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by jib 6y ago
Your attitude seems pretty bad. I don’t think that was the point I was making at all. This seems exactly like a case where computer algorithms would function worse than humans. It is not surprising (to me) that those exist. For instance, pu
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by jib 6y ago
The dummy in no way looks human in the context I’d expect a self driving system to have. Humans don’t have a way to move their legs back and forth that way while remaining stationary (unless on a treadmill I suppose). You can infer that it
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by jib 6y ago
They have a great group of people. I’ve worked with maybe 6-7 of them directly, and they’re all on my list of people I’d actively want to work with again, across a pretty wide set of skills. The ones I just know of are also people friends s
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by jib 7y ago
The tasks are not the hard part. Alignment is a lot easier when you’re all close. I went from a distributed team (4 offices spread between EU and US) to a team that’s all co-located. The speed and quality of alignment is miles different. Th
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by jib 7y ago
The spyglass and the spider took 15 year old me like a month to figure out. Still think it’s one of the most enjoyable games I’ve played.
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by jib 7y ago
In Sweden, the government does the work for most normal cases. They send you a suggestion of “this is all we know about” and you just say “yeah, seems right” via SMS. In Ireland you don’t do anything in the usual case, unless you think it’s
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by jib 7y ago
I too worked in France. I hated the long lunches, since it meant you left work at 6 or 7 in the evening. I’d rather be out the door at 5 (like I do now in the US) or 3-4 (like I did in some previous Swedish jobs) than spend the entire eveni
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by jib 7y ago
The upgraded membership is 60usd more than the normal, gives you 2% back on purchases, and they will refund it to you if you ask, so not sure how you could lose 100 on that.
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by jib 7y ago
Advertising? “We have a big group of users, and being featured with us will cost you X and bring Y more sales”. Price comparison sites is not a new thing?
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by jib 7y ago
Living now in the US I am confused why houses are so big and yards so small. Well, not confused, it makes financial sense for builders, but a bit sad. I’d much rather have a smaller house but with a yard I can grow stuff in, or be outside i
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by jib 7y ago
And there are a lot of regulators. Some of them a lot more combative than others. That is my main reason for dislike for the regulations. Overall I support the regulations, but I really wish the penalties had more documented structure than
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by jib 7y ago
The regulation is very ambiguous. Try to understand what is even personal data from this: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio... It is all about risk, ambiguity and individual circumstances. I
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by jib 7y ago
At any kind of scale that is 100% not the case. The orchestration of a data extract from even a midsized corporation is a significant endeavour. Someone in the company knowing what data we have on an entity is a significant step away from t
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by jib 7y ago
Yes. Emails are 100% PII. Even user names can be argued to be.
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by jib 7y ago
Or you were in university/connected to a university. The Swedish qwctf scene at least was very clearly divided in 20ms people who went to or worked at, a university, and 150ms people who played from home. There were some 50-60ms ISDN p
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by jib 7y ago
To me it was almost unwatchable. My eyes aren’t great, and excessive use of darkness / lack of contrast magnifies that. I have the same problem with some video games.
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by jib 7y ago
I think they are referring to Herzberg? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-factor_theory Sounds like a different way to express that.
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by jib 7y ago
Until you live in an apartment complex that has eliminated keys. My place is all keyfobs (except for the mailbox).
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by jib 8y ago
I disagree on the best in class. Apples insistence on hard plastic means they give up the proven best choice for sound isolation (silicone or foam buds). Claiming it is a feature to save lives is a stretch. There’s plenty of better sounding
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by jib 8y ago
The argument of employers being these evil things that hold no loyalty is tiresome. Loyalty is not a black and white thing. I can list close to 15 years of small experiences that make me feel like my current employer truly cares. I’ve had v
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by jib 8y ago
For me at least, I would not use a throwaway. The one thing we get asked to do for social media is always be clear that we have ties to the company but don’t speak for the company when commenting on things that could potentially be a confli
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by jib 8y ago
When someone writes an article about how the other side is doing something wrong, without presenting any content of why your side is right other than vague hand-wavy stuff, that’s a red flag to me. “Bringing it into the 21st century...” If
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by jib 8y ago
It is legal to request, but you would/should never do so as part of interviewing. You really don’t want to know the candidates age, marital status or citizenship as part of an interview process. Once you do, you’re open to discriminati
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by jib 8y ago
My French contract had 2 months notice and a non compete option for the employer, where they had the option to pay me 75% of the salary for 2 years to enforce the non compete. That kind of non competes I don’t mind.
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by jib 8y ago
Feature decomposition is an antipattern. This is not related to JIRA. Features are the result of integration of systems. Starting with features is insane. Design the system, then integrate parts of the system to create features. I don’t thi
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by jib 8y ago
JIRA does not have those problems. Portfolio allows for multiple layers on top of epics. Boards can be set up to pull from multiple projects, and boards are what are tied to sprints, projects are not tied to sprints (mostly, there’s some od
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by jib 8y ago
For sure. Just saying that I think that is the argument. Our team is about 70% guys who learnt from scratch on the job I think. We have very low turnover, and you don’t come to us if you’re chasing max compensation anyway, so we do not have
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by jib 8y ago
Prisoners dilemma. New guys are expensive (especially in time), experienced guys are valuable. If I spend a bunch of money/time on new guys I have less to spend on experienced guys compared to the company that just spends it on experie
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by jib 8y ago
The easy answer is change jobs. You don’t have to stay anywhere, and you presumably have one of the easiest skills to find work with today. If you actually want mechanisms for being happy no matter what, start realising that none of the stu
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by jib 8y ago
In big cities at least. I used cash once in the last three months I think (because the place we were shopping at looked a bit dodgy).

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