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by hapless 13y ago
Because it wouldn't reward insiders.
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by hapless 13y ago
Most of the important skills have nothing to do with technology - Requirements gathering - Customer interaction - "Managing upwards" (dealing with PMs, product people, designers) - Estimation and planning - Becoming a team player
483.
by hapless 13y ago
No one is being banished or burned at the stake. His suitability for a leadership position is openly questioned by employees in light of his publicly espoused views. Nothing more, nothing less.
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by hapless 13y ago
After a public figure speaks in public about those views, they become much less "personal."
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by hapless 13y ago
We have secret ballots for a reason: what you do in public has consequences. When you speak in public, it's possible that you will face censure from your employers, your employees, or your customers. You can't control how other p
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by hapless 13y ago
It's offensive to "apologize" when you do not actually regret your behavior. It rings false because it is false. It's a cynical attempt to manipulate the audience. Sometimes it is better to say nothing. This post shoul
487.
by hapless 13y ago
Not apologizing is an option, perhaps the option he should have taken. In my book, offering no apology is better than offering a crass non-apology. If you don't regret your actions, don't torture language to issue a false apology.
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by hapless 13y ago
He just wanted to take an opportunity to "express [..] sorrow at having caused pain." Eich does not regret his actions, he's just sorry that you felt pain because of the things he did. Classic business-ese non-apology.
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by hapless 13y ago
Operators are treated specially in scala. Methods with certain names have wildly different precedence rules. The special operator rules allow library authors to create a "DSL" without using the (difficult) macro system. This alm
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by hapless 13y ago
I keep hoping that the operator abuse is just a growing pain. The language community has been given a new toy, and they're going to chew on it. Eventually libraries that will come along that were intended to be used by humans. Sbt wi
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by hapless 13y ago
This is not the first attempt. This seems to be focused on extending PHP's performance and capabilities. Personally, I'm more interested in porting PHP applications away from PHP. Caucho Resin offers 100% php compatibility on th
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by hapless 13y ago
to summarize: regulatory capture is an existential threat to the American economy, and any regulation that restricts a silicon valley firm is prima facie regulatory capture. I, too, am alarmed by the changes in campaign funding we have se
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by hapless 13y ago
All of my older multimeters, from the 80s and 90s, were black or grey. The yellow/grey contrast is a recent development, and it would surprise me very much if it weren't a deliberate attempt to knock off Fluke.
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by hapless 13y ago
It's called "trade dress." You absolutely are allowed, and this is probably a good thing. In the case of a durable tool, like a multimeter, the industrial design serves the same purpose packaging does for normal consumer good
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by hapless 13y ago
Securitized mortgages were priced "accurately" to the extent that there was strong, almost inexhaustible, demand for assets with the right rating from paid ratings agencies. This had unpleasant consequences for many of us. Market
496.
by hapless 13y ago
That is another unpleasant lesson: credentials don't make the man. Your master's degree in management appears to be much less valuable than experience.
497.
by hapless 13y ago
In other words, holacracy as a concept is incompatible with a startup's typical ownership structure?
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by hapless 13y ago
Managers' higher pay isn't some kind of conspiracy squatting in the industry. It's the result of market forces. Those outside pressures will not evaporate simply because we do not like them. Pay grades are telling us things
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by hapless 13y ago
I'm sure it happens in hotels all the time. I don't want it happening next door to my apartment, with strangers inside my building
500.
by hapless 13y ago
Subletting for less than thirty days is always illegal.
501.
by hapless 13y ago
Somehow people managed to do just that for thousands of years
502.
by hapless 13y ago
So now I get to support more than one format, with corresponding increases in complexity... ..But only the JSON format will have any users, and I still have to deal with anything I find objectionable about JSON.
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by hapless 13y ago
You're not fucked. Your "career path" is partly determined by past job titles, and partly by your ability to sell yourself. Neither one is going to be on a fixed path at age 25. As human beings, we all spend a lot of time a
504.
by hapless 13y ago
Only an Erlang mailing list would prompt someone to complain that a document format requires valid UTF-8. This is a glimpse of the last place on earth where relying on US ASCII is considered a positive good.
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by hapless 13y ago
SF has a very low density. It's less dense than LA. If you want to compare it to NYC, it's less dense than the NYC suburbs in NJ and Queens. Rebuilding at higher densities is definitely practical, they just choose not to do so.
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by hapless 13y ago
The internet wasn't designed for high-latency, high-compression modem sessions. TCP works just fine over a 56 kbps leased line. It's terrifying on a 56k home modem, despite similar "bandwidth." The leased line has 50 ms
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by hapless 13y ago
Whatsapp's ARPU is a little under $1. By your numbers, they have 42 years of revenue in that figure.
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by hapless 13y ago
If you rely on precious metals as money, they make a perfectly good medium of exchange. Unfortunately, the money supply will still change . Imposing a fixed amount of money on the world does not somehow imply that there is a fixed supp
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by hapless 13y ago
For the record, only one generation of equipment used Erlang/OTP. As a part of Ericsson's hardware platform, it was very short-lived.
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by hapless 13y ago
Something Erlang fans rarely mention: only one generation of equipment used the OTP. In other words, it was stillborn.

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