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by erikb 8y ago
Yes. Of course it is. I think they are not stupid either and very well know that it will happen. The first on the market has to do the experiments to get it right.
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by erikb 8y ago
I'm not sure if discriminating against super market employees is the right way to fight discrimination. The good things I can see with a machine super market: - It can be open 24/7 without exploiting its employees - It can be almo
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by erikb 8y ago
Ah I see, there's certainly a clear difference between our evaluation. If I see a whole team of freeloaders I blame the management team above them. At least in engineering teams it's super easy to have motivated teams because the
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by erikb 8y ago
Usually in the early stage (when stock has no value) people get more stock. Then in the growth times people get more cash. And then when the growth slows down and one succeeded at becoming another boring behemoth people get stock again beca
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by erikb 8y ago
I always feel that freeloaders are not hurting me personally, so why harm them? And it's not like they bring nothing to the table, it's just less than an ambitious/motivated person would. Last but not least, and why I think m
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by erikb 8y ago
> It is easy to imagine a world where those tools developed along with the computers, until programming itself became so easy that the average user would feel comfortable doing it. I would argue it IS SO EASY. The thing is that programm
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by erikb 8y ago
> In the smalltalk world (and Lisp machine worlds of PARC and MIT) everything running in the machine (above the microcode layer) was inspectable, breakpoint able, and modifiable. So Linux plus maybe some elegance features?
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by erikb 8y ago
wtf. You do know that people die from too much stress, right?
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by erikb 8y ago
> "Not being a team player" was often code for not trying hard enough to make your lead look good. Replace often with always. That's coded language that exactly means this. It's really hard to avoid this though. >
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by erikb 8y ago
The learning loop is very simple here. Do interviews and look for clues. If you don't see clues join. If you see clues after joining, think about how they look from the outside. Then repeat. AFter a few rounds (2-3) people usually have
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by erikb 8y ago
> That's what you get when you have fixed quotas for firing people, e.g. bottom 10%. After a few rounds you have some very good people left That is not a general statement, bro. Not generally "very good people" are left, b
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by erikb 8y ago
In all honesty, if you've seen Netflix software quality deteriorate over the last few months you probably know that they are not that excellent anymore. It's always like this. As long as there's real growth, there's real
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by erikb 8y ago
> Musk now has more concentrated equity ownership of the company You mean Musk gained control through that, not lost it? How so? That's quite different an assumption from what I expected.
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by erikb 8y ago
Space stations will become a commodity as well. What I mean to say is, every product that is used by almost everybody will become a commodity at some point. That is not the question. The question is a) How long can you keep it from not beco
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by erikb 8y ago
Can you check the other comments in the thread and any other post about CoCs in FOSS communities over the recent 4-16 weeks? Check out this discussion for instance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18281676 Also note th
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by erikb 8y ago
It was a political move from day one. As you might notice Kernel is not the only environment that adds and modifies their CoC currently. There is a group with political goals driving that effort. He wanted to see where the wind is blowing b
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by erikb 8y ago
One of these super confusing topics. At the same time as this is discussed as some kind of heroism in Germany at least there is a discussion about cum-ex trading as the robbery of the century. In some regards both are using the complexity o
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by erikb 8y ago
If you only think in Python then packaging really might be a painpoint. But honestly if we look at other languages it's not so bad actually, very specifically calling out Golang here because it claimed exactly this topic as an initial
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by erikb 8y ago
> - People expect you to care about your job. What I think is funny about this is that the actual expoiting slave driver bosses will accept sometimes that you do what you get paid for and then go home. They won't tell you so, but if
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by erikb 8y ago
Amazon is also not fighting for customers, afaik. If something goes wrong, they dump you instructions on how to make it a task for the local police. And then they repeat this again and again.
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by erikb 8y ago
The goal of a spoon is to make soup eatable. The goal of a blockchain is not to burn through a shit ton of electricity. Therefore I'd argue that your points a and b are mostly side effects, and not even side effects of blockchains. If
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by erikb 8y ago
I technology is not about anything. There are people who try to use it for good of humanity and there are people who try to use it for their personal gains on the cost of others. It's always like this. And if we wouldn't develop t
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by erikb 8y ago
Nothing comes to a 50% page size cookie notification without an opt-out option.
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by erikb 8y ago
And how do I know if this app itself is or is not spying on me?
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by erikb 8y ago
You mean you read blogs where people claim that amount of profit over a span of 3-6 months.
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by erikb 8y ago
My toilet paper at home has four layers. (Same amount of relevance)
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by erikb 8y ago
All these "let's be more inclusive by focussing on what/how we can exclude" activities these days are really scary. You can't be inclusive by being exclusive.
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by erikb 8y ago
30% profit. You might consider a career as fantasy author.
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Tell HN: So suddenly HN is fixed size and way too small?
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by erikb 8y ago
Same for me with monopoly. Monopoly doesn't have backstabbing that much, but certainly has alliances and some people already don't take too well to other people cooperating without them.

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