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by imagist 10y ago
> It's all Javascript nowadays, with about 5-8 frameworks dominating this sad landscape. This is only even a perception in the Silicon Valley echo chamber, and it's not even true there. I worked at a contracting firm that did a
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by imagist 10y ago
I wonder if the reason that a Lisp hasn't made it into the mainstream is that Lispers can shut up about pedantic naming rules that are completely and totally unimportant.
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by imagist 10y ago
So investors demand growth. But not only that, they demand sevenfold growth. That's much less abstract. And it's also hilarious and a perfect example of why Twitter is a perfect example of the tech bubble. Twitter is not going
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> This video is the equivalent of an internal company newsletter. I'm part of Boeing now? This is great news! When do I get my first paycheck? > Do the shoot, tell the story, wrap. Okay, so don't edit it so much that it&#x27
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by imagist 10y ago
People demand growth. Market capitalizations do not demand growth. It's probable that you're speaking metaphorically here, but your metaphor is abstract enough as to not communicate any meaning. It's clear that you think some
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by imagist 10y ago
> They are now, but the uninformed reader can't assume that that's static throughout history. Scientific ideas are not discussed freely. They are driven by funding, which is disproportionally awarded to novel results. Non-nov
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by imagist 10y ago
> What were those problems? A big one was the size of stars in the Copernican universe. Copernicus proposed that certain oddities observed in the movements of planets through the constellations were due to the fact that Earth itself was
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by imagist 10y ago
Well, glad we settled that.
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by imagist 10y ago
> They are completely different business models. They are different business models in the sense that Disney has a business model and Twitter doesn't. > Twitter has tremendous value and with the right product changes, some rollba
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by imagist 10y ago
Disney is a media company--they sell media. Twitter isn't a media company. They don't sell media, and in fact they don't sell enough of anything to make a profit.
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by imagist 10y ago
I'm not blaming the engineer for the poor production quality--that's not her job. Presumably there's a video producer involved here, or someone at Boeing who didn't hire a proper video producer.
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by imagist 10y ago
As I said elsewhere: That's not necessarily true. Remember that Musk started with $165 million from sale of shares of PayPal when it was bought by eBay, so he could afford to wait a while for his companies to take off. When you have a
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by imagist 10y ago
> 1. I would much rather Musk become rich by furthering humanity than someone making the next cat picture app Agreed. > 2. The companies are tackling some of the hardest problems and I think purely to make money he would have picked o
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by imagist 10y ago
Where my cynics at? Are we really so naive that we're just parroting whatever Musk's PR team says? Musk isn't doing this to further the human race, he's doing it to make money.
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by imagist 10y ago
So my response is don't do that .
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by imagist 10y ago
> Many reasons. Maybe he thinks you're indispensable to the team, but will never fully trust you any more. It's my default position that my boss doesn't trust me. As you yourself earlier said, "I agree there should be
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by imagist 10y ago
It also doesn't give you very good tools for refactoring to clean up the awfulness. Unit testing tools and the type system in C are such that it's fairly difficult to ensure that your refactor hasn't broken anything.
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by imagist 10y ago
> Hypothetically speaking, allowing those users to opt out would mean Twitter makes $0.20/month from the remaining users, rather than $0.55/month. Will enough users buy a premium subscription to make up that loss? I don't
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by imagist 10y ago
You're proposing introducing an expense center as a solution to their profit problem?
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by imagist 10y ago
Good on them--it's a wise choice to get out before the bubble pops. I've said before[1] that Twitter is the poster child for the tech bubble and that people's opinion of Twitter is a good litmus test for people's underst
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by imagist 10y ago
> Well, that's up to you whether you write that way or not. The problem is, it's also up to the programmers who worked on my codebase before I did. I would never write that atrocity, but I've come across that atrocity quit
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by imagist 10y ago
> However, it's fairly common (especially for new managers) for them to think of employees looking for other jobs as a personal affront, and will make your life miserable. Why would someone who takes my looking for other jobs as a p
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by imagist 10y ago
> I don't think of my employees this way,in fact I just had one raised to the new "average" because it turned out they didn't negotiate well and were below average ( not my hire, just now my report) - it was a 12% rai
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by imagist 10y ago
It's interesting to make this stuff explicit, but here's my prioritization of the factors measured: 1. Species Preference 2. Protecting Passengers (Passengers > Pedestrians) 3. Saving More Lives 4. Upholding The Law 5. Avoiding
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by imagist 10y ago
You're setting an unreasonably high bar for what you're willing to define as a monopoly. Yes, most of my examples aren't global, but that's largely a function of regulation: the US is the only country with permissive eno
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by imagist 10y ago
To clarify for anyone who might be confused like saosebastiao about what I'm saying: the consensus saosebastiao is claiming exists is exactly what you would expect from economists who are trying to make money for themselves. It's
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by imagist 10y ago
> I dispute that. I generally stay at companies for 4 or 5 years, and I know multiple people who have stayed at Google for 10 years. Yeah, but Google isn't representative of the industry as a whole. > I'm not making an argum
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by imagist 10y ago
I think you're making a related mistake, which is to overestimate the importance of the tech to the business. When Uber first released, my guess is they probably couldn't do most of what you list above. But it didn't matter,
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> The world's oldest profession, prostitution, has never been run by companies the size of Standard Oil. This is because of government intervention (it's illegal for Christ's sake). > Neither has wheat, sugar, electrici
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by imagist 10y ago
> This is entirely false, and there are stacks of economic literature spanning a 200 year timeframe and covering every economic ideology that have explored why it isn't like that, and surprise surprise there actually is a consensus.

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