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by ativzzz 6y ago
How much of this actually has to do with using the language? Unless the companies are solving very specific technical problems that Erlang/Elixir are designed to solve, what really matters is productive software devs and managers, and
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by ativzzz 6y ago
AFAIK, the research done by tax payers is the underlying biology. In other words, researching that protein X is responsible for biological processes A, B, and C and changing X to Y increases A and B but decreases C. Then, it's still th
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by ativzzz 6y ago
I mean hey the NRA has argued this successfully about guns (or maybe their money argued it successfully) so why not? Lets start a rock lobby to allow more rock freedom
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by ativzzz 6y ago
You need 400 or 500 karma/points before the downvote button shows up.
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by ativzzz 6y ago
> They are "accessing ... part of the Service or Content [without being] expressly authorized." Are they though? AFAIK, law is very pedantic, and technically speaking, a human is physically incapable of accessing Youtube; we us
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by ativzzz 6y ago
Is Blue Origin as cutthroat and aggressive as Amazon about squeezing out performance out of its employees? SpaceX definitely is.
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> Management performance is, and always will be, mostly but not exclusively explained by "I was around in the right place at the right time to concentrate returns on capital in my hands." I agree with this statement. [1] seems
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> What if understanding everything opens better possibilities ? It does, but understanding is limited by time and money. In additon, the more humans you throw at a problem, the more complex solving adjacent problems becomes. A big org wi
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The users using 3rd party apps don't violate any of these terms (I'm sure you could argue it both ways depending on the specific legal terms depending on the context; IANAL). The app itself is probably violating some of these term
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Measure the success of the project via improved metrics, performance, bugs getting fixed, features getting done, etc. Instead, they measure if they billed 50 hrs every week and have successfully increased their client's consulting budg
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Yea I remember in college when I was applying for my first jobs I would read through their mission statements so I knew what words to prioritize saying in the interviews. It's all part of the game.
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> Why isn't it like that? Because most of us don't care. I need my code editor to just work out of the box. I want to be able to write code and install a few plugins to enhance the tools I'm using. Hacking my editor is a w
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by ativzzz 6y ago
> Most software engineers would cry murder if you gave them a 3 to 5 day take home interview that is an actual problem the company is trying to solve. So pay them. $400 for 10 hours of work is nothing for a company compared to the man ho
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Any open ended question like > Explain the tradeoffs will benefit greatly from being able to synthesize a bunch of information out of some simple base. Yea you need to know the technical details but being able to explain tradeoffs is mor
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by ativzzz 6y ago
Every industry has this where the juniors are doing the deep grunt work that required focus and hours of manual work, while the seniors manage the overall strategy, deal with business relationships, and oversee/mentor the juniors.
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> Insanity is at an all time high. People have always been insane, we've just never been connected to so many people simultaneously and have never experienced so much collective insanity accessible anytime, anywhere. > You can&#x
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by ativzzz 6y ago
> Words matter. But they are not the way humans communicate. People communicate any way they can. On online forums, we have to communicate with words as there is no other way (so far). > Assuming a well-intended statement is intended
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by ativzzz 6y ago
Never understood Dropbox, because as a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows
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by ativzzz 6y ago
Companies aggressively take action against its employees who are pro-union, pro-labor, or anti-corporate. Example amazon 2 months ago: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-fires-warehouse-worke...
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by ativzzz 6y ago
Did the girl who threatened to stab "all lives matter" people actually go out and do it? No, but she got fired anyway. Free speech does not mean that your words have no consequences.
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by ativzzz 6y ago
You mean like Trump saying he could shoot someone and not lose voters in 2016? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTACH1eVIaA
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Not quite Antifa but here's an example of a Harvard grad losing her consulting job due to threatening violence against people who say "all lives matter" [1] https://nypost.com/2020/07/01/harvard
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by ativzzz 6y ago
It's not any different from republicans calling liberals libtards, antifa and communists whenever someone talks about medicare for all. Both sides do it to each other, right wingers just complain about it more because the majority of p
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by ativzzz 6y ago
So 8 of them went to elite/prestigious undergraduate schools (don't know about Holy Cross). Looks like a pretty strong signal to me.
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I would say any class that's big enough to where you just blend into the crowd, meaning just a lecture class, is pretty much useless to attend and the same content can be found for free online and with the textbook. The academic value
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by ativzzz 6y ago
That high status spouse uses these "social connection" to solidify their high status.
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Sure, but then you offload the complexity to the functions used as the declarative building blocks, so you do the documenting in a different place, though you will probably end up documenting complex declarative business logic anyway. (like
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I think this goes beyond science. People don't just change their minds. The only consistent way to get people to change is to wait until they die.
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It will fall for people living in high cost areas like SF and NYC, but it will rise for people living in low and mid cost areas like Dallas or Cleveland because now companies in SF can easily hire the best developers in Dallas cheaper than
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by ativzzz 6y ago
> What would you do if you were paid to not work? I would probably play video games and read books all day and spend more time hanging out with friends. Would probably be drunk/high a lot more often.

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