crdoconnor

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by crdoconnor 7y ago
Definitely. Developing a unit of account is key to solving this problem. The problem was never that businesses didn't "get" technical debt, the problem is that they could only measure it by the volume of developers' whin
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
I've had countless false positives from Google's spam filter - everything from train tickets to cinema tickets to invitations to parties have been swallowed by it. About 1 out of 15/20 emails that get flagged are legit. Most
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
>Or will the price keep going up and price you out of your longtime house? If we don't have a problem with elderly renters getting priced out and not receiving a windfall (public concern for this issue is pretty muted) I don'
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
>Unfortunately, in some ways (particularly politically) eminent domain powers are at their nader in the U.S. Which is a big part of the reason why we can't accomplish things like California Highspeed Rail. I think that drives home t
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
On the plus side, there wouldn't be nearly as much work for us developers if everything just "worked".
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
Areas where big companies don't care are often ripe for new disruptive products. Google's success can largely be attributed to building a feature that the 400 pound gorilla of the time (yahoo) didn't give a fuck about.
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
This has a habit of creating impedance mismatch problems though.
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
We've reached a point where package ecosystem eclipses the importance of language features (which, in brand new languages, typically only offer incremental improvements these days). It's not good enough to build a slightly better
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
Laws mandating seatbelts work exceptionally well, though.
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
You inadvertently did the exact opposite.
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
>Imagine if we have a VAT on yachts and nothing else, does that disproportionately affect the rich or the poor? Nobody? They'll buy yachts abroad.
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
Water down intellectual property rights, strengthen labor rights, tax land appropriately and a lot of billionaires would just disappear of their own accord.
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
Even Israel's system is really poor (240/690 in may) and it doesn't try to shoot down hypersonic missiles.
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
Every attempt to democratise has been characterized this way. Representative democracy was once castigated as a chaotic rule by brutes.
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
It's funny how the "NIMBYs" are apparently very unpopular around here but the tax incentives that create the NIMBYs are very popular.
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
Land owners neither made the land they own nor do they make it valuable, yet the state protects their "right" WITH violence to exercise full control over it and exclude others from it. Those taxes should be orders of magnitude hig
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
>Letting poor people compete with you on fair terms does not increase inequality. It certainly contributes to brain drain which helps maintain inequality between countries. That is, unless there are fiscal transfers to India I'm una
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
This ought to be an object lesson in not cheaping out on hiring good developers and architects to run sensitive projects like this. Alas instead it's seen as an opportunity to push the risk on to developers. With this kind of response
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
The search index should really be nationalised and treated like a public utility that can't favour one engine over another. At this point only nation states can really compete on building a search index - it requires titanic amounts of
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
The Tories tried to trigger a no deal. The deal they did get was a pretty hard Brexit.
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
>that it's apparently not says a lot about their true nature, as in, they have no intention whatsoever of compromising Labour's Brexit policy was a compromise. The Tories was the opposite. The voters pretty clearly rejected the
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
I don't have studies but my experience of those who excel in leetcode is that they suck at system design and good programming practices - largely because they focused on leetcode to the exclusion of all else. They "hacked"
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
>Google's belief (probably) is that anyone able to quicksort in their sleep is either already good at the other stuff too, or is smart enough to pick it up over time. Exactly. This belief that the two correlate closely enough that y
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
Also: * The ridiculous nosql fad that led to a tsunami of databases with horribly invalid data because constraints aren't sexy. * The ridiculous academic fetish that triggered the leetcode phenomenon and led to a tsunami of developers
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
These technologies typically went through a period of development where safety was not a paramount concern. Once electric cars become mass market we'll probably hit that point.
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
The whole idea behind Obamacare was that people like you would pay more so that others got coverage on pre existing conditions and HMOs could make a bit more profit.
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
Meaning it's not scarce now and there's no easy way to make it scarce. Like oxygen. I can grow food in my back garden. I can't grow medical care.
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
>Does anyone really believe health care prices are correct? Yes. Market clearing prices are set by the intersection of desire/need and scarcity. Health care prices can be virtually as high as you like if you can make health care sca
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
This, absolutely. The time to design properly isn't before you write code. It's when the requirements start to become fixed rather than fluid.
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by crdoconnor 7y ago
Option #4 take a small dent to their profits.

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