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by robatsu 14y ago
Is anyone surprised that the 25 year war on corporate paternalism and 2 way loyalty in favor of a quite openly stated reductionist policy of "extract maximum value from employees for the bare minimum that they will accept" has left a lot of
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by robatsu 14y ago
There is a little bit of misunderstanding sometimes when people discuss "inflation". To some, if not most people, inflation means increasing prices. To others, it means increase in the money supply, which eventually may cause rising price
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by robatsu 14y ago
I agree with the SCOTUS sentiment, but in other related areas, strict adherence to the law with the underlying intent to remain legal but avoid the spirit of the law has been cracked down upon. In the case of cash transactions, with the 10k
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by robatsu 14y ago
I was a submarine officer back during the end of the Cold War, doing special operations and what not. Now that was a super stressful job & the hours were lots longer, major sleep deprivation. Our therapy was debauched shore time in vari
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by robatsu 14y ago
I think the early, mid 90's were a lot more interesting time to be a programmer than now, just before the Internet explosion. Back then, a bigger percentage of the focus was on using computers to do something, solve a problem directly (as
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by robatsu 14y ago
The thing that I dislike the most about the technology business is people who want to use developers as crash test dummies for their random ideas and think that "good ideas" are the topmost measure of goodness and once having a good idea, a
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by robatsu 14y ago
I spend 1/2 time in Japan because my wife is Japanese. Our 8 year old is bilingual, my wife is fluent in english but learned as an adult, and my japanese is rudimentary. Some of the comments disagreeing with the research, I can sympathize
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by robatsu 14y ago
The optimistic viewpoint going into the unknown, i.e, the confidence that the answer is out there somewhere and you will find it, is one of the, if not the, most important success factors in any sort of greenfield venture. I'm an older guy
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by robatsu 14y ago
Sorry, I think I poorly worded my comment. The point I was trying to make was that (imo) the better devs have an extremely deterministic viewpoint towards their code and are always paying attention to all the contextual layers in which they
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by robatsu 14y ago
Top 10% - gets the coding job done, timely, high quality code. Knows his craft well, but is still essentially a craftsman. Top 1% - Designs systems that will get the job done for the business/larger org goals, or even designing systems that
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by robatsu 14y ago
My grandfather always used to tell me, "You can be rich in two ways - the amount of your possessions or the fewness of your wants". This article alludes to that point at the end.
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by robatsu 14y ago
In the U.S., this legal electric company monopolies were more or less granted w/the proviso of providing universal access, sort of the same goal. The past 20 years, the electric companies are trying to wiggling out from under this, turns ou
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by robatsu 14y ago
I've worked at places that "only hired the best" and such. I think this kind of mantra coming from employers is as much self promotion as it is a statement of policy. As in, our stuff must be wonderful, we only hire the best. But really, h
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by robatsu 14y ago
I live in Japan 1/2 time. Apparently, when a driver here hits a pedestrian or cyclist, he's got a lot of explaining to do. As a result, the drivers are so attentive that it is not at all unusual on reasonably busy secondary routes to see a
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by robatsu 14y ago
Years ago, I worked briefly for The Southern Company, which is the largest publicly held electric utility in the U.S (Georgia Power, Alabama Power, and a bunch of other ones). While there was certainly a lot of expertise in electric generat
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by robatsu 14y ago
Identity verification and such are only part of the problem. Even if it is a bona fide person writing the review (and ignoring the problems w/Yelp filtering practices), a truly valid review only comes from one who the readers can be assure
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by robatsu 14y ago
There are at least two startup opportunities for something like this. One is the creation of the credential/verified identity certification and the second is the transmission/exchange of the credential. These are two very disparate set of