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by ArtB 14y ago
I'm not interested in encouraging up-selling or table turnover, so you're saying I should not tip?
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by ArtB 14y ago
Yes but society did a lot as well (for example providing enough free education so that most people are even able to use FaceBook in the first place), and thus they are do their share as well. Instead, he is trying to duck out so that his fa
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by ArtB 14y ago
> If you want to prevent this stuff from happening, change the law. Isn't that what they are trying to do?
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by ArtB 14y ago
> I am very sorry that the FBI is unable to track communications on the net. Really I am. But this is no different than the problem they had before telephones were invented. In fact, throughout much of our nation's history, law enforcem
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by ArtB 14y ago
In what I do (mostly business cruds) it is mostly an art. The skill is not to get it done, but to organise the code effectively so that it will be easy to debug and adapt and reuse etc. It really doesn't feel like a science and more like be
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by ArtB 14y ago
They can be interpreted as math, but they aren't really. If you are using Coq or something verified it can be, but especially when you are using a dynamic language and you have no idea of the types of objects that will be passed as paramete
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by ArtB 14y ago
I have a problem with his analogy to physics. The experimental physicist purpose is to verify in the real world the laws discovered... but the person actually using those laws to build products (I'm skipping a few steps) is called an engine
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by ArtB 14y ago
Well over the longer period it will bring more people into the career. Economic issues work on the scale of years. But I assure you that if you start paying more now you'll see more people entering in 6 years (ie. you'll catch the attention
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by ArtB 14y ago
Is it that disadvantageous to prefer BitBucket? When people say they check GitHub is that short for checking for publically available source code, or is Git Hub the one-stop-shop for coding credability?
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by ArtB 14y ago
I think in Canada that describes only 3 cities, and even then a lot of the tech companies are on the outskirts since the offices are cheaper.
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by ArtB 14y ago
So but it is more like "I can't get a job, or live where I can afford because I'm too easily distracted to be a good driver and I might kill someone, but it's that too likely since there are lots of shitty drivers and not that many people d
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by ArtB 14y ago
> You use your driving expertise to stay on the road and if you do not have the skill-set to do that, you shouldn't be driving. Unfortunately, in most many places in North America you cannot function in society without a vehicle thus ev
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by ArtB 14y ago
I agree. I think the reason people move onto newer sites is to escape the cesspool... but that cesspool is the one the advertisers want. So if the hipsters all ditch facebook and go to another service they will raise its profile and will at
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by ArtB 14y ago
Growth could be flat and if they paid dividends and stock price stayed flat as well I'd be perfectly happy to buy that stock.
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by ArtB 14y ago
You'd never find it since it was Steve Yegge on Credit Card buckets :P : http://steve-yegge.blogspot.ca/2009/04/have-you-ever-legaliz...
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by ArtB 15y ago
My problem is that I see this used as way of forcing unpaid overtime on to workers by creating unreasonable release dates. In an agile environment where people are given lots of autonomy and can give accurate estimates I like your idea, but
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by ArtB 15y ago
I actually didn't know that welding was something with varying degrees of skill. That wasn't said out of condescension but rather ignorance. I guess "cashier" would have been a better example. There are people who want to work like cashier
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by ArtB 15y ago
I mean "load balancing" in the sense of the amount of work that get assigned to an employee so that you don't get tasks like designing an ORM from scratch in less than week just because your PM heard bad things about Hibernate. If the answe
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by ArtB 15y ago
I think the point of the manifesto is reject the continuous raising of the bar that enthusiastic programmers bring to the community. An accountant doesn't need to compete with someone who is passionate about accountanting on the side. Neith
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by ArtB 15y ago
I like the idea, but how does this work with unreasonable work expectations? What stops your boss from assigning you an impossible task? Now if I have to fight for a few days to get the code to even start I get to leave at 5pm and forget ab
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by ArtB 15y ago
> America was the greatest country because it gave each person the freedom to do with their lives and produce what they wanted, which is why it produced the greatest wealth the world has ever seen). No, America was the greatest person
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by ArtB 15y ago
Yes, but what are the unskilled masses to do? Unless we start shovelling them money, are they to starve? What made America great was that an average person could have a house and car working 40 hours a week, what is going to happen to that?
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by ArtB 15y ago
I think I'm going to flip this around and say can you argue for why the keyword shouldn't be to use the "default position" of using the real word when its only two characters more?
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by ArtB 15y ago
Yes, it definitely matters I think. It's just an extra little bit of work to understand, which when you are debugging you needs as little mental clutter as possible. Why make something more work than it needs to be? Code is read more often
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by ArtB 15y ago
I think the point is that it is sad that yet another social media app is worth more monetarily than The New York Times which is one of the finest new sources in existence.
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by ArtB 15y ago
Shouldn't the standard be as readable as possible and then use a typedef if u r 2 lazy 2 type 2 mo lettrs?
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by ArtB 15y ago
But with better compensation you would have brilliant minds who are only interested in a paycheck looking into the data as well and they would still produce results. Frankly, I'd rather these greedy minds look for cancer cures than into cre
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by ArtB 15y ago
Except that it was a viable career and now you have feel that were earning a living finding their skills useless economically. Next thing you know their skills are just as marketable as a highschool drop-outs. I think one of the great probl
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by ArtB 15y ago
Maybe you are in a real anomaly, but whenever we leave the city, once we get pass commuting distance the number of For Sale signs is astounding (sometimes like 10% of a town or hamlet) while in the city housing is booming.
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by ArtB 15y ago
Wealth creation seems to be focussed increasingly on metropolitan areas and the rural manufacturing and farming areas seem to be going through population decline.

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