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by ath3nd 2y ago
Yes. It's basically a salesperson/charlatan selling you their book in which they tell you some very obvious things potentially their far more expensive entrepreneurship course. If you want the book summarized, here it is: - take c
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> This correction won't reach the vast majority of people who saw the headline who will continue to believe falsehoods about SpaceX Whether it's a typo or not is irrelevant. "Ahead of its second launch, SpaceX reportedly b
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by ath3nd 2y ago
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by ath3nd 2y ago
In other, totally unrelated news: Cancer rates are rising in young people. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41225678 It's a mystery why.
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> was lower in the 1960s than today? Absolutely! Or at least the perception of financial inequality. In the 60s after the war, the country was industrializing which increased inequality. Only in the 80s that temporarily stopped, known a
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> Do modern South Koreans really feel more resource-constrained today than they did in the 1960s, Probably feelings wise, yes. It's one thing to be dirt poor along with everyone else around you, and another thing to be dirt poor in
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> If the entire world had the Korean birthrate (and it does seem to be moving that way), extinction would happen in 25 generations. Well, let's kind of obvious why Korea's birthrdate is low. It's because it's extremel
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> This is deluded. "Capitalism" is not "structured" in this way at all. This is a failure of regulation I do agree with you that this is a failure of regulation. However, in the stage of capitalism we are currently in
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by ath3nd 2y ago
The solution to guns is simple. Ban guns and make ownership hard. It's the same reason you don't allow 10 year-olds to operate a vehicle, cause it can be a danger to society. > it doesn’t matter how many times this is said, rat
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by ath3nd 2y ago
Sure it doesn't ALL go in their pockets. https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay-in-2022/ The average CEO nowadays is paid 344 times more than an average worker, while in 1978 this figure was "only"
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> Standups can be just two lines of text in a daily Slack thread, but usually it's handier to just gather around and go through what you did and what you'll be doing. Why? So a middle manager can create a report and submit it t
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> As others said, it's also a way to try to treat developers as assembly line workers Yes, a constant reminder that, even if you are highly paid cog in the machine, you are still a cog that can be replaced at any moment. Because, yo
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> The point of Agile/Scrum is to give the developers total peace from interruptions for a sprint of development. That part can be done without scrum. However, you are omitting that scrum also drags: Product Owners, sprint plannings,
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> The Scrum Master is supposed to be the unblocker and master of ceremonies. How about we throw the ceremonies AND the scrum master (and scrum along with it) out of the window and treat the developers like grown ups that can actually unb
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by ath3nd 2y ago
Hey kids, Do ya love sprinting? Wanna never stop? Wanna play with cards shouting numbers with no meaning not unlike old ladies playing Bingo? Wanna have a mini CEO, who, for some reason bosses around people far more qualified than themselve
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> No really, they don’t. Oh, really, they do. And no amount of corporate boot-licking can change that. It's, and always will be, worker power. > You are confusing what you want with what’s happening. It's possible that you a
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> That’s your own choice. No one has a duty to adapt the work environment to suit it. Nope, wrong. It's not my own choice only. It's the choice of many many people, increasingly more, enough that employers have to reckon with u
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by ath3nd 2y ago
Perhaps yes, but perhaps a social indicator that I am doing something and have requested not being bothered, should be enough to discourage the people who just can't wait to ask you questions and converse with you. In that, extroverts
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> Uhh... WTF??? That's precisely the mentality that has led to the ecological disaster we're entering today! I've found out that extrovert crowd is often also the crowd who will say things like: - I am sure we'll figu
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> Obviously you only get promoted when you can promote your work. No one is going to magically guess it exists. There are managers, like me, who will judge your work by your work, not by how loud you are, nor by how much you drank with m
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by ath3nd 2y ago
If I can live and work in a comfortable spacious house with a garden and no traffic nearby, why would I subject myself to renting a 1 square meter flat in an overly busy overly pricey city, just so I can slave my hours in an office? We now
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by ath3nd 2y ago
"Productivity" means shipping the first 3 features fast, then getting overwhelmed in spaghetti and unreliability, things slow down to a halt, and the features you shipped turn out to be buggy. The desire of money people to sell ha
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by ath3nd 2y ago
Don't even want to read this, especially considering software nowadays is not nearly as good or even close to perfection. Last year's CrowdStrike crapware incident made critical infrastructure crash, flights delayed, hospital appo
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by ath3nd 2y ago
To me story points, planning poker, scrum, and a bunch of other "agile" artifacts are funny concepts. Making 4-5 highly paid professionals sit around in a circle with a bunch of cards trying to estimate how long/complex/
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by ath3nd 2y ago
.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL-8gBt0fgU https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/jan-6-ri... https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trump
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by ath3nd 2y ago
I hate Amazon executives as much as the next guy, but apps like Signal are not the problem, nor is e2e encryption. The FTC should have some other way to collect evidence. Like getting a warrant to obtain their phones, or old-fashion bug the
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by ath3nd 2y ago
Yes, but for a brief and beautiful moment, the rich and powerful lose their power, and the people are united. We just have to make that moment last longer.
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by ath3nd 2y ago
Another way, that's proved to work in the past, is to gather the poor people and take power from the rich by force. The rich and powerful (kings and royalty in the past, oligarchs, politicians and CEOs now) have always tried to entrenc
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by ath3nd 3y ago
As a user of testcontainers I can tell you they are very powerful yet simple. Indeed all they do is provide an abstraction for your language, but this is soo useful for unit/integration tests. At my work we have many microservices in b

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