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how dare you, he spent a whole month in switzerland. what an exalted being

I'm sure you've already thought about this but bear in mind that as a buyer, I don't want to hear "unlimited" for things that have material scaling costs for my service providers, …

i have been involved in quite a few code escrow agreements but none that were actually used. i'd be curious to hear any stories about cases where that did happen. in my experience …

WGU was a customer when I was at Learning Objects, they always impressed me visionary and outcome oriented. glad to hear a positive anecdote more than 10 years later.

yes, i was part of doing something like this at a small elearning startup for one of the largest publishers in the world circa 2010. Exactly as you say, brought in to provide the t…

in the future our personal editors will create our own editions of these books. mine will have an even longer captain crunch section and yours will be abbreviated

absolutely, how do i support this

ah i didn't actually explain it, the other responder did though. 6/7th (~85.7%) of parents with b g are knocked out by the day of week filter, while only ~%73.5 of the b b parents …

true but note that the day of week selector is knocking out 6/7ths, it's quite a dominant excluder of parents. thus countering the effect of "has one boy already" on the compositio…

what works for me is to think of it like the mob of people is already there in front of you, and you're first grabbing out just a subset of the mob based on some conditions, then c…

yes, a weekly recap of the big stories from 10 years ago this week and what ultimately came of those topics would be fascinating context

or starting a campaign to convince others to adopt your ways!

that sounds like a description of scuba diving to me, maybe worth a try if you haven’t

its tragic that this sort of thing can't be resolved more optimally. Sets up a lose/lose. Too bad you can't just send your agent in to negotiate on your behalf, a 3rd party can tak…

i am very interested in the next generation of things like horizon workrooms on oculus. I find the current gen unpleasant to use for long periods of time but I'm sure it can be imp…

At my company we have recently rolled out a new framework where the IC track has rungs that run parallel to middle management roles. we're calling it "advanced professional", and h…

in meatspace though, my real mailbox is mostly filled with spam that the sender paid to have delivered. granted, it would at least act as a limiting factor.

i have a bit of a reputation for doing this, and a few personal relationships with business leaders who have tapped me for these kind of projects. in the end its kind of dysfunctio…

i have more sympathy today for the gatekeepers than i did earlier in my career. The main points that lead to this are: 1. many of these grassroots apps are a mess, filled with bugs…

yes

Joan Didion is great, I would recommend Slouching Toward Bethlahem to anyone who isn't familiar with her yet. Her writing is precise and observant.

hiring manager here, this is advice that everyone should take. looking back at hires that didn't work out through my career, unsurfaced expectations mismatches are the main root ca…

this matches my experience as a developer. now as a manager, i treasure those who can build most of their refactoring in as a "tax" onto every task, and then explain anything bigge…

my memory is that the most common term to use there would have been "special effects", and "illusions" would have seemed strange even then