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by profalseidol 5y ago
No matter what is your stance. It is always important to listen to both sides, and exercise your critical thinking. RT's YouTube channel has been blocked in my country just today. I thought the west was all about freedom? (Not that I b
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by profalseidol 7y ago
> Languages that focus on "easy to write" are a trap Reminds me of that time when my company abused Scala Implicits, possible because one of it's libraries for mapping scala to relational database had examples of it. --- R
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by profalseidol 7y ago
Libya got destroyed when they wanted gold for oil. At least China has established yuan for oil for their trade with Russia. > I am always surprised at how long we have kept this advantage. With the amount spent with US Military (more tha
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by profalseidol 7y ago
We should've listen to RMS about Free Software huh?
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by profalseidol 7y ago
"dropping taxes for the biggest companies and lowering spending on infrastructure and public works" = repulsive "green tech investment and high tech public transport systems" = actually helps the people Start by fixing m
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by profalseidol 7y ago
Ain't government is comprised of corporate owners? President. Then there's lobbying/bribing. Create/participate in wars. Sell weapons to the human rights respecting Saudi. And when corporations die, they take the people&
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by profalseidol 7y ago
You do know that Hong Kong was really part of China right? It was taken by the British Empire in 1842 by destroying China in the First Opium War. When the British finally gave it back to China in 1997, a lot of the non-chinese moved out of
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by profalseidol 7y ago
Yeah, time to get Julian Assange and Snowden back to America (gitmo)! The land of the free (for non-natives)!
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by profalseidol 7y ago
Tell that to the millions who choose to be born in the slums. Then there is also the fact that we are not equally the same upon birth. Everyone has different traits. I suspect that when you really weigh in the factors, a lot of the result w
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by profalseidol 7y ago
Ask again when you have kids and discovered that there is soooo much more to life than being a cog 99% of your life.
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by profalseidol 7y ago
Science is hard. Superstition is fast and might save your job, at least for awhile.
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by profalseidol 7y ago
Coupling is not bad in itself. Depends on what you want to achieve. There's likely always a trade-off.
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by profalseidol 7y ago
There's this course in pluralsight that talks about two orgs that promote scrum. The other one seems to be giving out the wrong ideas. I think it's this one (copied from wikipedia): In 2002, Schwaber with others founded the
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by profalseidol 7y ago
Nah, it was probably the 'meetup god' that caused it.
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by profalseidol 7y ago
DemocracyNow[1] is a good one. 100% free. Noam Chomsky is a regular guest here. [1] https://www.youtube.com/user/democracynow I wonder how they make money. Checked wikipedia: Democracy Now Productions, the independ
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by profalseidol 7y ago
Maybe Brave and BAT. I believe they already have the system up and running but not fully.
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by profalseidol 7y ago
Add to that, the Fortune 500 list - for the first time ever, it is not dominated anymore by US Companies. At least that is what I've heard from RT news.
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by profalseidol 7y ago
Ultimate stake is that the employees are also the owners themselves.
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by profalseidol 7y ago
One advice I've read/heard is to make sure to give everyone a chance to give his/her input and address any concerns. It should be done individually so everyone has space. Should a decision be made that was not favorable to on
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by profalseidol 7y ago
Might be a good idea to find a place with lots of PhD folks. I think I know what you mean since I prefer to talk to friends who are genuinely interested in programming and not just a job. Colleagues who are just here for the job I still tal
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by profalseidol 7y ago
Good advice. This is what should be said in place of "effective communication".
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by profalseidol 7y ago
Can you view Microservices in the same light as multiple companies? Just like when your monolith calls on a third party API that does the payment for you - ain't that also a microservices that happens to involves 2 different individual
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by profalseidol 7y ago
In country, that background is acting, singing and dancing (and punching).
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by profalseidol 7y ago
It's cool to see a congressman who has this level of software dev knowledge.
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by profalseidol 7y ago
I'd like to add. I think the 'open society' mentioned is simply not an opposite to 'closed society'. Imo, there is a big spectrum to how closed or open a society is. How open a society is, are efforts mostly paid in
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by profalseidol 7y ago
Lol, we a major consumer bank here that have "system error" and everyone's payday salary is mixed up. I imagine some miserable dev tasked to run a batch script and forgot to do some steps. For sure these banks wouldn't u
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by profalseidol 7y ago
As others have explained, it's arguable that banks cannot do this. Though I am curious if there some way to outlaw cryptocurrency, possible go as far as impose sanctions to other countries. Also, would like to note that Bitcoin can als
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by profalseidol 7y ago
And when something bad happens because of this rushed code, they'll tell you, "you have to do more testing", make sure quality is not compromised. "We can do automated tests, we can do them as long as it doesn't eat
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by profalseidol 7y ago
Certainly when your manager knows that estimates mean estimates, not deadlines. But I guess that's the dilemma in false-agile fixed price big ball of mud consultancy business, you have to give a commitment. Would appreciate any comment
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by profalseidol 7y ago
Is this even on-topic for Hacker News? Although looking at the guideline, it seems to be dependent on the reader: [1]Hacker News Guidelines What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than

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