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by drewcoo 3y ago
The 90s were a constant Clinton sex scandal from the time he started running for office through his impeachment and people still talk about it. Simultaneously, there was the Harken energy scandal, featuring influence peddling by not-yet-Pre
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by drewcoo 3y ago
If it's a call to action, this is the action: "Now, I’m just waiting for the end while enjoying the time we have left, like someone watching their last sunset."
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> about 'problem of evil' that believers face The problem of evil is something anyone studying Abrahamic religion encounters. Very few of the "believers" I've met have bothered. > Eastern philosophy states tha
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> I feel government should probably spend more energy on more consequential issues Feel away, but this is about formative behavior (play!) by children. There will be consequences. Even if we cannot forecast them now. > The private se
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> categorising toys by gender had "led to the proliferation of science, technology, engineering and mathematics-geared toys" in boys sections If that's what toy guns are, I'm suddenly much less anti-gun!
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by drewcoo 3y ago
It was in Burroughs Algol in the 60s. Algol was Pascal's parent. WITH was not in all Algols, but Wirth was free to borrow the best ideas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_60
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by drewcoo 3y ago
I think you forgot "I don't like 'if !foo' but I don't know what a guard clause is." This is from DHH, the Rails guy.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> all code is technical debt That's really not what technical debt means, but yeah, you have to maintain tests. There's a cost. > So what is the optimal number of tests? NaN. There is no right number of tests. And more test
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by drewcoo 3y ago
It's less about SV being history-averse than the crowd here. Meritocracy fantasy seems to play a large role in libertarian dogma.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> Please suggest an alternative to "The Myth." Read some Zinn. https://www.howardzinn.org/collection/peoples-history/ You're welcome.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
I'm fine with all that but there were no follow-ups. All lead-up and no release. Where were the interviews with Cobol nerds standing in front of huge tape drives, sweating even in the chilly server room air as they mumbled inscrutable
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by drewcoo 3y ago
"Quality of people" is not only subjective, but a projection. So project better?
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Electricity was not just unfamiliar to people. It was not understood. It was magic, possibly not just good magic. That was a time before electrical engineering as mature field really existed. The situation parallels software today. It didn&
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> It's easier to walk (or hitchhike) to a fueling station and carry a gallon or 5 of fuel back to your vehicle than it is to carry back a similar amount of electric charge. That seems more like post facto justification than an origi
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Do not post questions to a startup forum. Do seek medical help.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
"Ignorance of the law is no excuse" is a harsh authoritarian stance but it's a common one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignorantia_juris_non_excusat
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Tests "shield you" in exactly the same way that features can build a business. But your customers will want those features and you'll be glad you had fast, meaningful tests.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> it’s about building better software faster Great. Go over in that corner and argue with the other testers and some managers about defining "better" while the rest of us get some work done. > strong emphasis on unit tests,
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by drewcoo 3y ago
The area of the other 4 boroughs is much larger than the island of Manhattan. Manhattan makes up less than 10% of the city area. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boroughs_of_New_York_City NYC is not "on an island&quo
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Considering what it costs to live in Manhattan, the island might be better off as a museum. Maybe a living history museum like Colonial Williamsburg. https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/learn/living-history
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> Cancel culture arises from a structural change in the dynamics of social interaction facilitated by the development of social media. So it's not an extension of shunning, which has existed in human cultures for as long as we know?
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by drewcoo 3y ago
The exact thing I was thinking in response to the GP. Worth noting is that Clausewitz lived in a world where wars were events that were declared between states. Today a major difference is insurgency/counterinsurgency. And our state li
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by drewcoo 3y ago
If someone has been "viable" for years and is suddenly not "viable" any longer, what happened? And why is some manager not being publicly flogged for letting that happen?
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> from stories I've read it feels like the inflection point was, as with so many things, the Vietnam war There's not just one inflection point where things get dark. There are many. Vonnegut might be associated with the Vietnam
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> the shift in popular sci-fi from utopian to dystopian As a kid I used to want things to like Star Trek. I now have a smart phone instead of a communicator, touch screen tablets, a universal translator, my house responds when I call it
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by drewcoo 3y ago
News at 11 . . . Americans believe the news.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Well let's say an incident happens. A big one. Lots of egg on C-level face. Would those execs rather . . . a) publicly berate and fire the internal developer who created the problem or b) have to point out that the opaque series of tes
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by drewcoo 3y ago
I think at least half of the responses here just don't understand what ghosting is. Which means they've probably never been ghosted - good for them!
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by drewcoo 3y ago
No response to applications is normal. Ghosting is suddenly leaving you in the middle of a conversation. For example, not showing up for a scheduled Zoom interview then not replying to your concerned email, asking to reschedule. And yes, th
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> treat candidates with respect > 95% of clowns out there you interview What's your company affiliation?

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