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by danek 8y ago
Doing so *nullifies* pun intended?
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by danek 9y ago
Counterpoint: I wouldn’t think of starting a startup in the US but I would seriously consider it in Sweden. Healthcare is one of the issues for me. Maybe it’s not right to say it’s the reason for Sweden’s success but it could be an enabling
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by danek 9y ago
Fwiw the books are included if you buy a ticket, and the books are the medium of much of his work so it would make sense for him to extensively reference them
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by danek 9y ago
I believe I've experienced this combination before. I don't know exactly what it was, but my experience matches the description. I thought it was some sort of seizure, but exploding head is a better match. (so thanks!) I think it
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by danek 9y ago
It's one of those things that sounds so simple and great on paper but has a huge impedance mismatch with reality.
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by danek 9y ago
Anything involving people is political. I'm not sure it can be avoided. And even if it's somehow not political today it's not future-proof. For example, a recipe could call for an ingredient that's considered unethica
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by danek 9y ago
Yes, testing along with strict linter settings goes a long way.
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by danek 9y ago
I'm thankful that physics prevents many nightmare scenarios like goose-sized scorpions
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by danek 9y ago
Yeah, I find that pure functions (or pure functions living in immutable objects) makes my code immensely more composable and easier to work with (i.e. more adaptable and less expensive to own). If some business requirement changes I can rec
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by danek 9y ago
True, keeping your enemies in the dark about your true capabilities is a useful strategy (unless it is a doomsday device, then you should tell the world). Strategic leaks of misinformation is one way to go about it. Also low-quality exploit
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by danek 9y ago
Thank you
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by danek 9y ago
Or waiting for us to compute 42
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by danek 9y ago
This is true but a study is useless if it can't measure the thing you want. Things in programming are notoriously difficult to quantify, compared to say, stuff in physics. Perhaps it's why there are so many holy wars.
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by danek 9y ago
I'm also curious how this would work without breaking reflection
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by danek 9y ago
Pretty close. End of July, 8 years ago. It was definitely more than one an hour, but not like what Is imagine a shower to be like. Maybe more like one every 15 minutes
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by danek 9y ago
Fair enough (I don't know much about beer)
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by danek 9y ago
I read the studies he cited and I'm not sure we can conclude anything from them. As far as I can tell, "bug density by language" is not a thing you can measure in a meaningful way. It depends on the specific programmers at
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by danek 9y ago
Imagine receiving a box of live scorpions by accident.
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by danek 9y ago
I am trying to imagaine what the customs agent thinks "live beer" is, since apparently it is something you can import as long as you pay the tax.
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by danek 9y ago
Yeah lots of rural areas in the US have very dark skies. I saw lots of shooting stars one night driving acros Utah, it was pretty incredible.
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by danek 9y ago
My company has some apps that we need to install on our customers servers. A linker would have been amazing for us 7 years ago as we could have targeted the (as of then new) 4.0 runtime and redistributed or binary. But as it was, we could o
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by danek 9y ago
Also none of my cards are signed because when I do sign them, the ink rubs off after a few days! So I assume the whole signature system is purely ceremonial at this point. Or at the least it's a way to say a human was present with a p
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by danek 9y ago
Let's say this talk was never approved by PR and the employees went rogue. Firing someone in public right after they give a talk is still terrible optics. Even if salesforce is in the right, this executive looks totally incompetent, w
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by danek 9y ago
It's a joyful surprise for me when the logo actually links to the right thing. Also it's not just blogs--any subsite, like documentation sites, forums, company wikis, etc.
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by danek 9y ago
That's the point, that it's better to focus on long term but the game puts a lot of pressure on you to optimize for short term
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by danek 9y ago
Yes I agree. To clarify, I was away on vacation at the time and we only spoke briefly. We discussed that the lack of details about the severance was weird but we had 10+ reports of others who had received 1-2 months of severance, and they
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by danek 9y ago
It sounds super shady but it's what this company does. It's basically a payoff: "Don't ruin our recruiting pipeline or tarnish the opinion of any existing employees and we'll make your firing a bit less painful with
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by danek 9y ago
Excellent point. I'm pretty sure this is a thing, I vaguely remember reading something about how getting promoted gives you some "invisible leverage" (my words) because now the company has decided you are valuable and special
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by danek 9y ago
Yeah I've noticed that usually you need at least 4 people to quit before anything happens to the boss. Even if they know he sucks they're gonna try and keep him on. No idea why, but it has the appearance of "he's part of
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by danek 9y ago
Excellent point. And now I suppose that every legal question is really two questions ;)

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