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by bsg75 4y ago
Scoop is an alternative: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25535483
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by bsg75 4y ago
And with each new comment on the subject, proves how out of touch he is with current reality
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by bsg75 4y ago
> Devs feel entitled to WFH, and shorter work days (via WFH) and managers are nervous. _Shorter_ work days? If anything mine are longer, even considering time I no longer spend commuting. Any Dev "entitled" to shorter work days
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by bsg75 4y ago
> F# jumped from position #74 to #33 That is an interesting jump for a ML style language (even considering the data source). The article suggests no reasons. Any thoughts here?
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by bsg75 4y ago
It comes from a concern that VC backed investments demand a constant level of revenue growth, causing a company to add features or integrations that do not improve the base product. Organic growth is usually insufficient for stockholders, w
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by bsg75 4y ago
I will go a step further and state that they appear to top out at 32GB which is asinine. These are not manilla envelope laptops, but semi-compact bricks where the form factor in other brands can commonly take 64GB or more. Its sad for me th
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by bsg75 4y ago
> At a private company a failure like this would see the CTO immediately fired and even the CEO having to beg the board for forgiveness and keeping their job. Can you share an example of where that has actually happened?
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by bsg75 4y ago
Is it possible the teams you work with build unnecessarily complicated or abstracted stuff, because there are more choices of frameworks now? And perhaps the use of those frameworks is attractive for reasons like resume development? I find
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by bsg75 4y ago
https://www.tomorrow.io/weather
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by bsg75 4y ago
It’s very believable given the regular behavior of what pretends to be a governing body.
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by bsg75 4y ago
People seem to get really upset about a language that does not do what they want, or how they want it to be done, so they write articles about the language nobody is forcing them to use. I get that Rust or C++ has more power or expressivene
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by bsg75 4y ago
Strangers paid on the lowest cost contract to leave with your kids?
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by bsg75 4y ago
Date pickers in general are terrible. Why on a form where I have type my email or shipping address can’t I also just type in a date ?
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by bsg75 4y ago
Awk. I might be weird but it solves a myriad of tasks that land on me.
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by bsg75 4y ago
I don’t go to movie theaters anymore because audiences suck. It been at least a decade. Too many are not there to see a movie, but instead to laugh, talk, light up the room with their phones. Theaters don’t address this proactively, and get
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by bsg75 4y ago
“Whimsical” an interesting choice to describe an executive whose management approach seems to be limited to layoffs and bans.
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by bsg75 4y ago
Is this the start of the bio bros?
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by bsg75 4y ago
> Make that what you will Musk considers harm to anyone's family other than his to be necessary for Twitter revenue. > organizations who supported harm to my family A significant problem in Twitter and social media in general. Mu
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by bsg75 4y ago
Includes Brainfuck and two Others, but not SQL. Results may be skewed to hobby coding less than “work”.
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by bsg75 4y ago
Nothing. Cyber Monday like Black Friday is nothing more than Marketing without any actual price cutting or value add.
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by bsg75 4y ago
> People being pitched on why they should stay with Twitter weren't offered more money but instead were urged to be excited about Musk's vision for Twitter and its future potential... Work more for same money? Seem like easy ma
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by bsg75 4y ago
Only if “excellence” means stroking someone else’s ego for zero or less personal ROI. Working more for the same pay is a reduction in compensation.
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by bsg75 4y ago
Envy for others working to burnout for some other person? How sad. A CEO is just a title, often for someone who’s can’t get anything done independently. Musk is an example. He builds nothing, actual engineers build, actual salespeople sell.
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by bsg75 4y ago
> I don’t understand how top tier engineering talent turns Twitter into something worth buying for $44,000,000,000. It doesn’t. Twitter’s product is not an engineering one of software or servers. And any revenue or cost improvements that
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by bsg75 4y ago
Yes, punishment, which, in part serves as an example to others that this is absolutely unacceptable practice, and our society cannot allow it to happen. “CEO Sam Bankman-Fried used customer funds from the exchange to plug losses in his fai
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by bsg75 4y ago
SpaceX is a different business entity that actually produces something of value and utility. When it comes to Twitter, yes the ego is out of check, expecting employees to go above and beyond for something that is little more than a spam can
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by bsg75 4y ago
Quick scan before the twit dot com page prompted me for a login: HI -> CA -> HI -> CA -> HI ... All to have in person meetings about web based ad broker and/or ill-conceived and poorly implemented VR game. So much time wast
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by bsg75 4y ago
> ...due to some deliverables for the year, worked 12 hours every day to get that done... Don't. Do. This. Our time on the planet is limited, and no amount of Jira ticket completion or revenue targets will change it.
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by bsg75 4y ago
Apples and oranges.
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by bsg75 4y ago
The difference is a farm needs that sort of dedication to function properly. Nature does not have a massive ego, and nothing started and finished this week at Twitter will make a significant or long term difference in its bottom line.

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