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by fab13n 15y ago
But in the rest of the large company, there are hordes of pointy-haired bosses who are busy full-time trying to take up as much credit, budget and headcount as they can. They'll be drawn to your success as rats to food. It takes a lot of po
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Also, the larger the team, the bigger the incentive to be a free loader, because individual contributions become harder to assess. Free loading includes plain slacking, doing things the fun way rather than the good-enough way, playing polit
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These days, as soon as a CEO goes on stage to present his disruptive product, and does it in a customer-oriented rather than shareholder-oriented way (casual vocabulary, no tie), he's deemed Jobsian. That's obviously a gross reduction of wh
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I don't know the best solution, and I bet there's no perfect one. But for many qualified jobs, employees are not easily interchangeable. You cannot replace and reemploy women based on their family needs without disrupting the business needs
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Do you realize 50% of a Hungarian salary is way less than 30% of a Dutch one? The problem here is that Hungary's cash salaries are much cheaper than average, whereas Hungary's non-financial compensations are merely quite cheaper than av
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I think they simply cut out the unnecessary details. What's a religion, from a political and sociological point of view? It's an ethics from which you think laws, reputation, behavior, social organization ought to proceed; this view is norm
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Here's an idea: why don't we put distinctive marks at the boundaries between Top C++ and Bottom C++? Say, square brackets. If the Top C++ superficial syntax happens to be a little bit smalltalkish, we could call the resulting language Objec
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You're right that it can be spun in a dangerous way. However, we're talking about sites where 95%+ of people go everyday they connect to Internet: they have a first shot at presenting their case to users, they can do it in a simple and conv
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Sure there are some researchers who can and do code, but their coding skills rarely do much good to their career. I bet that's why you delegate PoC software development to PhD grunts :) Moreover, it seems to me that most academic coders don
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Having spent some time in the academia, the main reason why most TAs and professors don't teach you how to code is that most of them don't know how to code for themselves. That skill is neither expected nor rewarded in academic careers. So
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> Coffeescript has never presented itself otherwise. My point was not to disparage the author, his intentions, his lucidity, nor even the resulting language. When people receive something packaged as a compiler (a file->file traduct
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TL;DR: Coffeescript should be seen as a way to enforce good Javascript style, and as such it does a decent job. That's an interesting and very defensible PoV. However, even considered as such, it has some serious warts: * It has no clearly-
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Coming back to Linux after a couple of years under OSX, it took me less than a week to start loving Unity. Sure it's got its glitches, but no more than anything else in the open-source UI world. I'm sure I'd react differently, if I hadn't u
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The trick is that "being surprised", or more accurately "not knowing on which day the exam will take place", is changing over time. "D" being the day at which the exam takes place, "not knowing D on Monday" is not the same proposition as "n
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They both have the same root business case: make Scheme palatable to mere mortals, by adding a familiar syntax and abandonning some features: no more macros, and most data structures made mutable. Where Lua diverges from Javascript: * time
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He forgot to mention a key quality, often overlooked by out-of-touch (a.k.a. "old") marketing staff: the name must be easily googled; even for the billions of people who don't restrict their Google settings to "English only".
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If a decentralized DNS plugin is necessary to easily access pirated content, then such a plugin will become as widespread as P2P clients, i.e. pretty widespread. That's enough of a tipping point: everyone who wants to access stuff which mak
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Those who have a material proof of the original story are going to get a looooooooooot of shut-up stock options, whether they work in the kitchen or not.
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I don't think that Groupon execs are widely perceived as crooks, whereas Zynga's ones are more than hard to defend here. Moreover, Zynga execs' move was likely intended to increase the total worth of their shares; if they manage to claw 20%
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Indeed, they will only have one IPO. But the PR backlash can seriously affect it, if it's made clear to everyone that the execs are crooks, and that they'll never be able to hire talents again.
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But a transcompiler will always be a kludge, at least when the target language hasn't been designed as a bytecode. Most importantly, I'd bet that the intersection of developers who: (1) can write good software; and (2) Can write decent JS c
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In which cases would anyone need: - to write code in JS rather than in Lua; - and run the result on a platform which supports Lua but not JS? Except in a Dilbert-like situation, where a clueless middle manager decides that using a dirty hac
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The shortcomings of this poll have been outlined by others. You might be interested by this: * as a high score / pissing contest result. Then whatever the figure, you'll never be satisfied: either you don't mak enough, then you'll feel terr
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Efficiency kills jobs. But what people want is not jobs: they want revenue, then something giving them a sense of self-worth. The latter can be provided by better means than through artificially wasteful jobs. Moreover, as he notices, the b
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I'd guess it's also a lot about class-based vs. prototype-based. The latter often leads to messy architectures. It might be an intrinsic characteristic of prototype-based design, or because 99% of people learn OOP with a class-based languag
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In France, such conditions are enforceable... if you pay the guy an indemnity essentially equal to his former salary * duration, for doing nothing instead of working for the competition. This ensures that such clauses are only enforced when
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[(x[i],x[j]) for i in range(len(x)) for j in range(i+1, len(x))] His problem is not with functional programming (i.e. avoiding state mutations). It is that he tries to do inductive definitions and functors in a language whose synt
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Yet it doesn't prevent them from having an advice about it, it seems. Hypothesis: when you're young, you can dismiss these stuff and have no advice about them, because they're grown-ups stuff. As you age, you have to admit that they're for
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> They are basically throwing the electorate at them I think they're primarily throwing the non-electorate. Many young people don't vote because they perceive it to be about boring, old people stuff they don't really get nor care about.
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I've also never been productive with Haskell. It's cute, it raises interesting problems if you enjoy wrangling with mathy problem for the sake of it, but when it comes to getting stuff done in a deeply imperative, eager world, the impedance

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