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by dogleash 5y ago
Labor rights are a patchwork. If you believe in them you should probably engage with strange bedfellows to accomplish the most feasible. Then, maybe when you get to the harder issues you might have shown more people why expanding labor ri
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by dogleash 5y ago
>I wonder how teams avoid breaking parts sleeping behind feature flags, by the ongoing development of its surroundings. Just duplicate the testing jobs with the feature flag flipped. Configure new job to turn expected-failure test cases
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by dogleash 5y ago
What exactly do you think licensing would provide that a formal quality system couldn't? Software has a deliverable that can be tested prior to delivery. And there are domains where software has to be developed within a QMS, those dom
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by dogleash 5y ago
I dunno what you mean, unmoderated repositories was the deign goal of NPM. When NPM launched, and to this day, I was among the people voicing preference for the philosophy that goes into maintaining (e.g.) the Debian repositories. But so
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by dogleash 5y ago
I agree with you that attire doesn't matter, but we're currently in a swing of increasing conformity. Including (or maybe especially) in tech. It doesn't look like the stereotype of conformity from our parent's generati
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by dogleash 5y ago
I didn't know I was coming across as cynical? Just saying that I have no idea if we were "agile" because the term is so damn malleable. I do know we weren't a cookie-cutter copy of the popular SCRUM inspired workflow th
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by dogleash 5y ago
In my aforementioned example, the set of development practices most often called "agile" was neither the right approach nor what we did. Agile as defined as the ideas in the agile manifesto might have been what we did. It woul
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by dogleash 5y ago
I used to work at an R&D company. While that cadence is possible in a website mill, it’s a laughable blanket statement.
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by dogleash 5y ago
If developers costed one fifth of what they do now, how many projects that let performance languish today would staff up to the extent that doing a perf pass would make it's way to the top of the backlog queue? Come on now. Let's
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by dogleash 5y ago
>Laws really need to catch up to the tech which has far outpaced them. None of this is new, or specific to tech, this is just how companies try to end-run the law. How exactly would you propose changing jurisdictional boundaries and&#x2F
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by dogleash 5y ago
I think it's cheekier than that. It's a deliberate attempt to watch people miss points, argue, and split hairs over the mildest of mild rules of thumb.
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by dogleash 5y ago
>Making your training data into a cultural standard is just imperialism, but that's the goal here righ? yep. The cultural imperialism is an open secret. But I've completely lost any ability to tell the difference between peopl
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by dogleash 5y ago
>There's a reason why computer science professors explain concepts at a high or abstract level and don't jump into implementation to help students understand them. It's because they're trying to teach something to p
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by dogleash 5y ago
>Given how many of the social media audience would read just the title, perhaps the missing context label is accurate. If that's the standard we're going with, 95% of content and 100% of ads on social media should also have big
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by dogleash 5y ago
>I am honestly curious how an administration that is sooo against voter ID They're not against voter ID on principal. They're against it as a marketing tactic. I don't mean to sound cynical or conspiratorial, that's
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by dogleash 5y ago
>I dont know much about cars. No; you do. You know quite a lot about operating cars. You (or at least people following a traditional path to driving) took a class, operated under direct supervision for some minimum number of hours, pass
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by dogleash 5y ago
>I actually thought it was really bad propaganda, and quite transparent. The arguments are incoherent, and they don't have any proposal. There's a saying that you only notice propaganda that doesn't work on you. That&#x27
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by dogleash 5y ago
It sounds like you just made the case for 4k TV, where LTE is analogous to 1080p. The long overdue update came and went. There just isn't the pressure built up for the next one. I get the idea of incremental capacity and quality updat
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by dogleash 5y ago
> What I want is to "mount" a git repository, [...] Would that even be possible? Yeah, sure, why not? You could do it with fuse http://libfuse.github.io/doxygen/ There's even a git fuse filesystem a
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by dogleash 5y ago
>Why... Because lots of people don't want to learn git. They want to bungle through it the same way they bungle through most of the software they touch. People who work with software professionally are very adept at bungling. Even
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by dogleash 5y ago
>Oh, come on… While there may be a lot of games trying strange monetization strategies, the majority of the industry is still great. While it's possible to separate wheat from chaff, it's also OK for someone to move on from an
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by dogleash 5y ago
Absolutely. And the good journos do have a bone to pick with the media, but a lot are hacks and don't see it or just use it to advance their own goals.
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by dogleash 5y ago
>The New York Times has had an anti-tech vendetta for a while now. I believe the news should have a vendetta against anyone and anything that has outsized influence and control in society. I don't think the NYT has the domain expe
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by dogleash 5y ago
COVID procedures negatively impacted schooling, it follows that removing COVID restrictions and procedures will positively impact schooling. That's all fine and good so far... Let's posit going back to 2018-era schooling will prov
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by dogleash 5y ago
The tide of software is always turning from "requires custom development" towards "turnkey solutions exists." "No-code" is a buzzword that sits on one of the contours between the two. Of course the web is&#x2F
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by dogleash 5y ago
This article is a confidence trick. By making it about COVID, the affluent readers of the New York Times can pat themselves on the back as if they weren't failing the youth prior to quarantine measures. Of course they were. I've
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by dogleash 5y ago
>I don't feel he's giving a good faith interpretation as to where such policies and ideas come from good faith - noun - honesty or sincerity of intention Isn't this a company that illegally conspires against even
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by dogleash 5y ago
>I'm surprised to hear that. It's just an artifact of hacks trying to take a culture's temperature without going outside. Tech adjacent is only notable for being full of people who will talk about it in professional area
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We assault the public’s psyche for profit. I’ve been called worse for less. I prefer people have opinions rather than the soulless attitude that everything is morally neutral unless political news agitates about it.
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by dogleash 5y ago
When I read an article like this I remember to ask myself “what does the author want to be true?” Then you can start making sense of it.

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