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You got it all wrong man. Oracle only has 205 engineers, so this is devestating to their workforce. Everyone else at Oracle is either in legal or a proctologist.
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I'll be honest in my experience a good idea comes from an individual who has an insight or sees a vision others can't. I've noticed these ideas can get refined and filtered by group discussion and can go from good to great, b
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Honestly based on a lot of the information I have gathered and problems I have seen the problem is that the managers are subpar at managing and running things, as well as lacking leadership capabilities and that's what leads to a lot o
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Yes that is exactly what happened Welch came in started pushing the MBA way of doing things, pushed it throughout the entire industry, talked a big game. Tons of MBA programs were focused around the "GE Way" etc. It was when the P
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In my experience it ends up just being more divise, the more an institution that one group of people do not trust doubles down on a story the more likely they are to become convinced of the opposite position, whereas those that thought it w
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4y ago
Wow crowdsourcing truth that's super great. I see no problems at all with this. It's not like angry partisans on one side would create and push fake stories and news about another horrible atrocity that person of an unpopular grou
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If you are an authoritarian state you don't give too much worry about that, if you grab the wrong person "oh well another day another murder." It's about terror and control, not about justice. If you think that's ba
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It is sad but also was inevitable. The market could only sustain $150,000 a year salaries for grads fresh out of college for so long before someone somewhere along the way ran out of money. With rates going up there are places besides tech
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People said the same thing about the UK and Germany at the beginning of 1914. That led to tens of thousands of English boys drowning in mud over of the course of days at Paschendale and millions of young German men slaughtered in a line run
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The old "armies will cross borders if goods don't argument." A comforting and hopeful delusion. People made the exact same arguments in the early 1900s, they became convinced after international incident after international i
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Well you can tell that it isn't an Atlassian product, because you can know the results within a week. If they used an Atlassian product the total count page would return right around the same time the next election started.
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I have this same problem and concern, and it doesn't work to use voicemail because the robocallers end up filling my voicemail within hours of clearing it out. The most effective way I have found for dealing with it is horrible but it
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I hate it when people make it seem like the economy and the people are two different things. The economy is the aggregate capability of a society to provide goods and services to people, if the economy collapses the goods and services that
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Pandemic happened that's the big reason.
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Game journalism has been dead for a long time. No one who is serious about games pays any attention to it, and they routinely mock everyone in games journalism, making constant comments about "journalist mode" that plays the game
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Ehh, I don't disagree with where you start but I do with where you end. If it is a money thing then it probably has more to do setting up "standards" and "compliance" requirements that you must me to use FOSS softwa
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For those curious about what it actually is: > The Securing Open Source Software Act would direct CISA to develop a risk framework to evaluate how open source code is used by the federal government. CISA would also evaluate how the same
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“spend all the wages they earn and enjoy themselves while they can appears to be evident from the number of families that, upon the failure of any great manufactory, immediately fall upon the parish,” - Sir Thomas Malthus Who predicted tha
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We have been above the environmental carrying capacity due to technology since the first guy in Mesopotamia realized if he dug a ditch to grab some of the water from the Euphrates he could get water to repeatedly water his crops. Thats the
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I appreciate the definition at first I thought this had to do with some sort of interaction between Southeast Asians and the Polynesians.
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Yes yes yes continue to focus on the partisan differences, tear the world apart, the other side is evil because they have an R next to their name, the other side is (D)ifferent. It's all the other bad side, not the same freaking loonie
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Let's be clear here, he merely believes that marriage should be between a man and a woman. Not that he advocates for a gay pogrom, or that they should be deprived of due process or anything. This type of hyperbole is just as bad as cal
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Why should the community use official channels to rally for support? I am involved in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu there was recently an incident that happened where a notable BJJ figure was shot by another BJJ practitioner after an altercation in a
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Lucky ducks. Development at my org largely consists of going around to every different possible "partner" to get buy in to have a meeting, to discuss approval of permissions to do something. I think the new metric used to asses an
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You are correct, Rails and Ruby are one of the few places I haven't felt like there's been constant and unedning churn, I attribute it to the incredible flexibility and power of the Ruby programming language, which incidentally is
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I'm not upset with it, jaded and cynical maybe, but I still make a decent living and enjoy when I do get to make things, I just would enjoy it more if I spent more time building and creating and less fighting with my tools. I make it a
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It's not a joke, it's intended to convey the wisdom of not thinking "the next big thing" will solve all your problems, it is intended to focus on the importance of fundamentals, and of relying on using engineering skill
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Step 1: The existing tooling is too clunky, big and a major PITA to work with, Developers spend most of their time fighting their framework and tooling to do simple things. Step 2: Someone gets fed up with this writes a framework that "
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My understanding of is that the problem isn't "learning COBOL" it's learning all of the environment that surrounds COBOL, the IBM Z Mainframes, learning JCL and what not. In fact it seems this is the case with every lang
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After I got turned on to Petar Zeihan the first thing I did was went back and watched his older talks, after all plenty of people can make good sounding predictions, first you want to see what he was saying before to see his track record. I
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