elktown

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by elktown 24d ago
Stop playing stupid. It’s your usual “Even the famously progressive support my reactionary bullshit”-schtick.
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by elktown 24d ago
” far left” just shows your own bias.
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by elktown 24d ago
Yes, when you use it’s always dishonest.
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by elktown 24d ago
Very much applies to this place too. The filtering process that’s been happening here over the years could be studied.
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by elktown 25d ago
That tax structure is not part of the Nordic social democratic welfare system that you’re dishonestly clout chasing from, but part of a right wing / free market shift in Swedish politics from the last few decades.
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by elktown 26d ago
That extrapolation is doing some serious work. From a salesy conference talk all the way to the Zig community being toxic from the top down. Impressive axe grinding.
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by elktown 26d ago
Hmm, it’s a conference talk? Conferences are for networking and promotion. Furthermore, considering the current state of affairs in software dev, anyone evangelising software quality is going to get some benefit of the doubt from me.
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by elktown 1mo ago
Another obnoxious behaviour I’ve observed lately, is trying to attach whatever pre-existing pet methodologies one had to the AI-hype bandwagon like some sort of personal vindication orgy.
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by elktown 2mo ago
Or it’s just people with different opinions that took charge. I find it funny reading sometimes how my country learned to conform on something that was previously a bit unique and people are like ”yeah, even they figured out it doesn’t work
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by elktown 2mo ago
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by elktown 2mo ago
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by elktown 2mo ago
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by elktown 2mo ago
There are more ways to behave badly than to call someone bad words. If you’re being that literal.
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by elktown 2mo ago
I guess I don't value the stoic leadership ideal as much as you do.
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by elktown 2mo ago
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by elktown 2mo ago
I'm sorry but I honestly think this is just being superficial wanting to push it through some kind of corporate speak filter to be able to stomach it. > Using phrases like "stinky manager" I would've used a worse adje
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by elktown 2mo ago
It's all about tone. The original bad behavior is done without overt "bad tone" but if the response to it is spicy then the former is ignored and the latter is condemned despite being of lesser severity. I can buy that it can
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by elktown 2mo ago
No, it's embarrassing being obsessed with good tone to the point that people behaving badly should never be called out for it. The article provides good background into how it got to this point - and it fits well with doing an opportun
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by elktown 2mo ago
That this is a technological decision rather than rationalizations (e.g. fixing self-inflicted problems are now marketed as a rewrite win) that Rust is a better fit for an Anthropic-owned project.
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by elktown 2mo ago
Given the chronology set out by Andrew, I think it's warranted anyway.
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by elktown 2mo ago
It's depressing seeing so little critical thinking despite clear and obvious incentives (Bun now being part of Anthropic) behind the reckless decisions that's been made here. Judging by this thread a well-formed article is all tha
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by elktown 3mo ago
That's due to moving away from the government ensuring an adequate supply of rental units over the last decades. Intentional free market style policies.
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by elktown 3mo ago
Because tech is so deeply hooked on fashion and short-termism that it’ll make both a Temu & Wall street exec blush in envy. LLMs floods both these receptors like the Great flood.
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by elktown 4mo ago
I'd expect GitLab to have contractors as well like most companies. Unclear if there's a significantly larger amount at Valve. It's a large gap to fill with contractors though to reach GitLab numbers. GitLab is also a smaller
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by elktown 4mo ago
This was in relation to employee count, not valuation.
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by elktown 4mo ago
I do think there's a certain level of vagueness and lack of rigor that permeate throughout (software) tech that enables self-serving to a greater extent than usual. I agree though that it's to be expected in most corps at a certai
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by elktown 4mo ago
Yup, it's certainly a mix. I think the stock market incentive is most obvious for the usual VC-style "this must look presentable to the stock market before IPO"-spiel. After that I'd expect management/corp politics
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by elktown 4mo ago
I think the unfortunate reality is that lots of companies in our industry have suspiciously inflated employee counts in the first place. Even when removing AI and the pandemic over-hiring, I wouldn't have been surprised to see correc
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by elktown 4mo ago
People are far too charitable about an industry with chronic short-term thinking. We'll just lower the standards to whatever fits the success story.
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by elktown 4mo ago
I thinking that it’s quite a different experience going all Jackson Pollock with AI in your own studio on your own terms, compared to the sorry state of affairs of having 100s of Pollocks throwing paint around wildly within a corp to meet a

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