talentdeficit

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by talentdeficit 14y ago
stack ranking actively hinders managers from retaining exceptional performers. if you only have 2 A grades to give out and you have five people deserving of it ALL of them are going to be motivated to switch to lower performing teams or ent
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by talentdeficit 14y ago
don't hate the playa, hate the game none of these companies are leveraging truly novel patents in their lawsuits. few of these companies are even generating novel patents. they're all accumulating (likely bogus) patents to wield as a club a
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by talentdeficit 14y ago
the server seems to be written in erlang (using cowboy and rabbitmq?) but there's no erlang client library available. what gives?
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by talentdeficit 14y ago
They are temporary because they are granted for situations where Apple has not yet implemented an API or formalized an entitlement. Apple bends over backwards to be developer friendly, they are not going to pull the rug out just for the hel
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by talentdeficit 14y ago
i think the point is that when designing clocks we didn't just attach some gears and a timing mechanism and some hands to a sundial, we threw the sundial out. computers are complex because we hardly ever remove anything, and we still bare t
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by talentdeficit 14y ago
if google gives privileged access to android to motorola (earlier access to os builds for testing, for example), that's just going to motivate samsung, htc, sony etc to differentiate further, as they will have a disadvantage in time to mark
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by talentdeficit 14y ago
i don't work at valve, but i work at an organisation with a very similar management structure (there is none) and payment scheme (autonomous self organizing teams are paid by clients and distribute payments as negotiated by the group). we h
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by talentdeficit 14y ago
serious question, do people not realize you can use the wireless apple keyboard with the ipad? it pairs with bluetooth and it's fairly small of it's own accord. it's also much cheaper than most of these 'laptop' accessories
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by talentdeficit 14y ago
diamonds aren't artificially scarce to control demand, they're artificially scarce due to low demand. bringing a gigantic chunk of platinum to earth isn't going to increase the utility of platinum, although if prices fall far enough it may
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by talentdeficit 14y ago
you can't fix sexism (or racism, or classism) by pretending they don't exist. this isn't the venue for a debate on the topic, but you can read up on male privilege if you'd like to know more
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by talentdeficit 14y ago
HiPE is the native code compiler, BEAM is the VM. otp is fantastic, however
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by talentdeficit 14y ago
Galiano isn't that remote. It's less than an hour from Vancouver International Airport by floatplane, or a couple hours from downtown Vancouver by the (2+ times daily) ferry. It is beautiful though, and I envy him. I have a place on Salt Sp
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by talentdeficit 14y ago
google have slowly been rebuilding AOL's walled garden for five years now. if anything, they're jealous apple and facebook beat them to it
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by talentdeficit 14y ago
While you can get cheap housing in Sacramento or Stockton, the California equivalents of Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto are just as unaffordable as those cities. Maybe more so. If you think commuting Clarington to Toronto is bad, try Inlan
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by talentdeficit 14y ago
I commute between Portland and Vancouver fairly frequently. Initially I drove because I never really considered not driving, but round trip expense wasn't really that much cheaper than flying ($120 in fuel costs compared to $175-$250 to fly
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by talentdeficit 14y ago
deterministic memory usage is a good start
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by talentdeficit 15y ago
Here's why HBO requires you to subscribe to their channel to watch Game of Thrones. If you watch Game of Thrones, maybe you'll also watch Veep or Girls or Eastbound & Down or Life's Too Short. You might notice that HBO staggers their se
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by talentdeficit 15y ago
Mike Daisy exploited a story about violations of human rights to benefit himself. This is not a greater good situation.
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by talentdeficit 15y ago
I fly into the US via YVR Vancouver approximately 18 times per year, and it's almost always a terrible experience. ICE officers are surly, impatient and unpleasant, even when there's no lineup and no urgency. There are exceptions, there is
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by talentdeficit 15y ago
for the most part, facebook can only target you when you're on facebook. google now targets you across their properties some of which have significant lock in. it's not as easy to escape google being creepy as it is to escape facebook being
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by talentdeficit 15y ago
That's only 7.5 million per corrupt official, which is about the cost of the houses they buy in Shaughnessy, North Vancouver and Point Grey.