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by crpatino 11y ago
It's either that or the life of the grasshopper ;) Now that I think of it, there's another parallel with unwanted pregnancies. There are men that stick around, and there are boys who run and let others clean up after their mess.
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by crpatino 11y ago
> However, once you do accidentally have a child, the results are often not pretty... Regarding programming, I can't see the relationship you make at all. I have two words for you: MAINTENANCE PROGRAMER .
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String operations are intrinsically complex by nature. At least they are now in this age that you cannot assume the encoding is always ASCII. The goodness of this approach is that if you just need to pass around the string, a shallow copy o
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by crpatino 11y ago
YEs, you are right... it is very complex. But it is consistent enought that the compiler can do it all in the background. If you think that it is a bad idea to do: str_t* string = (str_t*)malloc(string_length); then half of the go
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by crpatino 11y ago
make str_t an opaque type. First char is always length. 1. If string is 0-15 chars long, str_t is a small string, aka char[16]. First byte is length, payload starts in 2nd byte, tail is always zeroed. Empty string is all zeros always. 2. If
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> I wouldn't underestimate the amount of coercion that was going on in the past. Don't forget about the Inquisition. Most people hear that and think of the burning of witches and heretics, but that institution alone had a much
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by crpatino 11y ago
If you truly did not get it, go read 1984, now. On the other hand, asking which specific (US) agency plays the exact same role as the Ministry of Truth in the novel is kind of pointless. The short answer is none, but that doesn't mean
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> 'Sometimes pulling numbers out of your arse and using them to make a decision is better than pulling a decision out of your arse' Agreed! Leaving the pseudoscience example aside - since there are strong emotions involved - we
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On the other hand, one could argue that whenever the Church of Scientism sees someone using one of their favorite tools to argue in favor or a subject considered taboo, said church declares the use of said tool to be "invalid" or
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The older business culture do not hold MBAs more often than not. They usually came from finance/accounting backgrounds. The better ones had some operations experience before going to university for a bachelors degree. That or were form
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by crpatino 11y ago
The pay was never the root problem, it was just the trigger. >Discontent among its workers had been brewing for months, with reports of harassment, unfair wage deductions and unsafe work conditions as well as poor wages. So this guys org
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by crpatino 11y ago
If you invite the economists, you will end up concluding that, in order to stop cancer, you'll need to stop the Demand for cancer.
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by crpatino 11y ago
The Software industry is what Construction would be like if architects were allowed to dream up whatever contrieved designes they would fancy that week, without those pesky engineers telling them that: No, no matter how much they wanted, st
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by crpatino 11y ago
No, please don't sugar coat it. HR people do actually see current income as 'social proof' of your actual worth. This is not necessarily out of a desire to take advantage of employees, but they find it hard to justify to thei
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by crpatino 11y ago
> I guess it can sort of "hurt" on the management side, when employees leave. I agree on the "hurt" part, but it is a well known fact that employees do change jobs in this industry. If a manager is not aware of that,
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by crpatino 11y ago
Let me clarify, I did not ask how do you feel about reports of metaphysical/paranormal events. My question was, how would you feel about: 1. A scientist with strong political/religious views. 2. That works in a scientific problem
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by crpatino 11y ago
No, no, no, no. You miss the point. If you claim to be a scientist, you leave your personal beliefs at the lab door and abide to the experimental results. If you cannot do that, you pick a different subject of study and let some other unbia
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by crpatino 11y ago
Nothing wrong, as long as you change all your business cards from "Chief Scientist" to "Market Guru".
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by crpatino 11y ago
> You are still focusing on the material output and treating immaterial work as secondary. This is the core of the argument. I am not misunderstanding anything. There are 3 kinds of stuff (for lack of a better term) in the universe: matt
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by crpatino 11y ago
Many ancient cultures have myths about a great flood or series of floods. It was probably not a single global event, but plausibly to have been based in some shift in climate patterns during protohistoric times.
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> To paint a caricature: they almost seem to say "We had 100 people and 50 ingots of iron and we produced 200 forks and 30 novels. If we'd have 50 people and 25 ingots of iron, we'd only produce 100 forks and 15 novels.&qu
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by crpatino 11y ago
It's called a Filibuster, i think. 99% may be in perfect consensus, but as long as the idiot (or mallevolent) 1% is allowed to keep claiming that there is insufficient information, the "debate" will keep going and going. It i
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by crpatino 11y ago
No. the amount each person produces does not increase, certainly not because scientific advance. You see per capita productivity increase, where "productivity" not necesarily means "producing more". If you can cut your p
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by crpatino 11y ago
Maybe a bit offtopic, but could you elaborate on why you think infinite growth in a finite world is possible? You addressed labor cost, but it is only (the easiest) one amongst several variables. You have effectively changed Porter's c
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by crpatino 11y ago
> The fact that I am in your range does not mean you can shoot me, right? Wrong. The fact that you are in my range does mean that I could shoot you if I wish. It does not mean that I will do so, but you do not get to decide. What is to s
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by crpatino 11y ago
No, the assumption is that you are voluntarily handing over your data. It's more like, if you are in a cafeteria and a friend comes by, then you two begin shouting from one end to the room to the other and at the end demand everybody t
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by crpatino 11y ago
> happy, because life is so good that people have nothing better to do than look for photos of sheep on google maps Really? it sounds rather depressing to me. How is it any good that people would waste their limited time on Earth doing s
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by crpatino 11y ago
Not if he were the managing partner (and majoritary owner). But agreed. If this were a public company, stockholders would probably be very unhappy that half of their earnings are being poached by some profesional executive with no skin in t
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What do you mean by Sun having been a consulting company?
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> Perhaps what is "needlessly" hard (whatever that really means) to one is the exact right solution for someone else? Trying to be everything to everyone is one of the surest ways I know to generate byzantine monstrosities. On

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