mo1ok

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by mo1ok 2y ago
It IS more complicated than that. It's not easy to build within a 1 hour commute of a dense population center. All that land is owned, built, and called for. Calling it "overpopulation" could be fair. A parallel problem is im
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by mo1ok 2y ago
Wow, thank you for sharing this. I miss the old 00's era of maximalist web design.
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by mo1ok 3y ago
No one wants to say it, but immigration is a huge driver of housing un-affordability. Skilled H1b immigration and/or foreign buyers drives up home prices, and unskilled illegal immigration drives up rents.
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by mo1ok 6y ago
I feel like most of us were wise to the fact that this was a terrible idea on day one. It was funny to watch MBAs try to cash in on the "next big thing" in tech, though.
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by mo1ok 7y ago
interesting - reminds me of what meteor attempted with its data protocol.
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by mo1ok 7y ago
any link to or summary of his ideas?
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by mo1ok 7y ago
I recently got a subscription to the HBR and am surprised at how...misguided it is. It's shocking how this locus of low competency is destroying American business. Ditto on the outsourcing, too - left a job at a blue-chip American comp
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by mo1ok 7y ago
I think it's important to be passionate about your life's work. However, maintaining "good enough" across all dimensions of particular lifestyle or role is actually incredibly challenging. Even for a standard engineer, t
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by mo1ok 7y ago
Dude, thank you for this. My team has been trying to figure this out - we know we will eventually need a way to utilize in a low-level context, but couldn't dig up any cases of such an implementation. In addition, we were constantly fr
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by mo1ok 7y ago
Not disagreeing with you, but worth mentioning proto-lean/agile methodology began with the manufacturing of cars at Toyota.
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by mo1ok 7y ago
I would agree that this is narrow minded - and would say that this opinion is a result of exactly what you mentioned - my interaction with them being fairly limited and clinical, despite them having a direct leadership role in my org. I wou
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by mo1ok 7y ago
Honestly, and I'm being really frank here, a lot of the management "expertise" at fortune 50+ firms that come from traditional (re: MBA) tracks has just two tools in their toolbelt: 1. Meetings to "align" 2. Crackin
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by mo1ok 7y ago
Let this be a lesson: Working prototypes trump all theory. I heard all silicon valley gurus stating they were "bearish on VR, bullish on "AR". This proliferated as a mantra throughout the industry. I thought they were wrong t
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by mo1ok 7y ago
I read Napoleon: A life - it was a great book with fascinating insights. For example, Napoleon's first big break came not particularly from outstanding competence but because, in the midst of the french revolution, all reputable office
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by mo1ok 7y ago
I'd a big fan of some of the webGL experiments hanging around the internet. i.e. http://taotajima.jp/
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by mo1ok 7y ago
I think it means that contracting can't be a part of a company core business model - as is in the case for uber, lyft, or cleaning services. Examples of a contractor here would be: hiring a third-party graphic designer for a few months
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by mo1ok 7y ago
A mantra sort of appeared in my mind watching agile fall apart and fail at a large fortune 50 company - "there is no replacement for leadership."
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by mo1ok 7y ago
I think opinions can have equal value - in a roundabout way. I.e. climate denialism is usually an expression of anti-establishmentarianism married with a fear of downward mobility.
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by mo1ok 7y ago
I remember reading about the hysteria of this 4 years ago and wondering if me, a non-foodie, could actually taste the difference in chocolate quality. I finally had my first mast brothers bar recently and... ...yeah. It taste like a slightl
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by mo1ok 7y ago
FWIW, I know of a bike sharing startup that found profitably by charging cities and municipalities for the service as an urban amenity.
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by mo1ok 7y ago
Does this scientifically explain the phenomenon colloquially known as "dad strength?"
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by mo1ok 7y ago
100% agreement. It's continuing the trend of offloading management onto the burden of the individual worker. It's the responsibility of the company to create a solid, quiet, accessible work environment - by enabling "remote w
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by mo1ok 7y ago
in isolation, no, but the problem I've seen is that literal dozens of preprocessing steps for a javascript project, and these add significant cost over time. In a corporate environment, too, you need to proxy many of these, and set an
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by mo1ok 7y ago
"oops, there's nothing here!" <posts load, showing everything that's there>. This happens on every subreddit, every. single. time. I can't believe in 2018 we got a front-end that does this, just shoddy, shoddy
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by mo1ok 8y ago
Oh man, glad I'm not the only one I noticed this. It used to take ~2 seconds to find my favorite playlist and play it. Now it takes upwards of 10-20 seconds. On the dedicated "select a playlist" page with the squares, it even
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by mo1ok 8y ago
Ah, I see. Good point.
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by mo1ok 8y ago
Not sure if this is a joke or not, but that's actually what's happening right now - many large firms are literally just stowing cash: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/these-are-the-5-us-compani...
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by mo1ok 8y ago
True, but it's going to be hard to convince a small group of people to live a miserable, unrewarding live in an unforgiving desert in the off-chance humanity ends in sudden catastrophe.
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by mo1ok 8y ago
The cost:benefit of colonizing the new world was immense and known prior to widespread colonization, esp. in the tropical parts. Settling mars is like colonizing the Sahara desert, except this time with no oxygen or camels.
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by mo1ok 8y ago
It just simplifies an entire field of software engineering (devops) into a simple "one-click" setup. Before, you had to open an account, provision a server, figure out your machine image, install dependencies, figure out error&#x2

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