drewcoo

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by drewcoo 3y ago
> This happens way too often, and I'm genuinely curious why. It's probably what you're paying attention to. There are lots of shocking occurrences that most people don't notice. Or don't want to notice. Death is
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by drewcoo 3y ago
This. HR defends the company against legal attacks from outsiders and employees alike. Not all people working in HR have this as a prime motivation, but that's why HR exists.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
The Boeing decline was brought about by the bean-counters and their quarterly goals, not by the dedicated engineers working on years-long projects who built the company.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
These things are vanity metrics. > Lines of code (not just in main but in branches) IMO, the best devs can end up with negative LOCs per measurement period. Neophytes will never have negative LOCs. Mediocre devs who copy and paste a lot
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> I assume that was just someone who made tooth brushes? Yes. > Was that really a popular job? No, but that's not the point. If you looked up census record occupations of the era, you wouldn't find a lot of "rotary-mach
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by drewcoo 3y ago
. . . or at least flakes.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> we're having a hard time finding experienced and skilled engineers... trying to hire for a senior nodejs role Experienced, skilled engineers are rarely the same as specialists in your languages/frameworks/libraries/
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by drewcoo 3y ago
I don't think that comparing one year against one other can possibly show the title to be true or false. A couple of weeks ago there were some articles here on statistical process control. The same lessons about meaningful data samplin
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> Math, physics, chemistry won't change. The whole beauty of science is that it doesn't ever claim to have static, absolute answers - it's constantly growing and changing as we learn more about everything. Likewise, the hu
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Not just petty. It sounds like an awful lot of work for very little result. An actual vengeful person with that level of access could certainly do better.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> Educators who employ lies-to-children do not intend to deceive Then they're not lies. Nor are jokes, fiction, or any other perceived-to-be-untruths not intended to deceive.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> Privacy is a wall it's almost impossible to replace, once breached. That's not how walls work. Maybe you're thinking of your home and cops or vampires!
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Maybe it's more like recycling. Overall, there's probably a net positive in recycling in awareness alone, regardless of how much "recycled" material just goes to landfills. And it's a way to signal socially to find
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by drewcoo 3y ago
I don't think "impediment" means what you think it means. Regardless, Tim Bray is writing on his own personal blog, not on HN. His opinions are his own and he's welcome to them. It's totally cool to just say that hi
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by drewcoo 3y ago
That's cool, dude. So do I. Stop hurting me with your technology.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
I completely agree with this assessment. But to play devil's advocate, someone else might claim that if I never meet any insufferable people, I am likely the most insufferable of all. (Just trying to steel man the position I disagree w
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> letting personal biases and stereotypes drive the process also known as "culture fit"
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> You sound like a manager [not wanting an "overqualified person with a terrible attitude"] They sound like a bad/lazy manager. If their report is overqualified, they need to be fed better, harder, larger work. If their re
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> The biggest underutilisation of females in the labour force is in the military Bigger than strength-based manual labor? Military: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/09/10/the-chang... Cons
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by drewcoo 3y ago
I heard that force-feeding rats 1000x more preachy dietary "facts" than expected among humans led to cancer.
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Positive inflation will do that.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Craven, talentless children of one of the world's greatest (deceased) authors publish part of his work against his will. Wonder why . . . Disgusting.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> This is the problem with redefining commonly used terms like stupid. Maybe like Eskimos have many words for snow, we need many words for stupid. Or idiots should learn to use thesauruses. /s
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Everyone else is talking about the obvious red flags of the relationship. What about the fact that within a month someone new could contribute so significantly to your years-long business as to be worth 10% of it? That would make me ask a l
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Well he was a copperhead[1] which didn't make him popular with a lot of folks in the north. And the CSA was almost defeated. The USA had been waging total war. Sherman had already marched to the ocean. Lee's army was small, damage
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> the danger to programmer jobs is that one day product owners might be able to cut out the middleman and get the job done without the programmers To do that, they'd need to have some kind of coherent detailed plans that actually ma
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Save our journalists? The greatest journalist of our age is being tortured to death by "friendly nations" without so much as a trial. Who gives a damn about monopolies?
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Good point. I wonder if the problem is children's programming.
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Learn to code^H^H^H^Hfarm. - Jensen Huang At least he's not telling us to learn coal mining, I guess.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> Because state pensions in the UK are not means tested millions of millionaire pensioners receive welfare payments from the state. As they should. Means testing is a sneaky way to sabotage anything good. It turns the haves against the h

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