kradroy

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by kradroy 3y ago
> I'd like to see a revival of awk. It's less easy to scale up, so there's very little risk that starting a project with a little bit of awk results in the next person inheriting a multi-thousand line awk codebase. Instead
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by kradroy 3y ago
There's no greater source of professional resentment than suffering under a manager who's incompetent and a narcissist (my summary of his blurb). After 18 years at Google he probably feels safe burning that bridge.
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by kradroy 3y ago
Propping up, probably not. Enriching IBM directly and indirectly, probably yes.
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by kradroy 3y ago
Absolutely. Walmart used to have a policy of refunding gift cards in cash. You'd buy many at one location, and return them at another. Less trackable. Gift cards are also used quite regularly in human/sex trafficking to control th
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by kradroy 3y ago
I have doubts about this too. I remember seeing a Humvee autonomously driving around the CMU campus back in 1998. I get the feeling research institutions and, now, product companies have been working closely with local city governments abou
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by kradroy 3y ago
Always remember. What do you call a med school graduate who had a straight-A average? "Doctor". What do you call a med school graduate who had a C-minus average? "Doctor". I've had to weed through a couple dunce doc
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by kradroy 3y ago
In the US retaliation by an employer for an employee reporting inappropriate or unlawful conduct to a superior is unlawful. This is a protection granted at the federal level.
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by kradroy 3y ago
That sounds like a very reasonable course of action. However... given the circumstances the author is in, I don't think his director is the type to schedule a pen test and then wait for all the violations to be resolved in order to get
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by kradroy 3y ago
But I think the author's paper trail will show #3 is not the case. He doesn't appear to want to deceive the client OR his boss. He's being pressured.
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by kradroy 3y ago
Magnesium saves me too. I've had persistent leg cramps since my teens. If I look at my right calf the wrong way, it seizes up, especially after a night of drinking. All of that went away when I started taking 200mg supplements daily.
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by kradroy 3y ago
In the article: > “The pros are certainly fundraising development. I think people like to think that if they give a lot of money to a university, their children will get special preference,” he said. “I can sort of understand the other s
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by kradroy 3y ago
I wish I had the source, but one view of being in the dominant position in a relationship is that "one gets things done or their needs met, but 'moves' the least." A baby is an example they gave. It just lies there, but
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by kradroy 4y ago
This was my experience at my last company, except compressed into 1 year. Once I joined I learned that 30% of my time would be dedicated to hiring. The company had a pooled hiring process, and I came to hate it. I spent several hours a week
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by kradroy 4y ago
Back in 2010 I had a friend refer two potential clients to me, who were looking to get some links related to them pushed down and off the first page of search results. The links were about financial fraud convictions and ongoing investigati
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by kradroy 4y ago
I'm hoping these highly compensated former employees go on to build their own companies that create more jobs. That would be a net gain for everyone.
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by kradroy 4y ago
I partially agree. People do want decentralization but don't want the responsibility of maintaining and moderating those systems. And in the end they, the passive consumers, end up with the same situation they were in when the systems
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by kradroy 4y ago
You have it the wrong way around. The advertiser will ask for the ads to be suppressed or removed from negative contexts, because that's part of the service they pay for.
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by kradroy 4y ago
My spouse eats dinner late, like 8:30-9:00pm. So on the 18-6 or 20-4 we wouldn't be able to eat dinner together unless I ate a really late lunch.
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by kradroy 4y ago
I worked in management at Carta while Jerry was CTO. It was one of the most disorganized and chaotic companies I've ever been at. Extremely unprofessional in many ways and a total waste of time. I was in pillar update meetings with bot
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by kradroy 4y ago
"circadian rhythms can be found in every cell" - seems vague. The info-nibble doesn't detail some of the downsides of IF - like how difficult it can be to practice it in social life (married? good luck telling your spouse you
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by kradroy 4y ago
I've been looking for something like this. Is it DIY or something off-the-shelf? My spouse requires absolute darkness when sleeping, but I have SAD and require the blinds to be always open in order to... not want to die.
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by kradroy 4y ago
Speaking as a former employee of a large adult content network, and as someone who bent laws in my frequent (oh so frequent) searches for porn as a teenager, this law will be about as effectual as Louisiana's public schooling.
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by kradroy 4y ago
Using this technique I got a great deal on a car after the salesman threw out a number first. I simply sat there looking at him and said nothing for maybe 20-30 seconds. He threw out a lower number. Then I said "I'll think about i
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by kradroy 5y ago
I have experienced this as well. Perhaps coincidentally the type of language they're always obsessed with is a functional one. I've yet to see a dev who's rabid over mutable state. They're usually bonzo for free monads.
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by kradroy 5y ago
Today's internet is largely dominated by topics and people who maximize for marginal superficial engagement. You probably won't ever have the experience of a MajorBBS sysop breaking into your session when you're in the middle
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by kradroy 5y ago
On the other side of the coin, in my career I've had colleagues so bad that I would gladly pay them NOT to work. They created a toxic workplace and made everything worse. Unfortunately the majority of them would likely not take UBI (in
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by kradroy 5y ago
For spouses I don't see a problem. In the US spouses cannot be forced to testify against one another in court. So (also) barring a spouse from benefitting from insider trading seems a fair trade-off.
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by kradroy 5y ago
> (e) I signal employees that I'm all for "sacrifice" and thus not professional, and not a good place to work (e.g. if I had any loose excuse to sacrifice them and their compensation, I'd do it in an instant). That on
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by kradroy 5y ago
I did that too. Until I realized most of the group that remained overlapped with friends/family I communicated with in Telegram, WhatsApp and SMS chats. So there was no point to keeping a Facebook account. Addition/edit: Furthermo
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by kradroy 5y ago
At startups recruitment beyond getting a body in the door/Zoom is largely an afterthought. I remember interviewing a staff researcher candidate when I was 22 at a startup (<50 employees). I was pulled away from my work the day of an

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