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by jka 4y ago
I'd be curious to see the results of (crowds of?) normal people paid to say what their responses would be in the type of situations that leaders on these pay packages have to deal with, when given similar levels of context. No doubt th
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There's a response to this in the Q&A for the proposal: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/QANDA_... (Q: "Will the proposal be an obstacle to innovation?")
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An in-progress task, that I really hope will not be a failure, but that has most of the typical hallmarks of my usual "oh, here's a technical thing I'd really like to see accomplished and will attempt, but that, if I'm
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Just chiming in to add my support for your arguments. I enjoy fast food and drinking beer, and all the moreso when I know that the former is plant-based and that the latter is brewed in an environmentally-friendly manner. I believe that b
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You'll probably get varying answers to your question based on who you ask, but I would recommend developing an expertise in one particular area -- perhaps in one individual project, or even a subcomponent of a project -- that you care
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America's Abortion Quandary(pewresearch.org)
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FreeUKGen: Free, online access to family history records (code open source)(freeukgenealogy.org.uk)
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Almost as if they could be published as markdown files in git repositories, with changes visible as diffs like any other plaintext content? :)
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Thanks - agreed, release manager signatures are nice to have. The reason I ask is that I think it'd be nice if third parties could also voluntarily sign releases. For example: the author of a library -- or one of their users -- could f
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Signatures by what participants, and at what stage(s) of the software development lifecycle?
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> I wish Team Python would welcome GIL Eradication with open arms and a supportive attitude. This would look like focusing on helping identify and implement solutions to the impediments rather than simply pointing out problems and then h
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I think Drew makes a good point about the fact that distributions implicitly perform a 'review' step for packages, but I'm not certain I agree with the idea that leaving all packaging to distributions is the best approach ove
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Royal Mail wants fleet of 500 drones to carry mail to remote UK communities(bbc.co.uk)
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Who benefits when the camera is on, and in what ways does that affect software development?
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Very likely, although it still makes the decision to upvote a little more difficult than it should be; the current title ("Finland will seek NATO membership immediately") isn't really true (yet). From the English-language tra
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Whether conflict-resolution can be performed automatically or may require manual input is important at scale. Human editors may cause the content within a CRDT datastructure to become inconsistent in the sense of "is this document un
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You're welcome. That's a tough situation; I don't know if there's much I can say. Sounds like you've got a good, considered approach, so keep up the work to improve the environment and keep in mind other ways you c
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Yep, information recall abilities are definitely a set of learnable skills. There are a few resources and recommendations here: https://libguides.cam.ac.uk/wolfsoncollege/memoryskills Don't forget that technology
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I believe it, and that's a heinous series of events. Perhaps someone got confused, or there was an identity mismatch, or something. They're no excuse, but clearly something happened. It's understandable (and not necessarily
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Using Podman and Docker Compose (2021)(redhat.com)
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That seems like it'd be a way for those companies to attempt to capture the technical infrastructure used by packages, and hold their adoption potential hostage (soft pressure for packages to change their practices to become approvable
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Building Software Systems at Google and Lessons Learned (2010)(youtube.com)
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Thanks for the explainer, that makes sense.
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Here's one regulatory measure that's enforced already and seems to fit within the criteria being described: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2021/1232/oj (agreed, it would be nice to have dire
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To be honest, rather than magical blessed keys held by a few orgs, I'd feel more comfortable with a slightly larger number of individual reviewers (and prosaic keys), each with some kind of visible distance metric related to the codeba
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> Other than that, even thinking along the terms of "well they must have a reason" is a great way of introducing slippery slopes all the way to extremism. It's possible I misunderstand what you're saying here, but I t
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Ask HN: 'Consolidated Diff' Tooling?
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As a manager, would you worry about the stability of your own job role if you didn't have insight into the productivity of your reports? Would you worry what would happen to you and the company if one of your reports introduced a serio
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Perhaps not a coincidence that 150 is Dunbar's Number[1]? [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
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Pacific Biochar: The Big California Biochar Model(pacificbiochar.com)
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