trombone5000

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by trombone5000 4y ago
But many countries have anti-trust regulations that take effect once competition is reduced to a certain level. If a company like Uber can be divided into multiple Ubers that have to compete with each other, then the over-investment by vent
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by trombone5000 4y ago
> why wouldn’t one of seven employees at the company want to know about how the business is doing? If the early-stage employees have significant equity in the company, then they'll be very interested in how the company is doing. If
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by trombone5000 4y ago
You'd never get to the end state you describe if people are uncomfortable recommending the software because of the name. Word-of-mouth fails when the literal word is something you won't say. They should change the name; it's
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by trombone5000 4y ago
I don't think that's true; there are many self-taught artists.
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by trombone5000 4y ago
There's an ambiguity with "mid-Atlantic". Sometimes it means "trans-Atlantic", an accent which Buckley, Burns, and many pre-1950 movie stars spoke with (while on-screen anyway). It falls somewhere between the accen
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by trombone5000 4y ago
Less density doesn't imply less housing, especially when empty land is cheap, as it typically is in the USA. You just use more space. I hate cars, and I hate how expensive housing is, but as far as I can tell, housing is even more exp
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by trombone5000 4y ago
> ...but the recovery system is exactly what they need to build first. I can't find the reference, but consistent with that, I remember reading someplace that the number of items in your queue should typically be zero, since queues
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by trombone5000 4y ago
Why is anyone forced to use Facebook? I, for one, get along great without it.
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by trombone5000 4y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but I don't expect this to be a a "hill to die on" at all. If this professor is unconnected to the sanctioned Tornado Cash service, then Github shouldn't have to worry about running afoul of the sa
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by trombone5000 4y ago
> This is rampant. How is this a story? Because it's being publicly revealed. If the lax security you describe at other companies were also revealed, maybe more would be done to fix it.
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by trombone5000 4y ago
Who or what is GGP?
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by trombone5000 4y ago
From the link: > Pete concentrated on building a system [in COBOL] that works for him and his clients. If that system isn't replaced before Pete retires, it turns into a significant hidden risk. You don't know how dependent on
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by trombone5000 4y ago
What's wrong with fad and hype driven development? It may be better to replace software regularly than to find yourself or your organization dependent on something ossified in place. In the long run it might be better to treat softwar
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by trombone5000 4y ago
> Like, would you ever expect a 25 year old guy to command a spaceship? Charles Darwin was in his early 20s, and the captain of the Beagle was only a few years older, when they blasted off to sea to do their surveys.
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by trombone5000 4y ago
The people handling the emergencies should get paid considerably more than developers - when they system is down, the real, actual, company-sustaining money stops coming in.
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by trombone5000 4y ago
> If money is speech, then is it free if it has no privacy? I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think it follows that every financial transaction is a 1st amendment issue, just because spending money to promote a message is protected
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by trombone5000 4y ago
Even if it were built perfectly, if engineers are still on-call, they would have to arrange their after-hours time around the possibility of an incident.
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by trombone5000 4y ago
Engineers can run what they build during normal working hours. Oncall is a scourge not because of the experience of technical problems, but because people already working full time have to arrange their lives outside of work around a second
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by trombone5000 4y ago
As many of the other posts point out, helicopter parenting happened. Instead of forming a bicycle gang with other kids in the neighborhood and rarely even encountering adults, now kids are dragged to structured activities by their parents.
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by trombone5000 4y ago
Growing up in a midwest suburb during the 1980s, not only were we not trapped in our own homes, we were almost never in them at all. Everybody just biked from place to place and spent like 18 hours a day outside of the house, playing basket
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by trombone5000 4y ago
> ... makes is easier for illegal migrants to find housing and avoid deportation. This is illegal Is that in fact illegal?