has been over that time. Edit typo while on my trainer. Lol
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by jSully24 3y ago
>>> It's always the over-40 who are under suspicion. Because of our (over 40s) years of watching bad policy after bad policy destroying our work places, and speaking up.
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Biden will veto attempts to kill off SEC's security breach reporting rules(theregister.com)
4 points by jSully24 3y ago|0 comments
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by jSully24 3y ago
We’ve switched to only subscribing to a single service at a time. When we get several items to watch on a service and exhausted our current service, we cancel the current and restart the “new” one. I suspect with Netflix’s recent crackdown
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by jSully24 3y ago
Ah! Thank you. I’d not had this happen before.
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by jSully24 3y ago
I am a native English speaker and I’m struggling a bit as well to understand his point. But I believe you are correct in that reducing requirements for car seats could increase the number of kids people have. (I was not allowed to reply to
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by jSully24 3y ago
Yes. But many Sr. Leaders just see a number so it must also be a metric you can use for measurement. They do not understand it’s real use. I picture a construction company counting the total inches / centimeters each employee measured
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by jSully24 3y ago
We do a similar thing but call it a bug hunt. Not only do we uncover bugs, it’s a great way to get the whole company learning about the new things coming and for the product team to get unfiltered feed back.
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by jSully24 3y ago
Seems the tweet has been deleted.
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by jSully24 3y ago
I just shared this story earlier today with my team. This was Cobol insurance claims processing system, shortly before the Y2K issues. The claims processing system I worked on used a number system that would only go to 4 digits, it would ro
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by jSully24 3y ago
And they focused on fancy notebooks and pens instead of what had been an amazing and market leading piece of software. It still hurts a little every time I think about it. I really liked that product.
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by jSully24 3y ago
Goodwill impairment: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/061715/when-and-why... “ If the goodwill asset becomes impaired by a decline in the value of the asset below the purchase price, the company would
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by jSully24 3y ago
5. Your superior has deep previous relationships with other higher level people in your company.
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by jSully24 3y ago
In my experience in these situations (I was always being acquired), the acquiring company is at least partially counting on cost saving from getting rid of departments like finance, marketing, sales and legal as they believe they can do tha
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by jSully24 3y ago
I think it depends if you see them first or they see you first.
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by jSully24 3y ago
>”give him 2 copies so he can read it faster” Gold! My week is made, no matter how many deadlines I blow past.
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by jSully24 3y ago
Worse still, the bosses brought in from the outside who appear to have technical knowledge from their previous political victories at other employers. And they know someone at your company, thus they are “trusted”.
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by jSully24 3y ago
Also where it hits you. If it swims through your leg I fear you will feel it for some time. Now if it hits you square in the chest, lights out.
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by jSully24 3y ago
I’m curious why you think that? Is there a relationship in earth temperature and this kind of solar activity? I’m far from knowledgeable in this area but I’ve never heard of a relationship before. (ed)
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by jSully24 3y ago
New ideas getting shot down for fear of cannibalizing existing revenue. The product that was the breakthrough is likely (somewhat) wonderful and loved (or at least used) by many and generates the bulk of your revenue. However we all know th
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by jSully24 3y ago
I loved Evernote. And then they decided to make fancy and expensive notebooks, pens and paper and stopped working on the product itself, or so it seemed. They really lost focus. And then the price changing. It was a wonderful product in the

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