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by cryptica 5y ago
These days, articles on the subject of programming productivity are extremely hit and miss. Some articles, I agree with almost everything the author says and others like this one, I just feel 'meh' because everything mentioned see
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by cryptica 5y ago
I think they cannot be trusted in the long term. Even when they start out without ulterior motives, as the company evolves over the years, the ulterior motives start to creep in - Slowly and predictably, the tech becomes proprietary again.
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by cryptica 5y ago
Yeah this pretty much sums up the the corporate playbook. Build a regulatory moat which makes it impossible for startups to compete... Use the government to reframe honest entrepreneurs as criminals (who are in breach of regulations) in ord
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by cryptica 5y ago
This isn't mathematics. Nobody is asking anybody to accept the statements as 100% truth. Obviously when there are incentives for people to hide the truth, it's going to be difficult to find citations. It is broadly believed within
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by cryptica 5y ago
Conspiracy theories aren't 100% irrational. It's irrational to assume that they are all 100% wrong and don't contain any correct or at least useful information. People do make plans together and influential people do tend to
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by cryptica 5y ago
I agree that it seems to be the case but I don't get it. Those who have worked hard enough to see cronyism in action (especially when it works against you) know that billionaires did not really earn their money on an even playing field
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by cryptica 5y ago
Yeah of course, these people treat you better after you snap. Investors don't respect nice people. You need to create fear. As my friend once told me, "you need to be a killer." They can't have killers on the loose hatin
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by cryptica 5y ago
Sadly, the way corporations work, even if Google did steal that concept, that lawsuit would still be dismissed. Corporations are untouchable. I imagine that suing a big corporation must feel like trying to "talk to one of their represe
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by cryptica 5y ago
The part that concerns me the most is the fact that inequality is the result of a global money-printing ponzi scheme. As most people learn what has happened, the level of bitterness and division is going to be intolerable. What we're s
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by cryptica 5y ago
Yes I started many businesses. My personal experience matches my comment exactly. All the ventures where I created value didn't earn me anything, even though one of these ventures was very popular. I only started to earn passive income
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by cryptica 5y ago
What we have now is essentially feudalism except instead of titles (king, queen, prince, duke, earl, knight, bishop, ...) everyone is assigned some numbers (net worth, salary). The numbers of lower ranking people are decided by higher ranki
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by cryptica 5y ago
Maybe. It could be a fear of anybody who is talented enough and ambitious enough to potentially disrupt the pecking order within the company. Unfortunately, it feels like almost all the big companies are like this.
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by cryptica 5y ago
Look at past software they've worked on, ask questions about it. If they have open source stuff, look at their code. Ask them about their design decisions; why they designed things a certain way.
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by cryptica 5y ago
I know people who work at Microsoft and I can see what kind of software solutions they produce. Of course they do produce some good stuff, they have a few pockets of talent. They've always been strong with gaming and IDEs for example.
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by cryptica 5y ago
This is BS. I know how the interview process works. All these big corporations optimize their recruitment processes around pedigree (matched to the curriculum of top universities). They don't look at track record at all; when track rec
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by cryptica 5y ago
This is job creation porn. These engineers don't deserve any public money, let alone to prop up their $300K per year salaries. Microsoft could get better engineers for cheaper. Including within the US. The problem is that this isn&#x27
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by cryptica 5y ago
We all have nuclear weapons, why do we need rifles and infantry? This narrative is total BS. Is the goal to waste money today in order to be able to waste even more money later on countries like Iraq and Afganistan? We've seen what tho
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by cryptica 5y ago
I was thinking this too. Seems to be a pattern since Volkswagen scandal; blame the rank and file employee... As if the employee had any incentive at all to lie about the performance of the plane. This is disgusting. The directors who pressu
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by cryptica 5y ago
I feel that they should promote this more. Not everyone can afford to sync their own 300GB DB... Especially for testing. As a developer, I want to test things with someone else's backend before I even bother setting up my own.
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by cryptica 5y ago
Makes sense. In that context, I think that verification is nowhere near as challenging as validation when it comes to coding. Verification is definitely a big concern for junior developers who don't know how to write good tests, howeve
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by cryptica 5y ago
IMO, poor choice of logic is more common and more harmful than incorrect logic. It's not that the algorithm is incorrect; it's that the wrong algorithm or the wrong abstraction were chosen to solve particular problems. Sometimes t
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by cryptica 5y ago
Does geth provide a basic search/querying feature? For example like searching for a list of transactions sent to and from a specific account. But doesn't geth require me to setup and sync my own Ethereum node from scratch? I heard
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by cryptica 5y ago
The basic premise is true. Ethereum nodes do not provide even basic search/querying features out of the box so you have to rely on centralized services to index the blockchain data for querying. So if you want to build anything useful
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by cryptica 5y ago
It seems like all the 'problematic' edge cases mentioned can easily be dealt with using runtime type validation and are not the concern of an interchange format like JSON which is (and should be) optimized for maximum flexibility&
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by cryptica 5y ago
One person tells me my problem is that I might be an asshole and you tell me my problem might be that I'm too nice... Why is it so far fetched to suggest that maybe the problem is not me? What if the problem is that most people in powe
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by cryptica 5y ago
Good leaders may know you can't fight realty but the the best leaders know how to create a new reality.
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by cryptica 5y ago
I'm not at all arrogant in real life. My last boss even told me that I don't stand up for myself enough. Besides, I didn't even say it was about me and merely brought it up to make a point. Imagine constantly improving yourse
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by cryptica 5y ago
Amazingly, I agree with every single point. >> Nobody asks “why” enough This point is the most important IMO. It's so common for people to do things without asking themselves why they're doing it. Every line of code should f
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by cryptica 5y ago
Exactly, the entire fiat financial system is rigged and yet we are forced to participate in it... Tether is probably rigged too but at least we are not forced to participate. So at least it's a more robust asset than fiat in this 1 cri
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by cryptica 5y ago
Everyone knows Tether is a scam but everyone knows that the fiat system is also a scam... Buying Tether using fiat is just exchanging one phony financial instrument for another phony financial instrument. The elites are working hard to prom

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