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by codemac 6y ago
Completely agreed. But in the US we don't pay stay at home mother's for their time either. These companies should help their employees, I'm saying that there is a much deeper problem in our society in how we handle individual
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by codemac 6y ago
> cancer patient gets extra time off so why don't I? In my experience they actually don't, and they aren't paid during the same period either. They are forced to take medical leave, and receive significantly reduced pay.
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by codemac 6y ago
Personally, I struggle with these feelings as well. It seems nuts that someone working 50%+ less than someone else is going to keep all the same equity, vacation, and salary. Then again it seems nuts that they don't. All employees who
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by codemac 6y ago
> Are their business strategies that favour slower more careful engineering practises? This is a false dichotomy, and there is plenty of research (and experience) that shows shipping higher quality software actually takes less time and m
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by codemac 6y ago
But it only works on what you can currently see, right? Or does ace jump work differently than I recall. isearch moving you along further in the buffer interactively as you type is far more useful than searching what you just see, and typin
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by codemac 6y ago
His "types of navigation" doesn't include searching as navigation. I use emacs with C-s (isearch-forward) more often than left and right.
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by codemac 6y ago
Desktop + phone works well for me!
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by codemac 6y ago
Got my entire immediate family on signal - the big feature is the multi device support for a lot of folks on iMessage, using the Signal desktop app seems to be good enough.
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by codemac 6y ago
This is why quality local papers & media is so important, because the title of SB 145 is very different that the legal consequences of it's content. The number of friends I have that read nytimes, twitter, etc every day, but don&#x
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by codemac 6y ago
> Unless you are heavily biased towards software always being high quality. This is the main discussion of his research, to show that quality and defect removal actually lower cost and increase speed. The tradeoff between time & qual
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by codemac 6y ago
Great response, thank you! It seems I'm rubbing you the wrong way, or not understanding you well enough to respond in a way that encourages conversation, and that's crap. I'm sorry. > And where he concludes "Overall t
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by codemac 6y ago
Who said you can't learn? I'm not understanding your point there. Is planning an activity that removes learning? I'm not claiming anything that's not well understood: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author&#x
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by codemac 6y ago
"ride that horse eventually" - I'm pretty well on with the horse and riding part, and I make plans I'm held to all the time, from investors, CEOs, and customers. I would have been fired long ago (and have been fired in t
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by codemac 6y ago
> The majority of what software engineers build is new territory. I think this is where we just fundamentally disagree. I can send you research about zero defect software, or the economics of software quality, or even research of across
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by codemac 6y ago
> Over 60% of software projects go over budget, and often by a lot. That's so few! Most companies fold, most construction projects go over budget too. I don't see anyone saying we shouldn't try to get good at budgeting con
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by codemac 6y ago
Software estimation is something you can get better at if you practice. Throwing your hands in the air because you or you're team is unskilled in the behavior is just unprofessional.
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by codemac 6y ago
guile for embedding works really nicely.
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by codemac 6y ago
Please tell our SREs in the SYD (in darling harbour/pyrmont) office thank you from me.
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by codemac 6y ago
Would you sell your iPhone and get a Best Buy phone every time you saw a dishwasher cheaper at Best Buy? These are wholly different "stores" and the comparison makes no sense.
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by codemac 6y ago
In many cases "raise less money" is actually "hire less people". When seeing it as a "we hired too quickly", I see the same problem in failed, pivoted, and successful startups. It is your basic mythical man mon
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by codemac 6y ago
Using websites instead of apps becomes cooler and cooler.
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by codemac 6y ago
Note, this only works on the xfinity "public wifi stations" rather than the xfinity ssid's from home routers. If you want to access the home router networks, you still need to pay for an account.
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by codemac 6y ago
As someone who uses an advantage kinesis & dvorak, laptops & dvorak, and other people's computers & qwerty: You get used to switching back and forth in ~2 weeks. If you spend all your day typing, definitely spend the $ and
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by codemac 6y ago
I know dfinity was a big one, they had a huge ICO and lots of haskellers.
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by codemac 6y ago
The very top analysis though shows: "This review summarizes evidence that DHA synthesis from ALA can provide sufficient DHA for the adult brain by examining work in humans and animals involving estimates of DHA synthesis and brain DHA
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by codemac 6y ago
It's like the RICO act or something. The Indian people are doing this voluntarily at the direction of Foxconn who is doing this voluntarily at the direction of Apple. I'm sure we can go higher than just Apple as well.
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by codemac 6y ago
It depends on what you're looking for I guess, my understanding is: There are 3 major omega 3 fats people mostly talk about, ALA, DHA, EPA. ALA is transformed to DHA & EPA through different mechanisms in the body, whereas DHA &
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by codemac 6y ago
You have to know there is a huge difference between showing and managing your initial anger response, and plotting a murder.
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by codemac 6y ago
A billionaire's opinion should not count more than any other random person's opinion. Genuinely believing something is good on the part of a billionaire has no bearing on whether or not their vote should count once per human or on
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by codemac 6y ago
Having not lived in an Eichler house, I'm just obsessed with the indoor/outdoor mixed space. Is there a good takedown of eichler architecture anywhere? Just to satisfy my curiosity?

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