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yes, and make sure to include a blockchain.

I think it also depends on the dose. I've heard microdosing is very different.

Exactly. It was Ballmer who started the mobile strategy and it was up to Nadella to salvage it.

Making sure Office, etc., work well on Android and iOS is perfectly in line with his idea that you can work with competitors to increase revenue for everyone involved.

Contrast this with Amazon, who believes that it is a winner takes all market, and they do not have support for their competitor's products and even refuse to list them in their store.

Isn't the current CEO against that strategy? I listened to an interview with him not long ago in which he said the biggest mistake they made was thinking that the market is winner take all. He instead proposed that they should be working with other companies because many times they share customers and that by working together they increase the total market size.

> “More data” is not inherently good. Without a framework of information for interpretation of that data, it will do far more harm than good.

I'm glad people are saying this. I'm in a constant fight at work with people who want "more data." What ends up happening most of the time is it's ignored or people do not interpret it correctly because they don't have the ability or context to do it (doing stats wrong for instance).

You may be coming at this from the wrong direction. A really effective way to fight fire is, ironically, with fire. Controlled burns used to be a big part of the national park service's budget, but has since dwindled (perhaps because it's hard to measure performance?).

Fire is a natural part of the ecosystem, and by controlling when and how it burns, we help keep it in check instead of it turning into mega fires.

Here is an article to get you started, https://www.npca.org/articles/819-fight-fire-with-funding-an...

Was this Accenture? They used to have a 3-week java training program for those entering as new grads, but I believe that's been reduced in scope now.

This is basically how my mother was trained as a programmer. She got a job, was literally handed a stack of books and reference material and started figuring shit out.

She changed careers before I can really remember her at that job, but I too am self-taught in this field (but I trained myself at home).

The whole idea of companies not investing in their people is relatively new.

Unless it is backed up somewhere outside of your house, it doesn't really exist. One fire takes it all out.

pro: use anywhere, including while ssh'd, and share sessions with others. con: not that easy to use -- kind of like vim or emacs.

I personally use tmux because it's "one window" and it is supported on every environment I can think of.

Is this retail, wholesale or cost to make prices?

As someone who works on their own cars, electric and self-driving cars have me scared that it will not be possible in the future.

People often using the word "elegant" when they actually mean "my preferred."

It helps give credence to the solution.

Thanks for putting this together. Here is a way to grab them all with gnu tooling

curl https://pastebin.com/raw/H3KsMHW6 | sed s/\;/\\n/g | xargs wget --trust-server-names

or if you have parallel installed simply use

curl https://pastebin.com/raw/H3KsMHW6 | sed s/\;/\\n/g | parallel wget --trust-server-names

I find this, and many of the comments here interesting. I've been working on a mixed remote/office department for a few years now and lead a team (remotely, with a 3 hour time difference) which is mixed as well.

I do notice that my standards are higher of my subordinates than the other leads. (I expect that they stick to their deadlines that they set for themselves, that they document their thought process, they talk to stakeholders when appropriate, they optimize for the project and company goals, they can produce quality code and debug quickly and effectively.) I also provide one-on-one coaching for them if they want it, or if they are not living up to expectations. I also have a significantly lower turnover rate than other teams in the company.

I always assumed the higher standards were due to personality or management differences, but perhaps not? I would be interested in knowing other people's experiences with remote managers/team leads.

360 videos are a rather poor experience (currently). You cannot tell narrative content on them because you cannot control the view like you can with movies or shows. So what you are limited to is static scenery type of experiences.

If TipRanks is accurate, how can this person be employed? Especially at a firm like GS.

I also tried blue apron (and hello fresh) and found their recipes to be needlessly complicated. Like seriously, why do I need 15+ ingredients?

I'm still waiting for the 4 ingredients or less service -- even if they are processed first. I don't need to make everything from scratch.

Effort doesn't alway equal results and we shouldn't be praising them not attaining their stated goals. (or perhaps they are, and their goals don't matter to their customers -- students)

I'm just a single point of data, but none of my friends ever found the career services people to be helpful in any meaningful way. In my world, their success rate is 0%.

> Is this sharp control over timing something in American culture?

Probably. It's viewed as respecting others to make sure the time allotted doesn't go over. It also allows other people to better plan their day. As an American, when I run meetings they end as close to the pre-determined time as possible, and better if earlier. If there needs to be something else said, a follow-up is scheduled with only the interested parties.

They let in far more companies now and have different tracks available than before. Is a lower conversion rate worse? I think the true judge of that would be is the overall ROI going down.

Sad, but true https://arstechnica.com/security/2013/12/we-cannot-trust-int...

Is the goal to resist normalization of the behavior or is to get through the security theater?

I'm currently in a similar situation about what to do with an elderly relative with dementia who is currently in limbo after the last relative taking care of him died. The best moral option is to take guardianship and look after him. The best financial decision is to "divorce" from the situation and let the state take care of him so I have a chance of my wife and I being able to retire and saving for the kid's education expenses.

It's a crazy system the U.S. has.

I would say it's more likely if he had stayed the politics could have stopped it. Now that he quit, he doesn't have the boss's blessing so they are free to pursue.

This is exactly what K street is paid to stop.

This is great. We use haproxy at my work and I like it, it does it's job, but quirks like dns resolution only at startup, having to reload on config changes and no seamless reloading stop me from loving it.

I have the opposite experience: I have 2 kids (one 2 years old, and another 3 months old) and I work from home and remote 100% of the time. I _still_ get more done at home than I ever did in an office, even with 2 little ones who are taken care of by my wife when I'm working.

Yes, you can, but my question would be why would you want to? I don't know anyone personally who uses Office or Adobe for anything but work. Even then, the vast majority of professional use of Office is handled perfectly well by their online offering or Google's Docs.

Image manipulation and video editing are the only reasons I can think of someone would want something other than the hardware of a Chromebook. If Google opened up the Linux internals or made it dead simple to dual boot they would have a perfectly good development environment for web developers as well.

Which is why I say they should open the platform up.

I use Dell Chromebook 13. I got it for about ~350 USD.

I'm not a kid in school, but a highly paid software engineer and I have gone with a Chromebook. It does what I do, surf the internet and for 10+ hours on a single charge. When I want to do some programming, I just ssh into my several-year-old Linux desktop and use tmux + vim.

If ChromeOS opened up its Linux internals without using the crouton hack, it would destroy every other platform out there.