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In this case it’s censorship either way. A few artists are self-censoring at great expense to distance themselves from the Rogan podcasts. I suspect Spotify is concerned with the bad press and the potential for increased self-censorship, wh
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As somebody who has children and is not single I will take an order of magnitude less pay to live away from the valley. It seems from many other people I have spoken to offline that once lived in the valley I am not alone in this thinking.
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I am not sure this behavior is limited to software. While this behavior occurs commonly enough to qualify identify from repetition I would also say it’s not the most repeated or worst behavior I commonly see from software developers or othe
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Not for violent offenders.
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That’s nice in theory and likely a factor over some areas. The primary differentiator is a culture of local access to VC funding. It explains both the timeline and geographic distribution.
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I have been doing this work for more than 20 years. There is absolutely a maturity window to this line of work. I am unsure if there is age discrimination but there does appear to be preferential factors targeting younger ages. By maturity
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Under utilized yes, but slacking off no. An employee is beholden to the work assigned to them. Large pockets of availability occur for developers when either a developer is substantially more productive than their peers or when internal pro
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I largely disagree not from a policy position but in practical terms. In most major employers modern software processes allow for major time gaps in delivery and productivity. That time can be spent on anything regardless of employer blessi
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A draconian level of enforcement. A virus does not care about personal hardships or inconveniences and will not make exceptions for personal situations.
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Requirements will change. This is a fact of life and must be solved with a combination of soft skills and business acumen. It must be known to the project/product leaders a change in requirements may impose rework and as such will in
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A combination of writing personal code and watching failure occur in real time over a long career.
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The paper does not discuss chemistry or biology. The paper discusses statistics.
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* Avoid OOP in JS (don’t use this ). It buys you nothing, greatly expands the size of your code and vastly complicates maintenance. * Be clear about requirements. If the requirements aren’t clear push back before doing any work. * If you a
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> can someone present an argument that making a website accessible for a wider audience FIRST makes good business sense? In more than 80% of cases accessibility is free if you know what you are doing. The best business case there is a co
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Housing prices exploded in Texas. According to Zillow my 2800sqft house was: JUL 2012 - $147k DEC 2015 - $202k AUG 2017 - $223k OCT 2018 - $251k NOV 2019 - $250k MAR 2021 - $280k APR 2021 - $308k JAN 2022 -
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The most important line from the article: Those who are concerned about falling into the trap of the McNamara Fallacy shouldn’t abandon quantitative measurements and metrics. A key example is Moneyball: https://en.m.wikipedia.o
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Here is how to become a morning person: 1. Wake up ridiculous early. Let’s say 5am (not that ridiculous). 2. Force yourself out of bed with a purpose. If necessary provide external motivation by priming pets or children to demand things of
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As both a military officer and a senior JavaScript developer for a Fortune 50 company the problem, industry-wide, in this slice of software is weak leadership completely opposed to quality in institutional terms. Institutionalized quality w
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Somebody needs to spend more time at the range. I can’t imagine how far off target they must have been to hit something that far off the ground.
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HTML is not a programming language. HTML is a data structure as are JSON and YAML. Many people choose to solve for reuse with a programming language.
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I have been doing this a long time and one of the largest problems I encounter is an absence of basic communication skills. I look at your comment and see HTML is too hard and if we had something else it wouldn't be too hard . To
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Regardless, why does the experience differ so significantly? It clearly isn’t due to execution speed of the technology. Is it a leadership problem, a training problem, or something else? What’s missing?
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> It is a totally different thing if one is delivering 'web application'. Why? I think the unspoken alternative to boring is gross negligent incompetence. It really doesn’t have to be that way. The web is 30 years old, JavaScri
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Not exactly what you are looking for but MIT has a partially animated series on YouTube about econometrics that is excellent.
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Sounds like there is real money to be made by giving out horrible advice on TikTok at next to no risk.
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Some suggestions: * Train for a 10k run and then train for a half marathon. * Join a local charity and contribute towards your community. * Join the military and learn new skills while traveling the world. * Build something with your hands
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What do you actually want? If you want decentralization look at WebRTC. https://webrtc.org/ If you want crypto you have to guess at what resources are valid. Just keep in mind the only commonality in crypto is blockchain, w
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My primary motivation now for personal projects is a silent anti-Dunning/Kruger. As a JavaScript developer everybody wants to tell me how it’s done, what the right way is, and so forth. It’s not worth arguing over because the most inco
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> I couldn’t work on my own projects (because I was on paid work time) The only problem here is an employer claiming ownership of a personal project, assuming the personal project isn’t interfering with employee product delivery and isn’
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I used to spend a lot of time there and was given a Deviousness Award in 2001. I was one of the earliest accounts on the site. That was a long time ago.

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