rondon2

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by rondon2 11y ago
So was the guy your boss or not? What kind of organization lets someone promote themselves to project manager or the boss of other engineers?
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by rondon2 12y ago
My 12 year old loves it. The 15 year old... Not so much
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by rondon2 12y ago
One thing I took from mythical man month was that having an architect with a clear vision is necessary for success. The architect isn't perfect. He will make mistakes and he will reject good ideas from time to time. But design by com
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by rondon2 12y ago
"Linus uses CVS at home". That was the best line. In all seriousness, I don't tell new members of my team about the CLI. We use Visual Studio and the VS UI plugin only supports add,commit,push,pull,undo.
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by rondon2 12y ago
I was given a non employee poaching contract to sign when I gave my notice at BIGCORP. It had some vague language like "I will not attempt to contact any BIGCORP employees with information about other positions". I gave it back
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by rondon2 12y ago
Thank you! I was wondering why I couldn't just use post for a function I'm writing right now. It helps to have someone else say out loud what I was thinking.
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by rondon2 12y ago
I'm in the process of moving some of my data storage from oracle to redis. Having already used Linq has made this easier. I had a pretty small data-model though. I think that in a large project switching databases is a large effort
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by rondon2 12y ago
I'm sure anyone can come up with specific situations where writing SQL is much better than using ORM. If I had infinite time and dev resources I would never use an ORM. In reality Entity Framework makes abstracting my data-layer ver
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by rondon2 12y ago
I read everything he writes. The only time I have had a problem with anything he said was in "Under the Banner of Heaven" he partially blamed the Mormon church for the kidnap and rape of Elizabeth Smart. I suspect that the guy
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by rondon2 12y ago
I left IBM in 2012 because I saw that the division I was working for was never going to be competitive. It is surprising that it took almost 3 years for what was obvious at the bottom to reach the top and be implemented.
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by rondon2 12y ago
That is only a temporary problem. Eventually employees will quit or die. And when that happens you will hire a replacement at current market rates.
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by rondon2 12y ago
The renter will get a break actually because newly constructed apartments are cheaper than the older apartments so he can move to a newer/nicer/cheaper place. Deflation is a big problem for highly leveraged businesses and individu
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by rondon2 12y ago
"So you get broad based increases in unemployment." I know it sucks to go from making 70k to making 60k but in a world where prices are going lower someone will still be able to have a similar quality of live at 60k. What kind o
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by rondon2 12y ago
That is because Google has technicians 24/7/365 at their data centers.
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by rondon2 12y ago
It is just so expensive to provide 99% uptime on your own servers. Who is going to go into the office at 2:00AM when an executive can't access his power point presentation?
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by rondon2 12y ago
http://nutrition.mcdonalds.com/getnutrition/nutritionfacts.p... A Big Mac is 530 and a Large Fry is 530. Your example is off by about 50%.
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by rondon2 12y ago
When you to try and make someone look bad it does matter. "I didn't see bob on instant messenger, and I called him several times and I left him a voice mail. I'm not able to get my task done because I still have not heard ba
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by rondon2 12y ago
The person who eats 2,000 calories in one sitting at burger king is much more likely to make a Frozen Pizza at home than a Arugula salad and Grilled fish.
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Sony to Apply for Terrorism Assistance from the Government
2 points by rondon2 12y ago|2 comments
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by rondon2 12y ago
Two things. 1. An elephant on a flower isn't going to get someone to pay $500-$1000 for this hardware. You need very high quality content to get lots of consumers on board. 2. Moving from current cinema production to VR production is
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by rondon2 12y ago
His point is that there is no way to provide statistics on the number of bullshit jobs. For example, I worked at a company where we made networking software for some military radios. We had a "Hardware Engineer" that fixed or retu
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by rondon2 12y ago
I understand it does suck to have one or two idiot customers that will flip out about something stupid and write a terrible review of your great restaurant. But I think it would be better just to have no reviews at all on Yelp. Is there a
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by rondon2 12y ago
There is a small difference in interest rates that you get based on your credit score. When I bought a car from the dealer I told the loan guy that I had a 0.9% rate at my Credit Union so I didn't need financing. He was able to match
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by rondon2 12y ago
Yes, and you can tell them to never contact you again in any way. Tell them that you refute all of the debt and will sue them if they file inaccurate information with a credit agency. I did that two years ago when a debt was incorrectly
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by rondon2 12y ago
Assuming their spouses' incomes wouldn't support their family, I would think so
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by rondon2 12y ago
People can become illogical when faced with emotional scenarios. "If I loose my job my family/friends will think that I'm a failure". I was at IBM during a similar situations and it was people that were in the top 40%-2
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by rondon2 12y ago
It is much better to develop self driving technology in-house rather than risk being stuck licencing technology from Google in perpetuity. The software is the easy part. The regulatory and societal hurdles are the hard part and Google is
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by rondon2 12y ago
Thanks for explaining that you get $6 either way (Hardcopy or Kindle) I would have assumed you get more with the hard copy.
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by rondon2 12y ago
It seems to me that these strikes are happening in clusters at the same time 1000s of miles away. Is this related to radiation from the sun providing the tipping point?
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by rondon2 12y ago
If you own a coffee shop, they would want you to buy a business plan that costs more than a home plan. They would detect it by calling your business to ask if you want a business plan and when you said you were using the internet from your

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