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namank

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    Comment #44242563

    What does it take to fold my laundry? Not a joke. I'll pay.

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    Comment #36979266

    > Which makes sense: Apple is Product Vision & UX focused, Meta (and most other companies) are Product Delivery & User Consumption focused. They are not competing goals. All compan…

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    Comment #36917405

    Peter, you are a good attorney and your services are on point. But man you take forever to reply to emails. Our processing time changed while waiting for your response. Do you have…

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    Comment #36040500

    This. Err'ing towards goodness is the way to go but only with humans. Personifying machines, especially in second person, is the first step in disillusioning yourself.

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    Comment #35353649

    But why can't the inability to make a sharp turn be explained by the need to arrest forward momentum? The momentum has to change direction. Turning 90 degrees causes sudden loss in…

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    Comment #35155168

    Which companies would use this and why? Data worth making private is also worth some $$ to the business hosting it.

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    Comment #32534766

    Find out if there is interest from a competitor. If yes, get an LOI and find another competitor. Once you have 3-5 LOIs and maybe even a deposit, quit and start a company.

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    Comment #26675424

    I don't think these laws are meant for ordinary citizens. They are meant to aid policing orgs in catching and stopping criminals when police can't catch them. For example, the poli…

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    Comment #26175033

    1. Google 5 help desk postings that meet your requirement 2. Make a resume with skills relevant to help desk 3. Take points from postings in 1 and add them to your resume in 2 3. G…

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    Comment #24609315

    >> Reducing the scope of the sprint to something that should be very easy to deliver on Are you telling them to reduce scope or working with them to take some of the work away? Try…

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    Comment #24445098

    Look at positions that ask for prototyping engineers. The goal is to get it working anyway possible. You're not going to bogged down by larger programming concepts, reusability, pe…

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    Comment #24294556

    I resort to the down key to make the scrollbar appear without losing my position in the doc. In fact, in Preview, my default workflow is to click on the main content panel as soon …

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    Comment #23940570

    Has the current political climate affected Canada to US TNs or are they still being issued as before? Any particular port of entry that you'd favor/avoid?

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    Comment #19904242

    What you want to do is ponder over how common functionality around you must work - if you can't come up with a reasonable solution, it's time to google it and learn it. If you can …

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    Comment #19424484

    See if you can work with them to plan your code before you guys write it. And afterwards, if you can do a code review for each other. This is hard in startups but it can avoid a lo…

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    Comment #18955897

    Log out. When you end up on the home page anyways, it'll be your cue to pause, think, and then act. Decide that it is not a good idea to log in. Ctrl+tab to your work and keep tryi…

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    Comment #18847570

    Sounds like you don't have enough data - go spend a year on energy, then in AI, then in healthcare to learn about them. Then you'll have the data to make a decision that you can pr…

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    Comment #18711351

    Also, find better recruiters.

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    Comment #18477064

    I call this escapism. It is the inability to be mindful and focus on what is happening in front of us right at this moment but rather distracting ourselves with thoughts of a bette…

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    Comment #18408484

    He's basically saying "guns don't kill people. People kill people". Replace "guns" with "technology".

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    Comment #17384854

    Yes absolutely. Managing a manager is hard. Objectives and accountability are easy to get muddled because their tasks are all people based. I am still looking for a practical and r…

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    Comment #17384771

    Manager jobs are significantly more stressful and harder to train for than individual contributors. And my personal opinion is that good managers are much rarer than individual con…

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    Comment #16944601

    The gap in the callback was only a week. The HR person might not have filed it with the government. Internal company records don't matter for shits.

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    Comment #16876027

    I've been looking at this space for a while. Will likely implement ERPNext soon.

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    Comment #16799035

    I would refrain from attaching value judgments like "mature enough." As far as mental health conditions go, you just don't know what issues are going on within a person or indeed f…