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by erikb 9y ago
But honestly aren't all of these more complex than Fidget Spinners? I feel like we've reached a new low with these.
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by erikb 9y ago
Because science is a religion. That sounds like a boring statement, but it's still true. Science in its core shouldn't be religious. But we are humans. So applying science, working as a scientist, using science (even if just for s
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by erikb 9y ago
Of course they had. Who do you think worked at MTV back in the day? These were all 30+ years old acting like they were 14 themselves and making good money with it. It just feels natural if all you know is how to act like a 14 year old and h
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by erikb 9y ago
Because both fight for the same audience: everybody. Whoever wins the game for everybody will beat the other and move it to a side corner. A little like FB and G+. Do you know anybody on G+? So even if it's better for 1:1 you can'
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by erikb 9y ago
The bad thing about free market dynamics that you don't need to keep up user value once you hit market leadership. You just destroy the competition then nobody has a chance but use you.
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by erikb 9y ago
You think this is different from previous generations? Please. Every generation is like that when they are around 14.
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by erikb 9y ago
This is too naive. a) Companies will even do illegal stuff as long as they can do it and the lawsuits are not too expensive. b) You can't make everything illegal. Smart people will always find a way no matter how strict your system is.
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by erikb 9y ago
Ignoring all the other things mentioned in comments, just assuming the simple case where Company B fully hires the employees. It's still an "advantage" for the bosses, because if things go wrong you can close Company B withou
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by erikb 9y ago
Engineering is about providing a tool/service that fulfills a customer need. But in the end it is not about making customers happy, as most engineering focussed blog posts would suggest. In the end it's about getting this very rar
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by erikb 9y ago
Weird. Have I misread it? It seems like the blog post is exactly supporting that statement: You need to pay commissions to sales people.
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by erikb 9y ago
If you work as an engineer in a big company you often face decisions that will influence big time results. And you can make a big impact, by deciding which competitor for your time (manager, co-department, company's partner A or partne
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by erikb 9y ago
Look. Think about a guy. He stands behind a horse. The horse kicks him in the face. For most people this would hurt. But he doesn't process that feedback. How do you explain to him that it's a bad idea to get close to that horse f
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by erikb 9y ago
Really good argument. Thanks for not totally dropping the idea of a reasonable discussion, just because someone said "God is dead", ehm, I mean "iPhone is bad". Actually I believe there will be another popularity spike a
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by erikb 9y ago
A) You don't know what an engineer is, obviously. So your examples had exactly zero impact. lol. B) The Galaxy S4 with Android 2.2 is more powerful than the iPhone 7. C) There are two reasons. Both may apply to you, though. Reality is
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by erikb 9y ago
You may think this price is ridiculous, but iPhones are slowly dying for two to four generaltions already. The only people still on iPhone are the ones who consider it too hard to switch to Android (low IT skills), or the ones who feel some
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by erikb 9y ago
I think this comment is bringing it to the point. Investment wise it was a bad idea to begin with, and when competitors start to hit and easily conquer the same market, then of course it becomes really stupid to invest in that market. In th
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by erikb 9y ago
Current headline: > If you enroll in Equifax's TrustedID you waive your rights to sue Equifax Is something like that even legally possible in the US? I know in my country it isn't. A) You can't waive certain rights, even i
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by erikb 9y ago
I see, then I don't understand this blog post at all. Is my expectation weird that an anouncement blog post for a major version +1 should contain some features? Or have I just missed that part in the article?
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by erikb 9y ago
Not to pull down the emotions here, but if the whole blog post is not saying more than "Hashicorp Vagrant 2.0" I doubt that there will be some meaningful content in that version. Was Vagrant bought by Hashicorp or something? Why n
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by erikb 9y ago
And that's what people think (me too, no exception here) two years after they come out of university.
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by erikb 9y ago
I haven't experienced that at all. Okay, yes. When you ask your boss what he measures you about, he'll give you performance data. Tasks closed, commits sent, LOCs produced, etc. But what he really measures are top features you pro
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by erikb 9y ago
You need to consider that a coder most oftne self evaluates performance as time spent writing code. If he spends 50% of his time planing, learning, comunicating, and 50% coding he will consider it a 50% performance drop.
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by erikb 9y ago
A common discussion I have with other developers. For a developer I'd say I'm a little more people minded than average, and a lot more big picture success oriented. And in both regards your personal productivity doesn't reall
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by erikb 9y ago
Well, as said before sometimes you need it because pip isn't installed by default. Just had such a situation yesterday at work. A guy from QA (not a dev) needs to setup an environment to install our tool for testing. He doesn't kn
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by erikb 9y ago
Actually I always complain about Python packaging when I'm only using Python. But the moment I start using it in other languages I dream about the comfort and professionalism of tools in Python. Of course in scientific Py you need comp
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by erikb 9y ago
Really? I hoped so many years after the boom died it would become more relaxing again. Maybe good old times really never come back.
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by erikb 9y ago
Yes there are always special cases that use special tools. But add all computers in data centers + all smart phones and you may have a factor bigger than 1000:1. For the broad mass of people it's totally irrelevant that there is an edg
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by erikb 9y ago
I don't know, it's pretty unlikely at this point that anything will replace Linux as The Kernel. It's like replacing Google as the search engine. On top of that users are currenlty moved away one additional abstraction layer
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by erikb 9y ago
If you interact with such a bigger company than your own it is normal that things can take 6-12 months. It's a good opportunity to harden your business against it. Nobody likes to do that, but if you want to survive you have to.
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by erikb 9y ago
That's a very new idea for my, so I have to think about it before I could argue for or against it. Thanks for opening up my mind for it.

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