fleddr

84 ms·

931.
by fleddr 4y ago
I think the wealth question is phrased wrongly: how much wealth is somebody allowed to have? Rather the question should be: how is such excessive wealth generated in the first place? Billionaire level wealth comes into existence by means of
932.
by fleddr 4y ago
You confuse personal opinions about crypto with business success. Coinbase is a massive success. It has a 100 million users and is the best known crypto exchange for retail. They did pick the winner. This layoff creates a lot of emotional a
933.
by fleddr 4y ago
I was looking at it from a different angle. I think making laws to stop a mob from forming would be very hard, complex, and have lots of hairy side effects. My idea instead is to look at it from an employer's side: one should not be ab
934.
by fleddr 4y ago
Please do supply those valid reasons. In most modern cases (social media triggered requests) the offense is unrelated to the person's employment. Going for one's employment is just the way to do maximum damage as it's almost
935.
by fleddr 4y ago
In my experience, microservices are incompatible with the universe. All things are connected, sometimes in unforeseen ways. Almost inevitably, some app or front-end is going to need a joined result from multiple services. If these services
936.
by fleddr 4y ago
You need psychological engineering... My method is radical transparency. I simply keep refactoring notes which I turn into user stories on the backlog. I don't take the PM seat as to when to do these user stories, yet have built up t
937.
by fleddr 4y ago
When a random internet citizen directly approaches your company with the explicit request to fire a named employee, this by definition is insane. The reporter is not interested in reporting a particular offense, instead they are already pla
938.
by fleddr 4y ago
"Angry mobs are a signal of our justice system either having a gap or otherwise not working" Or...radicalized always-online bullies that simply takes joy in taking a political opponent down.
939.
by fleddr 4y ago
For the interested, the successor to the History API is the Navigation API: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/navigation-ap...
940.
by fleddr 4y ago
If you have relatively stable expenses, you can calculate your own inflation just by comparing year to year. Historically for me real inflation is the formal EU number + 2%. So that means that they're usually about a 100% off as inflat
941.
by fleddr 4y ago
The supply part is the long term value, similar to gold.
942.
by fleddr 4y ago
Where we started, cash, was infinitely better.
943.
by fleddr 4y ago
You need to be more accurate in your language. Bitcoin's supply cannot be manipulated, unlike fiat. The currency pair BTC/USD is very much manipulated, as is pretty much any asset paired to USD. These are two different concepts.
944.
by fleddr 4y ago
I'd offer a less technical criticism on the economic and monetary system you defend. At the end of the day, now matter what happens, somehow the system always calibrates to ensure that the typical human being is a wage slave for life.
945.
by fleddr 4y ago
That's not an accurate description of BTC maximalism. Usually a BTC maximalist means that within the context of crypto, they are BTC only and aggressively and passionately reject every other crypto token. This is what you call call a c
946.
by fleddr 4y ago
That's funny if it wasn't true. "I have to get out of the meeting as I need to work on a task." A task? Ok, so you can stay? It fits right into "wow, jealous of your agenda"...when it has some blank spots. The
947.
by fleddr 4y ago
Sad that you call your colleagues "competitors". I guess you also missed the main point of the initiative, which is to have the same productivity in one day less. So your extra day of work effectively does nothing to the bottom li
948.
by fleddr 4y ago
Agreed. The situation you describe is one where constraints do not exist, which is cultural. You assume input, say 40 hours (input is not productivity) and keep piling on work, responsibilities and unrealistic deadlines where workers feel f
949.
by fleddr 4y ago
That makes no sense. I have exactly the same responsibilities as before my switch. I also have exactly the same responsibilities as my peers working 5 days. And yet I successfully squeeze those 5 days into 4, and it wasn't even that ha
950.
by fleddr 4y ago
Great practice. We're doing a similar thing and although these meetings sometimes run late, it's now culturally accepted that invitees just type "need to drop" and leave. When this is normalized, people learn to get to t
951.
by fleddr 4y ago
I can only agree, depending on what you include in "productivity". I'd say it's incredibly common for a modern office worker to be engaged in email, meetings and chat for some 4-6 hours per day. Not only does this leave
952.
by fleddr 4y ago
Exactly, that's also why I made the change.
953.
by fleddr 4y ago
I've been working 4 day workweeks for well over a decade now, took the pay cut myself. As for the goal to maintain 100% productivity whilst cutting back on hours, I'm confident that they will succeed. In fact, they'll succeed
954.
by fleddr 4y ago
This kind of "discovery" UI sucks. You see it everywhere now. A/B testing, out of touch design teams and algorithms have overtaken basic common sense. Spotify has many teams working on the UI of their app, could be 100+ peopl
955.
by fleddr 4y ago
Absurdly unhinged comment. I must have hit a nerve, activist.
956.
by fleddr 4y ago
I think you just summed up my career. I make web apps so insanely complex that I'm guaranteed to do the rewrite. I also love JS frameworks reinventing all of it every year or so. Keep them coming.
957.
by fleddr 4y ago
When you're a minority and already hired at Google, you're not "oppressed". You're privileged, in the 0.01% top of the world. You're also more privileged than pretty much every single white person on the planet
958.
by fleddr 4y ago
At what benefit, you mean? Slowly, more and more companies are taking a stance against activism. Coinbase did it, BaseCamp, and recently Netflix drew a line in the sand.
959.
by fleddr 4y ago
I don't know what that is but yes I'd totally get rid of it. As well as the people complaining about me getting rid of it. They don't call me The Cleaner for nothing.
960.
by fleddr 4y ago
Agreed. I was putting it mildly, basically.

More ›