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by jfb 6y ago
This is me. I also learned from the Klutz books, and at the time (when I was 12 or so) I was pretty meticulous. In the time since, however, I haven't kept the skill up and now I can barely keep three balls in the air.
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by jfb 6y ago
Why did the title get changed from the article's title ("What Silicon Valley Doesn’t Understand About Agriculture")?
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by jfb 6y ago
Right! It takes nothing away from the Linux developers to acknowledge the enormous role of contingency in Linux' initial adoption.
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by jfb 6y ago
Keep in mind, too, that path dependence plays a huge role here. Linux took off when the alternatives were Windows NT, Novell Netware, or commercial Unixes running on underpowered RISC hardware.
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by jfb 7y ago
At least at Apple, in the groups I was in, this was never an issue.
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by jfb 7y ago
How about that.
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by jfb 7y ago
PC World is still a going concern?
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by jfb 7y ago
Yes, and they shouldn’t be taking a cut. Their services initiatives are bad for them and the users of said services. But as someone who did two tours in their services arm, it is overwhelmingly likely that the reason that WebKit is making t
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by jfb 7y ago
I promise you that Apple does not give a shit about the revenue from the developer program.
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by jfb 7y ago
Because by far the simplest explanation is that this is a zoonosis. The virus is not particularly virulent, it doesn't seem to have an easy time of human-to-human transmission, and interesting coronaviruses have been found in animals
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by jfb 7y ago
This is very true, but it's also important to realize that the hyper focussed Apple culture comes as an adaptive response to their near-death experience, before Jobs came back. A company that makes a billion dollars in revenue a day
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by jfb 7y ago
At a lot of places, there is a single technical track, and when you get to a certain level of experience, the only place to go is into management. Also, there is a general disinterest in treating people management as a separate, first-class
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by jfb 7y ago
It depends on the group. Apple's silos mean that individual directors and VPs have a lot of influence over the working cultures of their teams, and a lot of those leaders ape their management's style, which, when His Nibs was st
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by jfb 7y ago
I also find this hilarious -- as a Chicago grad.
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by jfb 7y ago
Yeah, this rings pretty true.
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by jfb 7y ago
Wait, they have more than 500 tech roles? For a shitty office space leasing company?
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by jfb 7y ago
It's non-native anywhere, and so your intuition fails you. Icons change behaviour, the fit and finish is terrible (many text labels do not line up, for instance). As I said, functionally, it is marvellous. But using it interactively is
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by jfb 7y ago
Yeah, the UI is appalling, but it works really well for normalizing the book metadata, and loading the books onto my e-reader. That's more than enough functionality for me.
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by jfb 7y ago
Those deck chairs aren't going to rearrange themselves!
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by jfb 7y ago
I'll cross that bridge if I come to it.
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by jfb 7y ago
Demographic diversity, diversity of backgrounds, diversity of experience. Monocultures are actively destructive of successful outcomes, and lead to miserable working environments. The question is asked open-ended in that fashion because I w
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by jfb 7y ago
Sometimes, it's both!
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by jfb 7y ago
I am now a Mr Manager Person, so I have a different but related set of questions: 1. What is the demographic breakdown of the engineering team? And, what does the company affirmatively do to foster diversity? 2. What resources do the founde
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by jfb 7y ago
It's also the F-22.
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by jfb 7y ago
It's at Edwards.
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by jfb 7y ago
It's much easier to offer people something they want if you are undercutting your competition by subsidizing your business with dumb investor money.
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by jfb 8y ago
I've had good success using mbsync to back up a variety of IMAP provided email services. It's not perfect, and does require a little bit of fiddling, but once it's set up, it Just Works™ the way it should. I've even used
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by jfb 8y ago
I wondered about that, yeah. That's just Not That Much Data; too, they're clearly able to sustain multiple-minute downtimes (the blog asserts as much). The original design reeks of over-engineering. Great blogpost, though; well wr
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by jfb 8y ago
Sure. But before one makes that argument, one must measure . It is not in any sense a panacea.
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by jfb 8y ago
> I suspect that in a year I’ll be using what is effectively an Elisp machine with an Apple logo paired with an iPhone. It's been working for me for quite a while now. And it's depressing, but here we are.

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