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by apercu 10mo ago
The point is that saying you have no "choice" in these systems is a lie.
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by apercu 10mo ago
And, if your revenue is $1B but your costs are $2B it only lasts until the music stops....
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by apercu 10mo ago
Hence the need to cash out.
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by apercu 10mo ago
Every western country that has a single payer system as far as I know allows for private clinics, doctors and labs. I spent 18 years in Canada. The healthcare I got was as good as anything I received in America (in both cases it depends on
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by apercu 10mo ago
I don't entirely fit in to modern capitalism - my values are a little old fashioned - quality, customer service, value, honesty, integrity, sustainability.
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by apercu 10mo ago
I think that is only part. The other part is pushback against "uppity" labour.
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by apercu 10mo ago
Huh. Well, what's the average tenure at a company now? Bureau of Labor Stats says: As of January 2024, the median tenure for all U.S. wage-and-salary workers was 3.9 years. So that means we should all be working remotely, if productivi
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by apercu 10mo ago
There’s nuance and debate about the 110 level 2 controls without bringing Chinese tech in to the picture. I’d love to be a fly on the wall in that meeting lol.
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by apercu 10mo ago
A lot of us have worked remote for a long time - I did it 2004 - 2007, and 2015-present. Sometimes across many time zones. The issue is with (lack of) leadership, and specifically lack of accountability for leadership.
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by apercu 10mo ago
That’s 100% why I haven’t done this - we’ve seen the movie where people build a business around someone else’s product and then the api gets disabled or the prime uses your product as market research and replaces you.
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by apercu 11mo ago
I came to opposite conclusions. Technology is pretty easy, people are hard and the business culture we have fostered in the last 40 years gets in the way of success.
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by apercu 11mo ago
Hot take: It's not technical problems causing these projects to fail. It's leadership and accountability (well, the lack of them).
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by apercu 1y ago
I would answer but then I am commenting on HN again. ;)
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by apercu 1y ago
Seems to be unavoidable in in the era of "move fast and break things" coupled with "let's make it proprietary so we don't have to defend our space with innovation" and incentives for staff to release features w
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by apercu 1y ago
"Where's the business value? Right now it doesn't really exist, adoption is low to nonexistent outside of programming and even in programming it's inconclusive as to how much better/worse it makes programmers."
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by apercu 1y ago
Generational thing. Back when I was supporting banks of USR 28.8s, SLIP and especially PPP were just the job (mostly PPP by that point). But even then I don’t think I’d have thought to drag a dial-up framing protocol into a new project. Odd
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by apercu 1y ago
Yea, like... One side wants us to be a little kinder to each other (while selling us out to corporate interests) and the other side wants to create a quasi-fascist religious state and detain, enslave and execute some of us (while selling us
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by apercu 1y ago
Huh. I'm a U.S. (and Canadian) citizen. I've travelled a fair but (10-11 countries) but never the "East". I looked at all the elements and was trying to understand the relationships and why the frog was the way it is and
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by apercu 1y ago
Ah. I was managing teams of developers by then, and most of them had some front end skills, but we still needed dedicated people to deal with... I almost said "edge cases" but since they impacted every single project I guess they
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by apercu 1y ago
And that, to all you aspiring entrepreneurs, is how you deal with shit. Please don't take your cues from our current industry and political "leaders". Tech (and business, and politics) tends to attract a lot of people who are
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by apercu 1y ago
I think with maybe Flash 4? That's when we started pushing the envelope and some of our back end developers started working in Flash. I was procedural programmer (came from Sysadmin - shell and perl) and I had zero desire to learn the
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by apercu 1y ago
Man, I started building websites and doing CGI coding in 1994 and 1995, which makes me a very early web developer and I don't remember this time at all. In fact, I stopped coding as a job when it became expected that I would do back en
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by apercu 1y ago
Boomers won't be alive much longer though?
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by apercu 1y ago
Maybe regulate, not ban, or it just goes back underground.
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by apercu 1y ago
Hey, I didn't say NATO was effective (they should be shooting down anything Russian that violates their NATO airspace, just like Turkey did). I just said NATO is really important at the moment. It's a tool - an important tool - bu
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by apercu 1y ago
"Agreed. And I mean, I think the nuanced investigations of what AI is and is not good for or capable of, and how it might or might not be made sustainable going forward both economically and environmentally, are a much more meaningful,
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by apercu 1y ago
Or for performative purposes. I doubt it's to increase headcount. But, I ask, should they do nothing?
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by apercu 1y ago
Not just "young naive entrepreneurs" but also "young naive workers". In my 20's I worked a ton of 60 hours weeks that also included mandatory travel on Sundays without any comp time. Never. Again.
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by apercu 1y ago
I used to not, but it’s getting worse and worse. Still better than all the alternatives for someone like me that has to straddle clients expecting MS Office, gives me a *nix out of the box, and can run logic, reaper , MainStage.
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by apercu 1y ago
Again, I don’t trust sources that are random quotes on the interwebs during a conflict where people are dying (or corporate PR speak) but maybe that’s a me problem?

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