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by V-2 9y ago
Great material for a movie, however I'm afraid Hollywood would butcher it.
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by V-2 9y ago
It's not a zero sum game at all. It's much more akin to prisoner's dilemma (which is not zero sum).
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by V-2 9y ago
> When setting out to build something, it can be worth starting our thinking with a user-driven fantasy, ignoring technical possibility That's why Wells (time machine etc. aside) scored some more accurate predictions than Verne, w
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by V-2 9y ago
> His comedic books never appealed to me quite as much I believe they don't lend themselves to translation that well. Lem's humour tends to be very linguistic. Greater degree of translation loss is inevitable here, same as wi
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by V-2 9y ago
"I have seen projects which have well designed feature code, but suffer from tests with huge code duplication, hardcoded variables, copy-paste segments and several other inefficiencies that would be considered inexcusable if found on
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by V-2 9y ago
I think there is also certain negative selection bias in the sense that people are more likely to stop maintaining libraries that were badly designed / problematic to begin with. That's why I tend to be more sceptical than average
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by V-2 9y ago
The question is too vague. In what environment? Web? Desktop? Mobile? Embedded? Backend programming is a completely different world than mobile apps when it comes to build size concerns, for instance. As an Android developer, I have to deal
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by V-2 9y ago
Musical instruments don't change nearly as much as programming frameworks, environments etc. How many will become obsolete during a musician's career? When is the last time grand piano underwent a significant upgrade? : )
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by V-2 9y ago
Let's say chess players don't get to top level by playing checkers or Go ;) Actually some grandmasters do, eg. Ivanchuk does play checkers and Morozevich does play Go - and it may have mildly beneficial effect, broadening your hor
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by V-2 9y ago
For simple scenarios DI is obviously an overkill, but as soon as you're dealing with nested dependencies, you'd end up with either: * monstrously big constructors (for carrying transitive dependencies) * lots of @VisibleForTesting
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by V-2 9y ago
> Once copyright holder fails to pay the tax, the copyrighted work becomes automatically public domain ...or it gets bought by some more powerful entity - capable of paying the tax - shortly before this happens. Leading to concentratio
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by V-2 9y ago
> The comparison to surgeons is not adequate I meant a surgery as in primary care physicians or dentists, not surgeons. It could be a barber though, or whatever really. You're missing the point I laid out explicitly - strikes aren
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by V-2 9y ago
> Stuff like this (delaying people) happens with strikes all the time. It's not the same thing at all. Strikes may delay people, and they do, but they don't involve deception. Strikes, especially, though not exclusively, tran
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by V-2 9y ago
It does already, but it misses the social aspect. Eg. if somebody apologizes for keeping me waiting, it's a different experience already. Also some drivers "arrive at the destination", but not the exact destination where you
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by V-2 9y ago
So it's like protesting against eBay by tricking ordinary people into putting orders you have no intention of ever shipping? Just because someone has a beef with Uber doesn't mean it's a good excuse for making me late by trol
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by V-2 9y ago
Ad. 1. It could still be tied to the rating system though. Ad. 2. Thanks for the clarification!
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by V-2 9y ago
True, but at least it narrows down the area. In some cases it might prompt the company to rephrase a specific question that proves to be too vague (if it gathers a large percentage of "kind of" responses). No such chance with a st
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by V-2 9y ago
I understand, but having worked at a company for some time is a much more complex interaction than a single ride, and even this oversimplified exit interview was probably still more to the point than if they only asked you to rate them in 1
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by V-2 9y ago
What I think about drivers' ratings: 4.5 - he (or she) is gonna be polite 4.6 - ooh, I (mildly) wonder why that is 4.7 - nothing 4.8 - nothing 4.9 - nothing 5.0 - oh gosh, they're still learning
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by V-2 9y ago
The thing that annoys me with Uber is that one common (at least where I'm located) misbehaviour doesn't get penalized with their rating system at all... You find a ride, but the guy doesn't even start the car in 10 minutes. T
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by V-2 9y ago
It could be replaced with concrete questions. In case of Uber: Was your driver late? Was your driver polite? Did you feel the way they drove was safe? Did you have troubles communicating with the driver? (Yes, no, kind of). ASK FOR FACTS, N
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by V-2 9y ago
Uber introduced tipping a while ago.
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by V-2 9y ago
Yeah well, there's a lot to nitpick here... "language skills [...] varies" - a skill varies, but skills vary. Obviously I'm making tons of mistakes too, especially in a conversation (when there's no time to think
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by V-2 9y ago
The comment that sparked the discussion referred to Europe, not just EU: > I think this is quite indicative of European and the US values. The US generally values the freedom to, while Europe values freedom from The reply that prompted
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by V-2 9y ago
Eg. much greater ease of banning fringe political groups, ideologies, websites etc. This is one example of "freedom to" (everyone has right to express their opinion, even if it's hateful and extreme) valued less than "fr
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by V-2 9y ago
I agree that the very concept of "European values" is vague and of limited use. The continent is very diverse to begin with.
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by V-2 9y ago
First-hand experience of various dictatorships - not limited to the Third Reich, whose impact reached well beyond Germany anyway - has played a strong role in shaping European mindset, and is a significant difference between the US and Euro
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by V-2 9y ago
We're talking about fundamental (European vs. American) values, so why not? The whole concept may be flawed, but if we accept their existence - for argument's sake - then they shouldn't be assumed to change every ten years or
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by V-2 9y ago
> I generalize it as the US protects companies, the EU protects people. And as is often the case with sweeping generalizations, it stereotypizes and oversimplifies reality. Eg. read about the toll the infamous thalidomide took in Germa
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by V-2 9y ago
It's not about that such places can't exist, just whether they are representative of the destination

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