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by simplotek 3y ago
> I am sorry, didn't want to offend anybody. Calling out your need to put down others with petty, frivolous details to feel better about youself and your insecurities/frustrations is not an issue of offense. You're contrib
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> It is mind-boggling how the "trends" and the non-stop race for validation make all lose their minds. How on earth a photo contest cannot see the false anatomy of the hands and person behind? Did someone in this concourse is a
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Musk dropping in pretending he knows the answers to this one too. This is Musk's baseline. Nothing special about this case in that regard.
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> Pretty terrible example to use for the lawlessness of SF. Everybody involved is wealthy, and the attack was totally personal. The fact that a person was stabbed and killed on the street and the killer felt he could get away with it is
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> To be fair, he announced that he was going to launch an “anti-woke” AI effort after having a falling-out with OpenAI (...) By "falling-out" you mean he tried to take over OpenAI but failed. Musk even tried to claim OpenAI &qu
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by simplotek 3y ago
> What? Nobody is arguing that companies should avoid paying employees. How are you reading that? What? You're making those claims. You're coming with bullshit excuses like "expectation of more money that nobody agreed upo
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by simplotek 3y ago
> But this cuts both ways (...) What? No, it does not. If I create value for my employer, I better be compensated accordingly. If I don't then my employer is very quick in firing me. I can even be a top performer and get the axe, as
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Until then, these sorts of low cost rewards deliver value. The only value these events generate is the Potemkin stuff: providing a dedicated crowd to a higher-up, and marketing material for HR.
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You're failing to reject the thesis, and somehow are presuming employees like this sort of HR-mandated afterwork get-together. I repeat: what leads you to presume this is something employees enjoy? I mean, is it conceivable to you that
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by simplotek 3y ago
> And the salary I receive every month... You get a salary everywhere you work. Do you do volunteer work for a living? If I explicitly and directly work on something that makes my boss richer, you're damn sure I want to be rewarded
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by simplotek 3y ago
> why is there an expectation of more money that nobody agreed upon? Sorry, that's a bullshit excuse to avoid having to pay employees. The very blog post from this discussion explicitly touches the issue of perceived value. Everyone
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> Well, it simply doesn't answer the question of why employees hate pizza parties. Why do you presume employees like pizza parties? What leads you to believe that HR-imposed mandatory, non-paid gatherings after hours are something e
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> From what I gathered I think it's missing the point, which is that pizza parties are for social bonding. I think you missed the whole point. The point of pizza parties as exemplified in the article was to commemorate purely moneta
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> your source is one guy apologizing for racist remarks I'm not sure you read any of the links I posted, or that you had any intention of informing yourself before trying to dismiss facts you find inconvenient. The fact that Obama w
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> I agree, but we can't only have this discussion when someone wealthy is implicated in a crime. We don't. If you're serious about this, you're also responsible for not pushing for doxing of random suspects. You can&#
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by simplotek 3y ago
> (...) what makes you think that any and all animosity toward President Obama existed specifically, solely because of the color of his skin? You picked an awfully disingenuous way of framing your question. Just because you can find some
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> Elon has enough money that why would he need to ruin his reputation on this? Are you really asking why Elon "pedo guy" Musk would need to ruin his reputation over frivolous bullshit?
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> Data clearly shows a correlation between crime levels and average income in an area. Isn't "correlation does not imply causality" already a household expression? If we are engineers why are we insisting in specious reaso
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by simplotek 3y ago
Please explain what leads you to believe that doxing suspects, exactly like in the Boston bomber case, is a reasonable idea.
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> (...) I think it made a lot of sense to reveal that the actual suspect now arrested (...) Have we learned nothing from Reddit's Boston bomber witch hunt? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Sunil_Tripathi
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Y'all colonized the poorest parts of the city and gave the poorest folks nowhere to go, and you still complain when they dare to pop up where you are. What leads you to conflate poverty with criminal activity, and proceed to victi
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by simplotek 3y ago
> SF may have big issues but using someone’s murder to further your political beliefs is horrible. What political beliefs are you referring to? The one about SF's crime wave sounds precisely on topic, for example. Edit: those downvo
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> While picking any stack you want may sound wonderful to the individual developer, it's less so for the company as a whole (...) Nonsense. Each team owns it's services, and they know best what works and doesn't work. It m
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> A simple single node is often more reliable than a complex fault-tolerant setup. ...except when your single piece breaks and you get your whole service down. Then what?
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> This isn't really true as most of the time the services interact heavily and need to be aligned with each other not to break and work properly. I'm not sure you got the point. The need to provide interfaces and establish cont
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> If it wasn't for a good portion of tech leads FAANG aspirational goals I bet a lot more companies would be on monoliths. I think you inadvertently pointed out one of the advantages of microservices: the ability to bootstrap ideas
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> I think the general consensus is that the most-root cause for why cloud infrastructure and microservice architectures matter is more People, less Technology. Indeed the main selling point of microservices is People, more specifically h
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Those don't have money to fund studies about industry best practices. So you don't get many. Your comment reads like a strawman. I didn't needed "studies". It was good enough if there was a guy with a blog sayi
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by simplotek 3y ago
Twitter's source code does not ban Justin Bieber content as if it was DMCA violations. That's not it.
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> Thanks for proving my point by spamming me with more unrequested news. You made no point. Just because you don't want to follow a topic that does not mean it's ok to censor it and stop everyone from liking things you don&#x27

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