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by lbriner 5y ago
I think bureaucracy is broken generally. It is a fallacy that all problems can be avoided or solved by "due process" since life is infinitely more complex. How many people have been told by a Local Authority that something is 5mm
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by lbriner 5y ago
God bless the UK's Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977, which doesn't permit this kind of "well it's in the contract" excuse. In 2000, the High Court confirmed that this Act applies to employment contracts. There are als
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by lbriner 5y ago
Not exactly horror, because I did enjoy the ride but was CTO and employee 3 of a startup with a promising idea that didn't pan out. I had a good number of shares, although far fewer than the CEO and COO, would have been worth some good
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by lbriner 5y ago
I understand the shock people have with an unexpected bill but also, this is the result of people expecting and getting used to "free" stuff for too long and suppliers eventually realising that returns are diminishing with ads and
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by lbriner 5y ago
I'm sure there are better arguments for a monorepo because I disagree with all 4 of the OPs ones: > Single source of truth This has never been a problem for me. You have an app in one repo depending on a version of a package built f
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by lbriner 5y ago
> While cheaper in the long run, train lines are very expensive to build at first. As much as I would like that to be true, I don't think it is. The safety-critical nature of railways, more so even than a coach/bus which might
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by lbriner 5y ago
Of course you could change its torque curve, and people will complain about the nanny state. As with everything, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.
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by lbriner 5y ago
It's not supposed to be good, it is a historical curiosity based on the prevalent beliefs at the time. It can be discussed without dismissing it just because its original motivation was largely racist.
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by lbriner 5y ago
I agree with a lot of the spirit in the article but I don't think learning to code from a book because you can't afford a dev is not a great example. How many people lost their crypto-currency because the exchanges were written by
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by lbriner 5y ago
Interesting idea but I think the arena of comp-sci is far more diverse than a traditional craftsman. I finished an engineering apprenticeship once and it said that I had reached a basic standard in engineering but that didn't mean I co
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by lbriner 5y ago
Trial periods are pretty common in Europe, we call it "probation" in the UK but it is hard to objectively decide if someone is up to the job. If they are terrible or brilliant, it's not a problem but in the middle, I don&#x27
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by lbriner 5y ago
It is probably different where you are but what would actually happen is that it would take you at least 3 months to work out they can't do the job (they are probably not terrible just not good enough) by which time you have lost 3 mon
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by lbriner 5y ago
What's the alternative? As a Hiring Manager, do I need to spend multiple hours with 20 candidates to get a really valuable insight into who they are really like or should I just screen them with a basic exam so I only need to interview
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by lbriner 5y ago
Exactly this. The OP reads like a nice perfect world scenario but... 1) Just because there is a vulnerability in a package of library doesn't mean that you are susceptible to that vulnerability 2) If you don't update immediately w
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by lbriner 5y ago
I think it was in-use more than you might think. I remember seeing a program about it and there are plenty of people needing to shift large cargo at expedited speed and as one customer put it, "if you are 2 weeks behind, you can pay fo
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by lbriner 5y ago
Is that value-for-money for customers who are only paying $5K per year? I would be interested in what other larger businesses do. Is anything big enough to just refuse to do the questionnaires?
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Ask HN: How do you deal with security questionnaires?
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by lbriner 5y ago
This is a massive over-simplification. The issue isn't that people are not innovating, it's that there are long routes to delivery for many things. Medical changes take years to test and approve; AI takes ages to adapt; hundreds o
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by lbriner 5y ago
I think you are repeating a strawman argument against microservices that doesn't always hold. Microservices are about domains of logic and form nice clear boundaries. They don't necessarily need inter-service comms or much by way
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by lbriner 5y ago
I think this is an unfair comparison. There is a big difference between checking the work of multiple employees who might type stuff in wrong or credit card fraud compared to OP who has a fully integrated billing system provided by a very l
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by lbriner 5y ago
Exactly. The OP said what they needed to in plain text because it captures what they wanted to say in the simplest format. If they had needed to convey an image or contextual information like some rich API spec, they would presumably have u
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by lbriner 5y ago
There are plenty of ways to improve your English without grammarly.
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by lbriner 5y ago
I have thought that one of the most effective spyware tools would be a really good open source library that most people will use without really knowing what it does and it sends your secrets to some bad government somewhere or at least give
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by lbriner 5y ago
You might be worrying a bit too much about what others think. I am English and if someone is, say, Russian, and writes to me in English, I don't care if their grammar is a little poor. The great thing about English is you can understan
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by lbriner 5y ago
It depends on what you mean by "unfair". In plenty of companies I have worked for, you pay quite a lot more than you want for a particular hire not necessarily because they are worth it but because you are desperate and they are n
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by lbriner 5y ago
The fact he is a murderer might not be relevant to the discussion per-se but his unavailability to help fixes/improvements to be made is a big issue as the author of the FS. I don't know anything about it and whether other contrib
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by lbriner 5y ago
I think people get confused because of double-counting. If you move a load of produce in a truck, do the truck emmissions get counted as "transport" or "agriculture"? I guess depending on your angle, you could say either
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by lbriner 5y ago
Yeah, Councils can be really bad at requiring people to either replace their old single-glazing with some exactly the same in double-glazed or keep the old inefficient windows. This is understandable for historical buildings but we experien
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by lbriner 5y ago
> But also you'd need a good air handling system to move and refresh the air. And therein is the rub! Ventilation is critical in building design and many older houses cannot easily be retrofitted with a mechanical ventilation system
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by lbriner 5y ago
The issue with abstractions is that ML isn't just a few variables or dissimilar systems to choose from, the whole problem domain that could be helped with ML has so many dimensions. Natural language, speech processing, pattern recognit

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