ergothus

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by ergothus 7y ago
It also depends on how the question is asked. I've left jobs where I respected my manager...but not someone higher up the chain. At least once the manager left almost immediately after I did, for the same reasons.
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by ergothus 7y ago
> Note that (4) may happen dozens of times in the course of a large project, and that every single revisit of the TDD tests is 100% wasted time. ^ That is what makes me (Note: I'm not the one you asked the question of) suspicious of
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by ergothus 7y ago
> The First Amendment is about government suppression of speech It is exactly that, but that doesn't actually end the real conversation people are trying to have. Do we support the idea that the govt shouldn't restrict speech,
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by ergothus 7y ago
> is because it's not a name What, pray tell, are you using as the definition of what is or is not a name? You appear to be saying something has to be a common name to be a name, which opens the question of how new common names ev
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by ergothus 7y ago
> Your friend is mixing together some stuff in telephone game style. Are they? They said: >> developed Buran to match what they saw as the space warfare capabilities that USA gained with the Shuttle "what they saw" bein
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by ergothus 7y ago
Stupid question: Everytime I'm given the option to work with v4 or v6 (which, granted, is not often) I do v4 for one silly, stupid reason: I can remember a v4 address for, like the 10 minutes while configuring that I might at any mome
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by ergothus 7y ago
...? How? I mean, I know I have plenty of confirmation biases reacting to this headline (generally in the opposite direction), but outside of the headline, I don't get the above conclusion. If X service has Y service competing with (
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by ergothus 7y ago
My understanding is that DNA is basically unique, but the patterns use for conventional DNA analysis are not. While they may be statistically close enough to unique to trust over the whole population, there have been different issues when
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by ergothus 7y ago
> it is a paradox to think a "murdering chef knife" can be discriminated from a "cooking chef knife" when the manufacturer creates it. You can certainly market your knives with an intention. You can study which knive
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by ergothus 7y ago
It is a complex topic and my own views are still being defined, but I think it is safe to say that for most the issue isnt capitalism, it is unchecked capitalism. The idea that we work for the system instead of the system working for us. M
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by ergothus 7y ago
Interesting, because when I switched to Java I absolutely hated (and still do!) the autogenerated documentation. Included was every variation of the constructor. Missing was HOW I would actually call it, and where I would get the params t
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by ergothus 7y ago
> Most treasured memories are agonies that won’t get out of the mind and have to get turned into a character-building story to maintain sanity, My world is changed by how obvious yet insightful this is.
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by ergothus 7y ago
Not the above poster, but I want to understand. I have half-understood thoughts that conflict with each other. Any help showing where I misunderstand is appreciated, but this is probably a failure of my brain to be able to cope. * All spa
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by ergothus 7y ago
IANAL, but I don't think a hostile work environment means "no one ever says something that is offensive", but rather an environment where that is normal and accepted. If we learn how to be more adult in our conversations, wh
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by ergothus 7y ago
dang has called me out for degrading a conversation in the past. dang was correct then, and the comment replied to IS degrading the conversation as described. You don't have to be wrong to be expressing it poorly or unconstructively.
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by ergothus 7y ago
I have a pet theory that we (that is, the culture I'm familiar with, so I don't really know how widespread it is, but at least the white U.S.) have spent too long saying "don't discuss politics, sex, religion, and politi
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by ergothus 7y ago
> I had a manager I loved that would drop by every few days and just ask “how’s it going”? Then I’d fill him in. It was fun and low key and highly productive. > Also, it seems managers get so overloaded that 1 on 1s and stand ups end
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by ergothus 7y ago
> But I actually like that different teams can mix a lot easier. I've heard this claim for open offices a lot. I never understand it. It's not like I'm AGAINST easy collaboration. But I spend (or try to spend) more time
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by ergothus 7y ago
> we are all 'good' human beings. Barring a few exceptions, agreed, but: * 0.0001% of the population leaves a LOT of jerks in the world - jerks that tend to rise in power and influence by exploiting social systems made for non-
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by ergothus 7y ago
Trying hard to keep this neutral: Republicans in recent years have been focused on removing barriers to companies. The focus to decide if mega mergers are cool is "can price to consumers lower?" Thus, they are expected to suppor
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by ergothus 7y ago
The part of the article talking about dropping to one verb ("use") made me think of the same thing ("execute"). The benefit to verb/noun (or noun.verb) is getting BOTH. If you effectively drop the verb, you lose ou
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by ergothus 7y ago
I'm not qualified to discuss the details, but I WILL say I moved to Seattle,WA 7ish years ago and was amazed at how green everything is (like, because there are trees everywhere). I've heard Portland, OR is the same. Despite this
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by ergothus 7y ago
> (1) all employees are trusted and unmeasured, but you have to tap people on the shoulder every once in a while to confirm that they're on track. Naturally, this is easier if everyone is on-site. I don't get it - shouldn'
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by ergothus 7y ago
You are skipping the audience that ARENT life-destroying addicts, such as the target of the article. The fact that researchers can barely study schedule 1 drugs to determine if they should BE scheduled 1 drugs is a big red flag. The disprop
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by ergothus 7y ago
> ("pay-per-clip" :) You have a well-written and accurate comment, but I'm overwhelmingly distracted by the combination of the adorable "pay-per-clip" and the historied debate about how to handle an emoticon smil
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by ergothus 7y ago
I think you're missing the point. Kids repeating these memes is the NATURAL THING FOR KIDS TO DO. Humans are social creatures, and we mimic patterns around us. I've seen myself do it, and I'm over 40, so I have great confi
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by ergothus 7y ago
I was a Perl dev a long time ago, and I think it made me a stronger coder. I still miss it, and I've not coded Perl for real in a decade. You're correct about "over-the-top cleverness and arcane constructs" being a pro
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by ergothus 7y ago
"scary" in this context means "makes me feel inadequate". So, good for them to be that way.
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by ergothus 7y ago
After bnetd I boycotted Blizzard for years. The only tangible result was that I missed out on Warcraft 3. After the 1-click patent, I boycotted Amazon for years. They didn't appear to have missed my money. I'm all for collectiv
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by ergothus 7y ago
I'm liberal. I'm frequently frustrated and disappointed with the NYT - to the point that I have elected NOT to subscribe as I do with several other publications despite consuming only digitally. However, this article does a very

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