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by etripe 6y ago
I'm not opposed to the idea, but I wonder how small the pieces can get before they're not practical to run as a company anymore. Obviously, things like Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp could be competing with their counterparts.
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I meant it more like "am I at fault/in the wrong here?". It doesn't literally have to be assholeish behaviour.
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> If you believe the problem is with "everyone else", the problem really is with you . The problem with aphorisms like these is they lack nuance. I don't mind it as a general guideline, because it stimulates people to ask
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by etripe 6y ago
Having learned a different language through immersion at adult age (30+), whether or not you get the feedback is culturally dependent. In France, you would get this feedback more often than in, say, the Dutch or Swedish language areas. That
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I'm relatively new to HN but a reddit "senior", and one of the things I really appreciate about this place is the relative lack of toxicity. To me, it seems people really come here for civil discussion and default to asking q
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What do you have in mind?
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This is a good introduction on a conceptual level. I think a large contributor to the problem is story-oriented development, where all that matters in the sprint is "getting it done" and not looking at the broader context. To make
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by etripe 6y ago
From what I hear from my teacher friends: * Administration overload (government compliance type stuff) * Developing brains aren't always fun to be around * Parents expect to outsource child rearing to the school and want to be catered
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> The "small government" movement has taken a long time but it's finally winning in America From the outside looking in, it's either: * the "small government" movement, which only wants to keep big governmen
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> I don't agree with that characterization at all. Are you denying there's a networking benefit to attending an Ivy League school? I don't have the article I was thinking of handy, but this source (0) seems to say the main
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> Probably zero, because absent a search warrant they aren't ever revealed to anyone but you. Are you unaware of parallel construction or do you think it poses no real danger?
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First off, thank you for taking my post in good sport despite its... empassioned nature. > For a show like Game of Thrones, releasing an episode a week is important to enable 'water-cooler conversations' about the show, which m
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by etripe 6y ago
I think it's rather a question of introverts vs extraverts than roles. Even among developers, you'll have the occasional extravert, who will probably also decry the lack of "in person" opportunities to come up with ideas
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With all due respect, your post boils down to "we should be glad it isn't as bad as it used to be". That doesn't at all imply that the current state is desirable. It's more about access and convenience than entitlem
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> This idea, of course, is not feasible, because it is such a huge distraction from the core business, and is potentially a distraction that has the potential to cause real harm to the core business. If potential customers think you&#x27
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I guess I'll have to try it out one of these days, thanks!
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If you think git sucks, which VCS sucks less? I've only tried TFS and SVN myself, but I find git the best option among them.
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A social media's product is its platform/software only if it manages to sell those or extract rent. That could apply to "Facebook at Work" and LinkedIn, but they're the exception. For other social media, the platfor
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> "Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment." Thanks for introducing me to that quote! > You don't want what I have? Don't worry; You won't get it. I won't waste any of our
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Windows has a fsck equivalent called chkdsk, and as far as I recall it's available from command-line only safe mode, or whatever that thing is called from the boot menu.
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by etripe 6y ago
As someone who obviously cares about open software, how do you feel about Apple's increasingly consumer hostile actions and their walled garden ecosystem? Haven't they "embraced, extended and extinguished" Linux in a ver
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I agree. Through being complex, it stimulates management to turn devops into a separate pillar in the organisation, creating "devops" akin to "Agile". The practical results for me were: * Having to write a CLI app to red
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> Why are people constantly personifying corporations? Because corporations aren't democratic, so their policies are not the sum of all employees working there's opinions. Most of it is the result of top-down decisions, which i
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> The productivity of a salesperson is also easy to measure: sales / compensation and travel costs. It's not that simple, because most companies don't perform inter-departmental cost accounting. A salesperson might seem
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And that is exactly why management shouldn't be looking at or comparing burndown charts. It's too tempting to see IT as a cost centre instead of an enabler.
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Is Facebook really still trying to build a business? I'd say they're well beyond the startup phase.
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Interesting, thanks!
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> I think you're interpreting my comment too literally That's been known to happen :)
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As one of the great philosophers of our time, Whitney Cummings, puts it: "let go or be dragged".
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Hmm. I didn't think so previously, but outcomes at least seem to support your theory (0). I would be very interested to see any research discussing the reasons for this difference and whether cultural expectations account for any of it

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