hnbroseph

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by hnbroseph 8y ago
cool story, but the whole Virtuous Programmer vs Villainous Business-Type narrative is a bit of a tired trope. and daniel having been "pushed out" of more than one project makes things a bit more uncertain (at least to me) on who
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by hnbroseph 8y ago
back then, for me, there was a massive qualitative difference between chrome and the rest. i didn't have any particular preference, but chrome just was a far superior user experience.
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by hnbroseph 8y ago
given how poor the correlation is between ceo pay and performance, this isn't clear.
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by hnbroseph 8y ago
> Everyone is free to be a CEO. this is such a thoroughly trivial and simplistic observation, that it contains basically zero useful information.
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by hnbroseph 8y ago
large corporations seem more like corporate aristocratic states. the ceos are frequently so thoroughly divorced from the common plebs in the trenches doing the actual work that enables the company to actually exist. this divorce also seem
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by hnbroseph 8y ago
> The idea that employees get a vote in what a company does and everything it does can only be expressed one way. Simply resign if you want. why? why wouldn't it be a preferable situation that an option is presented that will avoid
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by hnbroseph 8y ago
> So we have to do whatever the army wants using straw-men like this doesn't typically end well, so why use one?
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by hnbroseph 8y ago
i actually suspect that a failure to do that is one (of many) reasons his political opponents are not remotely as effective as they ostensibly could be.
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by hnbroseph 8y ago
seems like a question for the other person, unless you're not really interested.
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by hnbroseph 8y ago
ot, but even as i would probably be a little dismayed to learn my burger wasn't made of what i thought it was... it's kind of amusing that horse meat causes a stir while cow meat doesn't it's all just a matter of what&#
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by hnbroseph 8y ago
why does it "say more about the author"? does your comment about Dunning-Kruger "say more about you" than the author?
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by hnbroseph 8y ago
> Maybe the thing is too complex and must be cut down to smaller pieces i suspect that for many, it's not necessarily their fault Thing is 'too complex' (though perhaps this is tangential); nor are they necessarily provide
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by hnbroseph 8y ago
> you don't need a set of rules to identify that he's an idiot, and to have a basis to kick him out afaik, a code doesn't exist because of an inability to identify or to (attempt to) exclude a person.
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by hnbroseph 8y ago
there are a variety of reasons a contract can be unenforceable, including notions of being 'unconscionable' or 'unfair'.
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by hnbroseph 8y ago
i think "to keep someone like him away" is a bit of a red herring.
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by hnbroseph 8y ago
> The tagline on this website is "Guiding Developers since 1869". Is that a joke? i'm trying to imagine a situation where it could be serious, but i'm not coming up with much.
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by hnbroseph 8y ago
neat. maybe by swift 10 they will have windows builds and i can check it out.
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by hnbroseph 8y ago
when i went through the chamber it got me a bit, but for me it wasn't especially debilitating... at least in comparison to some.
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by hnbroseph 8y ago
what kind of regrets do you have?
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by hnbroseph 8y ago
i wonder if they'll add the ceo to their blacklists.
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by hnbroseph 8y ago
what do you mean by "anyone who thinks that SJWs are real"? are you suggesting that "SJWs don't exist"?
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by hnbroseph 8y ago
> A service uploading data and responding with results is a perfectly legitimate interaction. this reductive description is too vague to bear the label "legitimate interaction". context matters, no?
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by hnbroseph 8y ago
what about it upset you?
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by hnbroseph 8y ago
i lowkey kinda feel that the pervasive gamer hype about half-life 3 (for example the "hl3 confirmed" meme was extremely pervasive) made valve feel like it would be impossible to match the hype, and any flaw would be hyper focused.
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by hnbroseph 8y ago
Every country has had communism that I say has had communism.
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by hnbroseph 8y ago
"real" is an interesting notion. when you're presented with two thoroughly awful options, and when the ability to select between the two said options is contingent on dodgy information, murky details and unanswered questions
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by hnbroseph 8y ago
maybe, but we can see that projects built on spatialos won't be shipping either. (hopefully this is a temporary unintended consequence of the license update.)
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by hnbroseph 8y ago
before that it says "any portion of"... so "primarily" could apply (ostensibly) to a single line of code, if that is a "portion".
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by hnbroseph 8y ago
Because his left is currently indisposed, of course!
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by hnbroseph 8y ago
perhaps you're referring to implementation details of bitcoin?

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