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by damnyou 6y ago
That is very different from " first , do no harm". That is a cost-benefit calculation that many of us are familiar with in our own professions. " First , do no harm" just encodes status quo bias.
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by damnyou 6y ago
I mean, yes, in some cases not doing anything is the right call, but that is a much weaker statement than "first, do no harm".
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by damnyou 6y ago
There is no "first, do no harm" principle in medicine. And for good reason, it's a bad principle.
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by damnyou 6y ago
The problem is that the DOJ, and commenters in the thread, are attacking the process by which people make that happen. As broken as the process is, the DOJ and commenters here clutching their pearls in the direction of excluding would-be p
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by damnyou 6y ago
I think there's a good argument to be made that you should have to make your mind up about staying permanently after a few years. There is a lot of value in having people set roots in a community long-term.
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by damnyou 6y ago
I know H-1Bs at Facebook who are pulling in 500k per year in RSUs.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Stop retconning history. The H-1B has always been meant as a path to permanent residence, which is why it has been dual intent since the beginning. The AC21 indefinite extensions were added because the per-country backlogs were not anticipa
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by damnyou 6y ago
So give out ten times as many green cards and remove the restrictions. You don't want to do that? Oh, I see.
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by damnyou 6y ago
There is no moral obligation to hire a worker just because a particular state blessed them with a set of papers, usually because they were born on the right side of a line drawn in the middle of a desert. edit to respond: Fine, then anyone
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by damnyou 6y ago
No, the O-1 is meant for individuals with specialized skillsets. The H-1B is meant for workers with a bachelor's degree or above, or equivalent experience. Besides, the idea of trying to segregate workers like this is bogus anyway. Fuc
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by damnyou 6y ago
Most developers I know use desktop Linux, and M1 is not (yet) an option for them.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Build system performance tends to be IO-bound, but responsiveness for things like no-op builds tends to be CPU-bound -- and the JVM in particular really suffers. Optimizing IO performance makes it perform better, while optimizing CPU perfor
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by damnyou 6y ago
> Anyway, the take away for me is that diving into Servo and Rust is probably not worth my time investment. You're the best judge of your time, but making a claim about Servo and then, in the last sentence of your post, broadening i
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by damnyou 6y ago
Well, thank you for providing the first compelling argument as to why software practices need to be more formally regulated. Providing CI/CD should be the industry norm and expected default.
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by damnyou 6y ago
All of them use Mac Minis as far as I know.
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by damnyou 6y ago
I'm not a consultant, but I believe it would be an ethical failing on my part to hand someone else a piece of code without extensive, automated testing and CI.
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by damnyou 6y ago
pjmlp's view appears to be that because their customers, who are not experts, don't know enough to ask for continuously tested software, they don't believe it is their professional responsibility to provide that either. This
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by damnyou 6y ago
I pity your customers.
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by damnyou 6y ago
I can't tell if you're being facetious or you just don't care about automated testing and continuous integration for your code.
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by damnyou 6y ago
No company on the planet is big enough for Apple to make exceptions like that. All of them either use a cloud provider or a custom rack design just for Mac Minis.
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by damnyou 6y ago
If you ever get a chance to meet employees at CircleCI or some other CI provider at a conference after Covid is over, consider asking them about how they rack Mac Minis.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Well, that's precisely what Stallman was trying to address, wasn't he? Trying to separate out the Linux kernel from the GNU userland.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Not sure exactly what its origins are, but it's standard Indian English. It's a legitimate dialect of English, just like standard American English has its own unique idioms like "grandfathered in" (a term that has extrem
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by damnyou 6y ago
Yes. it's accurate to describe iOS as iOS/Darwin, and macOS as macOS/Darwin. But "BSD" implies a BSD userland to most people, which macOS has but iOS doesn't.
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by damnyou 6y ago
No, I don't think that's true. Android is just Linux with an Android userland. Richard Stallman was quite correct to call it GNU/Linux, as much as I dislike the guy.
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by damnyou 6y ago
I can pretend Apple's ecosystem doesn't exist, but I can't pretend that all of the negative externalities of Apple's ecosystem don't exist.
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by damnyou 6y ago
It's the truth. Unilateral control is the reality, and I'm interested in exploring how to harness it to improve the lot of humanity. For example, I think Stripe should be able to compete with Apple to be a payment provider on Appl
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by damnyou 6y ago
It's actually a completely justified intrusion into the market. To answer questions posed by others since I'm apparently posting too fast: The reasons governments should intervene are well-elaborated in the blog post under discuss
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by damnyou 6y ago
Not fine by me regardless of monopoly status, and I believe it should be not fine by public policy either.
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by damnyou 6y ago
OK, fair. The goal should be to make models like Apple's app store, regardless of the corporation, against public policy.

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