ska

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by ska 1y ago
I presume you meant one way NDA, your overall point is a really good one. Contracts are very useful as a leading indicator of how the counterparty thinks about the relationship.
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by ska 1y ago
FWIW professional liability insurance absolutely can make sense, even be necessary when writing software, depending on the nature of the contract and your overall responsibilities.
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by ska 1y ago
FWIW in my experience building both, hardware is always finished first because it’s cheaper to change the software later in the cycle. Much like drywallers patching over electrical/plumbing sins, software fills gaps …
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by ska 1y ago
>>> In fact, in certain cases it can increase the size instead of compressing. Fwiw, all (lossless) compression algorithms will increase the size of some inputs.
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by ska 1y ago
But also yes. There may be some loss as you describe , but they’ll taste better brought back till room temperature than straight from the fridge .
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by ska 1y ago
"On paper this was supposed to lead to the immanent collapse of it's service." I don't know anyone who expected this. The typical failure mode is slow degradation and lack of new development, not sudden collapse. Servi
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by ska 1y ago
I think the problem runs deeper than that. What you’ve done is an interesting tool for finding out more about a relatively small slice of developers.
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by ska 1y ago
Didn’t they just release a small-ish one ?
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by ska 1y ago
May have been the wrong time too. 1999 was chock full of companies that failed to get traction and died during the dot-com collapse, but variants became much more successful 20 years later. Much of this was mostly waiting in infrastructure
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by ska 2y ago
This is something Common Lisp got really right.
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by ska 2y ago
Sure, there are also cases where it is not needed. But some called out in GP were not typically correct. And often it is opaque to the researchers only because someone did an IRB in an earlier step with usage that covers sharing it with yo
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by ska 2y ago
This is correct. IRB will be simple is not the same as not needing one.
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by ska 2y ago
Not having to play the game isn’t as expensive as you suggest. Lots of tech employees, if they don’t let lifestyle inflation take over, hit a point where they could retire early but may not want to. At that point t walking away from a job
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by ska 2y ago
This is a problem with 'prosumer' gear in general. If camera manufactures bought a transferable commercial license for everything in it, it would be too expense for consumer use, but the people licensing IP to them want a piece i
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by ska 2y ago
This is one example of an area where economic incentives make it difficult to shift. - There aren't that many people willing to pay for such software, but those that do *really* need it, and will pay quite a bit (passing that cost
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by ska 2y ago
If that's what you want to do, why would you ever sign a contract saying you won't do it?
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by ska 2y ago
You often will not be, explicitly by contract. Honestly in this case it’s easier to keep things clean.
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by ska 2y ago
Well deserved!
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by ska 2y ago
Oh you’re right about relative size of Mexico - my memory had a units error (km vs mi). Still, it’s not even as big as Canada so the statement wasn’t close to right…. It’s a bit under 9/20
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by ska 2y ago
>whose physical presence spans a majority of a major continent, I take your point, but this part isn't true. Canada is a little larger, and then there is also Mexico which is about 1/2 the size, so US is roughly 2/5ths of
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by ska 2y ago
> OTOH, this is more or less how clients themselves expect to be billed Again, very much depends on the context. Contract engineering that maps roughly to n FTE is often as you suggest, consulting rarely.
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by ska 2y ago
The tricky thing about formulas like this is that it is very domain dependent. What you describe is a reasonable approach for a freelancer who expects to bill most working hours. It falls apart for a lot of consulting scenarios where you b
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by ska 2y ago
FWIW I’ve done similar for friends who are on a tight budget , consulting for 1/2, 1/3 1/5 “regular” rate. Sometimes with equity but not always. I’m nowhere near rich, but when I was consulting full time of I had enough hou
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by ska 2y ago
Many people generally don't change boards enough, yes. And keeping plastic boards after they are quite deeply grooved is a problem. If your dishwasher doesn't have a sanitize cycle (or you aren't using it) you may not be gett
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by ska 2y ago
Food safety. It's ironic that in a home setting they can often be better than plastic (people typically don't clean plastic well enough, or replace often enough), but you can't sanitize them like you typically would in a co
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by ska 2y ago
PhD, and especially its near ubiquity in academic circles, is a relatively new phenomena.
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by ska 2y ago
Clunky, but should be ok assuming a) a pretty simple structure and cashflow b) properly implemented double-entry, and c) backups.
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by ska 2y ago
>> ("Covid rich") isn't meant just for the checks, and >> ..., there was probably a bunch of discretionary spending on e.g. ... i.e. money in your bank account that in a "normal" year you would have spe
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by ska 2y ago
> feel they were "COVID rich" is something I just can't wrap my head around. I think that term ("Covid rich") isn't meant just for the checks, but for the general increase of disposable income. If you are lo
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by ska 2y ago
Condolences on your loss, Aaron & family. Few of us will ever write software with as much impact as QModem, I hope that your father found satisfaction in that reach.

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