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by 23B1 3y ago
While I appreciate the spirit of your comment, that's actually not true! There's an (admittedly winding and untested) route for The People to alter the constitution called an Article V Convention or 'convention of states&#x27
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by 23B1 3y ago
Naturally yes. Glue this to WEI and you have a perfect funnel into the forthcoming verification wars.
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by 23B1 3y ago
Sure dude!
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by 23B1 3y ago
You do need estimates to unlock capital, plan budgets, plan for staffing. And badgering engineers to make their numbers smaller is often the result of engineers bullshitting their numbers, as I mentioned before. Engineering departments aren
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by 23B1 3y ago
I keep forgetting that HN skews more and more young every day.
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by 23B1 3y ago
Let me know if I can advise you on how to score comp you’re happy with on your next role!
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by 23B1 3y ago
The dudes who respond to requests for estimates with sarcasm and cynicism get fired. I’ve fired them.
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by 23B1 3y ago
If you’re not getting well-remunerated for your work at at FAANG or a startup that IPOs… you probably need to get some help finding or negotiating on your next job my dude.
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by 23B1 3y ago
Internal competition can be good and bad, just like any other management principle. But at the end of the day, an organization needs consensus or it’ll implode, and some people are required to help build that consensus, amongst other duties
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by 23B1 3y ago
>$400k/year is not enough Except to many it is - and I’m perfectly happy arguing from the majority in this case, because the failure rate for companies that do not adopt many of the best practices you rail against is extremely hig
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by 23B1 3y ago
Nothing personal but I’m guessing you are either relatively inexperienced or maybe in a market that is different than the U.S. The reward is your salary/bonus/stock, and it obviously works… because work gets done and tech talent i
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by 23B1 3y ago
Wrong. Organizations don’t exist without administration, as a necessary requirement for doing business. Part of your time, as part of that org, will contribute to that if for nothing else because a company is required to comply with baselin
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by 23B1 3y ago
I never said it had to be competitive nor is my comment recommending that. You don’t own 100% of your time when participating in group activities.
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by 23B1 3y ago
My favorite bit of this argument is the presumption of honesty, accuracy, or transparency on the part of developers. Someone in the estimation process is always protecting themselves, packing on a little margin, or fudging the numbers. It&#
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by 23B1 3y ago
> Most of the time someone just wants to put a number on their powerpoint for some organisational politics nonsense. Yes. Thats how coalition-building, budgeting, and reporting works in business. Not saying it should dominate your sched
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by 23B1 3y ago
That's Toyota/Lexus and BMW now, right? If so – and Musk is controversial and all – but wasn't this the original 'hump', vis-a-vis Tesla that we needed to get over in order to attain widespread EV adoption?
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by 23B1 3y ago
I write all the time as I slowly ramp down my reliance on computers. It has been one of the rare joys in my life to identify which things I don’t actually need a computer or phone for. Next year I’ll go to paper calendar(s). Here’s the thin
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by 23B1 3y ago
I'd love to read a better article on this topic from someone more trustworthy than a16z.
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by 23B1 3y ago
Username checks out
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by 23B1 3y ago
You just saved me a ton of retort'ing, TYFYS!
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by 23B1 3y ago
If you want to understand why we've been losing wars for 70+ years, look no farther than this perfect microcosm of the U.S. military's approach to leadership. Field grades denying it's a problem, gaslighting those who say it&
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by 23B1 3y ago
The average German citizen has a poor track record on a number of issues.
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by 23B1 3y ago
Apologies, I totally misread this bit of your comment: > Until foundries start adopting sensible licenses for webfonts I’ll just refuse to give money to them. Yeah of course you shouldn't feel obligated to pay for what you don'
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by 23B1 3y ago
No. The given the author's background, this is (admittedly) clever technical thinking done under the guise of making a legal/political statement. Plenty of other ways to solve this problem besides fake 'good intentions'
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by 23B1 3y ago
"That Picasso looks like that Braque, so neither deserves protection"
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by 23B1 3y ago
What have you done to fix it besides not stealing fonts and writing a blog? You're using slacktivism as cover for bad behavior. I'm not saying that IP laws aren't f'd up and wrong. They absolutely are. But two wrongs d
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by 23B1 3y ago
Cool – use AI to build a free service that competes with Monotype.
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by 23B1 3y ago
Considering the amount of work it takes to build a font – the amount of mind-numbing care, testing, iterating, crafting ... please do not steal fonts. There's no big bad studios or MPAA between these typographers and the world taking
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by 23B1 3y ago
Fascinating. Thank you.
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by 23B1 3y ago
I doubt it. It's an exercise in predicting the future, with so many variables, over such a long timeline, that any model will just unwind.

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