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by randomdata 2y ago
Like he says, the "comment" describes what he wants to do . That's not what humans are interested in. The human already knows "what he wants to do" when they read the code. It's the things like "why did h
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by randomdata 2y ago
Is there not? This is a pretty good description of a commoditized environment: > It's not very hard to drop any one cloud storage solution (or all of them if you invest in a NAS setup).
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by randomdata 2y ago
> Your software product generally has a competitor, and they're busy trying to make theirs better than yours Unless you are selling a commodity. There is a good case to be made that what Dropbox sells is a commodity. > That&#x
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by randomdata 2y ago
> Like it's probably not good for our society that people have to up end their life every few years and probably move to find a new job. The thing is, Dropbox is done (as in feature complete). Like when the construction of a build
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by randomdata 2y ago
I expect a lot of people with that kind of money can't enjoy life as it disconnects them from everyone else. Your friends can't afford to do those things with you, so you either end up buying friends – with all the disillusionment
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by randomdata 2y ago
How does this self-perpetuating entrenchment not become a factor in what establishes the supply and demand, instead managing to exist as something off to the side?
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by randomdata 2y ago
> "they have much more responsibility and risk" Perhaps you've misinterpreted that statement? It is the board that takes on greater risk with executives as compared to other employees. The executives are given the keys
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by randomdata 2y ago
Financially, perhaps not, but maybe the product is now done? I mean, what more can you really add to the service at this point? There is still work to do with maintenance, support, etc. but that doesn't require the same level of employ
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by randomdata 2y ago
By letting a lower rung employee take the responsibly. This is giving CEOs a bad name and is only one step away from the board taking the heat.
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by randomdata 2y ago
I see a decent productivity boost in my personal projects which extend common technologies to solve more "boring" problems, but struggle to find much gain at work where we're deep in esoteric technologies that LLMs have littl
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by randomdata 2y ago
> “Less languages features, but a better compiler” was originally the aspirational selling point of Go. A faster compiler was the aspirational selling point. As legend has it, Go was conceived while waiting for a C++ program to compi
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by randomdata 2y ago
> I still think it's a meaningful reason for Rust's popularity, though, given that Swift isn't used much outside of the Apple ecosystem. If this is a meaningful reason for popularity, why is the Rust the only popular one
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by randomdata 2y ago
> The thread seems to be about how one would manage baristas. What gives you that impression? It isn't not about baristas, but namely about a parallel between baristas and athletics. That was the context that was setup at the head
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by randomdata 2y ago
Not forgotten, but not particularly relevant. The context we followed only inherited the athletics analogy and how it parallels with baristas. Sometimes it is necessary to ignore the blatantly obvious. You can't meaningfully alter the
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by randomdata 2y ago
> Why the hell are your baristas competing? Because that's what is necessary in a market economy? If they don't put in effort to compete, the customer will find another team of baristas that will. It is not like it is hard to
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by randomdata 2y ago
Are they disappearing, or are they actually becoming more prevalent, dividing the population and leaving few people around to support each third space? A third place needs to more than a place – it also needs people. I can think of 10s, may
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by randomdata 2y ago
> Taking more granular detail into account just isn't done. Where'd you dream up that idea? I operate a restaurant, so I at least have first-hand experience in overseeing barista-like workers, and I don't know how you co
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by randomdata 2y ago
> Why do you talk about athletics? Because that's what the discussion is about...? Did you forget to read the thread? > Could you possibly express your thoughts without putting down others? If words shown on a computer screen
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by randomdata 2y ago
What do you do in athletics? Do you tell the kids (graveyard shift) they aren't allowed to participate in sports anymore because they can't compete with the big leagues (peak hours)? Probably not. More likely you would look at the
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by randomdata 2y ago
> When you hire 12 baristas are they competing to make the most coffees or is their job to handle customer's orders? Both? Handling customer orders is how the sport is played, but at the same time they are competing for the most p
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by randomdata 2y ago
> ChatGPT was an iPhone moment. A Blackberry moment, perhaps. There appears to be something there, some groups are latching onto it and deriving value from it, but we haven't yet seen the iPhone come along to transform that initia
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by randomdata 2y ago
Perhaps you missed the part about someone being unique? Not even the largest cities offer that uniqueness on every street corner. Yeah, maybe there is a bar on every street corner, but generally they are going to cater to the population at
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by randomdata 2y ago
> It's much easier to get into town from a farm a few miles out than to the city from the suburbs. It may be harder, but surely you're doing it anyway? It is not like the suburbs have a grocery store either (usually). Driving
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by randomdata 2y ago
> 80% of the US is urbanized The US definition of urban includes towns with 2,000 people, though. Not exactly density city. Only around 60% of the population live in places with >100,000 people, and of that it seems a significant po
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by randomdata 2y ago
That's a fun tangent, but doesn't answer the question. What in particular about this podcast has indicated that it is not "tabloid journalism"? You clearly recognize that tabloid journalism exists, so you know that this
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by randomdata 2y ago
> You don't get that in the suburb Maybe there's a language barrier here, but isn't a suburb defined by being at the edge of a city? So wouldn't a bar in the city be the communal place for the suburb, just like the
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by randomdata 2y ago
> I strongly suspect that most people moving to suburbs are doing so for their career Doubtful. Moving somewhere for a career is fairly abnormal. There is good reason why job search places always lead with: "Location". The va
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by randomdata 2y ago
> Are you like the king of awful, straw-man analogies or something? Yes...? Comes with not understanding the subject very well. I mean, logically, if I were an expert I wouldn't be here wasting my time talking about what I already
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by randomdata 2y ago
> I would totally expect the interviewer to push back Are you confusing expectation with desire? I can understand why you might prefer to listen to a podcast like that – and nothing says you can't – but that isn't necessarily
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by randomdata 2y ago
What is it about suburbs that gives you that concern?

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