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by mjr00 5y ago
Key word in the GP is because . Yes, Gamestop changed their strategy, maybe--though what you quoted sounds like generic marketing/business-speak. But that press release isn't what made its stock shoot up from $18 to $325 in a mon
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by mjr00 5y ago
> I would go even further and say for me it would be a big red flag to waste time on "business impact" - I am going in as a programmer. From my experience, my "business impact" is somewhat close to a cleaner dude. And
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by mjr00 5y ago
At Amazon, the target was between 4 to 6% when I was there, but it was applied at the larger department level, not individual teams. It was perfectly fine to have a team of 10 where nobody was on a PIP (yes, such things exist!), but when it
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by mjr00 5y ago
You're absolutely right and that's what I mean about marketing having such a huge impact. Nike spends a ton of money making sure you associate the Nike brand more closely with LeBron, Jordan, and the general pursuit of superstardo
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by mjr00 5y ago
It's currently being propped up by big, legitimate corporations: everything from sports organizations like the NBA, UFC, and WWE to food brands like Taco Bell and McDonalds are pumping out NFTs. The Lakers are now playing in the Crypto
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by mjr00 5y ago
Even when or if this switch eventually finally happens, if the current inertia keeps going and the idea that "cryptocurrency causes climate change" continues to gain mainstream traction, it's going to be very hard to make p
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by mjr00 5y ago
Between this and Tesla citing climate change as a reason for dropping crypto, this is actually a very interesting shift, and one that might be very bad for crypto. The amount of money people actually donated or spent with crypto has always
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by mjr00 5y ago
My current solution for this is to just tag `site:reddit.com` to the beginning of Google searches. A Google search for `site:reddit.com best miter saw` has a lot of relevant results. Marketers/SEO people are starting to infiltrate this
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by mjr00 5y ago
> As a person who worked on systems with thousands of tests. I cannot stress enough that there should never be any randomness added to the automatic tests. Most times it is better to add more tests then to make a test do many things. Com
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by mjr00 5y ago
> Bitcoin has intrinsic value outside of the fiat system. Not really, because even though the number of Bitcoins is limited, the number of cryptocurrencies is not. In any application that uses Bitcoin, you can substitute Litecoin, Dogeco
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by mjr00 5y ago
> However, most good advice is common advice. In practically any field, grokking the fundamental advice and actually sticking to it will get you 99% of the way there. As Charlie Munger once said, "Take a simple idea, and take it ser
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by mjr00 5y ago
> Legally stealing you still committed theft. Just because you have the technical ability to pick a lock doesn't give you the right to enter a room and take someone else's stuff. And there is a lot of legal precedent that hacki
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by mjr00 5y ago
Oh yeah don't get me wrong, the implementation wasn't great. It should have been opt-in at a minimum, and in some kind of separate extension ideally. But there's been so much incredulity in these comment sections about the lo
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by mjr00 5y ago
> I spent some time looking over the source code and cannot fathom why something that logs information would need to become this complicated. That's easy: because software development is complicated. If you look at the ticket where
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by mjr00 5y ago
> The part of log4j functionality that gets used in practice, most of the time, is just a wrapper around printf which adds a timestamp and a log-level. I... don't think this is true? When I was using it we used log rotation, log tru
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by mjr00 5y ago
Even if you really wanted to have it be trunk-only, I don't know why you wouldn't make everyone push to a feature branch, then have automation for running tests and merging after they pass. Plus, where's the code review in th
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by mjr00 5y ago
Same here, and same with most people I know. I'm from the generation that got Facebook in ~2005, when you still needed a university email to sign up. It was definitely helpful for socializing at college, especially the almighty "r
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by mjr00 5y ago
> Social media is a cancer that's growing on society. We need to go back to smaller online presences instead of a "global village" as it were. Too many things to worry about in the world, and too many companies want to sel
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by mjr00 5y ago
I'm in the same boat, making electronic music as a hobby. I don't think there's anything wrong with wanting fans of your music, even if you have a day job and have no desire to make it a career. As fun as the creative process
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by mjr00 6y ago
But the way the idea was pitched... they were right to be negative. Brian Armstrong was talking about using BTC to compete with Visa and Mastercard. Bitcoin hasn't done anything to impact CC fees. At this point, it's pretty clear
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by mjr00 7y ago
In theory, yeah... in practice, as someone who uses Go and Python with mypy (which supports structural type-checking using the Protocol interface) professionally, I haven't seen it happen. It's easy to think of contrived examples
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by mjr00 7y ago
This really depends on how you define success. If success means creating something unique, new, and amazing that is known and loved by millions, whether that be a company, piece of art, or scientific innovation, then yes, it's unlikely
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by mjr00 7y ago
I agree. I think what the author was trying to say with his article is that DSLs where end users can use the system with zero training are a hoax. You can't put SQL, LateX or even Excel in front of someone with no context or help and