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by hkai 6y ago
I am curious as to what is the benefit of having employees chit-chat with each other, or become friends. I have never personally worked in a dev team that has the `esprit de corps` but as long as you give me a good design, I will implement
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by hkai 6y ago
It's ironic that as someone from a similar "shy" culture, I do not dare to tell my manager that our outsourced programmers in a low-cost country sometimes don't write a single line of code in a day, and one of them is no
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by hkai 6y ago
A great example of why major companies should not regulate people's lives is WeChat in China. Some ethnic minorities are banned from using it, which is almost the same as not having a credit card in the US. You can kind of get around w
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by hkai 6y ago
It's mind blowing how the media spinned his defense, with headlines like "Sweden admits they were wrong and should have locked down", whereas he said exactly the opposite. He said: we should have had more labs, locked down re
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by hkai 6y ago
Would you also say that rioters can be blamed for some of the damage, or only politicians? I'm pretty sure I've seen videos of people looting stores and beating up others. I hated that tactic in my own country, where some of my fe
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by hkai 6y ago
Apparently that's a very small number, so that anecdote is irrelevant.
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by hkai 6y ago
I think that level of disillusionment is a bit dangerous, because I've seen people starting to support the Chinese way of governance because they say the American one is broken.
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by hkai 6y ago
Perhaps some of your criticism is valid, but would you rather have Obama or Trump? I think we rarely can choose between perfect and imperfect; we have to choose between two imperfects. Both on the left and on the right, many people have to
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by hkai 6y ago
There is a fake Lincoln quote that, even though it's fake, aged surprisingly well in the last 140 years that it has been circulated: > "Corporations have been enthroned. > An era of corruption will follow and the money power
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by hkai 6y ago
> police kill members of their community at random. I understand your emotion, but saying that the police walks in the street killing random black people is also unproductive. You can imagine folks on the right showcasing your post as an
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by hkai 6y ago
I like this post because it avoids making provocative claims that are sometimes seen in the media, and I hope that this restores some of the lost trust between the people on two sides. For example, unlike the media, Obama avoids saying that
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by hkai 6y ago
It seems a lot of people are advocating two things: - Western social media companies are evil; and - Freedom of speech is bad. You may very well get rid of Facebook and freedom of speech, but I would like to just remind to all of you folks
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by hkai 6y ago
It seems weirdly specific to create a map of only police brutality, like creating a map of murders by white people below the age 25. I am also not sure why it needs to have a geographic component. Perhaps you don't really care on which
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by hkai 6y ago
Maybe you are right, but it didn't seem to work in Hong Kong. Here a new recruit is paid nearly 6000 USD / month after tax, double that of a new software engineer. I think you've seen the outcome in the news.
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by hkai 6y ago
Correct. If you are filming someone, be aware that your video may be used as proof in court - for example, to prove that a person was indeed resisting arrest. It's best to not release it to anyone except to the victim's lawyers wh
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by hkai 6y ago
You are correct, although I personally know two programmers who are not able to write basic JavaScript code and have survived for almost a year in their jobs by asking around, copying other people's code and asking for help ("I di
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by hkai 6y ago
What does this bureaucracy look like? Asking because to me personally it seems that it's easy to create a new TypeScript app from a template with zero configuration, and then it just works. Perhaps I'd need to spend 5 minutes to w
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by hkai 6y ago
When we are discussing whether the accounts are monitored, we need to remember the no-password mongo db databases containing these messages were available on the internet. https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/4/182
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by hkai 6y ago
It's sad to see that the media drama around some of the Facebook's practices made some of my friends/colleagues quit Facebook and switch to WeChat. It's like refusing to eat eggs and milk for ethical purposes and then sw
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by hkai 6y ago
That's what bravery looks like. Oh, and money.
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by hkai 6y ago
TypeScript.
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by hkai 6y ago
What's the cost and how much I'd need to pay?
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by hkai 6y ago
Seeing both sides of my family doing everything they can to scam the government and NGOs for benefits just so they can avoid going to work, I always think the UBI might only work as intended for perhaps 10% of the most highly motivated ind
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by hkai 6y ago
An alternative would be to make no changes to the world due to COVID-19, just like we shouldn't have created TSA after 9/11.
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by hkai 6y ago
"If a developer like me were to leave your company right now, what's the reason they would quit?"
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by hkai 6y ago
Sorry, how do you propose to pay for healthcare and food if nobody's working? Ask for aid from other countries or some other solution?
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by hkai 6y ago
I think he was very clear about the reasons why he is looking for a new CEO, in his blog post announcing that search. The investors set a goal and Joel executed it.
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by hkai 6y ago
What's your take on the estimated death toll from the lockdowns? I've seen projections of 1.4m additional deaths from tuberculosis over the next 5 years, half a million cancer deaths, and pretty much uncountable additional deaths
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by hkai 6y ago
What is the reason that many people, including you, seem to blame white people for everything? It's almost like a reflex. Not to mention that the ethnicity of the person in question in this story is pretty clear from the photographs.
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by hkai 6y ago
And 200 million added because of lockdowns. So it's 1 billion now.

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