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by throwaaskjdfh 5y ago
Recommendations and referrals strike me as one of the ways that groups with an unintentional diversity problem end up persisting it. The composition of the group gets carried forward as people vouch for each other. The summary mentions &qu
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by throwaaskjdfh 5y ago
> Are we expected to be available 24/7/365 to act on Google's unforeseeable impulses? Almost all software nowadays involves some back-end with 24/7/365 availability, which means that unplanned outages can occur a
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by throwaaskjdfh 5y ago
> Pi comes from logic, not nature. What if logic is different in different universes? Logic is universal... but is it multiversal?
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by throwaaskjdfh 5y ago
> Why is the startup trying to be a consulting company? This doesn’t sound like the story of any visionary startup I know of. Why does a successful software business need to be a "visionary startup"? Taking on consulting work
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by throwaaskjdfh 5y ago
It's not really a WTF. In any disagreement about intellectual property, where some part of Amazon is working on a game and it happens to conflict with some other employee's personal project, Amazon wants all the leverage. It mak
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by throwaaskjdfh 5y ago
> ...not eat and litter during the show. Historically in US movie theaters, there's so much popcorn grease and spilled soda on the floor that your shoes actually get stuck to it while you're watching the movie. EDIT: Wow downv
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by throwaaskjdfh 5y ago
Moreover I don't see how free a society would be if cryptocurrencies became widely accepted and early adopters began to pass cryptocurrency inheritances from one generation to another. The descendants of the early adopters would be a
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by throwaaskjdfh 5y ago
When you want to do something simple but you have to bring the entire philosophy of CSS into consideration to figure out what the right way to do it is.
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by throwaaskjdfh 5y ago
As a meta-point, I'm kinda surprised how attitudes among programmers have reversed in the last 20 years, from phoning home being suspicious under any circumstances, to telemetry being indispensable. I suspect the two sides of the argu
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by throwaaskjdfh 5y ago
The tone of the post from the Musescore developer at [0] is so bizarre I wonder if the people who manage the company's policies and communications even know about it.
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by throwaaskjdfh 5y ago
Along those lines, this was an interesting statement: "You should learn how to use these commands, but they shouldn't be a regular part of your prod workflows. That will lead to a flaky system." It seems like there's som
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by throwaaskjdfh 5y ago
> What would make someone think that this applies to Audacity, the program, and not Audacity, the website? Because the first full sentence of the policy at https://www.audacityteam.org/about/desktop-privacy-notice&#x
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by throwaaskjdfh 5y ago
I think it was a reasonable point. Inter-generational wealth transfer is very durable over time. Whether or not someone inherits "house money" (and can plan their lifestyle and tolerance for risk according to that expectation) s
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by throwaaskjdfh 5y ago
I suspect the Great Filter is that sufficiently intelligent life has no interest in expansion, and doesn't communicate at all.
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by throwaaskjdfh 5y ago
An approach that combined "no code reviews" with "continuous deployment" would be similar to coding on the production server, but with a better audit trail and consistent deployment across machines.
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by throwaaskjdfh 5y ago
> If we're moving past pure reason into useful tools and tricks to diminish people's standing... Without getting into the "cancel culture" aspect (which seems like a red herring), in order to even get to a point where
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by throwaaskjdfh 5y ago
Why does it seem like C++ is constantly replacing its subtle hazards with even more subtle hazards? It's like they never go away, they just turn into something more obscure.
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by throwaaskjdfh 5y ago
> What about the self-censorship of our neo-cortex telling us not to insult other people? Is that bad too? Sometimes it's bad. Insults are an occasionally useful tool, and can be wielded to diminish the standing of adversaries who
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by throwaaskjdfh 5y ago
> Amazon’s decisions seem hard to explain. We should let it remain a mystery This gets back to what I disagree with. If Amazon's decisions seem hard to explain, the decisions should be brought to the public's attention and Ama
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by throwaaskjdfh 5y ago
> The report would be a lot more useful if there were some context for this data. I disagree with this, or at least the implication that there should have been more information gathered before publication. If the data is surprising again
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by throwaaskjdfh 5y ago
I mean map which companies use this SME acronym and which don't, similar to how "soda", "pop", and "coke" map to different regions of the USA.
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by throwaaskjdfh 5y ago
Same here, 25 years writing software, never heard it, even working in the Bay Area. I got a pretty large number of upvotes on the three-word post above so I think the term is common in some circles, unheard of in others. Someone should map
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by throwaaskjdfh 5y ago
What's an SME?
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by throwaaskjdfh 5y ago
Anyone can make a mistake. I think it speaks to their professionalism that they test with straightforward content in the email instead of having "underpants gnome alert" or a bunch of swear words in there. We just got a peek insi
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by throwaaskjdfh 5y ago
Because if Tether is defying gravity now, there's no way to be sure it won't defy gravity even harder before it collapses. With a short, you can't just be right in the end, you have to find a way to not blow up if things get
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by throwaaskjdfh 5y ago
It was not easy to see that the market would move incredibly higher over the course of the pandemic. Not in January 2020, nor any time since then. People can't even explain it after it has happened .
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by throwaaskjdfh 5y ago
It still takes effort to sort support requests into those he wants to handle and those he doesn't. If he thinks that the manner in which is work is being used is going to bury him with requests, whether he takes them or not, it makes
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by throwaaskjdfh 5y ago
I agree; cryptocurrencies are a scam. But in general they're not Ponzis, with some exceptions e.g. the situation the parent poster describes where VC investors get "early coins" which are sold to later buyers.
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by throwaaskjdfh 5y ago
This is good to know. I don't care at all about using the latest iOS; if my iPhone 6S was still running the original version it shipped with, I'd never know the difference. But I do care about security updates.
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by throwaaskjdfh 5y ago
With that clarification I agree that it would be a Ponzi scheme. If the project is mainly accepting money from new buyers and routing it to early participants who are selling, then it's a Ponzi.

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