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by gjulianm 6y ago
With extra time to build a new system when adding new features, new products or tools...
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by gjulianm 6y ago
> Software is a tool. Tools that are used often require maintenance, which in itself is not a novel concept. In that context, maintenance is fixing your screwdriver. Technical debt is having a fixed-head screwdriver instead of another wi
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> I agree that further work is unavoidable in an ever changing environment. But can definitely be reduced. If my company plans on delivering version 1.0 with feature X, and version 2.0 with feature Y, I can either do an ad-hoc solution f
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by gjulianm 6y ago
Maintenance and technical debt are intertwined, but I don't think it's just a words game. Things without a name are less visible, and maintenance and technical debt are different. There's maintenance unrelated to technical d
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by gjulianm 6y ago
Maintentance is not technical debt, and confusing both terms is weird. While there are multiple definitions, I'd say maintentance is the work of making adjustments to keep the software in a working state, say supporting new operating s
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You need regulations and subsidies to protect and make unions effective...
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> Compared to today, Singapore has about 1000 homeless, 3.16 persons per household, a literacy rate of 97.3%, GDP per capita of $602 billion, an unemployment rate of 4.11% and a median household income of $9,293. The income distribution
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by gjulianm 6y ago
> But try it. I can guarantee you that even poor migrant workers would laugh at you if you offered them that kind of wage. You're imagining a company offering low wages in world where the rest offer higher wages. In that example, I&
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> That's not what a free market means. It looks like in this thread people have different definitions of free market. For me, the fundamental property is that supply and demand respond elastically to price changes, and a quick test
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The example is not about inflation, it's just a method to show how without any specific action, companies don't have incentives to raise wages. But in fact, it's a real example because it's what has been happening in the
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> In this discussion a country's population is irrelevant. It's not. You'll see that a lot of the top companies in Singapore are operating at global level while headquartered in Singapore. It's a little bit like looki
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Of course actual policy is difficult, and complex. UBI or guaranteed income would seem to be the better way to give workers more leverage, but for that one needs to accept that we indeed need to give workers more leverage. You'll see i
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by gjulianm 6y ago
> you don't have to accept. When you find a better offer, you go to the better offer. What if there aren't better offers? > As for minimum wage, it is hurting the unskilled workers, like high school students, college student
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by gjulianm 6y ago
> You're just asserting this without any argument or evidence. I don't think it's a controversial statement at all. Even then, my argument was just in the next sentence. > Workers don't specifically need a job at t
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by gjulianm 6y ago
> Your chain of causality is actually completely wrong. At 15 dollars an hour only a few companies can hire unskilled workers. At 1 dollar an hour many people can pay workers that amount, so there is more competition out there for wages.
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by gjulianm 6y ago
It's not price fixing nor collusion. It's just the incentives companies have to lower wages. Look at this example: a number of companies in an area are paying a livable wage at time T for low-skilled workers. Now, time goes on and
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by gjulianm 6y ago
> How do you reconcile your view with the success of Singapore? A country general success does not equal the success of its poor people. There are not many income inequality stats of Singapore, but the ones I've seen [1] actually pu
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> minimum wage will lower employment from small business significantly; i.e. small shop owner will get by with one less garcon to pay the other one more. As a counterpoint, where do we put the threshold then? I could argue that if I coul
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by gjulianm 6y ago
Not a greater need or desire, but a fundamental need. It's an important distinction. In a perfect market, if the only offers to buy a product are too low, you will stop production and close the company because you can't make a pro
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by gjulianm 6y ago
> If a company wants to pay less than market rate for labor they will find themselves without employees. What if multiple companies in an area do that? What incentive does a entering company have to increase wages if employees will take
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> I can sell my labour to many different companies with a relatively low switching cost. Well, I disagree on this. Maybe you specifically can do it, but housing prices, healthcare costs, transport cost, family charges, etc, can make the
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by gjulianm 6y ago
> I need food to survive much more than Krogers needs my business to survive Yes, but you can buy from anywhere other than Krogers and the cost of switching is almost negligible. A job is very, very different in that regard. Responding t
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by gjulianm 6y ago
> Textbooks state that, in the absence of a minimum wage, a worker is paid his “marginal product of labour”, which means the value of what he produces. > Just as a monopolist can set prices higher than would be the case in a competit
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by gjulianm 6y ago
It's smart because it's a solution to a problem (freezing dynamic content) in one line of code, the wget command. It should work for most cases and it's easy to understand and deploy.
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It's not often that I see things that are stupid but smart at the same time, so cool!
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It's not about the failures, it's about the modes of failure. I assume that the modes of failure of a bridge, or of a building, are pretty well understood. Software has far more distinct pieces than any other product you can find
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by gjulianm 6y ago
My biggest grip with Gnuplot was that the default style is pretty terrible. For everyone looking to make graphs, two pieces of advice: - Use pngcairo, or pdfcairo or something like that. Nobody likes graphs without anti-aliasing. - Use a ni
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by gjulianm 6y ago
Doesn't that add to the point that sometimes literal definitions are better than symbolic? Either you have a symbol that says "this is a neighbourhood" or you have the symbolic definition of neighbourhood (which is missing in
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You are indeed right!
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But that example is a little bit artificial, isn't it? A lot of mathematical concepts are more complex than that and sometimes symbols are not the best option. Say, for example the definition of Hausdorff space, in words and symbols: -

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