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It's not normal. Now, it would be good for you to understand if there's a rationale behind this (which would still be a major red flag), or if it's only a loose practice no one tried/succeeded to change.
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It's not the top % of the wealthy. They're fine and structurally fine, unless they screw it up. It's both 1) a fraction of some of those a few order of magnitude lower who WANT to get to the top, and 2) those who believe only
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Yes. And still, there's 1) an interesting parallel with art/creation, and 2) something missing in the web toolkit for people. 1) when you (want to) create something (whatever the discipline), it seems that everyone faces this drea
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It does, if only in the sense of "writing as thinking". Stating something out of oneself does help to consider it objectively, not only subjectively inside your mind, before it even gets confronted to others' understanding. I
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It's not the only alternative, it's an inevitable part of the mix, where it serves as the raw large power source (similar to hydraulic, only much larger). Until we have found ways to drastically cut down power usage AND to store h
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Also, framing it as if Germany policy had not been also ... "influenced" by Russia's long-term strategy would be quite naive.
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Cut completely gas out of the equation, you'll get coal instead and/or social uprising at the continent level. Unless you can favor fast nuclear reinstallment. The energy crisis we're facing for the coming century is ... not
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The point of the label is not that it's green or blue or whatever nature-friendly color. The point is to direct and strongly favor investments in less worse energy production sources. We're only sadly at a point where even some ga
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4y ago
Overall good observation, but... > You just need to know where to look. My belief is that the best place to look is crypto and web 3. I've been around the web2 emergence and seen the meetups/evening/weekend reunions around
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> It might be advisable for Atlassian to start fresh with a new ticketing system. That, kind of like Mozilla started fresh with Firefox, would indeed be a killer move (edit: provided they _can_ structurally do so).
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4y ago
Well, time will tell. I'm not opposing a single Jira methodology to a myriad of other ones (tools or processes). I'm saying that Jira, without being constantly challenged for what it is[1] creates its own growing and tiring bureau
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4y ago
Indeed Jira scales a lot (although being slow) and is well customisable and flexible. Its plugin system is also great (although a better documentation of how to develop/maintain one, and of their APIs would grealy help). But in the mea
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The tone also deeply depends on the culture of the receiver. Depending on whether their cultural background is North American, Scandinavian, German, French, Italian or Chinese (to pick from the very situations I have faced), and especially
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It depends how you frame it. A gap is empty. But it's not because you take a whole year (or even more) off of work that you do nothing. Project yourself: will you have grown in some way, learned anything new (about yourself, or about a
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I don't know if that's conscious or not, but how DALL-E output is formatted, for a given prompt, it looks like Andy Warhol pop art juxtapositions, only instead of color palette changes, it's the various results for the same p
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> many NFT collectors prefer to stay anonymous. “They are the modern-day Daft Punk,” says [...], Tag Heuer product manager Ok. These guys are really out of touch with reality and decency.
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Back to basics. Dramatically more sustainable/resilient computing for everyone (at both hardware/software/architecture levels). web3 will be irrelevant. AI definitely relevant, but you’ll need the means of using it. Main driv
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> Readiness is important, but IMO, the Army does a ton of unnecessary and unnecessarily dangerous training for capabilities that are almost never needed. Readiness is precisely about training for things that will almost never happen. Unt
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Because that would never happen in private companies? Or, by contrast, that would be _allowed_ in the military? As if, private companies were the pinnacle of human organization? Some assumptions to clear up here.
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If it's fast, is it culture?
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Isn't the core issue that some developers would like to have the magical solution that solves/answers all use cases? You don't design your APIs in a vacuum. You have use cases. You should have basic ones still. You build your
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In less than a century, your Beeple PNG and Hirst photograph will be in the public domain. Free to copy, reuse, whatever, without exclusivity. But, yes, you will still have an exclusive, costly certificate. Just a certificate. In less than
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> anybody who can tell the difference between two strings of characters can detect whether a token is a forgery or not, it does not take an expert. Yes, but the value is not in the token, it's in the art itself. You don't own a
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> easily lost, forgeable, destroyed, manipulated, unrecognized. How are NFTs, or any crypto assets, better in that regard? The independance from a centralized auth (house auction, bank, law court) is rather moot, because that's what
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Art certificates, both physical and digital have existed for… ages? And even the NFT frenzy is a good opportunity to market a « new », « better » Dropbox-like integrated solution, that’s supported in the long run and enables small artists t
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That’s a silly bit use case. It’s trying to replicate some medium (world of atoms) properties unto another medium (world of bits) which provides a wild different perspective (scarcity is not the rule). If anyone wants to play the scarcity&#
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If you're starting a new career, I'm not sure the info you will find on Glassdoor will speak much to you either (or, not as much as when you already have had one or two positions - because then you know how to interpret some signa
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(seen from France) Those are only public bids, and not everything goes through public channels. Companies working with COBOL (or things like AS400) do so because they've been using it for some time already. So they mostly already know
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If you make hiring an outsourced black box, you might be surprised by the results. I understand this bias/will in the software industry to abstract things out of the physical/human world, but in the long run, what makes a company&
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As soon as your company grows, those who decide and define the activities are more and more not writing code anymore. Some activities/behaviours may still be injected at the developers’ level, but only if it does not contradict or impa
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