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by Nitramp 8y ago
> let’s be honest, at the end of the day the manager is an agent of the company Employment, like any other business transaction, should not be a zero sum game. Sure, both sides are in it to gain. But your manager's job is to make th
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by Nitramp 8y ago
Prevailing thought in this context is that a single person cannot reasonably manage more than 10 people, and a good number is 6 or 7. I agree with that, I have no idea how I'd keep the interests and issues and projects and goals and wh
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by Nitramp 8y ago
It's Kant, essentially: > Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.
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by Nitramp 8y ago
I've worked a lot with ASTs in the past, and am now working with TypeScript quite a bit. I actually find their AST implementation very nice, and pretty easy to get started on: import * as ts from 'typescript' const
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by Nitramp 8y ago
> >...people externally often think Google is on some evil plan... > The real bad guys don't ever think they are evil. At least seen from the inside, it's often funny (and sad) to see all kinds of crazy speculation about
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by Nitramp 8y ago
> This would only be a risk if the difference between the local optimum and the global optimum is large, but there is no evidence to suggest that is the case Agreed, it's been elusive for the software engineering community to object
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by Nitramp 8y ago
I've relatively recently lived in the US (in SF) for two years and returned back to Europe. It's been a great experience, and there are many great things in the US, NorCal, and San Fracisco. Still, I'd have a hard time settli
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by Nitramp 8y ago
It's interesting to see this, and curious if you look at it from an organizational decision making standpoint. Hypothetically, because I'm not involved in any of this, but still: Facebook was initially implemented using PHP, and y
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by Nitramp 8y ago
> The first tempting option is to just abandon this ruined planet and settle a new one that doesn't even involve JavaScript. If only we invested more in GWT (a Google project that compiles Java to JavaScript) or Dart (a Google proje
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by Nitramp 8y ago
> I got to live in Iowa in the summer of 2007 [...] One bonus of that was getting to go to all the rallies. Unrelated to Mr McCain, but living in California during the Clinton/Trump election, this struck me as extremely odd. With Ca
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by Nitramp 8y ago
Uh, you realize that abusing that probably means they'll have to cancel the public service at some point, right?
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by Nitramp 8y ago
There's always some dude on TV bragging, but I'd be skeptical. https://www.quora.com/How-powerful-are-the-cameras-on-modern... TL;DR is that satellites have a 9 cm resolution at best. That's not enough to see
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by Nitramp 8y ago
True believers are a problem indeed - people who seem to think software development is about applying firmly held beliefs out of context can really screw up things royally. That being said, by now software engineering has a large set of tec
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by Nitramp 8y ago
Many countries (including Germany, where MMP was first used) have a minimum bar of votes for a party to make it to parliament, e.g. 5% in Germany. Where exactly you put the cutoff is a bit arbitrary, but this solves the problem efficiently.
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by Nitramp 9y ago
I think it's worth noting that there's a big difference between (1) allowing advertisers to display ads on your platform based on user profiles (e.g. matching certain demographics etc) on the one hand, and (2) handing out arbitrar
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by Nitramp 9y ago
The argument is that picking the most efficient solution regardless of where it is sourced from is actually the best way to increase the welfare of your local {economy,state,nation}. Trying to artificially prop up the local economy seems at
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by Nitramp 9y ago
When people clamour about housing development projects destroying their way of life because they increase density etc, this is the other side of the story. The blockade on building might keep some comfort for the fortunate owners of those h
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by Nitramp 9y ago
At least as a citizen in Germany, you're not required to carry ID. You are required to own some ID (ID card or passport), and you're required to register the place you live in with the authorities. Not sure what the rules for non-
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by Nitramp 9y ago
Interviews (by design!) simulate intense interaction between the interviewer and the interviewee, similar to a workplace situation when trying to solve a problem. That setup is not objective. The result, even just the code itself, is also n
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by Nitramp 9y ago
That's not how modern Western societies work. Plutocracy has been tried, and found to be devastating for society, human dignity, and the human condition in general, not to talk about the rampant corruption it invites.
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by Nitramp 10y ago
That didn't change between Angular 2 and Angular 4 - but maybe you changed your build process and are now running AoT with error checking? That would explain why your templates are now error checked and were not before.
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by Nitramp 10y ago
> Not directly, but one of the main attempts to address a lack of diversity in tech seems to be diversity quotas, or companies actively looking to hire more women or POC. [citation required]. I haven't ever seen that. > I think p
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by Nitramp 10y ago
> I wasn't suggesting you were saying "let's hire idiots just because they're women", I was pointing out a hypothetical scenario in which meritocracy plays second fiddle. You suggested "if the majority of de
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by Nitramp 10y ago
> Your boss stating that he wants to have sex with you is stupid, unethical, and unprofessional. It's not clear that it's sexual harassment, unless he was told to stop yet continued anyway. Your boss by definition is in a posit
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by Nitramp 10y ago
It's certainly possible to construe situations where it becomes very hard to tell what's harassment and what isn't. But those are really mostly hypothetical - the issues that you hear people complain about are usually absolut
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by Nitramp 10y ago
> Yeah, the question is how much. Cheating on emissions tests is definitely more murder than selling cheesecake. Is it? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/0... > Scientists
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by Nitramp 10y ago
In Germany, every citizen is allowed to control and inspect the counting process, as long as they don't interfere with it (and likely to be deputized to help in the counting by the folks doing it, if they are interested). Assuming you
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by Nitramp 10y ago
And which user actively uses more than a couple of thousand words in something like a password? I'd expect actual entropy to be way less.
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by Nitramp 10y ago
Depends on what you want to test, I guess. If you want to test UI widget behaviour (not just business logic), then jsDom probably isn't the right tool and you need a browser. E.g. if you need CSS measurements or more tricky DOM behavi
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by Nitramp 10y ago
This doesn't do browser testing (like Karma), it's just an alternative to mocha, right?

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