adamc

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by adamc 6y ago
The potential for it to go horribly wrong gives me great pause. Sure, if we do everything right, it might be fine. But people make mistakes. People get greedy and lazy. The worst case is pretty "worst" here.
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by adamc 6y ago
I hate all of these attempts to monetize communication. The government should strictly regulate them.
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by adamc 6y ago
I don't know that I have a lot to say about it, other than I've been listening to it and find it wonderful.
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Talking Politics – History of Ideas(talkingpoliticspodcast.com)
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by adamc 6y ago
I give them credit for an interesting attempt. I don't think I'm the market, but.
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by adamc 6y ago
This is a completely bullshit justification. The behavior is identical to Apple's.
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by adamc 6y ago
The article needs to compare against salaries in general to distinguish changes in developer salaries from other trends.
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by adamc 6y ago
Imagine if we took those managing the power companies out and shot them. That is the mood of many in Texas.
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by adamc 6y ago
Pretty clearly we didn't, since even before the latest disaster, we had frequent brownouts.
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by adamc 6y ago
Except a lot of projects aren't shipping anything to anyone, they are providing a service. There, you have to assess the effect if the service goes down or is compromised. There is a wide range of significances. If Roll20 (D&D tabl
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by adamc 6y ago
Yeah, this. I love Python, and I hated Perl. Even Java was a pleasure compared to Perl. At one time, a trainer was trying to tell us Ruby was the new hotness (2009 or 2010, I think). I liked Ruby OK, but Python seems cleaner and we stuck wi
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by adamc 6y ago
I programmed in Perl 5 for several years. Ugh. That language was hard to read, and some of the features (list vs. scalar context, for example) were awful. I have never wanted to write another Perl program. Capable, but painful to maintain.
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by adamc 6y ago
I don't really agree. I helped steer my organization to Python more than a decade ago -- its mix of capability and readability made it a great fit, and it remains so. Nothing I saw in this made me worried that people would struggle to
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by adamc 6y ago
Did you read the article? It adds constraints.
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by adamc 6y ago
I am interested in whether there is any actual evidence retribution works, in terms of recidivism. My first guess would be that the awful experiences in prison just fuck up people more.
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by adamc 6y ago
I confess to not understanding why people bother doing things like this.
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by adamc 6y ago
It's huge. On the whole, avoiding hospitalizations is far more important than whether people had mild cases.
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by adamc 6y ago
I think this has pretty well cemented that perception.
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by adamc 6y ago
To sell me on buying a stadia game -- at full price -- you have to convince me that this is the platform of the future, that Google is committed . Google starts with a handicap there because of prior behavior. This effectively kills Stadia
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by adamc 6y ago
No, where is scares them is at the copyleft level, when they are writing software. You're quite right that it probably doesn't scare many when they are just using it as an appliance (e.g., a database).
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by adamc 6y ago
It does address the problem. However, it also scares away users and fractures the market.
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by adamc 6y ago
I'm skeptical that this is a big factor. I think companies support open source where it aligns with their own strategic incentives. Oldie but goodie: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-let
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by adamc 6y ago
There is a fundamental problem, in that open source makes it easy to take and not give. It has many advantages, but that means that it is hard to give it high quality support and development (which generally requires paying people) if you c
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by adamc 6y ago
Ugh, paywall.
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by adamc 6y ago
Based on the contractors we've hired at various points, you get what you give. Most of the contractor code worked, but had poor maintenance characteristics. Which makes sense: they weren't going to be maintaining it. Their job was
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by adamc 6y ago
Less a problem with languages, in my experience, than libraries. Django updates are a pain in the rear.
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by adamc 6y ago
There isn't really a good solution. Forced migrations always create a decision point, at which point people may gather their resentments and move to something else. But if you don't eventually force a change, you have to live with
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by adamc 6y ago
It's not a question of generous or not generous. If the work to migrate to 3.x was too great before, this won't change that -- they will just manually install libraries without pip. Or find another tool. I suspect many python 2 sh
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by adamc 6y ago
90% of hacker news is crap, too.
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by adamc 6y ago
Business commitment to much of anything tends to stop there. That's what businesses are about.

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