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by fpig 9y ago
Calling that "constant churn" is a massive exaggeration. First, using WTL or WFC were just bad decisions because those were side-projects and MS never told companies to switch to that and definitely didn't encourage rewrites
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by fpig 9y ago
Windows 8 "metro" UI caused an uproar for many reasons, some of the biggest ones being: - the start menu covered the whole screen - applications could only run full screen, even the simplest ones. You literally couldn't have
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by fpig 9y ago
I'm not sure what your beef with Windows as a client OS is but if you're saying that the UI should be dumbed down, remember how the attempt to do so with Win8 backfired and that Microsoft quickly reverted most of those changes in
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by fpig 9y ago
Windows phones themselves are fine. But two things were massive failures: 1. Microsoft created development tools that are not appropriate for real-world use cases and tried to push that on devs and companies, which failed spectacularly. The
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by fpig 9y ago
It's not that simple. In most cases, you'll be fine without antibiotics, it will just take longer to get rid of the disease. But as avoiding antibiotics in general is a good thing, the question is basically about how much you valu
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by fpig 9y ago
A Visa debit card, at least the one I have, can "pretend" to be a credit card so you can enter it into a credit card payment form same as with an actual Visa credit card. It has worked for every online payment I tried so far. As f
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by fpig 9y ago
We have no reason to believe there exists a trait like intelligence for emotional/social skills, all we have is people establishing its existence post-facto like you are doing here (from seeing some people are good at multiple social s
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by fpig 9y ago
By saying EQ doesn't exist he's saying there is no "emotional intelligence" trait that determines how good you will be at various emotional/social aspects of life. Instead, testing EQ just looks at those various thi
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by fpig 9y ago
Did you actually read the answer? Nowhere did he say that those traits don't matter, or even that they are too hard to measure (although he did say they are less predictive of success than IQ). He says the concept of EQ is worthless be
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by fpig 9y ago
I don't understand where you got the idea that I suggest enforcing any kind of artificial rules on anyone. I am in fact for nearly zero labor regulation. I just said it's a negative effect, which it is. Ideally the proportion in w
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by fpig 9y ago
Even if you think it's fair, people being paid based on negotiating skill is a market inefficiency so it is still undesirable. I mean, bench pressing a lot of weight or playing the flute are also skills like any other, but we don'
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by fpig 9y ago
That is entirely true and I wrote so myself in my first comment in this thread. But this comment was about something completely unrelated (specifically, about public salaries potentially screwing over people who are able to negotiate a hi
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by fpig 9y ago
I don't see how this is related to public salaries. If the first company you mentioned doesn't make their salaries public, while the second one does, if this is even the case (can't really tell from your story), that sounds m
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by fpig 9y ago
My opinion is that income solidarity should be achieved through the tax system. This way it can be fine-tuned to the wishes and needs of the society and everything is "clean". Additional sources of "hidden" solidarity li
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by fpig 9y ago
What I believe he's saying is this (charlesdm correct me if I'm wrong): - Management values Alice 100 (by values I mean - we're willing to pay at most that much to keep her) - Management values Bob, Fob and Gob 50 each - Bob,
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by fpig 9y ago
I think the problem is that people value themselves in different ways (and often the criteria is skewed to be more favorable for themselves). For example, I tend to extremely highly value people to whom I go for advice/help. These usua
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by fpig 9y ago
> I find the attitude of people from English-speaking countries that the rest of the world should speak fluent English quite puzzling. I've noticed the opposite attitude. At least among western countries, the opposition to forcing k
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by fpig 9y ago
Regarding hard to adopt class signifiers, this is definitely true, however, this is the case regardless of whether everyone is wearing a suit or an anime t-shirt. As for the second part, that's also true, but the argument is a bit moot
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by fpig 9y ago
I agree somewhat but I think it's a wider social problem - the society in general not really looking down on this kind of behavior. Especially from Americans, you often hear stuff like: - the company has a duty to make the most money p
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by fpig 9y ago
You "backed" someone who has a large amount of karma on HN and you expected this to result in some significant positive effect on your life? And you think if you were male, this would have been the case? You also feel people on HN
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by fpig 9y ago
Maybe I am biased because I am not in SV and my company funds itself, but you don't have a right to anyone's money / funding. That is an extremely entitled sentiment. People aren't starting a fund to fund women entrepren
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by fpig 10y ago
The article "explains" completely trivial concepts in an extremely convoluted and awkward way. It is simply a terrible piece of writing.
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by fpig 10y ago
It's not nitpicking at all. Even in the worst example you could cherry-pick for the Guardian, the journalist just reported on something a US official said and explicitly distanced themselves from the more ridiculous claims. This makes
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by fpig 10y ago
So I assume you found the worst article you could remember, and even in this article you can at least see traces of journalistic integrity that is completely absent in RT: > But it is a jump from that to suggesting Gaddafi is supplying t
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by fpig 10y ago
Yes, there are even worse pieces of trash than RT somewhere out there. There's a paper in my country that claims the Earth is flat, that's not the sort of media I am comparing RT to because I don't trust those papers at all e
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by fpig 10y ago
RT factual? You must have not been following their Ukraine coverage. They're likely the biggest liars of all mainstream media. They were somewhat OK until the Ukraine crisis started, that's when they started going full-retard. RT
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by fpig 10y ago
> I agree that now she's come clean any identifying information should be removed. The media is running this story with full personal information included, this stuff is the first google hit for her name and several more on the firs
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by fpig 10y ago
"A tad" dishonest? 1) She was disqualified immediately, but she complained to the person in charge and actually convinced them that they made a mistake and that she didn't cheat. If she had accepted being disqualified, this w
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by fpig 10y ago
> Frankly, passing algorithm questions is a great way to signal that I probably don't want to have to deal with your code. Wow that's some serious sour grapes.
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by fpig 10y ago
> When you write an SQL statement, you are defining what you want and how the tables are related in your context. You are NOT telling the RDBMS what the actual execution plan should look like. Which is the exact same thing you do when yo

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