wwalser

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by wwalser 7y ago
This is not exactly accurate. Most places in the US require businesses to "make up" the delta between minimum wage and what the employee receives through wage+tips. Seattle just codified this more clearly by having a "minimum
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by wwalser 8y ago
That's the joke…
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by wwalser 8y ago
While misleading titles are annoying they do serve as a sort of test to determine which commenters have read the article.
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by wwalser 8y ago
100% of phone calls to my mobile device are robo calls. I get around 5 per day and (because of this) I never answer the phone. I actually tried to uninstall the dialer app but it seems to be fairly well-integrated into Android. The humans i
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by wwalser 9y ago
Benevolent: "(of an organization) serving a charitable rather than a profit-making purpose." That's not how this word works. We can use another one. I hasten to add, again, that I'm attributing nothing pejorative. I&#x27
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by wwalser 9y ago
"As with all of Epic’s internally developed assets, the Paragon assets are only licensed for use in Unreal Engine 4." This is marketing for their game engine. They don't have to do it, sure. But SaaS companies don't have
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by wwalser 9y ago
I know someone who did this during college. I had a friend in college — let's call him Sam — with whom I paired on most CS projects. It was useful to find a partner who was as studious as yourself to avoid having to deal with anyone el
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by wwalser 9y ago
Had to verify it was you, "peter" is out of character. :p
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by wwalser 9y ago
> Goal is a finance tech app, although I probably just need a pretty front end… Sounds like an interesting, ambitious project, I wish you the best :). For building a finance app, you're completely right to build just a pretty front
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by wwalser 9y ago
It sounds like you're new to both React Native and the JavaScript ecosystem. I can imagine this being very frustrating for someone regardless of their general programming chops. I happen to be on a React Native project at work right no
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by wwalser 9y ago
I think the reason that I feel that the authors points is the same as yours but better made is that the author's doesn't lean so heavily on hyperbole. > I said that in modern 'western' civilisation they are explicitly
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by wwalser 9y ago
This isn't an argument. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority See also reddit.com/r/iamverysmart
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by wwalser 9y ago
You're responding to points that the author hasn't made. Any time you're writing, you can absolutely not afford to explain to readers all of the things which you are _not_ talking about. You have to rely on a reader's ab
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by wwalser 9y ago
I felt this was well covered in the OP. > Many feel that the very qualities that used to define them — their strength, aggression and competitiveness — are no longer wanted or needed… Makes the point but is subtle enough to avoid using h
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by wwalser 9y ago
> it should have been an issue throughout history? Has it not been an issue throughout history? Honest question.
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by wwalser 9y ago
Inaccurate. Data center has not been sunset. https://www.stride.com/help-center/frequently-asked-question... I also don't think anyone was forced to switch but I could be wrong. An email requesting or encouraging
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by wwalser 9y ago
> "I'm annoyed they didn't use my wording. They did fix my bug but I'm still annoyed." In what world would one imagine that a suggestions box was in any way different from reporting a bug? "Suggestions box&q
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by wwalser 9y ago
I believe what we've both said accurately reflects our own experiences. I'm sorry you've experienced this. I encourage all, should they ever feel this way, to seek greener pasture as my own experience leads me to believe that
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by wwalser 9y ago
Yeah, reading stuff like this is depressing. It's completely reasonable to understand and be cautious of the these things happening, but coming to the belief that this encompasses the whole of reality is unfortunate. (maybe that's
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by wwalser 9y ago
I didn't down vote you. Sorry if I gave that impression. I don't downvote people who meaningfully contribute to the conversation. I was just responding to the excuse.
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by wwalser 9y ago
> But I hate MS and they've stolen thousands from me over the years. I thought it was a cool story and a neat hack. I passed no ethical judgement. Until you went off the deep end with that fantasy-land justification. MS didn't
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by wwalser 9y ago
That's actually one of the few non-default things on that instance. Because it's a public issue tracker (which few companies outside Atlassian are willing to do to themselves), some comments by employees are hidden to the outside
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by wwalser 9y ago
If ZenHub works for your team, sweet. If the business is operating at a scale that ZenHub can serve adequately, you're probably not an ideal customer of JIRA. There's a tipping point along two different axes where JIRA becomes wor
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by wwalser 9y ago
One thing to keep in mind is that Bamboo was first released in 2007. Less than a year after AWS was initially launched and well before things like Travis or CircleCI existed to make the cloud side of the CI equation obvious. I agree that th
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by wwalser 9y ago
Most of their dev is done Sydney and SF. They also have offices in Austin and NY now. Spartez has obviously been a great partnership but "large bits of their core offering" is inaccurate. That's not to deminish the efforts of
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by wwalser 9y ago
producthabits.com is a lead generation for whatever Hiten Shah sells next. He's fairly prolific in the software startup and product marketing spaces.
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by wwalser 9y ago
Yes. There is an enormous amount of hate directed at JIRA that is a side effect of customizations created by admins. People abuse the customizability and their own internal users suffer the consequences. Atlassian's own public issue tr
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by wwalser 9y ago
Finally, someone makes _the_ point in a thread about JIRA. JIRA's most powerful feature is that it affords for mapping businesses processes onto software. This is incredibly compelling to enterprise customers. Software that enforces wo
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by wwalser 9y ago
That's not a response to any of the questions posed by my post. With all the respect due a random person one corresponds with via the internet, the view you're espousing seems extraordinarily reductionist. And that's okay in
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by wwalser 9y ago
I think we can all agree that swatting is an incredibly dangerous and should obviously be a criminal act. I haven't seen anyone defend it as anything other than that. So let's talk about the part that isn't generally agreed u

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