JackFr

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by JackFr 4y ago
And with the diff panel you can easily cherry pick selected changes to apply.
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by JackFr 4y ago
And/or JetBrains. Makes me wonder honestly what tool in widespread use doesn’t have this? Notepad?
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by JackFr 4y ago
> almost nobody, even inside Bernie's firm, knew it was fraudulent. It’s amazing what you can fail to know when not knowing it keeps you out of jail.
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by JackFr 4y ago
You understand the borrowers weren’t the victims of the fraud —- in fact they were engaged in it. The banks settled on charges of selling securities backed by loans that they had not sufficiently vetted, of which many turned out bad.
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by JackFr 4y ago
Do you think there was a sea change in the base level of greed in the run up to the financial crisis? (Remembering of course that it’s impossible for a corporation to be greedy, only a human being can be so.) I’ve been beating this drum for
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by JackFr 4y ago
I’ve gone back to work for a manger who laid me off. There were literally no hard feelings. When he laid me off it was clear that he had to hit a hard headcount number, and I knew the project I was working on was “discretionary”. The HR me
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by JackFr 4y ago
I had an office mate, who after our abusive and demeaning boss would leave our office, would quote Gene Hackman from Superman III: “I ask you to kill Superman, and you're telling me you couldn't even do that one, simple thing.” (S
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by JackFr 4y ago
> It turns out that debugging failed integration tests is easy,the bug is in the last thing you changed. Sure the test covers hundreds of lines, but you only changed one. That’s not true. A correct change might expose an existing bug whi
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by JackFr 4y ago
My theory that I offer without evidence is that large scale fully remote work maintains (may even bump) productivity over the short term, but over the long term, in an economy with high labor mobility job switching in a fully remote environ
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by JackFr 4y ago
Well, PyTorch.
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by JackFr 4y ago
See: Samuel Slater sneaking out of Britain to Rhode Island after memorizing the construction details of Arkwright's water frame.
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by JackFr 4y ago
> The biggest problem with this hybrid approach is that it still allows developers to ignore the functional aspects of the language. Had we left GOTO as an option 50 years ago, we might still be struggling with spaghetti code today. This
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by JackFr 4y ago
Really?
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by JackFr 4y ago
Then why didn't Dunder Mifflin sue the Michael Scott Paper Company?
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by JackFr 4y ago
However modern foam pads were a prerequisite. If you Fosbury flop into sawdust and sand your career won’t last long.
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by JackFr 4y ago
That’s the value ad of a good recruiter. You tell them I’ll move for $X and don’t call me without that.
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by JackFr 4y ago
> Funny you care enough to post false information to shape a narrative of your choosing but not enough to educate yourself on the subject. I think that was uncalled for. I am not “posting false information to shape a narrative”. I was w
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by JackFr 4y ago
Ok - IANAL - I’ll take your word for it that I misunderstand the statute.
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by JackFr 4y ago
And yet 18 U.S. Code § 3553 - Imposition of a sentence (referenced by 3582) says: the need for the sentence imposed— (A) to reflect the seriousness of the offense, to promote respect for the law, and to provide just punishment for the offen
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by JackFr 4y ago
The purpose of prisons is threefold: First incapacitation - that is at a minimum preventing incarcerated people from continuing their criminal behavior; Second, rehabilitation; Third, punishment. Those are legitimate and valid goals. Howeve
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by JackFr 4y ago
The problem I find with the smug tone, is that to me, the story is eminently plausible. In college I played in a club rugby team. Everyone who was on the team had to pay dues, and one of the things the dues paid for was our coach. Now I und
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by JackFr 4y ago
There is no room for the word “but” in an apology.
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by JackFr 4y ago
Some thoughts about taking responsibility. From an old boss: “Excuses are like assholes. Everyone got one and they all stink.” From a friend’s dad who was an excellent trial attorney: “If you’re explaining you’re losing.” From my kids 4th g
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by JackFr 4y ago
There is also the the contention that the huge injection of money went into assets rather than goods and services, leading to asset price inflation - that is, an asset bubble - rather than elevated consumer inflation.
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by JackFr 4y ago
Also led to the invention of the Eurodollar. OPEC decided that world oil markets would be dollar denominated and the Soviet Union was making a bunch of money they didn’t want in US banks. European banks were happy to denominate deposits in
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by JackFr 4y ago
Yes, it is voluntary. Your employer has likely made consequential financial plans on the assumption of your continued employment. He might have entered into contracts, invested in equipment, etc. and yet you can quit and trash those and h
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by JackFr 4y ago
> I'll bite: why should management just be able to fire people unilaterally? Well because employment is an agreement to which both sides agree voluntarily. Workers can quit unilaterally, why shouldn't management have the same
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by JackFr 4y ago
What do you do with a teacher who has been credibly accused of child abuse? They deserve a right to be heard certainly, but at the same time it would be the height of irresponsibility to put them back in a classroom.
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by JackFr 4y ago
With respect to NYC teachers thank the union for that. The rubber rooms are because of contracts and processes which make teachers extremely difficult to fire. The issue that happens is that teachers who might be unsafe to have in the cla
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by JackFr 4y ago
I know all analogies are imperfect, but that is a really great one. It really captures the problem of observing so elegantly.

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