mangamadaiyan

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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
I agree with you on the importance and necessity of getting rid of dead weight. All I'm saying is that stack ranking might not successfully get rid of dead weight. As with any system of metrics, the people who game the system are the o
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
Neither approach works. Engineers (management are also employees, right?) ranking management erodes management authority, and management will never stand for it. Outside consultants are usually hired with a fixed agenda - the rotten eggs al
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
Who stack-ranks the management? How?
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
Yeah, for all you know Bob could be one of those "weld quickly and break things" people.
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
Cats, big as well as small, are feline :)
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
As far as this particular article goes, there's also a language selector at the top right corner. Quite a few articles exist in both languages, likely translated by Artemy himself (who I gather is bilingual).
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
It's not like they care. Anything that appeases Wall Street is good, that's pretty much all that a CEO cares about.
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
I seem to remember reading that dumping the brine byproduct from desalination in the ocean can screw up marine life. I don't have a reference ready, will look for one. I guess there might be a "right" way of dumping brine in
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
Belief doesn't merit respect, action does. If certain beliefs result in the believers thereof taking action that is unfair to (a set of) humans - whether that be slavery, witch trials, demolition of places of worship, pogroms, aerial b
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
I wasn't trying to be pedantic :) The OP's claim was that they are essentially the same language. My point was that while they are mutually intelligible to a large extent, Hindi and Urdu are distinct languages. That was pretty muc
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
Not really. They're close, but definitely not the same. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdu (Edit: pasted wikipedia link)
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
Actually, being answerable to the customer is not universally true. Typically, most companies are answerable to the investors and shareholders. Customers usually don't figure in the equation.
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
Worse, dying stars seem to have a mind of their own when it comes to going Supernova.
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
There's always fortune(1), fortune -o, and if one is particularly adventurous, one can roll one's own store of fortune cookies. Bugzilla apart, I have fond memories of the time when plaintext email was the default, and the mail cl
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
A tangential nitpick: Scientists, Engineers who are not of the Software persuasion, Accountants, and Lawyers, to name just a few, also make up people who work "outside the SWE field". Almost all of these people are interested in t
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
One pearl of current software wisdom is "don't think, just do", as a corollary to "move fast, and unbreak things later". Never mind that the cost of unbreaking things is usually far higher than whatever expenses wer
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
"A deep understanding of low-level details" and "attention to detail" is not Micromanagement. They're very different things. An author who deliberately abuses terminology is someone whose work I do not trust.
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
Why single out social media companies? All companies need to be required to have a way to reach customer support (that's not a bot).
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
Please don't wash your pen once a week. You only need to flush it if you're changing inks, or if you're putting it away in storage. As long as you're writing with your pen at least once in a couple of days, _and_ you&#x2
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
Pulling out the nib is only possible with a friction-fit nib and feed. Most modern pens (with a few exceptions) do not have friction-fit nibs. "Ink reservoirs" can't always be pulled out either. A cartridge converter can defi
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
Apparently "socket" is an archaic term for "nib unit". Even so, I would be very chary of unscrewing a nib unit and washing it every week. I get the feeling that the article was written by someone who is completely unfami
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
Most fountain pen issues can usually be fixed by a good, thorough, cleaning. If the nib is scratchy, its tines are likely misaligned, and need alignment. You'll need a 10x (or better) jeweller's loupe to check the tines for alignm
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
Governments are happy to exploit their citizens for any -- or no -- reason whatsoever.
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
As part of the same fun exercise, also imagine what it would take to prevent K2 (which is currently the world's 2nd highest mountain) from becoming a pile of shit.
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
What sort of investigations provide a balanced view, then?
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by mangamadaiyan 3y ago
The lack of depth in modern discourse is not limited by geography, I'd think.
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by mangamadaiyan 3y ago
s/rights/rites/g (Not trying to be snarky or pedantic, "last rights" threw me for a loop until I figured it out.)
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by mangamadaiyan 3y ago
... Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! No thing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare.
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by mangamadaiyan 3y ago
Were the bribes needed because the rick was overloaded, or because the rick went the wrong way, or both?
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by mangamadaiyan 3y ago
OP likely missed typing the 'r' -- or was the victim of autocorrect :)

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