mscuwa

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by mscuwa 3y ago
> However, the "asset" associated with software development seems pretty uniquely hard to transfer Isn't it what's happening when a company gets acquired? Buyer pays for a software and a team (more for the latter us
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by mscuwa 3y ago
3. Agree, but this applies to assets depreciation too, how software is different? I understand the rest and I'm not saying it's a good law. It's just not as bad as in the example with $1,000,000 above as IMO most companies wo
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by mscuwa 3y ago
If we are considering a stable company the only problem is that you expensed more since 2017 than you would have normally done, i.e. you effectively paid less taxes over 5 years. Now you need to catch up. I admit it's not fun, especial
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by mscuwa 3y ago
1,000,000 Revenue - 1,000,000 Salary expense ----------- 0 Profit We are talking about an extremely lucky company if it's the first year. How many startups are able to get revenue equal to salary expenses in t
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by mscuwa 3y ago
How you raise money doesn't make a difference. What matters is how fast you can utilize your "engineering assets". More often than not startups don't sell anything (let's say "anything" is > 20% of deve
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by mscuwa 5y ago
> If you're not careful (or if you're trying to be clever), you can insert a String into an object that had been declared to be a List<Integer> It's less about type erasure and more about missing covariance/cont
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by mscuwa 6y ago
Expanding recruitment won't be racist by itself, no. But going beyond what company is doing now to hire more _black_ devs would be (they didn't ask where to recruit people, so they probably have enough candidates, the question was
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by mscuwa 6y ago
Yeah, sure. So when I argue with Brad and he doesn't like my commit, it's because I'm ... no, not black, no, not gay, not even a woman, even if my ancestors were enslaved (quite possibly) I don't know it for sure. Hell,
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by mscuwa 6y ago
So what you are suggesting is to go beyond normal company business to recruit black developers? I.e. to give black developers an advantage over all others. That's a textbook definition of a racism, don't you think?
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by mscuwa 12y ago
My point was it's not becoming more buoyant, i.e. lift can only drop when it ascends. I wouldn't argue that it can burst, but it depends on material. As an edge case it won't go to the Moon as lift will be 0 in the vacuum. So
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by mscuwa 12y ago
Are you sure about positive feedback? Balloon does expand, but air outside becomes thinner, so buoyancy will actually stay constant until the walls are completely unfold, and then drop as gas inside will expand less than necessary to mainta
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by mscuwa 13y ago
Create A+B integration branch, then merge in both directions, A -> A+B then A+B -> A (to pick up changes from B). Integration branch can be tested and merged to master later instead of individual branches A and B. It's not that c