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by nilkn 7y ago
Is that not a tremendous optimization for the team? It probably cuts the team size in half (or, seen another way, doubles its size for free), and it unifies of a lot of the mobile and web stacks behind similar languages and tools, which in
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by nilkn 7y ago
We've experimented with both in-person and purely digital standups through Slack. The latter was exceptionally convenient, but we found it almost never led to any meaningful conversations. It became 100% a status report. In-person stan
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by nilkn 7y ago
The past 80 years include not just Vietnam but also the most significant legislative period of the Civil Rights movement. I'm not even that old but my dad was born before legal segregation was ended.
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by nilkn 7y ago
For what it's worth, I don't know many developers who'd want to work 100% remote. I think the samples that one implicitly takes from online comments can be really skewed. I do know lots of developers who'd like to work
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by nilkn 7y ago
In some cases, it's possible to rewrite incrementally via refactoring. (Whether you can do this depends on the architecture of the system and whether the starting and target languages have decent interoperability.) In other words, rewr
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by nilkn 7y ago
I'm pretty sure you can find chain restaurants anywhere, including right on Times Square. Just because someone recommended it to you doesn't mean you suddenly lost all agency. If you know that you dislike chain restaurants, why wo
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by nilkn 7y ago
I honestly think it's one of the greatest works of English language literature and think it will come to be recognized more widely as such in the coming century. Academics really didn't take it seriously because it's a work o
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by nilkn 7y ago
I'd absolutely buy that there are regional variations in how common those phrases are. The map appears to be spot on in that sense based on my own experience. I'm just wondering if there are areas where "you guys" can&#
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by nilkn 7y ago
I have personal experience with Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Florida.
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by nilkn 7y ago
For what it’s worth, the topic has never been whether “you guys” is “masculine” but whether it can refer to groups of mixed or not-all-male gender. I do find it odd you have consistently avoided ever making a statement about the gender make
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by nilkn 7y ago
I don’t believe I ever used the term “wrong.” I said you’re the only American I’ve encountered, offline or online, to maintain that “you guys” can only refer to groups of men. That’s all I’ve said, and that’s probably the end of this conver
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by nilkn 7y ago
It’s not that there are some people who use it “that way.” It’s the standard usage: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/you_guys No need to make this personal with your last sentence.
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by nilkn 7y ago
“You guys” can certainly be used in a gender-neutral way in the southern US. That’s where I live and I hear that all the time.
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by nilkn 7y ago
I’m not making any claims about whether you generally hassle anyone so I don’t need any evidence about that in either direction. Either way, you are the first person I’ve talked to who doesn’t think “you guys” can refer to an audience of mu
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by nilkn 7y ago
“You guys”, not “guys”. If you still think that can only refer to men, that’s certainly the first time I’ve heard an American say that. Indeed, I hear this phrase from women as much as I do from men, to address audiences of any gender makeu
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by nilkn 7y ago
What region are you referring to? I’ve lived in the US my whole life and have never encountered an area where “you guys” could not be used in a gender neutral manner.
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by nilkn 7y ago
He allegedly did something quite bad, and if guilty I’d like him to face justice. But if the cost of convicting him is setting a precedent that effectively strips hundreds of millions of people of their privacy and subjects us all to an uno
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by nilkn 7y ago
I don't disagree, but I think this applies to engineering salaries too, not just management salaries. Sometimes it's just useful to have a reference point.
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by nilkn 7y ago
I'd be interesting in seeing something like this for engineering management. I'm a director outside of a major technology hub and am largely in the dark about what I should be getting paid.
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by nilkn 7y ago
I think the statement was just phrased too strongly. The proposition isn’t that one shouldn’t study grammar at all, but rather that one shouldn’t front-load grammar and theory too much. Speaking from experience, I gained basic conversation
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by nilkn 7y ago
You're attributing the difference in success here to Esperanto, but my guess is the key differentiator was actually how you went about studying the language and how interested and motivated you were. I took two years of Spanish in high
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by nilkn 7y ago
It's not going to do that. Over time it's just going to select front-end developers experienced with JavaScript.
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by nilkn 7y ago
I think it’s a disingenuous interpretation to think I was suggesting one could talk to every native speaker of a target language. With Spanish, say, I gain an immediately practical language that I can use weekly if not daily right here in t
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by nilkn 7y ago
This is a bit of a tangent, but my parents owned a gas station in the late 90s and early 2000s. When they bought it, pay-at-the-pump was rare. Towards the end of their ownership, it was becoming common, and they were under a lot of pressure
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by nilkn 7y ago
If learning Esperanto really solved the same problem that learning, say, Spanish or Mandarin would solve, then you might have a point. But Mandarin has just under a billion native speakers and another 200 million second language speakers, w
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by nilkn 7y ago
Is there any reason to think Esperanto would retain its grammatical simplicity if it were to actually become a lingua franca? Once it's truly out in the world to a much larger degree, there would be no way to "control" it any
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by nilkn 7y ago
I don't think so. In-N-Out, for example, is one of the smaller burger chains. Google has more employees than In-N-Out but didn't make the list.
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by nilkn 7y ago
He/she said they pay well for a fast food place, which isn't the same statement. For a company C, define S(C) to be the set of companies where the "average" employee at C could conceivably get a job without significant e
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by nilkn 7y ago
My understanding is that it's just based on employee satisfaction with their workplace. The implication is that In-N-Out Burger might be a better place to work relative to other options for its employees than Google is relative to othe
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by nilkn 7y ago
What's his point, though? Is the point to randomly shame someone? I fail to see how this advances the conversation in any meaningful way.

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