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by cgrealy 6y ago
Don’t work overtime for free. It’s that simple. Sure, the occasional late night or weekend is sometimes an unfortunate necessity, but even then your manager should recognise that and let you take some time in lieu. If you are regularly work
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Were the child and his parents white by any chance?
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Oh come on, who hates their mother enough to make her use Webex? /shudder
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by cgrealy 6y ago
/Sigh Yeah, I was the one trying to mislead people and shifting the goalposts. You said “Senna constantly beat him”. I simply pointed out that that is clearly not true. Unlike you, I’m not biased. When I was into F1, I was a huge fan o
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by cgrealy 6y ago
I wasn’t trying to claim that Prost was better than Senna. I was disputing the obviously bullshit claim that “when they were on the same team, Senna constantly beat him”. They were both amazing drivers and 88 was fantastic for how tight it
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Senna won 50%, Prost won 43%. Senna won the championship by 3 points over Prost. Explain to me how that falls under the definition of “constantly” beat.
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Prost was one of Sennas pall bearers. They had a strong rivalry, but there was definite respect, if not outright friendship.
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by cgrealy 6y ago
The facts disagree. In 1988, when Senna and Prost were on the same team, Prost won 7 out of 16 races.
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by cgrealy 6y ago
I'm talking about the standard things that people do that are common across companies. Absolutely make your USP special. But logging? DB access? Deployment? Those are generally solved problems and unless you have a very good reason not
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by cgrealy 6y ago
As a general rule: you (and your company) are not special. If you look at an industry way of doing something and decide it’s wrong, you should have solid reasoning to back it up. I’ve seen so many companies decide that they have some unique
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by cgrealy 6y ago
None of what you describe is slave labour. There are people in actual slavery all over the world and there is a world of difference between having a crap job or getting screwed out of money and being a slave. And no, I’ve never worked in ho
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by cgrealy 6y ago
It is literally the definition of slave labour: “labour which is coerced and inadequately rewarded” (Oxford) If you are not paid well and you can leave the job then it’s not slave labour, it’s just a crappy job.
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Slave labour? I’ve said millions of times that I love exaggeration, but even I think that’s taking it a bit far. Were you paid? Could you leave the job if you wanted? Then it’s not slave labour.
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Depends on how far back you want to go. The term "object oriented programming" was coined back in the 60s. Languages like Smalltalk were introduced in the 70s.
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by cgrealy 6y ago
No, "45" was a reference to the last president. >the losing side voting against it as a protest is common in every election. Really? That would be news to me. Do you have a source for that?
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by cgrealy 6y ago
> This isn't even remotely a representative sentiment of the 70+ million people that are not on the "left". Probably not, but it’s a pretty accurate summary of their leadership. The facts are the 45 and the Republicans att
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by cgrealy 6y ago
OOP was around long before IDEs were that popular.
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by cgrealy 6y ago
yes, but you said > intolerance to any deviation is inherent to any society or organization. While I agree that there is a certain amount of homogenity inherent to any grouping (after all, a group has to have something in common to be
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Sorry, what? There are plenty of societies and organisations that embrace diversity or deviation. Am I reading your post wrong?
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by cgrealy 6y ago
That’s either genius satire or terrifying psychopathy.
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Is it possible that the reason for this is that the desktop simply isn’t that important anymore? For a non-trivial number of people, a “real computer” (i.e. a laptop or desktop) is still just a web browser with a nicer way of typing. People
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Is WPF actually that popular though? Honest question... last time I did any WPF dev was 2008 and I haven’t really seen it used much since. MS certainly aren’t hyping it much (although that could just be the decline of the desktop app in gen
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by cgrealy 6y ago
I never said anything about luxury housing? Housing doesn't have to be "luxury" to be unaffordable.
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by cgrealy 6y ago
> They demand the preservation of architecture at all costs. Yeah, it was definitely the "progressive left" that spent years and cost the Christchurch council millions to fix the broken cathedral. Not right-leaning old people a
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by cgrealy 6y ago
> But there are people who truly believe that building housing raises rents! Except that is not an accurate description of their position. If a developer is given free reign as to what they can build, they will naturally build the most p
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Because the first lockdowns in many places were half-assed? We did lockdown properly in NZ, and now, we're basically back to normal (with the exception of international travel). And no, it isn't because we're a small island (
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by cgrealy 6y ago
> It's engineering Numberwang. Can I just say that is the greatest description of software estimation I have ever read? I am 100% stealing that.
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by cgrealy 6y ago
> Except you're the one with the extraordinary claim, that's my whole point. That's not a point, that's playground "nuh-uh, you stink" level of debate. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by cgrealy 6y ago
"Believe" is the wrong verb here. I believe that the Irish rugby team will one day win the world cup (despite all evidence to the contrary). I accept that the available evidence does not support the hypothesis of non-human int
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by cgrealy 6y ago
> And that is your belief. Yes. It is what I believe based on the available evidence. Do you have evidence to the contrary? And no, eye witness testimony does not count. This is science 101. You have made an extraordinary claim. You must

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