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by jacobr1 4y ago
Also commonly-held positions that are false, or not applicable in a certain jurisdiction. Google can be misleading. This is one of the big advantages of having a good network of friends and family with a wide variety of expertise. I wouldn&
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Wasn't the precursor "Personnel Departments" which were more administrative? Especially in a pre-computer era with more literal paperwork? It seems like HR evolved out of that to service more "strategic" business ne
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by jacobr1 4y ago
This wouldn't be a widespread practice outside of fields with proprietary data, relationships, or trade secrets, which tend to have better compensation. The costs of having a non-working employee on the payroll, even at the $40k-level
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Even in California, you can get sued for violating an NDA when going to competitor if you bring private technical data, which seems like a reasonable compromise. You can bring your expertise, but no code. Intersecting with this are patents.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
I would agree these are system-wide less efficient, but shouldn't paid "garden leave" be legal if parties agree upfront?
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by jacobr1 4y ago
It is harder to count calories when you make your food at home from fresh ingredients, or go out to restaurants. Not that you can't, but it is both harder and less accurate.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
I was arguing the opposite, coordinated deployments already presumes more maturity than I was considering. I've only been at one company with same-day deployments. All the other places have been free-for-alls where each group determine
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Agreed - ther is no reason for that not to be the case. It just is that in practice (and not as some essentialism of how organizations needs to structure things) that miroservices tend proliferate git-repos and modules tend to be part of mo
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by jacobr1 4y ago
> you have to scale up the entire thing which is huge, expensive, etc. Yes, yet people still do it that way. This is tradeoff against the costs of microservices. I'm not saying it is worth it, but yes, sometimes you can just ineffic
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by jacobr1 4y ago
But there are rules of blame. With microservices, as long as you maintain the contract with caller services, you can deploy whenever you want. If you have some kind of issue, your team is solely responsible. If the caller services do weird
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by jacobr1 4y ago
That is harder when each service and team has their own repo and review process. Doesn't mean they won't just get merged, but there is increased friction and less-trust about random PRs from engineers that aren't actively wor
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Are there any examples of large organizations that don't have this problem? I can imagine places with small teams that are basically isolated that can operate efficiently, but once you scale to point where dozens to hundreds of teams n
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by jacobr1 4y ago
A few ways, the easiest being to scale up the whole monolith with more instance. Another way is run multiple "services" using the same codebase, so you have workload segmentation, either via synchronous network calls, or async wor
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by jacobr1 4y ago
How is that distributed? Are there banks with much higher/lower ratios? Or are most banks the same for given market (and regulatory) conditions?
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by jacobr1 4y ago
And they weren't even wrong! The challenge is addressing the tech-debt, not the choice to incur it.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Apple could still act as an indirect facilitator - send apple the money and they refund it on your behalf. I'm sure there are many reasons why this is complicated, but I don't see any fundamental reasons this couldn't be done
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Can you give some examples?
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Managing a distribution system, such as a sales and marketing organization is itself a feat. Plenty of tech companies no longer really innovate and just buy startups ... yet they still provide value (to their investors at least) by cross-se
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by jacobr1 4y ago
How much of this has to do with LPs? From my cursory knowledge of EU VCs, they seem to managing much of their own capital, rather rather than investing on behalf of a large, driverse group of institutions and high-net-worth people. With the
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by jacobr1 4y ago
> Now that the US is now allowing more pollution, you see some Manf. is coming back. The bigger factor is that in some manufacturing areas, labor no longer dominates the costs. If you are using "robots" and other automation, th
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Most American states are like this too. Outside the big tech-hubs, everything is about tax-lures in exchange for hiring commitments.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
I think you identified the use case: For services that are using the "append-only log as your source of data" then you need a tool that manages the "expensive to reconstruct it" side of things. I think that is what this
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Jail. Prison is for the convicted.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Higher abstractions is software have allowed for increased productivity and additional application. Making it easier to write code will only drive more adoption and customization of technology. We are very far from software eating the world
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Most media sites lower their paywall for archive.org for altruistic reasons. I wonder if there is some kind of compromise where the paywall only goes down after X days (presumably most interest occurs within the first few days publishing).
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by jacobr1 4y ago
When I traveled to Saudi Arabia a few years ago they took my fingerprints at customs. When exiting the country, I didn't give them my passport - they just scanned my thumbs and asked me to confirm my name.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
When I have voted in my state, I just tell them my name and then sign a paper asserting I'm me. No ID is involved.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
> The real goal is often to reduce the number of people biking Where is the evidence of that intention? This seems more like the case of unintended side-effects to me.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
I agree with your collective argument - but safety is _also_ an individual responsibility. People should still wear helmets for their own safety, if they determine that it makes sense for them.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
No: 1) Everybody SHOULD, for their own benefit, wear a helmet. 2) Nobody should be REQUIRED BY LAW to wear a helmet There is no paradox, unless you assume that every good thing thing should be mandated by law and every bad thing regulated.

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