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by peterangular 5y ago
Having done something very similar how's the CPU usage with Python doing these specific demos?
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by peterangular 5y ago
> Kind of sad that he was let go for the one thing he likely had the least ability to control: Other people's feelings > how do you coach someone to change someone else's impression of him? Assuming he was standing behind wo
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> We've all been fighting margins one way or another. Nope - not really. There's always been a huge distaste for the box model and it comes from a place of not understanding it vs. anything else. Margins + features like flexbox
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> Sorry but requiring web devs to ignore the last 4~5 years of progress is just unacceptable. No it's not. "Web dev" is one of the things in my toolbox and I still clicked on this well-knowing it was likely not truly cross
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by peterangular 5y ago
So ban a huge part of the CSS box model. Got it... Margins are valid in many use-cases, specifically many people leverage them for typography. They can even still be valid with component-driven development as well.
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> I put my point far too weakly Nah - IMO you made a super strong point which is why I wanted to respond with my thoughts. I was just trying to explain why I was being pedantic pulling some of the words apart with my "sorry for abru
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by peterangular 5y ago
> Regulation isn't necessarily opposed to a free market In fact, it's required for any market to exist in the first place. Without regulation the concept of ownership goes out the window. "Free markets" would look lik
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by peterangular 5y ago
> their messaging platforms and failure to leverage Google voice for 10yrs after the acquisition are too The Hangouts > Chat transition is exactly this. Objectively, they've made it worse and more buggy on their own Android pla
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by peterangular 5y ago
Having worked in an enterprise this list is 100% accurate. For better or worse (I think it's the latter) enterprises are all about coloring inside of the lines. If you color outside of the lines you may experience functional success in
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> I've also made the mistake of sharing my tools only to find criticism but no offer to help make improvements. Fuck em, wasting my time. Have experienced a ton of this too. One of the biggest internal tool mistakes of my career was
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by peterangular 5y ago
People keep conflating my example with non-assigned work, ie: "spend time working on the wrong issues or going down rabbit holes because their vision is superior to those around them" Clearly this would be a problem, and I underst
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by peterangular 5y ago
In my experience both are valuable, especially when the work you're cranking through is your assigned work . I 100% agree with you but I would say that many places will turn the lack of participation in Friday beers, book club, and go
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by peterangular 5y ago
Yep - just someone keeping their nose down actively working their butt off to chip away at their workload.
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So the wrecking ball thing is just a turn-of-phrase that means "someone who knocks it down" - ie: the person getting it done. It's not necessarily meant as a negative nor derogatory term, it's the person who shows up on-
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by peterangular 5y ago
Coming from the Midwest I was brought up in a weirdly religious meritocracy where it was all about worship of "hard work". Unfortunately over time I'm realizing that others perceptions of me are more important to career advan
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by peterangular 5y ago
In the late 90's/early naughts I was a kid riding my bicycle from garage sale to garage sale and ran across one of these w/all of the random crap to make it work in an early Pentium PC. PCI card and all - I was jacked man. I
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by peterangular 5y ago
Wow. Nostalgia... They were insanely reliable/performant drives and after reading enough reviews I couldn't resist back in the day. Regarding benchmarks, they definitely had a bit more pep by the numbers. My two 10k WD RPM's
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by peterangular 5y ago
Cursing is pretty common on here. Just re-read the guidelines and there's no rules against inappropriate language like the "f-word"... Especially when considering such a benign usage as the parent comment, ie: just replacing
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by peterangular 5y ago
> It's a horrible look only according to incurious, oversensitive, ideological and closed-minded people. Oof - shots fired. I think you're including me in this group of "people" so I'm going to bow out as this is
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by peterangular 5y ago
This all is in good faith, just sharing my ever-evolving thoughts on the topic to answer the question: For better or worse meritocracies are exclusive in nature when you take systemic societal issues into consideration like wealth gaps. In
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> Seems like there were two things Abbot did "wrong", one was to argue against affirmative action, and the other was to use a nazi reference to make his point. Which in the current political climate is a horrible look for the
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Wow - and they actually had a field test that worked...! I have such a huge respect for the engineers that worked on these systems - it feels like some wild west sorta stuff.
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by peterangular 5y ago
I'm being misunderstood, I'm going try to to explain better. I literally opened my original response to tyingq with "I'm not saying you're incorrect" as I did not want to invalidate anything they had written. I
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by peterangular 5y ago
Huh - looked at that location on street view and it is so weird seeing a modern AT&T logo on a Long Lines site building! Microwave backhaul fascinates me... I think the most interesting example of it that blows my mind is the private
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by peterangular 5y ago
> You’re simply wrong Specifically - what am I wrong about? As-per HN guidelines specify exactly what I have said that is factually incorrect? Please quote it directly if you can, and in good faith provide sources so I can better inform
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by peterangular 5y ago
> You seem to be talking about military use of FIXED (not portable/tactical) microwave, which is a different space. Which is what the original post/article was about - the fixed terrestrial microwave network that AT&T ran..
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by peterangular 5y ago
In response to a post about the AT&T Long Lines network, saying something "similar" happened in the military seems disingenuous because they were absolutely partnered on the same project. To imply something is "similar&
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So some of the towers are still in AT&T's ownership but a ton of them got sold off to American Tower for resale and leasing space. People do everything from run cellular on them, run datacenters in the nuclear hardened bunker sites
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by peterangular 5y ago
> A similar thing happened in the US military I'm not saying you're incorrect that the military had similar tech to what AT&T had, but I'll split the hair that they actually worked together hand-in-hand. They actually