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by ath3nd 2y ago
> Transparency is key to preventing rumors from shaping the narrative True, but also maybe we can hold our horses a bit. There is an ongoing investigation. The story so far is that the French authorities arrested a French citizen. If you
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> love when everything inconvenient to the United States government and it's affiliates is "disinformation" I thought and still think that Snowden is a brave and righteous man for airing the US government's dirty laun
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> The difference is that other platforms give EU states access to people's private messages. Which other platforms are you talking about because both Signal and WhatsApp are e2e encrypted?
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Until you can't
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While that is true, good team members don't interrupt each other and make sure they maximize both their individual and team interactions. "Hey, you got 5 min" all the time is a symptom of bad communication and bad team flow.
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> Only a child brings their activism to work. Heavily disagree. We are not robots/tools to simply do what we are told, we are people with free will and morals. It's only a child that will simply do what they are told by "a
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> And unfortunately, meetings, interruptions, and other communication are the best tools most teams have for that. In my experience, once people know each other well (whether via direct face to face communication, or via observing each o
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> Because when a small group of very productive programmers start out, their business is not proven yet, but when it actually is proven and will start to make a lot of money What if we stop at making a lot of money in a proven business,
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by ath3nd 2y ago
For a developer, arguably "flow state" is arguably the most important thing. Provided, that is, that requirements are clear and people are in sync what should be worked on. What do you think is the most important, if not flow stat
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> But I love being in flow state, luckily I can still do it with my side projects. With side projects without being interrupted I can easily spend the whole day coding and at the same time building 10x to 100x as much as at a corporation
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> I would say "what's the benefit of that?" And I'd say: "There's no other scripting language that makes it as easy to add scripting abilities to native applications. It is lightweight, simple, easy to learn
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> But I would much rather work with people who want to learn and aren't afraid to change things than old farts who prevent any improvement with the excuse that there's a non-zero chance that it will temporarily break something
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I am totally sarcastic. In my experience, it's much worse to deal with enthusiastic juniors. Another especially bad take coming from the same company is 'move fast and break things', which is one of the most destructive piece
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> But my staff was composed of sober, highly-experienced engineers. I don’t think it would work for a team of youngsters. That's the key difference. The ideas of highly-experienced, sober engineers will be high-quality, and most of
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> bad actors are terrible to deal with especially when they hold power on like a PR review. It's much nicer to deal with overly enthusiastic junior developers that want to rewrite one out of the company's 30 typescript microser
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> None of those things landed people in jail. Literally all of those things did. - Equal rights activism https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/feb/1 - Communism activism: https://en.wikipedia.org
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by ath3nd 2y ago
By the same logic, this applies for slack, Teams and Zoom. p.s. I haven't installed the desktop app for either, and don't intend to because I kind of agree with you.
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Yes, but a comment like: > Europe can keep doing its regulatory thing while the US works to improve. At least someone is doing something. is perfectly fine. On the other hand, somebody questioning what's actually improving in the US
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Well, this can have a price tag difference, and some consumers might care for that. Apple insists on taking 30% of every purchase. If Epic can sell their products on their own store, that middle man money is out of the picture, and they can
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by ath3nd 2y ago
You are making it sound as if Epic can't provide privacy, security and safety reviews, considering they already have an established PC store competing with Steam. I think we are gonna be okay. It's not going to be the wild west, a
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by ath3nd 2y ago
I think the author was talking "slow" in terms of making deliberate and calculated features with long term support in mind, preserving the cohesion and integrity of what you are building. Compared to "fast" from big tech
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> Capitalism works fine under certain conditions: free markets, which implies competition. The problem is that these conditions do not always prevail. Eventually, on the free market there are winners, and these winners form a monopoly. S
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> The EU also has very strict requirements for residency, including language and skill requirements, while the US takes in foreigners without any education, skills, or money to support themselves I thought the US required a visa, same li
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> Europe barely accepts anyone and is a white monoculture, which makes it look better on paper. Have you bothered to look up the statistics? https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php... http
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by ath3nd 2y ago
For all your big tech, you seem to be dying younger than us, and unhappier, and less free: 1. Freedom: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/freedom-i... 2. Longevity: https://www.worldometers.i
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The only thing the US improves in is: - people dying earlier than their European counterparts - the price of insulin and healthcare in general is hundreds of times bigger than in other countries - people being less free than anywhere in Eur
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> Apple made the change outside of the regulation. Apple was forced to make the changes within the regulation.
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> The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is sometimes seen as more flexible and faster in approving new treatments compared to the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Of course. It's also seen as the one that will allow pesticides a
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> I have a dream of creating a 4 day work week company I do work at a 4 day work week company which is also remote-first (no mandatory office meetings, ever). I don't think I am ever going back to anything different. > The modern

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