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by ebbv 8y ago
And compared to the profits certain to be reaped if you were successful in developing it.
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by ebbv 8y ago
His foundation is doing a lot of good but merely giving money away should not be grounds for a Nobel. That should be for people who actually dedicate their lives to doing good. Gates is facilitating other people doing good. He’s like Alfred
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by ebbv 8y ago
I don’t believe this story, especially with the update. It makes it even less believable. It seems a lot more likely this site made this insane story up to drive traffic. And it’s from 2016.
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by ebbv 8y ago
This is a bummer because I really love my time machine as a router and backup solution. What’s the next best router out there in terms of coverage, reliability and ease of use?
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by ebbv 8y ago
I actually did work for Ford for a few years in the 90s, and I still would never refer to the company by its ticker symbol. That's just stupid.
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by ebbv 8y ago
The main reasons to use a CMS have nothing to do with user interactivity. It’s about content sharing and reuse between pages. Interlinking of Pages. Site wide configurability. Yes some small companies and personal web pages could be replace
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by ebbv 8y ago
That’s not so much saying the F150 is efficient as it is saying the 2018 Taurus is sadly inefficient. The F150 is a huge and heavy vehicle. While the current model is more efficient than other recent models it is not an efficient car. Not r
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by ebbv 8y ago
Yep. And not having many affordable models as well. When the economy inevitably “corrects” they will be saying “Oh crap who could have seen this coming!” Again.
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by ebbv 8y ago
Because people think by referring to a company by its ticker symbol makes them seem like they are more of an expert.
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by ebbv 8y ago
The future of bad films. My wife and I give most of the netflix movies and shows a shot but the batting average is unfortunately really low. At least for us. We thought "Bright" and "Titan" were absolutely terrible. And
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by ebbv 8y ago
> He and Apple was following the law. If Europe was so angry about Ireland's tax laws they should have stopped it from taking effect in the beginning. Ireland and Apple weren't following the law, that's the whole point of
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by ebbv 8y ago
Similarly if you delete your reddit account but don’t spend the time to delete all your posts and comments before you do, they won’t go away.
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by ebbv 8y ago
Same topic already discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16891651
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by ebbv 8y ago
I have contributed to open source occasionally. It’s not a part of my job most of the time so it’s rare. But it’s also not relevant at all. As I tried to spell out the situation you describe is not unique at all. It’s the same thing every s
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by ebbv 8y ago
If your company isn’t tiny your engineers generally shouldn’t be deciding priority. Unless your company is small enough that the engineers have a clear view of all the priorities of the business all we are capable of is saying “This seems r
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by ebbv 8y ago
SCRUM does not push for bad, tech debt laden products any more than any other development system. Managers who want you to push code out the door ASAP will do it just as much no matter the system you’re using. The solution is not to blame w
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by ebbv 8y ago
If that work is non-development work like writing emails or getting in hangouts or Slack conversations or whatever then you’re right it doesn’t get tracked in SCRUM tickets/issues/stories (typically.) but that’s fine. Because it s
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by ebbv 8y ago
What does “trust your engineers to do the right thing on their own” look like to you? And how is that stopped by SCRUM? For the way we do it, when a stakeholder wants our team to do something, they come to us with user stories and acceptanc
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by ebbv 8y ago
I don’t see this as really an issue. When your work is done it’s done. If it’s someone else’s work that needs to be done now before you can do something else, those should be separate issues/stories/tickets that are blocked until
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by ebbv 8y ago
My team does SCRUM at work and almost none of these apply to us. Sounds like the author works in a bad company.
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by ebbv 8y ago
You missed my very simple point. It’s not that she had assistance in her role (though I’d wager she did not create all her icons in a vacuum, instead collaborating with others on the Mac team.) I’ll restate my point plainly; hero worship ar
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by ebbv 8y ago
Her work is extremely important to the Mac and to Apple, but I don't like hero worship articles. It was a team effort, and there were a lot of people responsible for making the Mac (and Apple) what they were/are. When people wrote
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by ebbv 8y ago
> There is a difference, I think, between healthy and unhealthy conflict. This team was clearly averse to both. It was likely an awful team. I didn't draw that conclusion at all. It didn't sound like he was advocating healthy d
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by ebbv 8y ago
I used to be like the author when I was in my 20's. I had to learn some lessons the hard way just like he did here. Take these to heart young know it alls: 1. Things aren't always black and white in terms of right/wrong or be
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by ebbv 8y ago
Yeah no way I’m gonna trust my passwords to the kings of unwanted bundle ware.
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by ebbv 8y ago
It is complete horse crap. It’s one of those anecdotes anti-regulation people love to repeat because it sounds great. But it’s fabricated nonsense.
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by ebbv 8y ago
Isn't this just a reflection of changes our culture generally? When I was a kid "grown men" were only allowed to be really into sports or maybe cars. Now those barriers of what is "acceptable" for adults to be into
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by ebbv 8y ago
This seems like something you should have replied to the parent with. I wasn't asserting what happens at Apple, I was reacting to what he said. If he is making stuff up, call him out not me.
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by ebbv 8y ago
Seems a bit of a stretch to state this as a global fact. May be true for you, but personally I hate when ceiling's are too low, it makes me feel claustrophobic. One size fits all decrees like this are almost always baloney.
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by ebbv 8y ago
Wow that sounds like a waking nightmare. If I had to sit on bench seating all day I'd probably quit after a week.

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