Dr_tldr

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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
They exist, they don't offer good working conditions, but chances are that the majority of the items in your home and almost all the clothes you wear were made under similar conditions. I don't see any empathy being expressed by s
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
What you're doing is a bullshit power move in attempting to threaten someone's job because you don't like their attitude. One discussion where someone was an arrogant douche might be outweighed by the sum total of all their c
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
A lot of the feedback you're getting is saying that the problem you're interested in solving can already by solved by other tools or simply isn't a major problem. What features do you envision that can't already be handl
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
Nope, read all the comments above to understand why you're drawing a false distinction and missing the point here.
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
So would you say that your description and expectation of how people use Word matches Microsoft's marketing materials for it?
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
I just finished my job search, and I'd agree with this strongly. I started used Trello for organizing my job applications, but I soon realized there was no point. Companies that wanted to talk to me responded to my initial application
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
...uh, still comparing apples to oranges, I see, and the American Arbitration Association hasn't published their full dataset, but according to their internal study that contradicts external studies, it's great? Here's a pape
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
The paper that you cited doesn't contradict anything I said or support what you're saying: "...even the more refined recent studies show that lower-paid employees still had quite respectable success rates in arbitration, rang
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
I usually find arguments about how "underrepresented group X in upper management will somehow make the company better" unconvincing, but the downfall of Bear Sterns is a great and decisively convincing example of how a monoculture
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?ar... "Estimates of employee win rates and damage award amounts based on the AAA-CC filings data indicate that arbitration outcomes are generally less favo
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Against Neutrality(nytimes.com)
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
That all depends on how you feel about ice sculptures. Maybe only a few people see it before it melts, but that doesn't matter. The skills gained in striving towards excellence are not ephemeral. Even if the product goes nowhere, no
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
I've never really understood that attitude of "if it's not all mine, my contribution doesn't matter." Maybe it's just my own raging ego, but no matter how small my contribution is to the whole, I remain absurdl
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
That's good to know, and I promise I wasn't (just) being snarky! The problem is that unless you're working with something low-level like C, by the time it's stable and field tested, the language has also gotten kind of b
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
So what you're saying is you don't know very much about JavaScript but you're willing to learn some once it becomes obsolete like Java?
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
It is definitely a worrying state of affairs when the only person allowed to dispute police engaging in illegal or unethical behavior is another policeman. The police are the mafia, and the only time they'll be disciplined without over
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
This sounds a lot like the "Just World" fallacy under the cover of genetics. At one point 99% of the population was illiterate and living in thatch huts, and no doubt members of the elite at that time also considered this to be an
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
Yeah, my immediate response was "Don't tell me who my customers are!" This is all a bit like storming into a Chinese restaurant then berating them for not having menus written in Slovenian. His point about faulty sniffers thr
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
There is no reason to send a non-boilerplate cover letter to a large company, especially given the fairly high likelihood that it's either processed by a machine or discarded entirely. The lack of transparency about what happens to cov
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
I think what game theory could use is a little bit of the concept of price-of-entry into a new market, Ie, doing something at a loss now in order to generate profit later. This is similar but not exactly the same as the idea of a loss-leade
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
I would love to see a compare-contrast between Superpowers and Phaser. I've used Phaser in the past and found it to be a good tool for some game projects and pretty frustrating for others.
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
Yeah, it's the Microsoft anti-trust situation all over again, except that all of Silicon Valley has gotten about 10x more sophisticated in terms of legal strategy and political clout. And just because I like Google (a lot!) and I didn
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
Argh, I see your point, and I'm wrong. Even if I think that misleading-statement A stems from personal-interest/experience/bias B, bringing B into the discussion is a form of personal attack.
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
In retrospect, it was probably not a good idea to allow Google to buy Youtube. Because at this point, I don't think they're intentionally going after Firefox, but the tight coupling between Youtube and Google makes it impossible f
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
Suggesting that someone's material interests may interfere with their objectivity and cause them to pass on incorrect information uncritically is now a personal attack? This was my initial concern and it's been profoundly confirme
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
Neither link you posted corresponds to your claim about a drop in costs, and this report also contradicts what you're saying: http://www.citizen.org/documents/Texas_Liability_Limits.pdf Do you have any other sourc
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
Calling another poster a "stalker" for reading someone's code on github after that person condemns a lot of other people for being bad coders and asserts that they're better is totally bizarre. Are you the author of the
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
They didn't compare papers at all, they compared proficiency at a well-defined and concrete task with an objective standard, and he was worse than a recent CS grad. But who decides a task is or is not a measure of merit? And really, wh
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
Who/Whom? Ie, who decides what is merit and for whom will these standards be imposed? The public? experts? the people currently in power?
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
Alternatively, a top company will hire someone straight out of undergrad with a CS degree from a top engineering school, but they won't hire the guy who created Homebrew because he doesn't have the algo for reversing a binary sear

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