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by etripe 5y ago
Interesting. Too bad it doesn't also provide specifics on bisexuals or the gender axis.
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by etripe 5y ago
My most charitable read is that women's issues have gotten more attention and the quality is otherwise the same. A less charitable read is that the number of female political fall guys has increased, although that could just be a case
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by etripe 5y ago
I would have thought it obvious that sex quota are inherently sexist. Benignly sexist perhaps, but sexist nonetheless. Apparently not?
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by etripe 5y ago
Here in Belgium, quotas were introduced in politics in eighties IIRC. According to prominent women at the time and now, that was the reason we are closer to parity in politics nowadays. Their line of reasoning, obviously from a feminist per
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by etripe 5y ago
Ask them flatout how they reward initiative and accomplishment. If they start fumbling, there's your answer. If they don't, ask them for a concrete example. If that's when they struggle, there's your answer.
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by etripe 5y ago
Good post. The technical patterns are nigh useless unless you're going all in on event sourcing and/or CQRS - and perhaps even then. KISS > DDD. To me, what matters are the strategic patterns, i.e. how you think and talk ab
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by etripe 5y ago
IIRC: historical trade deals that included opting into the war on drugs.
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by etripe 5y ago
It's closer in meaning to "no one really knows what they're doing". Half-assing implies lack of effort. This expression implies lack of insight or direction.
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by etripe 5y ago
That only really happens if the on-site people neglect to provide the remote workers with a summary. Even when everyone still came in to the office, this happened to sick workers, people on different shifts, locations, teams, etc. In other
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by etripe 5y ago
It's also worth mentioning that Apple is a hardware company and that you need a Mac to even compile native apps for their platform.
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by etripe 5y ago
> Isn't that the point? If the money is supposed to go towards people preventing damage, wouldn't that include devs? > How much of this is due to liability law and how much is due to natural aspects of the relevant technolog
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by etripe 5y ago
How is hiring along innate characteristics going to increase diversity? Are you of the opinion that a group consisting of Oprah Winfrey, Mike Tyson, Dave Chapelle and Barack Obama is homogenous just because they're all black? Do you th
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by etripe 5y ago
> Obviously as a white male I experience incredible privilege overall. Only if you limit privilege to negative reward (suffer less discrimination and exclusion) instead of positive reward (getting actual benefits) and as you say, the tid
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by etripe 5y ago
While you largely have a point, I think you're perhaps a little too optimistic about the big picture, especially when factoring in timelines. Simply saying no to cars doesn't solve the problem of transporting goods of any kind, e.
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by etripe 5y ago
Truth being relative is a recent phenomenon, but only from a historian's perspective. Post-modernism has been mainstream for three, four decades. I don't see it going away any time soon, because it's awfully compatible with o
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by etripe 5y ago
That's not a problem. The difference is you put the thoughts on the back burner during off hours, which will often lead to greater insights than mulling over them constantly. Inspiration requires inactivity. This is also something you
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by etripe 5y ago
To me it looks like either "cleft palate wide smile" or "twirly moustache grin".
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by etripe 5y ago
> Good, that's what competition is about between services. Except the competition isn't between services but between streaming services and local TV channels. It's between artificially maintained "content regions&quot
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by etripe 5y ago
Interesting. Do you think there's no place for ethical discussions in tech, or is your objection closer to the "unelected elite" side of things?
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by etripe 5y ago
Are you finding, getting and keeping the professionals you want? In other words, do your employees seem to agree with you?
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by etripe 5y ago
The GDPR is explicit about that: non-functional stuff should be turned off by default. No, marketing isn't functional. If companies follow the law, the default is set at "I don't want to participate in your bullshit". It
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by etripe 5y ago
I don't know if it's always spam, but it's up the same creek as trying to brute-force your way into someone's heart.
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by etripe 5y ago
With an AI assistant, in the best scenario, you'll get a "wisdom of crowds" effect on implementation details and program architecture. At worst, you'll get a lot of opinionated code bloat and anti-patterns as suggestions
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by etripe 5y ago
What seems to be missing from the list of classes is sexual orientation. Is this just how it appears from the outside?
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by etripe 5y ago
It isn't the education system's job to produce model employees. Nearly all the "modern skills" mentioned in the article all squarely fall under the moniker "industry knowledge", which is... the industry's
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by etripe 5y ago
> Each file had the same change - they had added code that makes an ajax saveEmail() call onBlur. In other words, email addresses were being saved to the database when a user inputs an email and the input loses focus. > I told my clie
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by etripe 5y ago
> Do you charge your company for your commute to the office? Companies tend to pay people for their commute here in Belgium. This can take the form of paying your train pass, a reimbursement per kilometre travelled or even a company car
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by etripe 5y ago
> YAGNI isn’t a rule, it’s a dismissal. A dodge. A cop-out. Only when the abstractions proposed actually have a pragmatic use. As developers, for a lot of us, the immediate instinctual reaction is "add another layer of indirection&q
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by etripe 5y ago
Tapping on the shoulder can mean two things: "riddle me this" and "drop everything because I'm more important". The former can be replaced by a chat app. The latter is a stopgap for a failure to plan and goes with a
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by etripe 5y ago
> If there's one thing that consistently fosters innovation and progress it's competition. That statement is a bit of a truism, isn't it? If you squint hard enough, you can call most things a competition. If all else fails

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