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unholyguy001

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    Comment #47627755

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    Comment #47556950

    I’ve found a good counter is “imagine I am the person repressing the other side of this disagreement. What would you say to me”

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    Comment #47504496

    Historically speaking the most reliable bridge has always been the edge of a sword

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    Comment #46926810

    The thing he has spent his whole career doing unto others he finally did into himself

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    Comment #45622463

    I mean there is certainly tons of evidence that some fossil fuels (coal most notably) are on the way out. Fossil fuels as a class? Maybe but still a bit early to make that call

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    Comment #44311206

    No validation versus some kind of ground truth . His training data set is very small and geographically limited. His model is likely pretty inaccurate

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    Comment #44008192

    There was an oversupply of officers. At any particular point in time many of the officers were “on the bench” at half pay. This made it easy to replace underperforming officers wit…

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    Comment #43833934

    Grady over on Practical Engineering is going to be so excited (-;

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    Comment #43261323

    I read Sabres of Paradise and it absolutely had a lot of parallels with Dune, and was a major source. Good book too

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    Comment #42436609

    You should go to the funeral if you think the right thing is to go to the funeral You should do it for yourself, out of respect for the person who died and respect for the loved on…

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    Comment #42282374

    That’s been a way of doing interviews in the Valley for at least 20 years if not longer

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    Comment #41990318

    That was just what I was thinking. This approach will have the same issues that materialized views have as well

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    Comment #41194100

    In a lot of companies the root cause of this kind of thing is not being willing to spend the kind of money needed to achieve the desired result You need to be honest with yourself …

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    Comment #40491332

    One of the problems with the article is BigQuery becomes astronomically expensive at mid to high volumes. So there is a strong incentive to keep the data in BigQuery manageable or …

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    Comment #39361609

    This was the plot of Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson

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    Comment #36733527

    Generally in a healthy org it’s more like 8-10 direct reports per line manager. At 200 people you should probably be still at around 3 levels deep. The VP Eng with 8 line managers …

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    Comment #36733456

    Sure toe dipping. At 200 people you’ve hit a Dunbar number and you need some process. Some kind of lightweight performance cycle for instance. If it takes more then a day offsite y…

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    Comment #36732578

    Yeah exactly. 200 is still a level where everyone knows everyone in their team and all the leaders know each other personally. I mean spending a lot of time aligning with other lea…

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    Comment #36731552

    This section describes a tremendous amount of bureaucratic overhead for a company that appears to only have 200 employees. It feels like they have adopted processes that are really…

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    Comment #33318916

    It’s fascinating that the conclusion / forecast is that tools will abstract engineering problems and DE will move closer to the business . While over the last 20 years the exact op…

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    Comment #26853442

    Actually your numbers are wrong Elevation gain during walks matter hugely. Walk up a few pretty decent hills and your 400 number becomes a 600 number

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    Comment #21578424

    Why do I want to end this statement with “what could possibly go wrong ?”

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    Comment #20208027

    Well, inevitably you die ?

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    Comment #20005849

    Betting the OP doesn’t have kids. Until you have kids you are playing the game on easy mode The biggest problem with the approach is large, optional purchases that effect quality o…

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    Comment #18378960

    Guess that didn’t last cause look they are hiring data engineers https://www.stitchfix.com/careers?gh_jid=1252958&gh_jid=1252...