marklgr

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by marklgr 10y ago
Check that you're not making a donation per minute too :)
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> The answer is very simple: productivity + youthful optimism. Culture also plays an important role. In the U.S., work ethics largely trumps work-life balance, and the threat of being perceived (or seeing oneself) as a slacker spurs you
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by marklgr 10y ago
Hype is often the prospect of a huge success, but it always remains a long shot. As another comment said, you can short the stock each time there's a hype according to you and you'll often make a profit--until you don't, and
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by marklgr 10y ago
I assume GP was refering to the "great work" part, but even then it's just matter of style; the point was only to show approval without nitpicking, not emphatic congratulations.
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by marklgr 10y ago
Exactly. If this article annoys you, read it again carefully, it does _not_ argue against feedback in general.
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by marklgr 10y ago
I think Sivers can make the distinction between commenting on some draft wirh feedback welcome and a demo of some feature about to be released.
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by marklgr 10y ago
I find it brilliant, personally. Users of sysdig tend to be sysadmin or devops with a strong *nix background, so the CLI sounds like 'from the comfort of your command line" to them.
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by marklgr 10y ago
Reusable code, frameworks or plugins are fine, the problem is their cambrian explosion since now anyone can jump in and publish some JavaScript or Go code, especially with the micro-stuff trend. So we end up with zillions of projects compet
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by marklgr 10y ago
> any benefit received now is far out shadowed by the negatives. Is it backed up by numbers? As a customer, I agree with you, but our annoyance could be less important than all the customers that quickly pick some product they neeed as l
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by marklgr 10y ago
But humans mostly want to be part of some group, and that's the problem with the current trend of ultra-individualism: people will be much easier to influence by dangerous groups that fill their need for belonging. If there were a stro
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by marklgr 10y ago
> Documentation and code is scattered all around Vim and Emacs both have excellent built-in manuals.
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by marklgr 10y ago
Happenned just this week to me; I was wondering if I had not copied the wrong link somehow. Annoying enough to look for another image host.
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But where is the metadata? With OP's tool, it is in some db, so you don't have to tamper with your files or their name.
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by marklgr 10y ago
You can have some poor's man tag management with subdir-per-tag containing softlinks, but it gets unwieldly pretty quick.
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by marklgr 10y ago
The US have always strictly controlled what they imported (if only via tariff) and what they exported.
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If a business wants to operate in a foreign country, it seems natural to me to follow the rules of that country; the fact that the business did not open an office in that country looks irrelevant--otherwise, do not open any office abroad an
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by marklgr 10y ago
> Wouldn't the world be flush with Portugal's product in both industries rather than only in wine? It depends on the difference in value for both industries, compared to the difference in productivity for both countries. That&#
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by marklgr 10y ago
Vim documentation is solid too: it's included in the editor (like Emaces), and you can look things up with `:help` org `:helpgrep`. There are both tutorials, end-user-oriented pages and comprehensive references. IMO, Emacs is still sli
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by marklgr 10y ago
The question is not "can these problems be more or less solved" with Cython or Numpy, but: we shouldn't have these problems in the first place. We haven't talked about deployement yet, which is another wart of Python. I
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by marklgr 10y ago
> One emulates a freaking man page. It's far from the worst.
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It often _is_ the most sensible choice, _for them_. The problem is, not everyone is doing the same job in the same environement, and they have a hard time realizing that. Their empathy/imagination stays too close to their own experienc
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by marklgr 11y ago
If we are talking about N. "fuck you money" Taleb, then he does not throw tantrums, but he resorts to pretty obnoxious behavior on a regular basis.
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by marklgr 11y ago
> Money will find its way. People will find their information and entertainment. New channels will form. Capitalism works quite well for this. Depends on what you call 'working well': we currently witness the direct consequence
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by marklgr 11y ago
"X sucks" doesn't say much, except you don't like X (for whatever reasons). You need to say what it is supposedly bad for, for whom, in what context, and compared to what.
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by marklgr 11y ago
Quite true, and it's also important to make the most of your breaks when you get some, or roll with the punches when you need to. So there definitely are skills to gain and efforts to make. You got to play the cards you are dealt, and
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by marklgr 11y ago
If only people could realize the insane role (good/bad) luck plays in life. I believe it is often a difference between American and European culture: the former very strongly promotes individual responsibility, so when you succeed it&#
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by marklgr 11y ago
Right, they are very different things. GP's point about morality stands, though: it's orthogonal to both markets and evolution.
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> And people have been compelled to provide passwords in the court of law You can have encrypted data that accept two different passwords, producing different decrypted data of your choice. This is like the 2nd code that mute the home se
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> I don't believe this is pointless tech churn, akin to fashion. This is not pointless, but it is pretty uncontrolled. Basically, there is a natural tendency for engineers to want and rewrite old stuff, once all the flaws of once-ch
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by marklgr 11y ago
This is not just about tools still working; it's also about maintenance, evolutions, bugfixes, libraries, available workforce etc. If you happen to use an unpopular tool, then you can't easily leverage other people's work and

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