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by ido 4y ago
The mainstream paradigm before OOP wasn't functional, but procedural programming (like in c or pascal). Going from procedural to OO as the default mainstream programming model is not trivial and mostly not about performance (but abou
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by ido 4y ago
That’s not boring food to me! I can cook very exciting meals from what you mentioned. If you meant “avoid junk food” than I agree, but the alternative to processed food doesn’t have to be boring.
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by ido 4y ago
This sounds like the saddest way to lose weight though…Like using abstinence as means of birth control and STD prevention.
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by ido 4y ago
Not affirming or disproving anything you wrote, it just reminded me that my mother once told that in one of the last conversations she had with my grandmother, she told her she never really loved her as much as she loved my uncle (or maybe
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by ido 4y ago
I assumed it was a mistranslated pun on "bread and circuses": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses
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by ido 4y ago
I think you're taking a humorous tone[0] too literally. The poster you answer to was saying that they think the biblical stories are myths/legends. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understatement
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by ido 4y ago
Where is Twitter going?
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by ido 4y ago
This reminds me of discussions with some Indian colleagues of mine who were telling me how they were cramming for years in school (with private tutors and studying till late at night) in order to get into very competitive IITs (Indian Insti
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by ido 4y ago
I don’t think they’re arguing in bad faith, only that their experience is different than yours. As with many things the answer is “it depends” and “a good manager is a good manager” and it’s hard to reduce to simple rules like “they’re good
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by ido 4y ago
How do you know it’s not significant? What if the company is making $5M in yearly revenue with 20% profit margin (so net income of $1M, remember most industries don’t have profit margins as high as software)? I remind you in this case their
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by ido 4y ago
Yep, he deferred to the programmers for technical decisions.
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by ido 4y ago
But a lot of these SEO content farms that google/apple "streamlined" away added no actual value, they just tried to game their way towards being the top answer for "how tall was Abraham Lincoln". If they weren'
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by ido 4y ago
I often repeat how one of the best managers I had (he was the CEO of the company but it was a 5 person - including me - startup, so he was practically the closest thing to a manager) was a former restaurateur who never worked in software be
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by ido 4y ago
It's really not that easy a problem to solve and sometimes the suboptimal solution seems better than the alternative (which would be to hire nobody until we find a good senior developer). Despite the fears of over-abundance of programm
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by ido 4y ago
The article's claim is not actually as simplistic as the title suggests, it says that active individual contributors should have a say in how the business is run.
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by ido 4y ago
Even though most commercial programming work is trivial (in the sense Math professors use the term) it doesn't mean you don't need excellent programmers (or that at least some of your programmers are excellent). All of us who wo
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by ido 4y ago
Interestingly enough all of the examples you presented sound like they were each actually an improvement for the user (don't have to click the link, google shows me the info in the search result, don't have to go to google, safari
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by ido 4y ago
I don’t know about the hypothetical average person from Arkansas but I’m sure the average Israeli, South Korean, Taiwanese, Czech and many others are immensely better off today than in 1980. And in 40 years the same will be true for the ave
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by ido 4y ago
My (Polish) grandfather used to say that too. I’d guess it’s either a Polish or a Yiddish proverb.
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by ido 4y ago
It's not just tricks, there are also real efficiency gains from not having duplicate efforts (double HR department, double finance, etc).
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by ido 4y ago
I'm surprised anyone is even use POWER at all still, I assumed it's all x64 or custom ARM (like Amazon's) by now!
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by ido 4y ago
Basically what you're asking for is protectionism. How is it different than putting tariffs on Japanese cars to make american cars less uncompetitive?
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by ido 4y ago
Nobody said at all costs.
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by ido 4y ago
I would postulate the single most important thing a company can do is make money. Hiring is also important though.
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by ido 4y ago
I just want to mention this in case someone reads your comment and does something inadvisable: "European" is an insufficiently general term. Some countries in Europe are more litigious than others.
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by ido 4y ago
No worries! I think for undergraduate studies I’m sure you can. Although motivation levels of “motivated enough” have to be pretty high! My experience was that pretty quickly professors (and TAs) provided insight and guidance I couldn’t (or
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by ido 4y ago
I think that OP's fundamental error is talking about school vs university. When I started my bachelor's studies in math the professor covered 3 years of high-school math in the first 2-3 weeks of the first semester. Up to that poi
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by ido 4y ago
A nitpick, but I feel it's worth noting EA didn't "make" any of these, but published them. These were all developed by 3rd party developers
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by ido 4y ago
For some people it is. I personally know people here in Berlin (or rather around Berlin, zone c) that in the past would drive instead of taking transit into the city a couple times per week because if you already have a car it’s cheaper tha
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by ido 4y ago
It is. I believe it's meant to encourage commuting by train, not long range travel. It's for example now significantly cheaper that the normal Berlin yearly ticket was while also increasing coverage.

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