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by dnissley 6y ago
I don't know why people are so opposed to this explanation. You didn't say all labor practices improved because of productivity gains. And no doubt collective action played some role in the current state of things, but so did a lo
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Ask HN: Stats on People Leaving Software Engineering
3 points by dnissley 6y ago|1 comments
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by dnissley 6y ago
I think the argument is that it's far easier for wealthy families to game metrics that aren't being objectively measured. E.g. they can pay for all sorts of extracurriculars. They know to play up any hint of multiculturalism &#x2F
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by dnissley 6y ago
Who was he dog whistling to? The secret google cabal of sexist software engineers? This strong claim borders on conspiracy. It flies in the face of the fact that the memo was not originally posted for the whole company to see, but in respon
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by dnissley 6y ago
I'm guessing you got that impression by reading between the lines since he certainly did not say so literally. Since the memo is pretty short, could you go back over it and offer up a justification for that assertion? Is it possible th
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by dnissley 6y ago
Don't celebrate too early. It took less than 5 years for this 'thing' to go from college campuses to big companies... What will you do when a twitter mob comes for your company because you're "oppressing your worker
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by dnissley 6y ago
Really all you need to do is google "twitter mob". The most common cases involve people who did something bad, but where the punishment meted out was totally disproportional to the crime itself. Justine Sacco is the classic case,
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by dnissley 6y ago
> They have a problem with their employer, and are being heard in the court of public opinion. Why is that "a bummer"? The court of public opinion doesn't have a good track record, for one. It's decisions are often ba
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by dnissley 6y ago
By this logic, businesses would be able to turn away customers based on their race.
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by dnissley 6y ago
Michael O. Church is a controversial figure around here, but he's claimed this has happened to him.
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by dnissley 6y ago
He doesn't say so precisely but like many invocations of this phrase it probably means something closer to "people not part of the intelligentsia / chattering classes." Of which it appears he would not be one of these no
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by dnissley 6y ago
The only answer I can come up with for this is a larger team of specialists in the relevant areas combined with a small number of generalists to coordinate between the experts and synthesize the findings.
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by dnissley 6y ago
I don't believe it would function at all without their online services, it actually connects directly to wifi so it's definitely doing something important through that. I haven't looked into it but I bet everything is proprie
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by dnissley 6y ago
I've had more and more trouble sleeping as I age, and in the past 2 years it's gotten way worse. I've tried all manner of things and had put off getting the dreem for a while since it was so expensive. I've been to the d
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by dnissley 6y ago
Just got one a few weeks ago. Feel free to AMA. It stays on for me (medium to large size head, or so I think) -- tends to ride up on my forehead a bit over time but never had it fall off. It's got some adjustments that can be made to t
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by dnissley 6y ago
You can certainly make a case for facebook being a weapon, but you could just as easily make a case that it's not. This is a terrible thought experiment that has us assume the former without considering the latter.
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by dnissley 6y ago
I certainly wouldn't like that they took such an action, even if I liked whatever candidate they were stanning for. It would come off as pretty classless to most people I think. But should it be illegal? IMO -- no. If this is the hill
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by dnissley 6y ago
Sometimes one implementation or the other just plain sucks -- typically it's bad dark mode implementations that obviously were just afterthoughts.
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by dnissley 6y ago
By pretty much every definition it is violence.
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by dnissley 6y ago
She just made her tweets private is why that's happening
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by dnissley 6y ago
Any reason someone better suited for it shouldn't be able to take my job?
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by dnissley 6y ago
It does finally! In 8.0.16+
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by dnissley 6y ago
Feels like that's playing definitional games. Why not just own up to the fact that the lockdowns are authoritarian to some degree, and then go on to say that doesn't mean they aren't sensible?
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by dnissley 6y ago
Personally I believe that software development is closer to a blue collar profession than a white collar one. Like blue collar professions we have standard outputs from our jobs -- we fix things and manufacture them, however ephemeral or ab
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by dnissley 6y ago
The blog discovery story is terrible, which I think is the only thing that would make someone say that blogging is dead. Anyone know of any good solutions for this? I've been kicking around an idea about manually associating blogs to t
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by dnissley 6y ago
This situation looks even worse considering Google runs a competing service (Android messages for web)
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by dnissley 6y ago
> Grabbing everything I need, and then being able to zip it up as needed to save or share is convenient and easy Isn't there a risk of cross platform incompatibility with some of the packages that compile on install?
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by dnissley 7y ago
How do you allow for generics? I personally love generic brands like AmazonBasics and Target's Up&Up because they save me a decent chunk of time and money.
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by dnissley 7y ago
Would this apply to physical platforms as well? E.g. Walmart and Target who also do similar things with similar data
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by dnissley 7y ago
What's wrong with letting them share in the wealth, giving them masks and gloves, and reducing the throughput a little bit so that people don't have to work in close proximity to each other? They're addressing all of your p

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