meesles

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by meesles 5y ago
The sad irony today is that it would literally take any group that is discussing this topic 10 minutes to collectively google, wikipedia, and summarize some real facts to lead the discussion to something higher level than historical facts t
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by meesles 5y ago
The more projects like these I plan and execute, the more I find the need to account for external parties affecting timelines. In the case of the author's payment system, say they go with a vendor. At that scale, there may be weeks of
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by meesles 5y ago
Agreed with many other posters here - the execution was messy and definitely lacked the calm and collected attitude I'm used to seeing when looking at new standards being discussed. I was also unimpressed with the tone of the issues&#x
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by meesles 5y ago
Except that as the author of the article says, they don't owe investors any explanations. VC money will demand results which you cannot just ignore for a quarter.
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by meesles 5y ago
Your first point is incorrect: Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Monaco [1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/european_languages/languages/...
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by meesles 6y ago
I'm generally for social welfare programs, however the idea of "welfare queens (and kings)" is NOT fiction. I come from Belgium which has this problem quite notoriously. It is quite common for people to be abusing the social
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by meesles 6y ago
I'm not a fan of this article because it focuses on the most 'technical' definition of homogeneity based only on race, immigration, skin-color, etc. It also reads to me like "I know more about Japan than you" elitis
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by meesles 6y ago
And here you are posting your pro-Google stance on multiple comments in the same thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25839278 We should realize that we all succumb to the same biases when communicating in an online
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by meesles 6y ago
I think the term 'cargo cult' carries some religious history and other baggage that I wouldn't want conflated here, but your feeling that anything we've heard about software estimation is questionable is probably warrant
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by meesles 6y ago
It's unfortunate that this HN thread has been reduced to the generic discussion about software estimates when the article is specifically talking about research done on the topic of software estimates. According to the article, proper
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by meesles 6y ago
> Then no one would want to make decisions That's lazy. We hold individuals accountable for the choices they make. If you get behind the wheel of a car while drunk and get caught, you get in trouble. If you kill someone due to negli
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by meesles 6y ago
I tend to be on your side of the fence but I have to nitpick your argument: At these companies, algorithms and the basics are fundamentally important. Because you tend to work on tiny parts of a massive whole, there is no tolerance for cowb
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by meesles 6y ago
My startup had similar rules when we were only 10 people. Beyond just the Iran issue, it's known that trade secrets on employee laptops are at risk when crossing some international borders, particularly in airports. Border agents can c
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by meesles 6y ago
What exactly is the dev supposed to sue for..? Apple has full control of their platform and can make any arbitrary calls. If they wanted to censor all pg-13 material tomorrow, they could (though they would face consumer backlash). One recen
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by meesles 6y ago
> if you have taken a below-market salary as many startup employees have I think this is part of the startup mythos. At the three startups I've worked at (~10 people), none of us had to sacrifice competitive salaries for stock optio
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by meesles 6y ago
> the cost of housing is one-third of Bay Area prices and the absence of a state personal income tax amounts to a 13.3% raise for top earners. This point always makes me laugh because anyone who lives in affluent TX neighborhoods knows y
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by meesles 6y ago
I think a majority of mergers 'just happen' because they are not challenged. To stop a merger, some regulating body needs to hear about it and take action in time. They can also investigate and dismantle monopolies after the fact,
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by meesles 6y ago
Having lived in CO + TX (both states that get 'water restrictions'), never once did I worry about not having water to drink or bathe. They usually just ask us to conserve water and not water lawns so heavily in the summer. Not re
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by meesles 6y ago
Source? I don't think that's true. Github has on-premises enterprise solutions but one should not confuse that with running free and open software on your own machines - https://enterprise.github.com/faq
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by meesles 6y ago
I'm not sure if you're a native French speaker, but most of the names in Asterix & Obelix are puns and worth exploring! - Panoramix (panorama) - Abraracourcix (a bras racourcis) - Bonnemine, Assurancetourix, Agecanonix, etc.
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by meesles 6y ago
There's so many trade-offs within this statement I felt like it deserved some color - * Spinning up an event-based architecture is prone to the same issues GP describes - For example what if you spin up a 'pub' side without
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by meesles 6y ago
You're missing the point. By choosing not to leave the employees can wield influence over the company. The employees also don't need Coinbase; there are other companies paying the same and working on the same problems.
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by meesles 6y ago
I'm seeing a lot of flagged comments and repeated commenters seeming to exaggerate viewpoints and stir up discord in this thread. I'm not always on the 'china bad' train but it seems like their social engineering efforts
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by meesles 6y ago
Zenhub[1] is a pretty popular UI on top of GitHub that fills that need quite nicely for my team 1 - https://app.zenhub.com/
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by meesles 6y ago
All the cloud providers reached success with awful UIs (IMO), which was temporarily solved by abstracting away from their UIs with Infra as Code and other tooling. They're getting around to updating it in recent years, though. I agree
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by meesles 6y ago
Homebrew software and hacks aren't feasible solutions for the general population. You can't expect a tech-illiterate person to put up with all of that to protect their right to privacy. Like it or not, solutions like Apples'
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by meesles 6y ago
As a fan of the Google Play desktop app, these Electron wrappers around Google apps are really flaky and hard to maintain. Google is motivated to break these implementations since they live outside of their direct web ecosystem, and when th
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by meesles 6y ago
Same discussion happening at my company. Makes me wonder if office real estate is going to crash and burn...
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by meesles 6y ago
There is no point made here that robots won't take over the world, he just belabors the point that it is hard to make robots replicate exactly what humans do. Automation will eat everything, it's just a matter of time. Even his pr
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by meesles 6y ago
I think GP is implying that you can trust to invest in institutions like Equifax because they are propped up by the government and 'too big to fail'. Not sure I agree, but then again, there's the proof.

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