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by omouse 11y ago
Just read a quote from "Secrets of Consulting" that's applicable, no matter how it may look at first, it's usually a people problem . We do like using tools instead of focusing on education and training.
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by omouse 11y ago
Most people think the web is static and uncontrollable by them. This just lets more people become makers of cool things. I'm alright with it.
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by omouse 11y ago
Lewis Mumford talks about that as well in the book, in earlier chapters. He says that mass production focused on quantity rather than quality of life. More of something doesn't necessarily improve quality of life. Mumford actually argu
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by omouse 11y ago
I think the other side of that argument is why the capital gets locked up in the first place? It's because there's excess surplus from productivity gains. If you work 1 hour a day you can be far more productive than just a few
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by omouse 11y ago
This is similar to what Lewis Mumford has said in Technics and Civilization. Basically, more abundance means everything gets cheaper. Unfortunately the wealth created is locked up within a few classes and barely trickles down. Like the farm
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by omouse 11y ago
So it's like the early 90s where they want to weaken encryption and make industrial espionage easier?
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by omouse 11y ago
Uh no, the end game is autonomous logistics; getting someone or something from point A to point B. More automation is good, we're sorely lacking in automation. The real issue is distribution of profits. If the money gained stays at the
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by omouse 11y ago
Every time I use Angular it feels like it's doing things the right way and it's becoming the Rails or Django of the JavaScript world. Wish I had fought to use AngularJs directives and $resource instead of messing about with ReactJ
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by omouse 11y ago
I hear that, the convos at some dev shops leaves a lot to be desired when you're bombarded with work. Hanging out on IRC with like-minded people who like Lisp/Scheme, more hardcore javascript coding than plain old jQuery and Free
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by omouse 11y ago
I get a 5% match with a group RRSP at work and I'm at a small non-profit company. Most tech companies don't even offer an RRSP in Canada.
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by omouse 11y ago
Aren't MAC addresses supposed to be globally unique? That's the most personal it can get, right?
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Because distributed version control can help increase the pace of development and increase the usage of code reviews.
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> Among the local tech scene in Seattle, there's a quiet view that Amazon is kind of a boot camp where young workers get experience then move on. That's the common view of digital agencies too; the turn-over will always be hig
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by omouse 11y ago
They've been struck down in court in Ontario, Canada but that doesn't stop companies from shoving the wording into employment contracts and being insistent on it.
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> Product managers are potentially both the most helpful and potentially most damaging hire you can make, as you are ceding them control (if you do) over the very definition of the value your company provides. I think it ties into what
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by omouse 11y ago
On the other hand, small companies waste $$$ hiring people to spin up landing pages and build small widgets that could have been bought off the shelf (email forms, payment forms, payment integration are all plugins).
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by omouse 11y ago
> so that his managers would not worry that his home life was impacting his work ethic It isn't on the employee/spouse; this is why you have managers that sometimes have to tell employees to go home. We're so fearful of l
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by omouse 11y ago
Yep I got dinged for coming into work at 11am when I had stayed till 11pm the night before and had done weekend work. Fuck exploitation.
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by omouse 11y ago
well you have to fight for what you want. Non-competes should be illegal for example -_-'
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Did they even have some of their product built? It sounds like they didn't, but then I haven't had a coffee yet.
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by omouse 11y ago
Yes but have you had a marketing and a sales person and a business exec throw random logic and rules into the mix? That's the hardest part; integrating seemingly random or subtle business rules into the reporting or applications.
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Yes! This is a great niche for them to tackle with better tooling.
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First...IANAL (I Am Not A Lawyer) You aren't the only one, but with Freenet it's fully encrypted. Let's say you had a Freenet Silk Road application. You won't know it's a Silk Road web page that's being saved a
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by omouse 11y ago
There's another book that's good book called Secrets to Winning at Office Politics[1], it basically says that no one likes a complainer so keep it to a minimum. It also saids that perception is what matters. The book, like the one
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That's been the goal of the Freenet project for a while, to build a distributed encrypted network protocol. It distributes storage and processing which is why full encryption is necessary; you don't want 10 people reading your ema
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A permanent way to ensure the Greek economy never goes under ;)
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by omouse 11y ago
Hopefully in a few more years they add a few more books to that list, the 90s and 00s are over. Unfortunately it's hard to think of a particular book that should go into the series. ACM is awesome.
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It would be nice to see the process behind this, it's hard enough to convince a company to donate $100 let alone sponsor a conference or a project.
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Yeah it's a big enough company that I wouldn't be surprised if some middle managers are forcing the devs/employees to do a lot of work. It's kinda like Microsoft, I heard there were just a few good teams or departments t
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by omouse 11y ago
"He's a gorilla, of course he knows what he's doing! Just sell off all our assets, I'm sure nothing will go wrong!"

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