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by drugme 8y ago
NYC being the single worst place on the planet for public works projects. I'm not sure what the way forward is, and I wouldn't begin to know how to fix the corruption problem. But I do know that blatant hyperbole like the above
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by drugme 8y ago
Plenty is getting done in NYC. Indeed, the changes in the last 15 years (due almost entirely to government intervention -- mostly at the city level) have been quite profound. The idea that local government is "powerless" is sim
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by drugme 8y ago
My comment was a bit presumptuous then. Sincere apologies.
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by drugme 8y ago
Landlords would jump to sell their rent-controlled buildings to developers who are champing at the bit. This is wishful thinking, on a number of fronts. For example one does not simply "sell" (meaning, in the context of proposed
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by drugme 8y ago
This is legal. The (far) bigger point is that it's royally fucked up. And that of course corporations are not even (remotely) comparable to individuals. When you and I are able to radically reduce our tax liabilities by shifting our
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by drugme 8y ago
The point is that when you're looking to redevelop, you go after low-hanging fruit -- like, for example, low-rise / brownfield industrial districts where the industry and people left decades ago and would otherwise never be comi
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by drugme 8y ago
You know what the common theme here is? The only common theme I see here is that you never seem to acknowledge the gaping flaws people have identified in the arguments you're making. Instead you just keep changing the subject.
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by drugme 8y ago
We both love our work so quitting isn't exactly helpful. But your work doesn't love you, apparently. Otherwise it wouldn't be forcing you to make a draconian choice like this.
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by drugme 8y ago
It's quite natural, actually. And it's what you'd call a tradeoff , not a one-way restriction.
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by drugme 8y ago
Almost everything between Midtown and Downtown is a 4-5 story walkup, how is that ideal? 4-5 stories (at 2-4 apartments per) is quite good density, actually.
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by drugme 8y ago
This complicated failover setup took huge amount of time and resources to setup, delaying the project by months. Hmm - failover shouldn't be that hard to set up. If it was then that suggests that other issues (technical debt, inex
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by drugme 8y ago
being an asshole doesn't make you less of an engineer. The issue wasn't that he was an "asshole"; but that he was undisciplined .
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by drugme 8y ago
I'm not damning his character. Or even questioning his character. Just saying, from the thumbnail description given of his work habits - you couldn't quite call him an "engineer".
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by drugme 8y ago
I'm not saying it's a great situation. Just not a "crazy" one. Can't redevelop lower Manhattan because everything between Houston and 30th is a "historical building". You know perfectly well this isn&#x2
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by drugme 8y ago
No, it is horseshit [because scale] The thing is, scale was only one factor listed among many.
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by drugme 8y ago
Let's just say there may be other factors to consider besides net project cost. Like, say: - The economic strangulation of entire neighborhoods - Disrupted access to health care and educational opportunities - Disrupted access to one&
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by drugme 8y ago
It's crazy that the NYC transit system is controlled by the state government in Albany, a bunch of folks that pretty much don't use it at all. Or given the fact the integrated metro NYC system (subway + regional rail) serves a v
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by drugme 8y ago
even if they are heavily coupled, So don't use polyrepos for heavily coupled projects, then. Or even better... ... try to avoid heavy coupling in the first place.
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by drugme 8y ago
I found it to be neither horseshit nor irresponsible. A bit overdrawn and skewed in some of its arguments, perhaps. But then again... so was your critique. For example: We had to migrate a polyrepo to a monorepo and it was not fun becau
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by drugme 8y ago
Totally undisciplined of course -- we hired him and he refused to follow any instructions, got bored easily, thought he knew better than his engineering manager, and was ultimately fired after about 3 months on the job. Or in other words
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by drugme 8y ago
Awesome or not - know of any use cases?
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by drugme 8y ago
Hopefully everyone recognizes the legitimate scientific import of this find. And that, while it may not get upvoted - this submission won't get instantly flagged.
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Take me to your Leda: sensual Pompeii bedroom art uncovered(theguardian.com)
2 points by drugme 8y ago|1 comments
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Mass US copyright expiry brings flood of works into public domain(theguardian.com)
5 points by drugme 8y ago|0 comments
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by drugme 8y ago
It's a news article, after all -- and fundamentally more about, you know, people rather than technology. So in that sense the distinction hardly matters.
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by drugme 8y ago
Unfortunate, but I guess with any new tech there will always be luddites. And in the face of any significant protest against the dystopian future we are being dragged into -- there will always be those making ill-informed comparisons to p
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New discoveries at Pompeii come amid renaissance at site(theguardian.com)
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by drugme 8y ago
When interviewing for senior (read: C-suite) positions, I sometimes try to gauge how someone reacts to dumb questions. This can be OK as long as you preface it with something like, "If you don't mind I'd like to ask somethi
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by drugme 8y ago
[flag] pure politics
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Stolen, burned, tossed in the lake: e-scooters face vandals wrath(theguardian.com)
1 points by drugme 8y ago|0 comments

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