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by diob 6y ago
Let me know if you do that thing you said you won't, I'd be interested :)
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by diob 6y ago
I wish this show hadn't been cancelled. Given the popularity of it, I can't help but wonder if this is one of the many reasons why (aka, they pissed off too many of the big powerful folks).
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by diob 6y ago
Feels like we constantly talk about how interviews suck, but we kind of all know why. 1. It's tough to fire people (in that, if you ask someone to move and it turns out they aren't a good fit, it's kind of a jerk move to the
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by diob 6y ago
This is going to be tough politically to fight. If I had to guess the tactic that would be used to fight it from the other side is something of the sort: "If we force these regulations on Facebook / Google / etc. or break th
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by diob 6y ago
Standups aren't always necessary, but you'd need a high functioning (read communicative) team. In other words, they serve primarily as a forcing function to make sure teams are acting like teams (communicating). I find the most u
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by diob 6y ago
Those dead people are gonna be living it up on that!
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by diob 6y ago
Not only is it productive and maintainable, it's super performant! I work on systems with very limited power, so it's been a godsend in fixing performance for machines that can't handle all this "CSS in JS".
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by diob 6y ago
I hear that. It took a reluctantly ordered sleep study for doctors to even take my case seriously (since I was in incredible shape). Then when I picked up the machine they said they were expecting someone morbidly obese. Sometimes people
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by diob 6y ago
Definitely agree. No company worth the trouble is going to be upset at you wondering what the role is worth to them. If, for some reason you feel a need to give a number, always make sure it's higher than the one you'd actually a
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by diob 6y ago
I'm more interested in the next logical question. Why are those folks willing to be low-status? I'd be willing to bet a good chunk of change that it's because they have a support system. Folks without that know they need to
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by diob 6y ago
It's also one of those things where if you succeed in staving off disaster, folks think you overreacted.
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by diob 6y ago
I wonder if there are companies focusing on solving the opposite problem. In other words, AI to focus on things humans don't perceive (leaving the driving to the human). For instance, figuring out the person in another car is drunk,
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by diob 6y ago
Refusing to comment on something is also about ignoring things of no substance and not letting an opponent control the conversation. If you read "The Ass Is A Poor Receptacle For The Head: Why Democrats Suck At Communication, And How
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by diob 6y ago
Exactly, I would be willing to bet a lot of these folks would be upset / embarrassed if they knew the a coworker they thought to be below them was in fact commanding a higher salary. Thing is, it's likely to be true. You don&#x27
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by diob 6y ago
Parental leave, vacation, healthcare, retirement, are all typically better in other developed countries. I, like you, get paid a heck of a lot more than my friends in those countries, but if something happens to me (say I get caught up in
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by diob 6y ago
Collective bargaining is a big win for the working class (and yes, that includes tech). Even though we get paid a good chunk in the USA, our overall benefit package is thin in comparison to other developed countries. Not to mention our he
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by diob 6y ago
You're close here, but I think you're missing the point. Things that haven't been seen as "scarce" in the past are becoming more and more likely to be forced into scarcity. We're not worried about superfluous
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by diob 6y ago
Right, I've posted this before, but long term wealth building is becoming too expensive for the average person. The only reason food hasn't become too expensive is wealthy people don't have a reason to go out and buy up all t
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by diob 6y ago
This is interesting because I think the problem is about what is measured, not what isn't. Have you happened to read the Tyranny of Metrics? It talks about how we measure what is easy to measure, then use that. And once others know wh
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by diob 6y ago
I think these statistics tell us everything we need to know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc... The right to a fair trial in the USA has been utterly destroyed by police who seek to be judg
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by diob 6y ago
What are you getting at? Why would they be focusing on hours instead of growing the company?
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by diob 6y ago
Yup, and they'd have time to start their own pursuits or small businesses. It's really a win win.
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by diob 6y ago
It'd probably do wonders for their economy, given the results from that Microsoft test where they only worked 4 days a week ( https://www.npr.org/2019/11/04/776163853/microsoft-japan-say... ). With th
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by diob 6y ago
This is so true. I'm happy to have finally escaped the poverty trap, but I worry one day I'll lose it all over medical issues since I'm in the USA.
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by diob 6y ago
Yes, you're correct that most fiscal conservatives often go down the naive and overly simplistic route of proclaiming "all spending bad". But that's why people need to take a critical look at things. It's not about
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by diob 6y ago
It's actually the fiscally conservative thing to do. Every study around social programs show they grow the economy more than they cost it. But it's hard to get folks to release their "crabs in a bucket" mentality.
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by diob 6y ago
You can do the same thing with React though, you can arbitrarily render a React root anywhere, and an arbitrary number of times on the same page. For instance, I work on an app that was originally written in Backbone / Marionette, but
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by diob 6y ago
Could you flood their logs with nonsense domain searches? Would be fun to do a coordinated effort around that.
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by diob 6y ago
Speaking as someone who came from a rather colorful childhood of abuse, I'm wondering what your personal past is? You're assuming so much about the lives that folks lead, and to me it speaks of a lack of empathy for the personal
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by diob 6y ago
You hit the nail on the head. While others see their families as a support system, mine has always acted as the opposite. Similar to you, I wish I had gotten out earlier. I feel for all the folks who are forced to stay in abusive "su

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