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by jacalata 9y ago
In the footnotes, iirc
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by jacalata 9y ago
I actually know people who are still working on refutational evidence bombs like that. The problem is that actually finding sources and addressing his points in all their "but I really meant" vagueness is a huge piece of work, and
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by jacalata 9y ago
Storm front already hosts themselves because they'd be thrown off any provider.
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by jacalata 9y ago
That is a bizarre attitude. Why would anyone owe you for having wasted their own time? I mean, if you were arguing that they owed it to their employer to give them anything developed on company time, at least you'd make sense...
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by jacalata 9y ago
A significant part of the agile process is that meeting the spec isn't the goal, being accepted by the customer is. Your description sounds like there were no sprint reviews to get customer feedback, or it was ignored. So you're a
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by jacalata 9y ago
I'm not sure if you're being serious, but brakes can fail while driving, and have definitely failed on people who are driving on a freeway when they go.
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by jacalata 9y ago
Let's not be absurd. Brakes failure in a car isn't going to stop you starting it and getting on the freeway. Wasn't it Toyota found that to be more than an inconvenience?
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by jacalata 9y ago
Plus time to get between airport and downtown and to go through security at the airport, which has to be at least two hours. So $120 for four hours? Well worth it to many people.
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by jacalata 9y ago
How pleased people are this year, or in ten years time? There are lots of ways to make users happy in the short term at the expense of long term benefits.
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by jacalata 9y ago
Holy shit. I hope a significant amount of that is background noise rather than an actual use of time.
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by jacalata 9y ago
Plenty of business organizations behave exactly the same way, which is one reason for sales cycles in b2b services. Departments are willing to spend money at the end of a budget period on things they otherwise wouldn't have, divisions
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by jacalata 9y ago
http://www.metafilter.com/161151/Election-Update-John-Adams-...
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by jacalata 9y ago
FYI, the political threads during the American election tended to be very fast moving and there was a new thread every day - so there was plenty of discussion of her resignation, but it was mostly done before the thread you were in.
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by jacalata 9y ago
> there are people commenting who say they have visited the site for a decade and got bored of it I think that people's memories are flawed enough that the "it used to be so great" arguments are all pretty suspect. I tend
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by jacalata 9y ago
Most of the arguments in the article seem agnostic to the size of the function altogether, which is hilariously ironic given the complaint about the "long functions are bad" example at the start of the book.
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by jacalata 9y ago
Wouldn't the compromise be unit testing?
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by jacalata 9y ago
Or if you drop your kids off at school and never come back for them. Nobody is paying you to look after them, right?
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by jacalata 9y ago
I don't, but people who believe one silly thing often believe others so I thought you might. Let's go with some other examples: open source software. Breastfeeding. Ooh, how about literally every person in America under 10 years o
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by jacalata 9y ago
Ah, so Steve jobs was worth $1/year.
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by jacalata 9y ago
Or if there was a history of alt right groups doxxing and harassing people they disagreed with, which there is - see Gamergate.
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by jacalata 9y ago
The reality is that 2,000 of them are indistinguishably good and diversity programs are intended to make sure that google hires equally able women out of that group instead of choosing all the men.
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by jacalata 9y ago
A good faith effort to see if you managed to refrain from reacting as though I had actually stated that as a fact rather than merely mentioning it as a thought. I was curious to see if you actually had such a strange understanding of the ph
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by jacalata 9y ago
Except that they are now allowed to take other classes at the same time, which was previously disallowed.
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by jacalata 9y ago
Why do you believe that having a test administered by the school is the only way to identify students needing remedial help? The school is arguing that they can do a better job of identification by using existing grades and test scores. Wha
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by jacalata 9y ago
Yes. The thought that hacker news might now be a haven for nazis masquerading as classical liberals defending free speech is probably quite horrifying to some people as well.
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The male biologically suited to being in tech, obviously.
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by jacalata 9y ago
> It's hard not to get defensive when... I thought classical liberals were incapable of emotional involvement in a rational discussion.
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by jacalata 9y ago
And you believe that a paper arguing that "black people are genetically suited to being slaves and therefore we should not expect them to become managers at google in a demographically representative proportion" is a reasonable st
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by jacalata 9y ago
Climate change is controversial. That doesn't indicate that there are strong critical thinkers on either side.
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The second one.

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