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by kerblang 4y ago
In my experience, Jira is the dog that begins to resemble its owner. If you are working in a toxic, dysfunctional organization, Jira will reflect that: - Giant forms with dozens upon dozens of nonsensical fields (preferably with abbreviatio
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by kerblang 4y ago
Yes, from 30 years of professional experience in fact; in federal govt, state govt, startups, megacorps and then some. If you must insist that objectivity & facts are a fantasy world, and that people should be attacked for being honest,
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by kerblang 4y ago
But he utterly & completely failed at objectivity.
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by kerblang 4y ago
Well I'd like to see examples of the dishonest tweets you're talking about... But that leads into a more important issue: These employees insisted that Musk's personal Twitter account is his de facto business Twitter acco
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by kerblang 4y ago
One of the demands from the letter: > Define and uniformly respond to all forms of unacceptable behavior. Clearly define what exactly is intended by SpaceX’s “no-asshole” and “zero tolerance” policies and enforce them consistently.
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by kerblang 4y ago
True but I think the crypto companies should be able to buy the same insurance as gambling casinos, since... they are gambling casinos
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by kerblang 4y ago
Dang. Well if it's enough to pop the various housing/cryptocurrency/startup bubbles, good. They were already pretty squishy but only for a threat that had to be carried out. It can always be walked back, and probably will be
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by kerblang 4y ago
> Linus himself was the person who first discovered the techniques of open-source development that had eluded the GNU project, and that would be imitated by open-source projects for decades to come, right up to the present day A bold cla
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by kerblang 4y ago
This seems like the obvious thing to do with neural net problems... Not clear on what makes it hard/risky. Are we essentially saying, "Build a CPU of CPUs?"
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The housing market ‘correction’ intensifies as layoffs hit Redfin and Compass(fortune.com)
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by kerblang 4y ago
If Elon runs for the republican nomination I'll take him over Trump. Or Bloomberg will do, yes. Or a small and friendly but fiscally conservative billionaire turtle.
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by kerblang 4y ago
Not to be rude, but did you finish reading the article? The whole point was that high-aptitude learners give up . In fact I don't agree that re-learning the same tasks over and over with the zillionth framework iteration is a rewardin
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by kerblang 4y ago
Not a chicken, but this was my favorite https://chicken.photos/20220605091358
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by kerblang 4y ago
Actually I bought my 6100 somewhere around '93-'95. I know it was before 1996. But I'm not actually saying the 6100 was "the best of" anything; it was the bottom-of-the-line cheapest one you could get at the time. I
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by kerblang 4y ago
I still have my 6100, tempted to try exploring this. Always felt like that era was the last of the "fun macs" when things weren't all busybody fussy unixy with hi-res gradients and hyperslickness and so forth. The new macs ju
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by kerblang 4y ago
That's beside the point, as I'm not talking about RDBMS bugs. I can corrupt database data when the RDBMS is working exactly as it's supposed to. Strong types and various constraints like foreign key, unique, etc. will mitigat
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by kerblang 4y ago
Let me see if I understand this: I put 10 bitcoin into this bank, and it gets loaned to you. If you cash it out to 10 bucks immediately, and bitcoin later drops to half a buck, you can buy 10 bitcoin, pay back the loan and keep 5 bucks, rig
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by kerblang 4y ago
Most of us work in information systems, which is to say, doing database stuff all day, usually with an RDBMS like MySQL, Postgres etc. And what are we doing? Grabbing a bunch of transactional locks. Against what? Shared mutable state, and n
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by kerblang 4y ago
I think a lot of naysayers here are missing the point: > The underlying Log4J library is 168,000 lines of code. I would find it difficult to invent a logging system so exotic, even if somebody paid me to. People are ignoring the incredib
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by kerblang 4y ago
Is that a goddess in an astronaut suit? :/
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by kerblang 4y ago
The simple word is elitism : We'd all like to be part of some in-group that is automatically entitled to success with minimal effort. Broadly speaking, it's really just plain old immaturity that most programmers will outgrow if t
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by kerblang 4y ago
Ah! Here we go: > Thenmozhi Soundararajan, the founder of Equality Labs, a Dalit civil rights organisation Hm ok https://www.equalitylabs.org/mission > Equality Labs is an Ambedkarite South Asian power-building organi
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by kerblang 4y ago
This is reasonable advice but it carries the assumption that "simplest is easiest". It is in hindsight. People sometimes say "It's easy to make a complicated solution for a simple problem, but not the other way around,
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by kerblang 4y ago
> Importantly, if used, such models would lead to more patients who are Black and female being *incorrectly* identified as healthy I think this is the point a lot of people are missing; they think, "So what if 'black' corr
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by kerblang 4y ago
Since nobody else brought it up: One big item is non-blocking I/O. The idea of non-blocking is that you can manage thousands of network connections with only a handful of threads, because when you do thread-per-connection, you'll
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by kerblang 4y ago
Another thing about IT dept software dev vs. the tech company dev: Often in the IT dept you have smaller projects where you have greater responsibility and ownership. For all the talk about "t-shaped people" a lot of mature tech c
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by kerblang 4y ago
It sounds like you're talking about social stress as much as anything else?
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by kerblang 4y ago
Nothing particularly wrong with Powershell, esp. given how much it's used with MS infrastructure; it's a high-value skill in IT shops everywhere, including the DOD's own. Nothing wrong with REPL's either. The original au
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I take it there are a lot of rabid Dave Matthews fans on here.
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For years Mr Wall attempted to justify Perl as the manifestation of 90's neohippie culture, as this mashup of weirdness that was cool because it didn't worry about being particularly consistent with itself. I think the worst of it

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