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by awkward 3y ago
Explicit agreements not to poach workers are also illegal in sane labor markets (California, for example).
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by awkward 3y ago
For political parties, not news organizations.
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by awkward 3y ago
It's a profitable and effective political tactic to force a position on every issue and flush out fence sitters. Even in this thread you've got people classifying institutions by how aggressively they toe the line on one by one po
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by awkward 4y ago
Most people, for most things, don't have the luxury of seeking C. They simply need to know enough that they can go about their lives and be effective. For a programming example - I've been in jobs that enforced the "single re
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by awkward 4y ago
Alternately, it may be a bit of an infohazard for non experts to throw around accusations of wronger than wrong. If opinion A is wrong, and opinion B is wronger, and elevating B over A is most wrong, the correct action aligns with the (wron
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by awkward 4y ago
Good! That'd keep most businesses in one piece.
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by awkward 4y ago
The man built a plan to buy other people's money at a discount while they're in distress. He can frame it as pro-socially as he wants, but the taxpayer is absolutely not on the hook for that kind of vulture hedge fund shit.
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by awkward 4y ago
If react, and specifically react using functional components, is going to be a full featured web framework, hooks or something like them are necessary to integrate with the browser and the web of 2023. The 101 parts of functional programmin
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by awkward 4y ago
Fungible, budgetable, money is not spent on social security. Social security is funded by it's own tax, and is it's own account. Measuring it against voluntary expenditures chosen by congress is inaccurate. Money can be borrowed w
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by awkward 4y ago
We still live in a world where many outward facing networked applications are written in C. Dynamic languages with safe strings are far from the floor for securable tools.
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by awkward 4y ago
There's a big swing back and forth between software as an empowering tool and software as a tool of control. I think in the age of big platforms we swung hard into institutional control, and the swing back to individually empowering to
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by awkward 4y ago
That's an indescript rectangle that could just show anything and could be from anywhere. They are selling a specific shape of rectangle that shows stuff about London and aesthetically signals that it is from London.
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by awkward 4y ago
He quotes a book that states body aesthetic preference might limit performance at the peaks of women's sports. That's nothing Maria Sharapova hasn't said in a particularly sore interview.
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by awkward 4y ago
I think you might be that guy. Don't worry about it - that guy gets to work on some cool stuff.
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by awkward 4y ago
There's always going to be that guy. The question is whether he builds his own shed or gets to design the whole skyscraper.
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by awkward 4y ago
I think that this is good because it really does describe what software dev used to be like, and remnants of this still exist in a lot of major institutions. I've recently had to jam a cloud first solution through an architecture revie
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by awkward 4y ago
StackOverflow and Wikipedia both depend on a particular dynamic. It's costly to come up with nonsense that looks right enough to pass, and it's easy to hit revert or downvote that content if it's fishy. AI generation of nonse
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by awkward 4y ago
Late Nokia phones had this feature where you could enter numbers and the phone would autocomplete based on the numeric character codes. So 4 [GHI] 3 [DEF] 5 [JKL] would give "Hello" as the first option, and so on. It's still
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by awkward 4y ago
> A former Google manager who recently left the company agreed. "There are a lot 'coasters' who reached a certain level and don't want to work any harder. They just do a 9-5 job, won’t work to get promoted, don’t want
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by awkward 4y ago
It's bad communication as a media play. Adobe drops the licensing in the most expedient and user hostile way possible, and puts the blame on Pantone. Long term, this might be a better model for Pantone - they're building a direct
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by awkward 4y ago
> The full dataset isn’t available, but since we have the number of students in each ACT / GPA bin above, we can create a “pseudo” dataset, with just a small loss of precision. Big oof. This is an example of terminal data science po
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by awkward 4y ago
Desired salary? As a required field? Not today Satan. People don't complete online job applications because they have all the user hostility of modern nudge driven tech but implemented with the subtlety of a brick in a burlap sack.
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by awkward 4y ago
Absolutely. The current inflation spike is caused by massive floods of money chasing scarce material resources. We have a financial class happy to apply supply and demand to housing and education, but completely ignoring its effect on food
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by awkward 4y ago
That's the bad part though. Engaged problem solving is fun, staying just plugged in and aware enough to please your ass in seat manager is the opposite of fun.
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by awkward 4y ago
Cost of Revenue and Customer Acquisition Cost are both different metrics. COGS is used in manufacturing in order to peg inputs to a per widget basis. Cost of Revenue gets used in tech because per customer costs are both a bad way to measure
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by awkward 4y ago
Your comment reminds me that I've only seen this distinction in terms of profit center VS cost center. Profit centers do business and get perks, cost centers support business and get the early layoffs. The article's staff vs line
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by awkward 4y ago
That's called COGS, or Cost Of Goods and Services. It's separate the kind of costs he's talking about. If you're working on COGS you're working in a profit center generating revenue, not in a cost center performing
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by awkward 5y ago
The current state of authentication consumes massive amounts of time, money and effort on any given development platform. The author's advice is great, but Oauth2 is absolutely not the end state for distributed identity, and the new th
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by awkward 5y ago
> And of course, most people taking Math 202 are not taking it for intellectual broadening, as Rabieh admirably was; they are taking it because somebody told me they had to. This is an unacceptable response as well. Why would the student
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by awkward 5y ago
Going to take a page from gaming and classify friends as Unobtanium, platinum, gold, silver.

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