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by hrktb 7y ago
Not sure to get what you are pointing at by “invasion”, but I was talking about french residents with french nationality. PS: for additional context, vikings were around the 9th century. I am not pointing at just current trends.
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by hrktb 7y ago
It’s always funny how the Franks are seens as “us”, when looking throught history France has been washed by waves of invasions that all left deep cultural mixes. Going to Normandy nowadays and looking at general public exposition it’s make
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by hrktb 7y ago
Sony’s bet was that they could overcome the strategy tax by sheer talent. They could for a while (2 decades ?) but ended up losing when software became a major part of the business. Software has always been their Achiles heel. Their laptop
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by hrktb 7y ago
consumers need to care as well, and that is/was the issue for privacy or ethical behavior. I hope we got passed that point, but it sure takes a damn long time.
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by hrktb 7y ago
> If you consume more calories than you use, you gain weight. People throw around this idea as if it was simple. Just the concept of calorie, which is bound to water temperature changes, is at most a vague second or third order approxima
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by hrktb 7y ago
Very good points. Reading the comments, I think what I was bugging is the notion that would give a task not trusting it would be done. People point at micro-management as an effect, because it basically means providing more limited tasks wi
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by hrktb 7y ago
If the organization is mature enough to rethink the project scope when approaching deadlines, couldn’t it also take the first approach and rethink the delivery as features are getting worked on ? There is effectively organizations that look
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by hrktb 7y ago
> This enables devs to get trusted by management I am curious about that “trust” part. In your model what happens when management doesn’t trust devs ? do devs trust management ?
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by hrktb 7y ago
> joke about is China really any worse than the U.S. Most people of my generation didn’t see that much of the cold war but still understood what was done during that time on both side, and that from very early in their life. A lot of peo
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by hrktb 7y ago
Technically I’d agree. In practice I think people would progressively bring back crazy use cases and requests that would need to be dealt in the model. For instance date formats are a complete mess only because people value different inform
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by hrktb 7y ago
Anecdotally I see a strong clustering. I have friends with a ton of books, and their other friends also heavily liking books and physical goods (CDs, cards etc.) in general. My other friends tend to have basically nothing in terms of physic
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by hrktb 7y ago
Yes. Luckily work environnement is usually not that chalenging, and very predictible. It helps to avoid situations that could be triggering, and medication can also mitigate the handicaping parts, even if it doesn’t solve the root issues.
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by hrktb 7y ago
> So, if my hypothesis is correct, parents in Japan are more likely to go untreated You are right that people don’t often admit mental illness in public or to people they don’t trust. That’s not that different from western countries in m
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by hrktb 7y ago
Firing for poor performance is easy enough when you can prove the low performance and reluctance to improve. The more it gets touchy feely, the harder it gets: for instance the goals you set were blurry or contestable, you don’t have any tr
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by hrktb 7y ago
Isn’t it the same as any other access permission ? For instance is there any specific model behind blocking device location, short of just not wanting to share the info ? I’d see not wanting an app to send anything related to your device no
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by hrktb 7y ago
I think the most interesting part of this is we're a few billions on the net now, there's a lot of things we can't and won't get until it blows in our face.
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by hrktb 7y ago
> English is the lingua franca of computer technology, and as long as this remains the case, new entrants must adapt to the standard that is established. This is not a matter of cultural imperialism, it's a pragmatic decision around
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by hrktb 7y ago
I think we're past the point where it's easy to limit the scope of a message to a specific group, and any message that concerns personal life is just doomed to be an issue in some way. Nassim Taleb seems to be about companies giv
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by hrktb 7y ago
This reminds me of Google so many years ago setting Father's Day reminder in people's Gmail. At some scale, a product can't just be whimsical, or not in any cultural or personally touching way. Boring and impersonal becomes a
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by hrktb 7y ago
How do you see the risk of the most greedy company bidding the most to get privileged access to the data, and coming up with a cure that out-prices you or your family if you ever end up hit by the disease ? For me this is the simulation tha
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by hrktb 7y ago
It would be more like that employee emailing a company statement you didn’t want people to be aware of.
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by hrktb 7y ago
Wouldn’t Apple or Amazon suing Bloomberg force them to provide details and access to their farms in ways that could expose more info than they are willing to give ? I think about the kind of info we only get when lawsuits happen, and here t
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by hrktb 7y ago
This is sadly not the case yet in many not so edge cases. For instance Heroku still doesn't provide straightforward support for wildcard domains under SSL: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/understanding-ssl-on
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by hrktb 7y ago
I hear you. Somewhere I wonder how long this kind of sensitive questions can stay unasked. There usually are repercussions, with concrete effects on work relationships and productivity (if there aren’t, why even bother ?). In your example,
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by hrktb 7y ago
> the point of going to extremes like quitting the job, just to avoid having a genuine conversation with somebody. If you genuinely think the ones you saw could have been avoid just by a conversation, I’d wager the main issue was not an
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by hrktb 7y ago
Interesting. It might depend on the plan, we have a vandalism protection option (in-car theft, window breaking, tire damage etc.) so the insurance company has all the incentive in the world to know where and how it would be parked at night.
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by hrktb 7y ago
This is a circle that is going on for very long I think. People with private locked garage will also have better ratings in general. Wealthier places will also invest more in road maintenance and limiting accident factors (for instance havi
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by hrktb 7y ago
> "there's no more Reader, where do I go now?" This is to me a reminder that Google is more willing to push through newish markets (and sometimes destroy the emerging players as a side effect). FrontPage getting buried doe
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by hrktb 7y ago
AMD was already poised to eat their lunch last time, Intel had to go to illegal lengths to keep their commercial lead. I'd expect AMD to have learned the lesson and get away with their lead this time.
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by hrktb 7y ago
You are right, but until now it was mostly safe to leave electronics hidden well enough. For instance when on duty, it is very convenient to just keep a laptop buried in the trunk and go shopping or do anything you want as long as you can g

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