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by borvo 6y ago
Before the act of union of 1801 the Irish parliament, although pretty ineffectual, did block food exports during times of crisis. Even in the year of slaughter 1740 when a short term famine was caused by climate change food exports were sto
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by borvo 7y ago
Never heard of a death march? A bit dehumanizing eh?
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by borvo 7y ago
Doesn't matter. People would be more willing to take it on trust if it weren't for 1) motivated denialists 2) ex-"tobacco not harmful" mercenaries 3) useful idiots who are willing to consider [edit] the possibility they
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by borvo 7y ago
Oh no. First they f*cked up nest and now fitbit?
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by borvo 7y ago
He wrote "so I delegated the decision. I ran from the fear". He delegated the decision, not just the task of finding options for the space.
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by borvo 7y ago
> So if the manager asks that for a late project, they are probably incompetent. Not necessarily. I've seen/heard engineers who take great glee in pointing this out, but they don't understand the real dynamic. The managers
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by borvo 7y ago
Agreed, that's the key line that summarizes the whole article: once proud design/tech company turns into operations/finance driven behemoth.
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by borvo 7y ago
I didn't mean to provoke anyway by saying "crappy" ;-) What I notice is that the nest does a really great job managing the temperature in my house and keeping it comfortable. It just works and it became a default expectation.
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by borvo 7y ago
The Nest thermostat is really great, a huge leap over crappy manual thermostats and the expensive "high tech" ones that others in the traditional industry have tried to create (bryant, looking at you). BUT when I purchased this, t
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by borvo 7y ago
Don't bother explaining why it's wrong. Suggest something better.
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by borvo 8y ago
tldr; a rambling article about narcissism (ironically)
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by borvo 8y ago
He misses the point by a mile, as do his twitter correspondents. If we're to indulge him let's ask if the staff of the "nytimes" consider themselves "American" or if they're stuck in a time warp clinging t
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by borvo 8y ago
"this realization that people are operating at the best when they choose how they want to work" But what if how they want to work is "Dark Scrum"... or some kind of Agile religion, or waterfall.
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by borvo 9y ago
Most Western societies are able to operate healthcare systems that don't have this problem - and this "solution" is often advocated as a panacea for the coordination issues they face due to centralization.
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by borvo 9y ago
Where exactly is the "strong free-market" here?
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by borvo 9y ago
So .. a bizdev guy who has never found any business problems and a PE guy who has never discovered any PE problems? Either you're overthinking it or just doomed: you don't have a team.
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by borvo 9y ago
The priest's friends and whoever paid the bribes would be found not guilty. Pretty lucrative job, being a priest and administering god's justice. The 1/3 didn't pay, or the priest didn't like them.
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by borvo 10y ago
Here we go again, getting confused between SFO/Startup Bro culture and the majority of the productive software industry.
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by borvo 10y ago
The problem here is the police, not the neighbors. Why were they arrested? Did they really break the law? If not, then how were these police trained? If they did break the law, then who is making these nonsense laws?
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by borvo 10y ago
China's achievements are incredibly impressive, and will likely slow down as it gets closer to parity with Western standards of living. As for outperforming - rate of growth/catching up: sure - but not (yet) in most other regards.
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by borvo 10y ago
Some engineers don't want to use ruby, in some cases seeing it as "not a real programming language" (whatever that means) The performance FUD is probably just deflection. As DHH himself says, engineers are in short supply - s
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by borvo 10y ago
Not going to work in low density regions like all of the USA aside from the coasts. Flying is less polluting per mile than driving btw. Also, why don't the rest of us get together and punish your choices?
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by borvo 10y ago
So they didn't ask you to point out the problems in a more considerate way? Instead, they just asked you to stop pointing out the problems? Were these problems nitpicks, personal preference (as some here are apparently assuming) or wer
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by borvo 11y ago
Ok, here's what I got from this - Roman can't spell and doesn't understand how to code in C. Fail?
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by borvo 11y ago
Hardware needs that complete ecosystem that Grove is talking about. Software doesn't need that quite so much, at least in terms of the comparable capital intensive activities.
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by borvo 11y ago
You're saying that Germany doesn't control the ECB I think. So I guess it's just coincidence that ECB policy has been consistently and primarily in favor of German economic interest, and has been an unmitigated disaster for e
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by borvo 11y ago
The mere existence of this "buffer" increases the likelihood of a layoff ... oh "aerospace", might be a while.
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by borvo 11y ago
WW II didn't cause that, it was the effects of the war including the subsequent dismantling of the British Empire and its trade barriers. In other words, a precursor to globalization.
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by borvo 11y ago
Yes it is: Germany controls the ECB.
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by borvo 11y ago
They're talking about consumption not standard of living. It's possible to imagine a future where everybody will get that superior standard of living but with far less consumption required to support it - innovation and creativity

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