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"The reason people are quitting today is because the labor market is so competitive that the only way they can get a significant increase in income is by quitting and going to another job."

Well, no, the opposite is true. Employees have to quit because companies stubbornly refuse to be competitive on salary.

The reason for that is mismanagement - managers and HR would be personally criticized for "being soft" if they offered raises, regardless of the benefits to the company of doing so.

> you should be very suspicious of any conclusion that requires you to assume that all the world’s experts have missed something extremely basic.

This is hugely mistaken. If you're an expert in compliance in one field, often your insights are valid in another field.

For example, anybody who has certified a data center knows that Fukushima was both in the wrong location and had wonky power distribution.

Anybody in aviation knows the Tyndall F-22s were in the wrong location after Kermit Weeks' collection was destroyed in Florida in 1990.

Expertise and common sense are always in short supply. It's 2018 - we've collected enough hindsight for the next 100 years.

For those confused by the use of the word "fraud" here, the US government today considers fraud to cover both financial misdeeds, as well as (their) rules violations where no money is involved.

If you follow the news, you'll see the word "fraud" increasingly thrown around as it gives the government a bigger hammer to use on its citizens.

Meanwhile, actual fraud like civil asset forfeiture rolls along with full government endorsement.

Well, those are inflated prices from being listed on Trulia.

You can buy thousands of houses in Detroit at auction for $5,000 plus back taxes. They all will need rebuilding.

However, the soil is contaminated with heavy metals (I would check where the foundries and prevailing winds were) and the water supply has issues.

And if you want to raise a family, you will need to find an area with a credible school and police force.

> And yet we're told by the MSM that foreign ownership is 5%

When non-residents own 5% of a market that typically only has 1-2% listed at any time, prices quadruple like in Vancouver.

As far as being able to visualize what it's like to be a 10x developer, such a person can continuously type whatever is needed to get to the next step, whether it's code or sql or whatever, while maintaining adequate performance and quality.

They don't have to type fast, but they're also not relying on Stackoverflow for learning concepts.

Most web applications start as prototypes written by one guy in 90 days or less, then just re-labelled as "production."

MySQL with Innodb is easier to manage in large replication clusters, doesn't require connection pooling, and doesn't have write amplification problems.

MySQL out of the box is more secure and easier to configure than Postgresql because of pg's public and the legacy config files.

It's also much easier to hire DBAs.

I read the article, but they missed an important point.

A lot of landlords are only choosing well-known brand chains because the value of their property increases - ie. the brand attaches to their portfolio, aside from the fact that chains may pay less because they have staff negotiators.

One landlord I read about said his property is worth 5% more if signs a Starbucks, for example.

Often they don't even want to talk to mom and pop stores anymore.

> They're different ways to describe the same phenomenon.

Well ... they're actually different ways to incorrectly describe the same phenomenon.

Wind tunnels are still used for aircraft design because we can't accurately model aerodynamics.

If you think that's weird ... I've done some reading of the Facebook public legal documents.

Facebook control passes to his heir from what I read ... like a feudal monarchy. Let the games begin!

Well, this is an American site, and Americans can communicate in any language as long as it's English.

French is one of the most difficult Western languages to master, so keep that in mind. Think a year of formal study.

Even for Germany, the visa office typically gives you a German language test that requires you to speak the language well.

If you're one of those people that thinks "I'll pick up a new language on the airplane", you're in for a rude awakening.

Gartner is helpful to 3 groups:

1) If you're a business manager who doesn't live and breathe IT, then their opinion is a good sign-post.

2) If you need "proof" to backup your purchase position, then it can serve as ammunition.

3) If you're a marketer, their blessing is priceless.

However, if you're an IT expert, then their reports may be missing subtle nuances.

Note that the public reports are not necessarily their most valuable products.

For example, I saw a presentation by the 451 Group that literally predicted the future of smartphones 2 years in advance. Still weirds me out how accurate they were.

Did an evaluation, works as advertised.

If you need a HIPAA BAA, talk to them before the evaluation to avoid misunderstandings.

Me too. My understanding is the minute Allen overheard that, he walked out of the Microsoft office and never went back. Hence why whenever you heard about him, it was from his yacht. I bet Gates and Ballmer have remembered that every day for 40 years.

Yes, Boundary is agent-based.

I visited their office in SF when they were 2 guys. :)

We used Boundary at Netflix to monitor Cassandra clusters - you can see mentions of that on Slideshare.

VividCortex takes the Boundary concept a step farther for databases.

RackPing.com currently has non-agent visualization tools for SREs now, but will also have a Boundary-style agent shortly. (Disclaimer: affiliated with them.)