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by jkoudys 8y ago
This is a good concept for anyone who has to manage people. I don't think it only applies to a binary split between 100% ownership and none. Letting developers guide the project to some degree, instead of slogging through sprint after
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by jkoudys 8y ago
Awesome article, and should be required reading for anyone who has only heard of Jordan Peterson through his fans. I'll say that there's a huge difference in values between the big cities, the suburbs, and Alberta. Alberta is much
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by jkoudys 9y ago
Right on. What many, and especially this writer with his talk of tech being more "human" don't understand, is that code isn't a language _for computers_. It's a human language used to describe something unambiguousl
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by jkoudys 9y ago
I worked at IBM back in Rational Rose's heyday (though not on the Rational team, thankfully). The sheer amount of configuration you'd inevitably end up doing was orders of magnitude greater than the actual thing you wanted to writ
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by jkoudys 9y ago
Yep. My descent into that Dunning-Kruger valley came hard and fast as soon as I started working with people who were actually good.
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by jkoudys 9y ago
I've frequently found that when I go back to code I've written long ago, the new languages/libraries/patterns I've learned about since could have helped me back then. I used to be terrible at templating (presentatio
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by jkoudys 9y ago
It's an odd analogy. Musicians frequently advance by learning multiple instruments and genres. Your drums example is good, and there are lots more. Piano's a very common instrument to start with, because it teaches you a bit of ev
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by jkoudys 10y ago
Some of the values are quite dated (eg criticising someone for having no savings because they spent all their money caring for their sick family, because they "never made a profit for themselves"). I'd also challenge his assu
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by jkoudys 10y ago
I recently had to make that same decision myself, and chose Toronto. The salaries on the jobs I was interviewing for (not to mention perks) were astronomically high. I'd considered just going to work for 3 years, saving as much as I co
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by jkoudys 10y ago
I like this site, but i'm uncomfortable with it for the same reason w3schools is such a steaming pile. It can be more dangerous to project authority but not actually be accurate. I don't have to look for long to find inaccurate st
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by jkoudys 11y ago
I think you have this mixed-up with the story where a react developer updates 1 component on the first render, 2 components on the second, 4 components on the third, 8 on the fourth, and so on, until he's rendered a whole chess board.
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by jkoudys 11y ago
The programmer in me loves how accessibility auditing enforces best-practices around semantic HTML, and my business-side loves making it cheaper to reach a wider audience. Great project!
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by jkoudys 11y ago
That's a tricky approach for an international organization like uber to rely on, as the cultural attitudes toward tipping vary.
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by jkoudys 11y ago
There are good arguments in favour of restricted supply, mainly because the roads themselves are publicly owned, and the public pays the cost of every extra vehicle on them. What's especially problematic about the way regulations are u
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by jkoudys 11y ago
It's definitely become a combination of the two. Originally the licensing did provide value to the consumer, because it meant a trusted authority was regulating things -- something people would value quite a bit, when you have to trust
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by jkoudys 11y ago
My comment was specifically a criticism of people making legal arguments in these forums. I'm not going to go ahead without a law degree, knowledge of Parisian taxi law, and the few snippets of legal arguments I read in articles, and s
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by jkoudys 11y ago
If your only political involvement is to vote, then no I don't think you're going to have much success in influencing policy. There's a whole lot more you can do: attend council meetings, participate in the q&a at debates
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by jkoudys 11y ago
Every time this topic comes up, the discussion always revolves around whether or not Uber is properly licensed, or if it's fair for them to operate. What's often overlooked is the very reason so many of these licenses became as va
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by jkoudys 11y ago
I'm glad this article exists, mainly because calling any and all optimization work a "micro-optimization" has become highly fashionable among the lazy. For every 1 developer who actually understands what Knuth was saying, the
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by jkoudys 12y ago
Rampant, indiscriminate downvoting is one of the main reasons I generally dislike reddit and prefer HN. There's a natural decline to subs over there, as anything or anyone who deviates from mainstream opinions gets downvoted into obscu
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by jkoudys 12y ago
Walmart was very in-favour of the PPACA, at least in favour of it applying to other companies. In practice, they have teams of lawyers and accountants making sure they pay as little as possible. It's the SMBs, on the other hand, who no
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by jkoudys 12y ago
Oh no! I've been going around telling my clients that you can only verify the existence of a bug, not their absolute absence, and that expected behaviour from years ago may not always match what you expect today. I hope none of them se
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by jkoudys 12y ago
_American_ society puts those obligations on businesses, and those obligations have created an economy that rewards those who are either already wealthy, or the backing of those who are. This is very directly giving more power to the rich.
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This right here is one of the driving forces behind American corporatism. While these cases are always launched claiming to be on the side of the angels, they ultimately ignore that all that extra legal overhead is not free, and only the cu
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by jkoudys 12y ago
I used to work at one of the big corporations, and most people there probably worked ~10h a day, but was only paid for their 8h/day contract and given no overtime. I'm building my own company now, and honestly it consumes most of
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by jkoudys 12y ago
This had as much to do with the quality of the displays as it did with the adapter. White, black, cyan and magenta all have significant contrast between them, and many machines with CGA were still hooked up to B&W and greenscreen monito
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by jkoudys 12y ago
I've always liked that quote, because it really goes both ways. We see languages change over time, when we learn what one language is good for and start to incorporate some of that thinking into another. e.g. we're seeing `class`
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by jkoudys 12y ago
You might just be reading more articles or seeing more independent projects from young people, because those young people are less likely to work a full-time job (or if they do, they're not doing 12-16 hours a day in addition to open-s
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by jkoudys 12y ago
I had a similar experience with the Eventbrite API. The docs looked well-written, and early usage was promising, but then you have to get almost to the end of your implementation before realizing the missing components. In my case, EB allow

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