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jahewson
4y ago
Yes!
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jahewson
4y ago
And in a worse scenario, Russian fission attacks.
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jahewson
4y ago
That sounds exactly like a contractor. "It will be done for $x in y months". Actually it was done for $x * 1.25 in y*2 months.
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4y ago
> whose job was it to continuously monitor all the state/local laws and ensure compliance For a company over 100 years old with 10,000 employees? I suspect the answer is their compliance department .
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jahewson
4y ago
There are thousands of software engineering jobs out there, how many have you tried? A handful? Increase your sample size.
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jahewson
4y ago
Ha, well I’d agree with you on that, but even so I’ve seen Go mostly adopted by people who are capable and care.
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4y ago
Any organisation with messy code doesn’t care about clean code - sure, they may regret it, they may wish it would magically go away, but if they cared then they wouldn’t have allowed all the dirty code to pile up. The only organisation in w
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4y ago
One option is to work for a company where an important part of the product they make is code itself, e.g. an SDK. Another is to switch to a programming language that tends to attract quality-minded people, e.g Rust, Go, Haskell.
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4y ago
> Dr Ballard also displayed photos to the audience showing areas where rust on the ship had been disturbed by what he believes to be robotic submarines landing on its surface. If you've got the money such things can be had, this one
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4y ago
> Software engineers value good structure and reducing technical debt A small minority of them do. As far as I can tell what most software engineers value is the act of writing code.
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4y ago
Imagine you’re a reporter, do you want to rush down to the toxic accident nobody is correctly accessing or containing? Didn’t think so.
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4y ago
If you’ve got it, flaunt it.
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4y ago
> Am in the process of starting my first SaaS as a solo founder and was looking at what languages to use Use the language you know best. Your tech stack is not the product: https://hoho.com/posts/your-stack-is-not-th
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4y ago
No because the loss of benefits extends to a period outside of the strike. It’s like taking somebody’s entire year of wages because they went on strike for a couple of weeks.
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4y ago
> I can continue to use that policy number and card for some time That would be the grace period.
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4y ago
Right but they’re not suspending the benefit they’re cancelling it. If they pro-rated a portion of the tuition assistance as owed that would be defensible. But this is a rug-pull.
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4y ago
In 2016 the NLRB ruled that graduate students who teach are, in fact, employees. Note that they have the right to even form a union. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/08/2...
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4y ago
Yeah terracotta tiles last over 100 years so it’s well worth factoring in.
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4y ago
It won’t. Companies that overhired in lossy areas are still hiring in growth areas. This is a rebalancing, not a shrinking: demand for tech workers still far outstrips supply.
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jahewson
4y ago
Wait until you hear about the Chrysler Building.
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jahewson
4y ago
> why are more people […] spending more money to do so) than ever before Because everyone forgets to adjust for inflation.
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4y ago
Less of a moonshot and more of a sunshot.
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4y ago
The smart move would be for them to club together and go and win in court, this case seems pretty ridiculous and the premise is very flimsy. Having a loss like this on the books and in case law would be harmful to the ongoing concerns of bi
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4y ago
They were also required by the license to follow the licence and yet here we are. They’re in violation of the license. They can be sued for damages.
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4y ago
No that is incorrect.
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4y ago
Copyright grants the following fives rights: 1) reproduction, 2) adaptation, 3) publication, 4) performance, and 5) display. Distribution falls under 3 while creating a derived work falls under 2.
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4y ago
No that would be equally wrong.
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jahewson
4y ago
Dollar store hosting providers have dollar store security practices. I would never trust them with user's data.
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4y ago
Use it as an additive in paint, resin, etc. to make glow-in-the dark stuff.
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4y ago
> P.S. if you do a good job arranging your life (as most software engineers absolutely have the means to do) you can make a commute a quite pleasant part of your day and create a healthy separation between your work and your life. Clearl
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