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by jksmith 4y ago
According to the following website, the value of the product you're selling is inversely proportional to the effort (including website sugar) you need to put into selling it. https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/
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If you're ok with limiting to (mostly local) scopes, it's fairly easy to write a general purpose mark/release then sugar it up with macros in FPC/Lazarus.
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Sure thing, fascinating stuff. I teach all 12 SAFe certifications, so I'm familiar with the framework. The issue that SAFe identified, is the very issue I'm bringing up here. In the case of this framework, it gives managers the ch
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"Principles of Product Development Flow" This is an academic standard for queuing theory and flow of value by Don Reinertsen. Tough read btw. "The Fifth Discipline" by Peter Senge. This is a classic text that also covers
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Most arguments missing the nasty side of companies. Speaking from an execution consultant pov: Most companies still rely on the easiest form of getting something done, which is management telling people what to do. Current state of manageme
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character in Willy Wonka.
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Augustus!!!
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>The computer that Scotty uses to show transparent aluminum was originally going to be an Amiga, but Commodore would only give permission if they bought their own. Apple Computer was willing to give them a Mac for free. Without knowing a
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Why do I feel like the use case here is "Because unfortunately I can't use linux"?
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Yes, his book "How to Get Rich" is an entertaining and favored read around here.
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The conversation here seems a bit binary. Maybe I missed a few posts. The whole solar thing is not realized until cooperatives de-grid in favor of their own local grids, along with an arbitrage sharing model. That has the potential to to ma
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"If it floats, flies, or fornicates, better to rent it than to own it..." Felix also suggested that anything over $80m is too much trouble. A learned perspective no doubt.
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Tangentially to secant, BTC community resistance is in the spirit of maintaining a solid base layer that is not perpetually in startup mode given stakeholder motives. Use other coins for that purpose. Regarding changes that still maintain o
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Yeah, but it's not hip, and it's too wordy with BEGIN/END, and the data structures are too restrictive, and the compiler nags you, and the like. And you can write an 8M line codebase in it, touched in all kinds of foul ways,
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Agreed TSM2 was a sweet effort, and that green thread traffic light demo was fun to play with.
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Wirth's original language design book (yes I have a proofed copy and it's not for sale). Also an awesome book I'd recommend is KN King's Modula 2. I loved that book.
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by jksmith 4y ago
I've probably written 100k lines or so in M2 30 years ago, and I still miss it. Usable interfaces and sub-interfaces at the module level instead of class interfaces, top notch green threading, really strict compilation - it helped prog
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by jksmith 4y ago
Carr's "The Big Switch" in reverse. Technology ushering in a decentralization effect. And that's fine. Work at home. Communities buy micro reactors, Starlink ready to go. Low carbon produce that doesn't have chemica
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Interestingly, arguably THE most agile company in the world (Spacex) probably doesn't use any ALM tools as supported by the agile industry. Maybe a backlog tool in there somewhere, but I bet their bullshit footprint is pretty light.
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>Only on hacker news does a physicist who spends their days criticizing string theory (and whose expertise there makes sense) make the front page doing an analysis on testosterone. So true. High testosterone is great for people doing job
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I'd like to officially state for the record that I got through the original DX on hard mode, no lethal weapons and only a few mods. Greatest game ever. Eventually decided Illuminati was the most reasonable ending. Kind of a Milton thin
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Old days brought forward. Remember mark/release? With combo of code macros and open arrays using Lazarus/ FPC: mark_begin // after allocs,creates [parse1, sl1, sl2] mark_end ... lines of code ... release // end
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I read a bit of this, and it struck me as some more generic fast food consumption, so I got bored. I've consulted for 5 F500's now, and by far the biggest issue with managers at these companies is that they still focus on managing
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Yes, there is no language project that isn't C based and hasn't already been resolved all this multiple times over. C beer goggles.
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Seemingly far more insidious to me is surveillance justified by business to monitor remote work.
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This is forcing a solution to fit the problem.
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Yeah. And all the mouthpieces on YT talking about how significant this is are assuming BR really believes anything in anything. All BR may be doing is setting the world up for a crypto pump/dump of Shakespearean proportions. I'll
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This may be like a proof of work cryptography issue, except the burden of work is on the deep fake. Just ask a battery of questions, just like out of a Bladerunner scene or whatever. This is still the problem with AI. It depends on tons of
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Just for some conspiratorial fun, what if you converted your house into a meth lab? You're just assuming that Rumba will use collision and move mapping. Pretty crude by tomorrow's standards. What is the evolving difference between
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So the law reads that this only applies to bystanders? Including spouses/family?

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