lostcolony

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by lostcolony 4y ago
The parent most also misses the mark from the other direction; we don't have a good universal definition for things that are alive, or sentient, either. The closest in CS is the Turing test, and that is not rigorously defined, not rigo
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by lostcolony 4y ago
Well, I don't think "lights in the sky" are a particular socially acceptable thing to hallucinate; I'm not sure seeing things that others don't believe were there is ever particularly socially acceptable. But it&#x2
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by lostcolony 4y ago
Funny you should mention that one... https://www.forbes.com/sites/briankoberlein/2017/01/11/earth...
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by lostcolony 4y ago
I mean, sure, but Occam's razor probably applies, no? Seems more likely that people occasionally misidentify something or hallucinate something or similar, than that there are interplanetary travelers who have both FTL travel and perfe
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by lostcolony 4y ago
"YAGNI, but plan to be wrong"
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by lostcolony 4y ago
As a countercounterfactual, Zuckerberg spent $22 billion (original offer was less, but both due to growth in stock between offer and sale, and retention) for a company with only 35 engineers writing Erlang (Whatsapp).
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by lostcolony 4y ago
Exactly. The financials aren't actually telling these companies to lay people off; the shareholders are. The macroeconomic climate is very different than the microeconomic climate; the microeconomic climate for most of these companies
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by lostcolony 4y ago
So recognizing that periodic fire is part of the natural cycle is one thing, and purposely igniting every tree you come across is quite another.
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by lostcolony 4y ago
First off, it doesn't apply, given that the very link you included explicitly states that while there was a recommendation from execs and HR, Musk's team chose not to follow it. So it's irrelevant. Second, even if those recom
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by lostcolony 4y ago
So that comment is currently sitting at 1, so upvotes balancing downvotes. The original +12. But I really don't care either way; to your point - even Musk didn't want to acquire Twitter once he sobered up to the fact he was in too
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by lostcolony 4y ago
...I'm not? "trying to rehire workers they let go" is missing the word "all". Perhaps -you- read that particular qualifier into it, but it's just as valid to understand it, as it was intended, to imply "so
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by lostcolony 4y ago
I didn't conclude it wasn't a 'successful' acquisition. Just a case study of what not to do. Even if it somehow ends up in a place it gets spun as being a success, only Elon fanboys are saying "4d chess! Brilliant!&
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by lostcolony 4y ago
That has no bearing whatsoever? That link itself says "Mr. Musk's team brushed aside the suggestion", meaning that didn't effect who was let go, but -even if it did-, it still would have no bearing, since regardless of w
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by lostcolony 4y ago
>> nobody's firing productive workers. Remind me why Twitter is trying to rehire workers they let go, within a week?
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by lostcolony 4y ago
Yeah, Twitter is basically a running case study in what not to do when it comes to acquiring a company successfully, and can't be held up as anything other than "what happens when you do everything wrong". Certainly, it'
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by lostcolony 4y ago
>> during the pandemic involuntary WFH There you go. A lot of companies that were forced to WFH -don't actually want it- and so haven't invested in changing their culture to actually be effective at it. Some companies that -
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by lostcolony 4y ago
And that you still want a linear path through your undos and redos...and that's something that Emacs does.
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by lostcolony 4y ago
I'm not sure if you missed the joke (he basically was saying "It's hard to hire people who can do this sort of thing; they're out there but in demand and recruiters are expensive" but using DB terminology) and are t
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by lostcolony 4y ago
Should they be though? I'm not at all familiar with the specifics at play here, but from a company perspective, a player they can then fully shepherd to prioritize their own needs/desires for, is still a win against an alternative
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by lostcolony 4y ago
Lastpass has this as a built in feature for at least their family plan. You can set another account to be an emergency access account. The owner of that account can initiate a request for access to your passwords. You'll get an email i
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by lostcolony 4y ago
badum-tsh That said, I think he just means "do the work to get tests in place, and build the habit of running them as part of your development cycle", even if, when starting, what you're running isn't helpful. The idea
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by lostcolony 4y ago
I find them far less distinct than a walking person and a hand...and if I was colorblind that would be a large problem for me (and colorblindness was the reason for distinguishing the shape in the first place, so makes sense to have very di
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by lostcolony 4y ago
You may be able to use a debit card but they'll need to be able to put a large hold on funds. I ran into this years back when I graduated college; I had a credit card, but it was secured, and the amount the rental car agency wanted to
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by lostcolony 4y ago
100%. This is an excuse. But, interestingly, it was an excuse for 2% of the people they investigated. So apparently being a poor performer at Equifax, but NOT moonlighting, is not a fireable offense, since the other 98% weren't let go.
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by lostcolony 4y ago
The article calls out, multiple times, that the reason people were fired (all 24 of them, with another couple hundred contractors being flagged) were because they were moonlighting. It says nothing about their performance, except in the vag
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by lostcolony 4y ago
How easy is it to find bad juniors? I think that may be relevant for determining how saturated the field is.
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by lostcolony 4y ago
Even in that case it becomes diversification. It is still a reasonable investment.
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by lostcolony 4y ago
Yes. And? The thread is about people buying houses, not people affording rent.
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by lostcolony 4y ago
>> It's only an investment because somebody is willing to pay rent to cover the mortgage the purchaser paid and supply profit to the owner. If there are no renters willing to rent then nobody is able to profit. Not true; if housi
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by lostcolony 4y ago
I dunno; a lot more house purchases are being bought as investments now, rather than places to live, than ever before. https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/sta...

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