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FpUser
2y ago
Maybe learn to be civil Joe.
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FpUser
2y ago
>"control of corporate activity alone is insufficient" Compare with Pavel Durov. >"Her decision does not affect related claims against Meta itself." Does not smell right in combination with the first statement
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FpUser
2y ago
They could be considered as infra provider in this case. Like for ground phone lines and required to lease those to competitive service providers. If this happens here will be a pressure from such providers to lover the price.
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FpUser
2y ago
Doe it make FB any better? The asshole is an asshole.
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FpUser
2y ago
One of your fellow Canadians really dislikes the idea of control. I also do dislike media being owned by few rich bastards.
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FpUser
2y ago
>"These are business contracts." I would agree with this but if that's the case why employees are not given the same perks as companies from a tax point of view? My personal preference is to treat every human as a business
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FpUser
2y ago
>"describe me a medium-sized or big project that you correctly estimated ahead of time without resorting to re-scoping the work? Anything that's at least a couple months for a team of 5-6 people." Easy. One example would b
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FpUser
2y ago
>"One is most often asked to write a software because of some task that has not yet been solved" From my experience as a contractor who creates new products for clients it is still very predictable. I am not being asked to inv
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FpUser
2y ago
Easy. One example would be integrating bunch of telecoms following local market deregulation in Canada's CLEC's heydays. I and my buddy were leading a team of about 10 people (changing on on need basis but all senior developers) a
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FpUser
2y ago
Nope. It does work. Most of the time if the developers are qualified they are able to give decent estimate for how long assuming the task is clear enough.
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FpUser
2y ago
All nice and welcome. At what point browser becomes full blown OS with the same functionality and associated vulnerabilities yet still less performant as it sites on top of other OS and goes through more layers. And of course ran and driven
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FpUser
2y ago
>"That sounds dystopian to me. I prefer to have social life outside of work, with actual friends that I choose, not HR." This. Companies doing social thing is nothing but trying to fool employees into feeling like they owe to c
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FpUser
2y ago
>"She shared with me some concerns about my communication and project management. She, and apparently others she gathered feedback from, felt like I hadn’t done a good enough job pulling other engineers into the project." You a
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FpUser
2y ago
While security is a legitimate concern this article leaves an impression of paid for piece to scare us into paying more money to security consultants and / or bend over to big vendors.
825.
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FpUser
2y ago
The code behind "intelligent", performant and scalable Tree/Greed widget can be quite big and complex and include concurrent/parallel code.
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FpUser
2y ago
This does not always happen but it happens often: They're promised path to citizenship and an ok money. Then they discover that they work for an agency that takes away big chunk of their money. They can not change the employer since th
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FpUser
2y ago
Yeah something like %pollution accumulated vs %rich would be interesting. However being in 1% and not considered rich signifies total fiasco of western model. Basically you're relegating 99% into the poor category. American dream in ac
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FpUser
2y ago
So no need to worry then. Exterminate the rich and we are safely below the threshold ;)
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FpUser
2y ago
And if yes then so fucking what? Are we any special?
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FpUser
2y ago
>"Can the Education System Solve the Problem..." I think the question is rather: should it? Is there a real benefit for average Joe to memorize insane amount and complexity (at least to my untrained eye) of such characters? I t
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FpUser
2y ago
Sorry, my wrong then
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FpUser
2y ago
>"$75.99 in 1997 which is $150 in today's dollars. Today the average PS5 game price is $70. That's half the price. If salary of the average Joe was doubled as well your logic would be ok. Bit it did not. P.S. It appears th
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FpUser
2y ago
And of course you would not mind owners of extraction company leaving all the profits to people who got kicked out of their home. After all they should be happy just fulfilling your "national security" goal.
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FpUser
2y ago
Same opinion here. I work with way too many things to keep everything in my head. I'd rather use my head for design than to remember every function and parameter of say STL
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FpUser
2y ago
I have to apologize as I did not express myself correctly. Lemme do it here: I have spent way more time on meetings when I was an employee working in the company offices. When I went on my own amount of my time dedicated to meetings was red
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FpUser
2y ago
No exactly 2000, this was when I left a company where I was an employee and went as independent
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FpUser
2y ago
>"The cognitive load of online meetings eats up your capacity to think. Working from home merges a life of previously demarcated areas into one amorphous mass. " Cut the fucking crap. I've been conducting all my business f
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FpUser
2y ago
>"Like an application platform (forget documents) built entirely on wasm, and with capability based security. That would let you launch apps made within the platform just as easily as you currently open a website." In the end y
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FpUser
2y ago
Because the complexity and functionality of the modern (whatever the fuck this means) browser basically approaches one of the OS with all the consequences.
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FpUser
2y ago
>"PE firms across the country have been scooping up home services like HVAC—that is, heating, ventilation and air conditioning—as well as plumbing and electrical companies. They hope to profit by running larger, more profitable oper
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