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by geofft 5y ago
Which is an anti-labor-power strategy. If you consider the case of publicly-traded employers (there's a different argument for pre-exit startups that comes out to a similar conclusion): they could give you your compensation entirely
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by geofft 5y ago
Which is precisely why unions represent the interests of workers when they are opposed to the interests of owners.
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by geofft 5y ago
But they can break into the dev box and inject malware (where by "malware" I mean like 'echo alias ssh=/tmp/evil-ssh >> ~/.bashrc') while I'm on vacation for two weeks, though? And if I wasn&#x2
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by geofft 5y ago
The pandemic in 2022.
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by geofft 5y ago
NPM should, because NPM is a platform for people to download dependencies. However, I believe GitHub should not retain repos against the author's will, because GitHub is a hosting site. As an analogy: if I upload an image to some web
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by geofft 5y ago
Huh, what I usually do is generate a new SSH key on the dev box and enroll it. That means if the dev box gets compromised, first, it can't access anything other than my git server, and second, I have independent audit logs of actions f
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by geofft 5y ago
Forgot the reference! [1] https://abseil.io/resources/swe-book Software Engineering At Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
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by geofft 5y ago
I absolutely agree that programming in the large is about the time dimension, or, as Google puts it [1], "Software engineering is programming over time." But I do think the author recognizes that - their argument is about the fact
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by geofft 5y ago
Hm, I think I'd argue that the problem with this is that it results in muddy thinking. Practices that improve your ability to make money are what the market is fundamentally about. Ideally, those are practices that develop the best pro
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by geofft 5y ago
I agree that iMessage is a huge benefit to Apple because it keeps people locked into the ecosystem more than because of technical merit. I disagree that it is monopolistic, because they don't have a monopoly! Think about airline mileag
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by geofft 5y ago
There's a lot of things to criticize about Apple, but how on earth are they monopolistic?
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by geofft 5y ago
In the old days that wasn't a problem - when you released some OSS, you put a tarball somewhere and told people to download it. Some of those people were redistributors (mostly Linux distros or BSDs, but also CD vendors, people running
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by geofft 5y ago
Yup, abandoning "zero covid" is abandoning the one thing the government should do - protect us from external threats to our life. If some country were threatening to invade, the government would use every means at its disposal -
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by geofft 5y ago
I'm hardly "upset" - I just think the doctor is not a reliable source of medical information and not operating in good faith. Are you upset because I hold that view based on observable evidence? Like, genuinely, I'm con
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by geofft 5y ago
To be clear, I am not saying "This FOIA request is bad because I don't like the people filing them." I agree transparency is good, and I in fact think it should be the default , no FOIA necessary, including and perhaps espec
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by geofft 5y ago
I agree that they are rare . Dr. McCullough's claim was that they were impossible , that Rogan's friend who got it twice actually had influenza or something one of the times - a diagnosis he made based on no information other th
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by geofft 5y ago
Yup, looks like it: - Aaron Kheriarty is no longer associated with UC Irvine after refusing their vaccine mandate (this changed between the filing and now) and tweets links to The American Conservative. https://twitter.com/a
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by geofft 5y ago
The errors were usually in tests themselves. Are you arguing that tests need their own tests to test that they are testing the right thing? Usually I think people believe that tests do not need to be tested and should not be tested, i.e., t
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by geofft 5y ago
I quit my last job over less than this, and I felt really uncertain about it at the time, but my career growth, compensation growth, and intangible feeling of management support have all been massively better at my new place - and I found
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by geofft 5y ago
Tangible drugs have inherent value: once you have the physical object, you can get high in the privacy of your own home with no further interaction with anyone. Cryptocurrency, fiat currencies, and arguably even metal coins derive their v
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by geofft 5y ago
I would guess the important thing here is "it is subject to the same penalties as the things we previously said enable discriminatory practices, and so we get to reuse that abstraction," not so much "we believe, as an abstrac
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by geofft 5y ago
You have to post the minimum and maximum salary. They can be different. You also don't have to commit: it just has to be "in good faith." Here's the text of the bill: https://legistar.council.nyc.gov/Legi
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by geofft 5y ago
I think the question was specifically about declining to improve one's own circumstances because someone else could, not declining to help someone else. That's different from the bystander effect as usually conceived. The theore
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by geofft 5y ago
The historic goal of the free software movement has been to make sure that users have freedom over their computing environment. Implicit in that is the idea that other people do not have freedom to mess with your computing environment,
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by geofft 5y ago
Should new programming languages built around internal use of UTF-8 be opting their binaries into this behavior by default? (I'm mostly thinking about Rust, which I think has to do some contortions on Windows. Probably also Go, to the
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by geofft 5y ago
The author changed it a few times (first to "--" then to "--ARTICLE DELETED--"), I guess because you can edit titles but not delete submissions? I flagged the submission since that seems to be the only real way to do thi
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by geofft 5y ago
Another notable penalty option in finance (though I don't know how strong a disincentive it is in practice) is "You, personally, will be barred from working in the industry." Disbarring lawyers who do things that they know wo
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by geofft 5y ago
Genuine question - is OBS set up so that all contributions show up there? Or is this the equivalent of a Patreon or something, where a large corporation doing large corporate things would instead write a check (or do a wire transfer) comple
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by geofft 5y ago
Huh, it's the other way around for me. Just about every nontrivial Python project I write requires at least one third-party library, and one much more complicated than attrs at that, that I may as well use attrs too . All the complexi
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by geofft 5y ago
dataclasses was explicitly inspired by attrs. https://github.com/ericvsmith/dataclasses/issues/1

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