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by ethbro 7y ago
In my experience, no. (A) Selenium's UX isn't nearly where it needs to be to upskill an analyst to create their own automations. (B) Selenium's Windows app compatibility is haphazard. (C) Selenium doesn't have the kind o
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by ethbro 7y ago
I've got a story about how we were spec'd at handling 50% of incoming workload, hit 60% on the first iteration, customer got so excited that we pushed, and project ended up being canned when we failed to hit the (then) final 95% t
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by ethbro 7y ago
- Never use an RPA tool that doesn't integrate with third-party SCM. If they tried to roll their own, that's a bad sign - Never use an RPA tool that doesn't generate plaintext-serialized scripts. You're going to have a b
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by ethbro 7y ago
If anyone in this thread wants to talk RPA, I'm happy to talk your ear off. At this point, I've been doing it for... about 7 years? It's been an interesting ride. Email in profile
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by ethbro 7y ago
I liked the shots of power lines with cicadas chirping. Best part of the series.
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by ethbro 7y ago
There's a definite threshold between "their responsibility" and "the economy's responsibility." I'd say generally the number at which you can no long afford to (a) put a roof over your head in a reasonably
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by ethbro 7y ago
Take a step back, reread what I wrote, and ask yourself if I was saying they should just "get over it." If you have a point to make that's not outrage-driven, I'm happy to listen.
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by ethbro 7y ago
It's almost like they're anti-social or something.
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by ethbro 7y ago
He can handle looking weak as long as the economy keeps humming along, which maintains CCP securely in place, which lessens internal party tensions. If the Chinese economy crashes... well, look at history for the sum of dictatorship + econo
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by ethbro 7y ago
There's also "woke for the talent", which in the current skill economy is non-negligible. If you're having a hard time finding international software developers to work for you because you're sponsoring US border mi
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by ethbro 7y ago
As a professor of political science once told our class... "How do you solve long-running civil war?" "Murder all the grandmothers." His point being that they were (a) the only ones who survived into old age (everyone el
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by ethbro 7y ago
Granted. But here's the engineering counterbalance: What is the utility of atrocity memories, for those who were subjected to them? How does recounting an injustice help build a better future? There are concrete steps: colonial injus
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by ethbro 7y ago
> Why are you bringing up Britain here? They weren't a colonial power in Saudi Arabia. Because I didn't know the history myself, tl;dr from Wikipedia: Ottoman empire controlled the entire area at the turn of the century, to v
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by ethbro 7y ago
> If automation was the problem, then US would be price competitive on goods with China. This (and the article's similar approach) is only half of the equation. 'If automation was the problem and cheaper than offshored labor
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by ethbro 7y ago
The South Park gnome episode comes to mind. For values of: 1 - Demonstrate growth 2 - ? 3 - Profit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnomes_(South_Park)#/media/F... Who knew it was a billion dollar business mod
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by ethbro 7y ago
Ironically, being the last pure last-mile operator makes you more neutral than your content-integrated competitors.
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by ethbro 7y ago
I don't think anyone in the tech world believes Google killed integration features in the name of privacy. The fact that that's the PR spin they chose points to how poorly managed the entire division must be. If you want more cont
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by ethbro 7y ago
Make it more focused: "What circumstances do you think justify censorship?"
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by ethbro 7y ago
I call this the subway train theory. I am nervous with one other person in my subway car. I feel completely safe with 5+ unrelated people in my subway car.
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by ethbro 7y ago
I should have said shareholder-primacy vs -friendly. I was specifically referring to the change in the 70s and 80s from a diversity of stakeholders being valued to shareholders above all other considerations. It seems fair to argue that the
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by ethbro 7y ago
By shareholder centric, I'm specifically referring to this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/maximizing-s... Tl;dr - Academic economic theories in the 1970s, as implemented by MBAs in the 1980s
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by ethbro 7y ago
Granted. But if a country did that, taxed top brackets more heavily, and then specifically allocated those revenues to upskilling, it wouldn't be a bad thing. The post-globalism issue is that no one redistributed those profits.
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by ethbro 7y ago
> The desperation for local experience can really suppress wages in some fields. Isn't that good for the Canadian economy too? I'm sure it's not great for Canadians looking for a job, but access to high-quality talent at b
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by ethbro 7y ago
The reorientation of companies, driven by MBA conventional wisdom, into shareholder-centric, stock-price optimizing machines has come at the detriment of building long term value and delivering better products to customers. Rebuttal? And
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by ethbro 7y ago
Bell Labs was funded by a monopoly. I guess another interesting question is "Does the fact that companies are more shareholder-friendly now increase or decrease innovation?" (that is to say friendly, in the sense of returning a la
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by ethbro 7y ago
That seems like illogical reasoning. The fact that Blizzard has banned people for making political statements before does not mean that there were no ancillary motivations in this instance. You may feel otherwise, but I don't think a p
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by ethbro 7y ago
I wouldn't be able to guarantee "capital" (i.e. people with access to large amounts of it) are smart enough to understand the outcomes of sufficiently complex systems. I think the mortgage derivative swaps crisis taught us th
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by ethbro 7y ago
I think K0SM0S is making a more "turtles all the way down" point. In that concentration is inevitable, not exempting any possible legal framework. So government / legal isn't a solution, only radical innovation.
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by ethbro 7y ago
Under post-capitalism, the automated systems serving capital oppress man? ... woman inherits the Earth?
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by ethbro 7y ago
I didn't know the whole internal war about its development. If you check the sibling comment, it's a really interesting story!

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