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2y ago
No, they're using that and RTO as an excuse for layoffs. They layoffs were coming inevitably from ZIRP going away. If you were a CEO and looking at that balance sheet would you tell investors "we need to shed workforce because w
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2y ago
and strangely in two years no one has demonstrated anything like this that people found of value. In fact for all the "entertainment" sectors it has been injected into, we have gotten poisoning of self-publishing and soulless gen
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2y ago
Say you reduced their revenue to only that application. Would it be sustainable? Would it be worth the billions upon billions of dollars that have been shoveled at it? Would it add more than the billions upon billions of dollars in the
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2y ago
Fortunately his message is still big enough to get through.
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2y ago
I have great respect for this response.
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2y ago
Thanks for the update.
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2y ago
To be clear: Your is stance that non-compete and stay-or-pay agreements do not interfere with employees' labor rights and that broadening their applicability is good ? Because that is what happened.
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2y ago
> I don't think it's even been settled that quantum mechanics are truly, for sure probabilistic. Since you can never prove or disprove the existence of "God" or some other hidden global variable deterministically movi
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2y ago
Agreed. The premise of this topic can't solicit a reasonable response, but you offered one anyways, hence my confusion.
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2y ago
Why is this the best one? Do you believe there no possible improvement to it to make it better?
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2y ago
But which one is best, like the post asks for?
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2y ago
Why is this the best one? Or is it just an implementation you like?
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2y ago
Why is this the best one?
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2y ago
Begging for a attention and "stars" here is somewhat distasteful and against the spirit of the community.
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2y ago
What wheel was reinvented here?
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2y ago
I think the sentiment was they help significantly when you have inexperienced programmers. (That has also been my experience)
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2y ago
I guarantee that was some A/B testing and moving elements around drove what was technically engagement by 0.03% more. The best kind of engagement.
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2y ago
I disagree because you're only considering the "get code to make the test pass". Refactoring, refining, and simplifying is critical and I've yet to see this applied well. (I've also yet to see the former applied u
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2y ago
Sure didn't and this is probably the fundamental misunderstanding the author had too. You can receive all the frequencies (this is easy and what you and the author are claiming is all you need to do). You cannot listen to all of th
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2y ago
"Listening to all the radio at once" is mathematically, physically, and technically impossible to do as stated on a continuous spectrum. If you have an continuous and uncountable number of possible broadcast frequencies (even in
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2y ago
Null in not-SQL (which is most things) usually isn't this tortured and isn't hard.
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2y ago
This is genuinely disgusting and egregious. Why would anyone want to "collaborate" with you when you just violate their ip rights and norms of the open source community and then act like this is perfectly normal? You don't e
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2y ago
If you truly believe "he is on the right path" without evidence to present and then have to qualify it with "despite <things showing he is on the wrong path or demonstrating bad judgement>" you might want to recons
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2y ago
What's the first amendment right being violated in this case?
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2y ago
Do you feel like those two options would cover all possible scenarios for "the state of the field"?
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2y ago
GitHub is not the only game in town.
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2y ago
Shouldn't the free market correct this if it is, in fact, so widespread and risk free? Why would the cryptobros not just band together and make their own bank? It wouldn't be for lack of funds. And if what they want to do is wit
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2y ago
I'll not be snarky and just say that convention is not new nor is the use of it here innovative.
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2y ago
While I generally agree with this particular site, it would have been nice if whoever made this put some better thought into making the light mode colors even remotely aesthetically pleasing. Supported by the other complaints in this threa
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2y ago
This is a really gross oversimplification of design principals that ventures into "not even wrong". It makes a statement that you need four colors (as if you couldn't possibly make a usable site with more or less) and then lo
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