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by grumple 5y ago
The textilist seems to be accusing NPR of not mentioning her, but Martha herself said she couldn't find anyone to make them. Was @RealSexyCyborg in contact with NPR? Or Martha? If anything, it seems the article itself is meant to encou
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by grumple 5y ago
I fully endorse the outsourcing of labor. The mess foreign companies leave after they complete a contract leaves American workers with years of work to do. But seriously, even outsourcing to American companies becomes labor-intensive and fr
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by grumple 5y ago
3) is true. It took some time for some companies to catch up with their hiring processes, so it was harder to change jobs for a while. 4) is true. Now companies have to compete a lot more for our labor. 5) is true. It also leads to a corol
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by grumple 5y ago
He certainly paid for it, but the work was done by others.
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by grumple 5y ago
> If an app is rejected, Apple says it provides the developer with information on the reason for the rejection, and says that the app makers have an opportunity to "correspond with the Apple team member who reviewed the app." F
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by grumple 5y ago
The most remarkable thing about this is learning that anyone at Google read an email from a customer. Given the automated responses to complaints of account shutdowns, or complaints about app store rejections, etc, this is pretty surprising
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by grumple 5y ago
> And while we are at it, maybe also we should correct this rule: > * Behaviour which can be reasonably considered harassment will not be tolerated. To become something like (what do other posters think? Can we make it even stricter?
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by grumple 5y ago
Indeed, this seems like exactly the sort of situation where you need to ask the participants what effect it has on other people in order to get an honest answer. Or study facts; we can monitor sleep vs instagram use, for example. We can fig
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by grumple 5y ago
Those statistics are pretty relevant when it comes to fatalities, which are more likely to occur at highway speeds. Total accidents, yes, self driving cars aren't generally operating in city traffic yet. Those same resources will note
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Self driving cars will be sold globally though. Either way, 40k US deaths per year plus many more injuries is still a lot, even if we only care about the US.
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> Self driving cars are a nice luxury, especially in city driving, not something that radically improves our world. You get to read your phone instead of paying attention, and the trade-off is someone might get killed. It's like tre
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by grumple 5y ago
You can test these things, sure. But if you're using other people's software (linux, vms, chromedriver, capybara) on other people's hardware (again, vms), you have to tolerate the fact that you can't control everything i
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by grumple 5y ago
It's not censorship in that it's technically still visible. But it's like shouting over someone when they try to speak. You're still preventing most from accessing the message unless people make a greater effort to fin
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by grumple 5y ago
Not a book, but this was mentioned in some comments section on HN recently: https://www.shmula.com/the-bullwhip-effect/310/
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by grumple 5y ago
I once said this too. Then I tried a bunch of their competitors. Still stuck with some of them. Sadly, some of Atlassian's products - namely Confluence and Jira - are the best in the business. Those complaining below about PMs staring
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by grumple 5y ago
Commas, quotes, colons, newlines, and hyphens (JSON and YAML separators) can occur in content as well. How is that any different from separators occurring in csvs? In practice, I used TSVs a lot, as tabs do not usually occur in most data. A
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by grumple 5y ago
More homogenous and liquid? Than the US? EU speaks 30 languages. That's a big barrier in terms of communication across the EU. And it's definitely not as liquid a labor market as the US where employees and employers can both decid
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by grumple 5y ago
Indeed, tech moves too quickly for those processes generally. Those who have great processes in tech - and I guess Github is one of those with great processes despite the occasional downtime - pay a lot for the uptime. Critical industries p
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by grumple 5y ago
I could see things like this messing up launch date/times occasionally, but what workplace falls apart if you can't push code to github for a few hours? Surely you can do other work while waiting for them to fix things.
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While the web is quite complex now, I think the expectation of 100% uptime for anything is unreasonable. My local taco shop ran out of rice a few weeks ago. A few days ago they had some unspecified kitchen issue and had to close. They don&#
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by grumple 5y ago
A gigagram?
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They are memorization tests at best. At worst they test which candidates have been unemployed most recently so they can cram leetcode study.
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I was acquainted with the person who ran the event and website and let them know about the vulnerability and bought the tickets at the appropriate price after. He was also storing passwords as plain text (they would email your password when
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by grumple 5y ago
You can edit the content of any web site via the browser's dev tools. It's not hard. This only changes it locally, although it can have effects on poorly designed sites. I have used this to buy tickets to an event for $1.
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by grumple 5y ago
There's something fundamentally flawed about trusting people to determine truths themselves as well. Doubly so when those spreading misinformation are well funded propagandists that have been attacking education for years. China, Russi
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by grumple 5y ago
As put succinctly by the character Malcolm Reynolds on the tv show Firefly: "'Bout 50% of the human race is middlemen, and they don't take kindly to being eliminated."
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by grumple 5y ago
Why discuss anything outside of one's domain at all then? There are many examples of intelligent cross-disciplinary contributors throughout history and you've probably met some in your life (especially if you're in software e
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by grumple 5y ago
Internships in the US must either be unpaid (part of the educational process, intern can only do very limited work) or must pay at least minimum wage.
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by grumple 5y ago
> We have 30+ years of the world wide web being built on referred url links (with no snippets) without monetary payment but now French news organizations want compensation for it. An injustice existing for a long time does not mean it sh
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by grumple 5y ago
The behavior described means it was not a first world country, couldn’t be US, UK, EU, Canada, or Australia. The amount of money is also too small for those places.

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