jimmy1

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by jimmy1 8y ago
Your intention seems honorable, and I am glad you are passionate about keeping your employees jobs. But if I was an investor in your company, I would be concerned that your first focus is not to keep the business afloat. What good are givin
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by jimmy1 8y ago
The problem is what justification and whose justification? Under what standard? Additionally, what employee is ever going to feel like their firing is justified? "Oh shit, well yeah, I guess I would have fired me too." A mature re
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by jimmy1 8y ago
A government of the people by the people. Such a wonderful ideal, one I wish more strived towards.
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by jimmy1 8y ago
On the flip side, imagine being a business owner, and having absolutely no options left but to make this decision and salvage what you can left of your business. Should the business risk bankruptcy and cause 100% of the workforce to be jobl
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by jimmy1 8y ago
By your standard then, Stallinism and Maoism is socialism. The rest of this comment is beyond ridiculous.
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by jimmy1 8y ago
Really I don't think you need unions at all, at least not now in the information age. If all employees across various industries simply shared salary figures (adjusted for cost of living, of course, to be fair), it would have the same
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by jimmy1 8y ago
Crony Capitalism is failing America . Capitalism is succeeding the Globe . It is responsible for the most prosperity, the lifting up of poverty, and improvement in living conditions and life expectancy in the history of literal histor
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by jimmy1 8y ago
> idiomatic Haskell is going to be much faster than what most people are using. I am not trying to be pedantic, but your point is moot if you consider what "most people" are using are not dynamically typed interpreted languages
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by jimmy1 8y ago
> but also by virtue of being a powerful enough to tackle corruption. After all, it was tax evasion of all things that brought down Al Capone.
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by jimmy1 8y ago
The easiest way to debunk your claim that it is purely propaganda is to give easy counter-examples. In this case, may I present to you New York's finest: The MTA and LIRR. where rampant abuse of the system is everywhere and somehow, am
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by jimmy1 8y ago
For an excellent book on your points, see "The Righteous Mind" https://righteousmind.com/
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by jimmy1 8y ago
> Whether they were harassing is a matter of opinion But when you report it as a matter of fact in an editorializing headline, then it is a problem. > Whether there was a confrontation is a matter of fact This was not the narrative
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by jimmy1 8y ago
> while ignoring the ridiculous notion that you can know every possible error that every function can trigger now or in the future. If you have a statically typed language, and defined error types that are only thrown in certain situatio
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by jimmy1 8y ago
The most recent and obvious case in my mind: Covington Catholic Incident: almost every major mainstream media outlet ran with the narrative that the boys were harassing the Native Americans which was based solely on one video clip. No tradi
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by jimmy1 8y ago
I think this takes away from the professionalism of these individuals. At a certain level, we are all doing things we want to be doing, otherwise we would be looking for ways to do other things. If you follow a lot of top eSports players in
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by jimmy1 8y ago
Exceptions are clearly inferior to an alternative strategy of handling errors as values rather than something exceptional to catch. Exceptions to me started off as a humble concept (if something truly exceptional happens, do x y or z, but
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by jimmy1 8y ago
https://fee.org/articles/harvard-study-gender-pay-gap-explai...
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by jimmy1 8y ago
It was a claim by extension I must admit: You could technically say each American that dies, dies for our freedoms, one of which is our constitutional right to privacy. A specific example I had in mind was those who lost their lives fleeing
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by jimmy1 8y ago
> Only no one cares about that. I really wish people would stop saying this. It is a completely idiotic statement. There are hundreds of people throughout history that quite literally gave their lives for privacy, as recent as one genera
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by jimmy1 8y ago
It's better than the situation at most companies I have been at: It's basically the personal gain trumps all, but without the actual results. You just have a bunch of populists that talk up a good game, but when it comes time to e
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by jimmy1 8y ago
> Strongly agreed. Exposure to a History & Philosophy of Software course might reduce the amount of wheel reinvention that plagues our industry. I agree that wheel reinvention is an issue that needs addressing but not to the extent a
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by jimmy1 8y ago
One can even say it is so egregious they could and should face legal challenges.
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by jimmy1 8y ago
I would say if you rewrite it and have more bugs, you must have no understanding of the existing codebase, or understand so little of it you shouldn't be the one rewriting it regardless. All the rewrites I have done have resulted in
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by jimmy1 8y ago
> exercise has a positive impact on the creation of new neurons on the brain. The idea that we're born with a limited number of brain cells has been debunked. I'm not being a typical HN'er, I am legitimately curious, do y
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by jimmy1 8y ago
Luckily for me, they still sell legos! And you best believe my daughter will be playing with them as soon as she is old enough.
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by jimmy1 8y ago
That is bad leadership. You still need to craft roles and titles in a manner that allows ownership and autonomy. At my large company that I have been with for 4 years, you are given a title. The title has a certain baseline level of expecta
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by jimmy1 8y ago
> They make people think in labels. That's because people do think in labels. Mother, Father, brother, teacher, sister, uncle, boss, manager, CEO. More primitively, tribe member, tribe leader, enemy, scary cat thingy, dangerous cr
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by jimmy1 8y ago
> This fingerpointing points to one of the core problems of the ad industry: They created a system where nobody knows who's responsible for anything, This sounds like a lot of industries...
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by jimmy1 8y ago
If you pull out a big enough "ethics" magnifying glass, you will find ethical flaws in every corporation. One can make the argument, depending on where on the "woke sliding scale" you may lie, that shopping at Walmart is
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by jimmy1 8y ago
As someone currently doing this: I miss nothing. Walmart offers free 2-day shipping on most goods I would typically order from Amazon, and often cheaper. Best Buy has whatever tech thing I want, I get it same-day, and price-matched at Amazo

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