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by manvillej 3y ago
ServiceNow ships major upgrades twice a year and patches every month. It means that they could genuinely not figure out how to remediate this quickly and quietly without disrupting ongoing contract negotiations. It means that even with that
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by manvillej 3y ago
Grad student unionization is already well on its way in the US. It started strong in the 90s. It was hamstrung because grad students weren't recognized as workers in 2004 by the NLRB; that was overturned in 2016. Since then, graduate s
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by manvillej 3y ago
didn't a russian jet crash recently while harassing another American drone? this seems like a bad plan
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by manvillej 3y ago
to be fair, practicing is a pretty essential component to learning a new language. "increasing engagement" also means more practice. Its not an entirely selfish motivation.
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by manvillej 3y ago
It incentivizes cooperation rather than punishing it. Seedier sites will be more liable while the implementation is negligible for sites that want to cooperate. The other solutions puts technological hurdles, additional points of failure, a
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by manvillej 3y ago
yup! I think of it like cooking. If you're only cooking one thing, sync & async look the same. But if you're cooking several things, you can switch between dishes as needed (asynchronous) instead of cooking each dish one at a
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by manvillej 3y ago
its probably enough time for the frequenter users to have adjusted their behaviors
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by manvillej 3y ago
this isn't just a military production issue. Industry has always been bad at contingency planning. Healthcare was blindsided by the covid pandemic, even though the flu has been the most prominent pandemics in human history. Finance ind
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by manvillej 3y ago
I am a big believer that all approvals are bad. All they do is add wait time and bottlenecks with people who are further from the problem. I think they are a symptom of poor risk mitigation. code reviews are a discussion and my one exceptio
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by manvillej 3y ago
Apple's reputation is focused on its consumer business. Financial news is unlikely to affect consumers' perception of them. I doubt that Apple's reputation would be hit on this unless Goldman launched a PR battle to get Apple
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by manvillej 3y ago
The best thing I ever did was have a personal project that I've been on for 7 years. It forced me to design in an intuitive, tested, structured way. Because I will come back to an area in a few months and not know what the hell is goin
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by manvillej 3y ago
In both of your cases, I think there is this massive disconnect in decision making. Software development is a constant game of economic decision making. Which investment returns the greatest value. Agile worked because it spread risk and al
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by manvillej 3y ago
Universally? No one can say that, but at large, men have been hostile to women in most cultures including most of the modern non-western societies: China, India, Korea, Japan, Middle East, South & Central America, Russia, etc. There are
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by manvillej 3y ago
I know the whole Spez is trash and doing scummy business things. but for mods, it boils down to this: reddit does not provide the tools to manage the communities. if it had provided good tools, then mods would be using them and not 3rd part
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by manvillej 4y ago
ah see, the employers underestimating the cost to exist as a human being in today's economy