goatinaboat

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by goatinaboat 5y ago
You seem to be suggesting that there is a much simpler / better alternative. What is it? Bottle is the simpler Flask
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by goatinaboat 5y ago
The most recent example I can think of is Melvin Capital (a few months ago). They were bailed out by Citadel. Citadel was bailed out by US tax payers in 2009 via AIG. Wait a second. Citadel is a fund manager. AIG is an insurance company.
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by goatinaboat 5y ago
I can't think of any circumstance where it wouldn't be in the individual contributors' best interests to tell each other exactly what they all make. If everyone on my teams shared their salaries with each other, it would lea
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by goatinaboat 5y ago
And the people who worked there who were parents with kids, I felt bad for them. I don't think I would have made that choice. But for me and many of my childless colleagues, the reality is that we loved working in games and getting th
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by goatinaboat 5y ago
Sort of like "unlimited vacation" usually means that on average everyone takes less vacation, because they don't want to be the one with the most vacation taken. If you have defined vacation, the company has to pay you for
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by goatinaboat 5y ago
I hope that with genetic engineering techniques we will be able to reintroduce more species of cats.
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by goatinaboat 5y ago
What situations would make people unable to upgrade to 12+? In my personal experience: the organisation doesn't invest in a storage solution that offers snapshots/COW (e.g. ZFS or SAN or whatever). Then they wait to upgrade unti
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by goatinaboat 5y ago
French public sector is a swamp. They are, or were, capable of serious technical advances, such as Le Minitel being way ahead of its time.
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by goatinaboat 5y ago
I prefer a good desktop any day to a half-baked laptop that is thermal constrained. Agree with you there, while a 1T database is possible on a laptop I wouldn’t want to use it for real work!
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by goatinaboat 5y ago
because they didn't have millions of dollars for marketing budgets or the one thing they did that could make startups make millions off their work. If the French government had realised what they had in OCaml and made it the standard
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by goatinaboat 5y ago
2 of my colleagues run SQL on their laptops; I have a lower spec laptop, so I run it on a desktop with 128 GB of RAM If you are a developer you absolutely do not need 128GB of RAM to run SQL Server! But if it convinces your management to
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by goatinaboat 5y ago
The app-building app that ultimately wins is going to be the one that lets you build any app, not just an app that serves a particular niche or business process. We have those already. They're called IDEs. It turns out there's o
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by goatinaboat 5y ago
Falls apart a bit if you're trying to nail down chemistry or something like an IC production process though where the equipment itself is built by people who will neither talk nor possibly sell to you. Turbine blades are like ICs in
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by goatinaboat 5y ago
Welcome to Latvia where I have to think hard to find someone that doesn't use WhatsApp. Same here in Wales. We are in the insane situation where local taxpayer-funded bodies such as schools compel people to use foreign, tax-evading c
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by goatinaboat 5y ago
having a classified piece of technology would be impossible to maintain chain of custody on. I'm thinking specifically of all the foreign military sales for the F16, F15, etc Being in physical possession of a turbine blade doesn’t gi
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by goatinaboat 5y ago
Thinking you have friends at work is a mistake of youth. It is what it is. It's OK to enjoy the company of your co-workers, to socialise with them, you can have some fun and memorable experiences with them. But you have to understand
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by goatinaboat 5y ago
Data scientists seem to be on a level of their own when it comes to disrespecting colleagues. I've been surprised by this recently. Pretty much every developer, when brought in as a replacement, will bad-mouth their predecessor, say
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by goatinaboat 5y ago
Imagine if we did that when printing presses came along replacing the scribes or cars came along replacing the coachman, our civilization would stagnat Yes, there are things that have taken genuine inefficiencies out, I wouldn't go b
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by goatinaboat 5y ago
The Apple IIc here somehow looks more futuristic than any present day kit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_design_language
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by goatinaboat 5y ago
Programmers may care about performance, but project managers certainly don't and they always have the final say LOL no. Offer a dev choice between a framework that is trending on Twitter, vs one that is 100x faster but "legacy&q
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by goatinaboat 5y ago
Is it programmer laziness, or insane demand for software due to many factors, mostly profit? There's insane demand for games, and those programmers are able to optimise their code, insane demand for trading software and those program
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by goatinaboat 5y ago
Almost all software I use these days is absurdly slower than it should be and probably a massive drain on collective productivity Productivity, energy usage, e-waste in landfill as people are forced to upgrade in order to do simple tasks
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by goatinaboat 5y ago
Are my rephrasings of your statement any less true, or is FB somehow different? Yes. A TV show has to appeal to a million or 10 million people and the feedback cycle is a season long. It has to stay pretty close to the “average”. There&#x
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by goatinaboat 5y ago
To play the devil's advocate, that would also mean keeping things inefficient on purpose to avoid job losses. Well... yes? The purpose of life isn't just to enhance shareholder value. Some stuff really is just inefficient of cou
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by goatinaboat 5y ago
Doesn't that mean that they're not deciding what to keep feeding us, but rather that we are? Not exactly. Think about fast food. You are genetically programmed to enjoy fatty, sugary, salty foods because these were hard to come
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by goatinaboat 5y ago
It’s called an analogy, it’s illustrating a situation where a professional’s interests are misaligned with the users of their services.
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by goatinaboat 5y ago
Faux-objective journalism is such a soulless drag. Everyone has biases, attempting to hide them is just gutless. If doctors just prescribed whatever gave the bigger commission from drug companies, would you ever trust a doctor?
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by goatinaboat 5y ago
i don't think like that and wrt master/main all i care about is changing it for those who want it nothing else What you are missing - because I never mentioned it, and I should never have to mention it - is that I actually am a
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by goatinaboat 5y ago
The market solves this problem. If China makes things too hard on intl businesses, the businesses will invest to go around China You’re forgetting the time aspect. A government can play a longer game than most private investors. Markets:
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by goatinaboat 5y ago
If you won’t do so that’s fine, but be honest why you won’t, your arguments keep changing first it was their “moral superiority” And now “where will it end/its change for changes sake What are you implying that my "honest"

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