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by jib 8y ago
I would argue that allowing the police to fire individuals from companies would be an egregious violation of human rights on par with disallowing free speech.
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by jib 8y ago
I mean, Id argue that is exactly the way the system is designed, and it mostly does the job it is designed to do, not just a side effect. Defining what makes a non-hostile workplace is hard, enforcing it on individuals is harder, so instead
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by jib 8y ago
The police are not primarily there to solve civil disputes and disagreements. There is a pretty wide area where things are not illegal and possible to convict, but you would probably want to do something. The police’s mindset (at least the
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by jib 8y ago
I strongly disagree. In a hotel I can call the reception and get them to deal with noise pretty quickly. In an apartment I’m stuck with no quick recourse if a bunch of assholes use Airbnb to rent out a flat next door to have a weekend of bo
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by jib 8y ago
I paid for a year, but what used to be an obvious benefit is no longer that. I order some stuff, but had the same experience you did so I use orders less. Twitch prime used to justify paying half of the cost on its own, but that no longer g
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by jib 8y ago
Agile (of the scrummy, we just meet sprint goals that we set type) is not a project management solution, it is saying “well this seems hard, so we’re not going to do it”. Project management is happily alive. Thinking Agile in some way solve
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by jib 8y ago
I mean, the article says that 1 in 6 does. I’d say that is pretty ok if anything. That some people get disillusioned as they get older is probably normal. That most still are happy with work seems nice - there’s a lot of crappy jobs out the
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by jib 8y ago
Microsoft doesn’t know that you have a virus on your PC (and won’t call you about it) but Facebook can identify your friends in a photo you posted better than you can. That is not obvious to most people, because the concept of customer serv
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by jib 8y ago
What got me in Ireland was the difference between a sausage roll and a breakfast roll. You’d expect them to be roughly the same, but not at all.
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by jib 8y ago
Voice control of lights, AC, music is great when doing things that involve using both hands (cooking, baking, maintenance work), as is note taking. It’s not about talking to, it’s about proper hands free control. 95% of things are better co
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by jib 8y ago
I often share the bathroom with my wife, and we don’t always enter at the same time. I.e. sometimes you don’t want to lock your own door.
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by jib 8y ago
Customer support can easily be a competitive advantage. I guarantee you that unless your company recently downsized (or is very small) there are things you can cut, because no one cared enough to fix them or they thought it was cool to have
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by jib 8y ago
This is sunk cost reasoning. No one takes on more debt / raises more funds unless they have to. If your company needs to raise more capital your stock options are worth exactly 0 dollars. You already lost that bet, because your company
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by jib 8y ago
It is the Newtonian physics of nutrition. It is demonstrably wrong, yet following the rule will lead to success for just about every real life use case.
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by jib 8y ago
Those are not contradictions, you realise that right? MLM schemes are bullshit, don’t waste your money. If you buy into Herbalife now you are truly not making a good decision, because there is already a huge pyramid of people above you. MLM
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by jib 8y ago
No we are still saying the same. Lots of people made money on pyramid schemes, that doesn’t make them a good investment. The longer a pyramid scheme runs, the dumber it is to invest in it. If you truthfully believe bitcoin will develop into
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by jib 8y ago
I am not sure why you turned this into a US military thing. Sweden has a thriving military export business (Bofors, SAAB) that is close to top of the world in USD per capita. Not wanting to work with that seems reasonable.
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by jib 8y ago
This is patently not true. :) Everything is a spectrum, but there are also clear parts of the spectrum that contains death, and clear parts of the spectrum that are better than the others. Works is not an acceptable standard. Imagine if we
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by jib 8y ago
Process heaviness is not a goal. The secret is to be as close to the minimally viable as is safe. Undocumented code and decisions are just a more slowly accumulating cost, it is no less costly than bad or failing code. This is a reason I lo
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by jib 8y ago
I’m not sure I agree. We recently had a magic the gathering old cards discussion internally. People were showing off their collections, many of which were in the mid five digits price range (full beta power etc). People keep those things in
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by jib 9y ago
/r/bodyweightfitness has a great progression in their wiki. /r/fitness also has a great wiki with a number of programs, including a recommended progression of programs.
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by jib 9y ago
That's a bit like saying you can do anything in C, working from scratch though. Yes you CAN. That doesn't mean it is not a hell of a lot easier to get the same results by using other tools though. If you want to get fit (build mus
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by jib 9y ago
Rands is one of my favorite writers on development. http://randsinrepose.com/archives/a-hard-thing-is-done-by-fi... this article is pretty good when it comes to forgiving yourself for procrastination in terms of starti
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by jib 9y ago
I would have said erlang as well, or possibly smalltalk, but I guess it depends on how you define underrated.
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by jib 9y ago
In a similar vein a hundred years later Sweden had the Adalen shootings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85dalen_shootings
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by jib 9y ago
:). Yeah I grew up on Blizzard games, so it has been cool to get to work for a company I respect and admire.
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by jib 9y ago
Yeah there was a sizing thing to it too. It was for a specific build of headsets that didnt go out in huge numbers each batch, so buying in bulk was risky and the lead time from Taiwan was significant. You can do a lot of chips in a day tho
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by jib 9y ago
Hehe, yeah. It is a pain in the ass to try to cycle in anything other than sneakers though imo. Especially when you need to get off the bike and run up stairs fairly often. Better to be cold and wet than be on the bike in boots. It was actu
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by jib 9y ago
Shittier jobs I've had than a desk job: 5-6 hours a day biking in -15C snow with wet feet (Mailman). 8 hours a day moving chips one by one in and out of an EPROM writer because it was cheaper to have me do that than pay the extra 2c to
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by jib 9y ago
If you have this mindset, may I suggest that you could be significantly underestimating the role of luck and being in the right spot/having the right network? If I was to review my career (which is by no means exceptional, but still),

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