etripe

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by etripe 4y ago
How many scenarios are there where the rename both matters (beyond taste and philosophy) and is across interface boundaries? Surely if it is an advantage to rename once in a ginormous, single code base there must also be leaky abstractions,
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by etripe 4y ago
You said you weren't a software development team. What kind of functions do you have? For me, and most people I've worked with, having an all-day meeting specifically to mimic the open office is not something we'd ever prop
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by etripe 4y ago
This isn't about architecture so much as implementation, though. Would you prefer to look at a sequence diagram there, or actual code? To me, only the code is real because it can be run and is the product. UML is great for niche case
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by etripe 4y ago
> Also abusable are the new GDPR requests. How? Seems to me that if they're storing (and handing over) data that allows trivial account takeover, they have a broken security process to begin with.
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by etripe 5y ago
Five hours a week is no small investment. Focusing on calories/kJ in < out is much easier as it can be done incrementally, such as by not eating past a certain time of day, leaving out especially high sugar snacks, etc. There is no
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by etripe 5y ago
What you're describing is leadership, just not the popular style. To put terms to it, you weren't doing Taylorist command and control, you were doing servant leadership. In my opinion, yours is the only sane way to lead. With co
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by etripe 5y ago
Mostly, yes, but it comes down to moderation and subreddit culture. Reddit - as a company - doesn't take moderation seriously, as evidenced by it being left to unpaid volunteers.
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by etripe 5y ago
> I see and hear of GDPR violations everywhere The legal follow-up could be better. The exacted fines should actually follow the law instead of being softened. With at least 4% of gross revenue in every instance, it would have bite and
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by etripe 5y ago
I think they might be referring to the dark pattern where there are two sets of "Legitimate Purposes": 1. Actual legitimate purposes for core functionality 2. A toggleable "legitimate purposes" under the ads section Pr
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by etripe 5y ago
> except for the extremely strong willed, [...] addicting Addiction isn't about willpower so much as psychopathology and genetics. It's a coping mechanism. > getting used to a serene state of mind is [...] kind of counter pr
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by etripe 5y ago
I've just listened to the original version for the first time. What leads you to the conclusion that it's "pretty clear that respect means sex"? To me, he could mean she gets used to living without him when he's on
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by etripe 5y ago
I think we're basically in agreement: neither of us thinks we should be naive about these agencies, as they definitely aren't. Intelligence/security agencies have a purpose, but shouldn't become zealots. And they should
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by etripe 5y ago
> The Security Services has to protect a country Implied is the statement that the end justifies the means. But how do you weigh the proportionality of measures taken? Do you adopt a utilitarian point of view, looking at, say, deaths pre
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by etripe 5y ago
To be clear, I wasn't putting the blame with IVRs or their designers. I was specifically speaking to the UX that results from businesses programming them and the menu options they set up. Like you say, those are constrained by what t
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by etripe 5y ago
Aside from the usual Guardian dalliance with identity politics, this article comes across as either nihilistic, or making the case for contentment with what we've got rather than to strive to improve oneself. The latter is perhaps what
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by etripe 5y ago
> global payment network that is horrible to deal with With proper regulation, banks can have maximum terms on holding money mid-transfer, limits (or even abolition!) of transfer and withdrawal fees, etc. It is possible to designate a pr
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by etripe 5y ago
That's true in the US. For many in Europe, it's the other way around.
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by etripe 5y ago
The same reason companies use byzantine IVR systems (phone menus). To save support costs by making people give up.
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by etripe 5y ago
> higher unemployment Yes, but the US also measures unemployment differently. People are culled from those statistics much faster in the US than in Belgium. > lower per capita income True, but that's not caused by indexation of w
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by etripe 5y ago
To me the stunning part is the assumption the common denominator can decide on what is or isn't quality entertainment. Going by that metric, the Bachelor, Love Island, the various talent shows and the Great British Bake-off are all bea
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by etripe 5y ago
Maybe the next big step is creating AI-driven cargo ships that can independently get stuck in the Suez canal. On a more serious note, I can't shake the impression that would be a logical next step for all long and medium distance freig
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by etripe 5y ago
> Perhaps someone gets depressed every three months near end of quarter when their hours get cut? As someone who's been clinically depressed, your examples seem contrived to me. Are they based on any specific evidence, and if so, wo
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by etripe 5y ago
Not being able to use the shiniest version of everything isn't tech debt, it's brownfield development or maintenance mode. Using deprecated versions (beyond LTS), ignoring security advisories, and not replacing unmaintaned OSS p
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by etripe 5y ago
What kind of proficiency do you mean, exactly? To me, the concept sounds too nebulous for a machine to analyse, as it needs precise instructions/criteria.
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by etripe 5y ago
Well, if it were fun, it would lose its shine if you're constantly being told it doesn't matter to the business.
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by etripe 5y ago
> Being "good" has nothing to do with being a back-end programmer, imho That's a tough one. As I see it, a lot of the complexity in frontends is in framework feature bloat, subpar tooling and high tech churn as compared to
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by etripe 5y ago
Would that not by definition be a place the owner doesn't live in?
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by etripe 5y ago
There's a solution to that. Internal debiting between departments. Without it (as is usually the case now), sales is always seen as a net plus to the company, because they bring in new revenue, and can do no wrong. With it, sales depar
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by etripe 5y ago
A lot of developers are of the late chronotype. That has nothing to do with being a diva, immature or lazy, it's just how we're built. There are plenty of reasons developers can be divas, but being a night owl isn't one. Chro
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by etripe 5y ago
Based on their example, in practice the decision is between dealing with reality and following management framework dogma at all costs. Game theory offers amazing insights, but it doesn't really deal with internal company politics, the

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