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by _pmf_ 8y ago
He's also selling cheap imitation of Hip-Hop as music.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
> What this essentially comes down to is a bunch of teams with high domain expertise and high technical capability was beaten by a team with higher comparative technical capability and lower comparative domain expertise. The fact that th
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
Despite disliking Clojure now, I find its (rather: Leiningen's) approach to dependency management the best possible approach: clojure.jar (language core + standard library) is a regular dependency like any other dependency. (Of course
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
Maybe concentrating on inclusiveness and social justice is not the best route.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
> I think it's best to have two resumes, one that's more or less a big list of keywords, and another that you can show actual humans. You can probably integrate both by having a keyword-only layer in white on white below the re
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
Yes.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
That's actually better, since in this case there's reason to the madness, which cannot be said for the typical second order ignorant HR person.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
Oh, they're only getting started. As with the recent Twitter ToS changes, you'll be committing violations of concepts that you have never heard of.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
If I'm forced at work to work with mediocre FOSS stack without support culture (even for paid tiers), it is about me. I'm not choosing to work with a subpar farce of a technology like npm, it's forced upon me.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
> People are dealing with a lot of negativity in their life, they shouldn't have to deal with that entitled bull-crap online, especially when doing unpaid work. They are practicing resume driven development. While this is unpaid, it
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
No. I wanted to like it, but a lot of stuff (standard type names, syntax) is different just for the sake of being different. I wish D would have won the C++-successor race.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
Amazon Cuomo will fix it.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
> I've been doing a lot of work to clean up the debt that was accumulated and, meanwhile, I improved the reliability and the efficiency of the infrastructure. I wrote common components and library to avoid duplication and shared it
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
And here I sit, thinking that competent middle management that can actually evaluate people based on results delivered instead of attendance and therefore allows more flexible remote work instead of commuting 3 hours would help. No, open so
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
>[...] isn't significantly easier to define than something like [...] Of course it is. The first is accessible by everybody who knows the host language's syntax, the second requires an understanding of how the syntax is mapped
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
> That said, if it were proven that PG&E were directly liable for this fire, how would that play out? As it always plays out: regular people will only sue via class action lawsuit, meaning there will be a settlement that is a fractio
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
Queens becoming a playground for social experiments of a billionaire is guaranteed to be good, right?
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
> So the path I see is them really focusing on authentic communication That's a valiant and viable path, but it's not a path that fits their valuation.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
> I'm not in that industry anymore It's the same in automotive industry (development and end-of-line-testing) (XCP and MDF helped, but ultimately devolved into a meta-standard for vendor specific functions) and in the rest of t
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
What really would be nice is an extension of what Zinc does, namely encode the IO registers as strongly types entities. Maybe not even encode their usage, but also their usage (r/w/rw).
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
It's so sad that examples like these are not part of every spec (in fact, the very first thing in any spec). I understand the dangers of programming by example rather than by spec, but a lack of canonical, verified examples has been a
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
> The problem is that there is almost no correlation between how candidates do in whiteboard interviews, and the ability to perform the job on a day to day basis. > Also, and the article says it: you are being tested mostly for person
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
> printing 1000 pages of porn from every printer No, because Windows domain group membership is required (your uninformed amateur setup might be different). > deleting all your Redis tables and Elastic Search indexes Don't you th
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
That has been exactly my sentiment after reading the book (although I'm only anti-Uncle Bob, not against Fowler).
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
> It's probably more of a concession to the fact that in-app purchases is where the money is. I'm having an ethically generous day ...
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
> But they have to enter one command on the little Bluetooth keyboard (and they do!). That's a cute little touch. Sad that the Play Store does not have a curated kids' section with pay-once, ad free and in-app purchase free app
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
> political stance is not a protected class and sexual orientation is (or should be depending on where you live) Despite what your pink haired friends might tell you, you cannot mutually substitute "political stance" and "
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
That's more a Red Hat legal failure than a IBM legal failure.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
> What GREATLY concerns me is the thought of what happens when one of these companies gets down on their luck and sells all this data to an insurance company. What reasons are there that a company has to go down on their luck to do this?
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
Obligatory reminder that a private baking business may be forced to bake gay wedding cakes and the last parr of your argument is moot.

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