quantumhobbit

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by quantumhobbit 4y ago
Who else thinks he's hype driving the price up to dump the shares he already owns at a profit? He clearly has no reason to fear the SEC...
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by quantumhobbit 5y ago
I’ve always wanted to try this out in practice. It seems like it would be a great way to find gaps in the specification. There was some research in the early 90’s over multiple implementations as a way to avoid bugs. I still feel like it wa
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by quantumhobbit 6y ago
Don’t forget the drugs and money laundering.
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by quantumhobbit 7y ago
My work would insist on calling the incident response or monitoring room a "war room". And I would quote this every time it was mentioned. It gets old, but I literally can not stop myself from repeating the quote when i hear the p
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by quantumhobbit 7y ago
I absolutely have to plug the author’s latest book, Wanderers. It was pretty amazing.
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by quantumhobbit 7y ago
How about multiple day battery life? You probably don’t even need that much more battery, just a smaller screen and slower cpu/gpu.
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by quantumhobbit 8y ago
My high school cross country running coach used to navigate by Waffle Houses. As in “4 more Waffle Houses til our exit”
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by quantumhobbit 8y ago
14 cents per ride is nothing! Maybe 1% of the cost of a ride. Maybe they could save a bunch by colo or something else. But would 14 cents per ride really matter at all for their competitiveness. I’m not going to notice a 14 cent difference
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by quantumhobbit 8y ago
If the company can’t figure out how to add a date to the subject line, they won’t be able to figure this out either. It’s gmails bug, but I’m amazed they couldn’t figure out hiw to implement the fix. Amazed but not too surprised given how n
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by quantumhobbit 8y ago
There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.
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by quantumhobbit 8y ago
Many here are commenting that you should pay more and that is true. But how about not wasting the talent you already have? I’ve had several jobs from startups to big companies and I have never been utilized at anything close to 100% of my p
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by quantumhobbit 8y ago
Overcast seems to bug out on me everytime I try to play episodes in the order they were released instead of most recent first. It also never removes played episodes no matter what my settings. Seriously these should be simple things.
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by quantumhobbit 8y ago
We used to macgyver particians out of white boards and project posters.
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by quantumhobbit 8y ago
Super common. More common than the opposite. In fact a version of the above story has happened in the last two companies I worked for.
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by quantumhobbit 8y ago
Until they get bored writing grant proposals and lose all their funding.
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by quantumhobbit 8y ago
How is the battery life on the oryx?
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by quantumhobbit 8y ago
Not really relevant, but if you have a recurrent c-diff infection, eating a warm turd is pretty close to the empirically proven treatment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecal_microbiota_transplant
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by quantumhobbit 8y ago
The making everyone else come in is the worst. A senior to me dev started working nights. I didn't even know he was doing it but I got in trouble for not being there when he was working. Because I "wasn't available when he ne
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by quantumhobbit 8y ago
Bruce Webster calls this the Thermocline of Truth. Which I think is a great metaphor. http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/15/the-wetware-crisis-the-t...
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by quantumhobbit 8y ago
Does this factor in the cost of lost productivity from having an awesome gaming pc always available?
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by quantumhobbit 8y ago
At an old job I managed to snag a 30" monitor from a colleague who was moving to a different job. He managed to get it in the brief window that it was offered instead of 26" ones. When I announced that I was moving on, the vulture
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by quantumhobbit 8y ago
Not my direct manager but the tech lead. This was a new team with an early standup which never happened on time because we would always roll in late. The scrum master had the 'great idea' to start a dollar jar. Whoever was late to
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by quantumhobbit 8y ago
There are just too many unknowns to do estimates well in software. And getting things wrong in estimates isn't a matter of being off by a couple percentage points but being off in by orders of magnitude. It isn't unusual for what
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by quantumhobbit 8y ago
Likely changes to the coast itself. For example Louisiana and the gulf coast are going down faster, because of coastal erosion. I would guess that the parts of Alaska that are seeing the sea level fall are due to the land rising from tecton
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by quantumhobbit 8y ago
Right. Code Review should be about catching mistakes. The high level design is already known, and the low level details are checked by a linter. Code Review just makes sure that you didn't accidentally introduce a bug and that the code
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by quantumhobbit 8y ago
One of the best managers I ever worked for was a “people manager”. He knew his limitations and worked within them. He was reliant on the tech lead for technical knowledge but between the two of them made a pretty good team. Some of the wors
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by quantumhobbit 8y ago
I just left a job with a truly toxic code review culture. - managers would swoop in and leave incorrect criticisms. Asserting plainly false things and in one case reviewing python code as though it was JavaScript. - devs would make conflict
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by quantumhobbit 8y ago
This is stupid. If you are a react shop and you would have been ok to see some Angular on the CV, then you are clearly expecting the new hire to do some learning on the job. Why not try to figure out if this candidate is up to the task of l
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by quantumhobbit 8y ago
Chaotic rotation occurs primarily in bodies that are not spherical. These tend to be smaller, because gravity forces larger bodies into spheres, and would have a thinner atmosphere if any due to the small gravity. Not saying life is impossi
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by quantumhobbit 8y ago
Evertime I hear someone defend something as a best practice without any other justification, I mentally switch “best practice” with “cargo culting” and lose no information. Sometimes the best practice in question does have value and can be

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