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by hopler 8y ago
It's also said that telling people what you are doing is bad because it satisfies your psychological desire to deliver even though you haven't actually delivered.
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by hopler 8y ago
Maybe they aren't digging their grave then?
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by hopler 8y ago
You have no idea what happened in the marriage while poster stayed home doing nothing of substance for half a year
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by hopler 8y ago
Culture Jam was one of the delights of the 20th centuries that as fallen away. Of course now we have no need for culture jam in the common case of mass communications, as it has well jammed itself
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by hopler 8y ago
What does Malaysia have to so with this?
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by hopler 8y ago
Is it efficient to harvest?
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by hopler 8y ago
Heat is a by product of design flaws.
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by hopler 8y ago
Why is it sad? Would it be happy if desktops were slower?
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by hopler 8y ago
Enjoy life while we have it. In the long run we're all dead.
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by hopler 8y ago
What about cheap cellular data service for your hackphone?
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by hopler 8y ago
Like the old Palm Pre?
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by hopler 8y ago
The escape from the paradox of thrift is to create things now that will be valuable in the future (durable goods, or education), or to lend money to people who need things now (aka investing). (Or give money away for that's but that&#x
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by hopler 8y ago
Unstable employment is the price we pay for stable employment?
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by hopler 8y ago
Because the work isn't needed. They arguably should pay workers more so workers can weather a future layoff or furlough, not pay people to come to work and do nothing.
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by hopler 8y ago
Businesses aren't infinite sources of money. Money should be spent paying people to do useful work, not paying them to produce products no one wants. Rich people spend money, supporting jobs. Layoffs aren't the problem here, inequ
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by hopler 8y ago
Going to a coffee shop takes time too
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by hopler 8y ago
I'd rather lose my savings in a vehicular emergency than lose my car and therefore lose my job and future income.
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by hopler 8y ago
Even in the "capitalist hellhole" that is the US, you can get a lifesaving operation even if it bankrupts you, and then you still get social security payments after. and you can borrow money from your 401k.
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by hopler 8y ago
You got a lot for your $5. At the other end of the spectrum are chronically bankrupt people maxed out on credit card debt who buy a takeout $6 giant candy coffee whenever they go anywhere and don't even bother to finish drinking it bef
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by hopler 8y ago
Some state government is finally taking on the Sackler family (opiod kingpins)
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by hopler 8y ago
What if I'd like something that the arbitrary community manager of GitHub doesn't? Why would a software project management site be the arbiter of good software?
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by hopler 8y ago
Free markets mostly work because people vote with their dollars. Democracies mostly work because people vote with their votes. Web democracies fail because votes are trivial to manipulate and gamed by SEO.
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by hopler 8y ago
> the list of tools is at least as useful as the most useful tool on the list. Simple disproof: a list of everything is not more useful than the most useful thing, because navigating the list has a cost. Also, an analogy: would you eat a
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by hopler 8y ago
This already exists. The problem is how to find it, since on the surface it looks the same as all the junk lists
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by hopler 8y ago
This is bootlicking. Private companies don't own the English language.
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by hopler 8y ago
Good estimates come from watching people deliver over time and scientifically comparing empirical performance to subjective estimates, not asking them to predict. Joel Spolsky has a great blog post on Painless Software Schedules.
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by hopler 8y ago
"commitments" do not exist in Agile. Agile was created to remove commitments and insert collaboration in it's place. You don't have to make big promises when your client has ongoing clear visibility into your progress.
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by hopler 8y ago
No no no! Agile has never been about predicting what you will do during a spent and then having slack or crunch time. Agile is about ranking your work by priority and dependency, setting meaningful milestones, and then adjusting your estima
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by hopler 8y ago
Did Outlook team have any idea they where inventing their largest competitor?
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by hopler 8y ago
That thread is 2months old and GitHub/Microsoft still hasn't closed this security hole.

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