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by omouse 10y ago
That's also possible. They know how to herd the cats and get them to move in the right direction. In Canada for example, there are few companies that do this correctly and the best ones are influenced by the way US companies (especiall
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by omouse 10y ago
Because devs get to keep more of what they earn? That should also be true for other workers but it isn't. It's really difficult to hide how much wealth is created through software. I always like to point out that even the most jun
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by omouse 10y ago
There is more free floating capital . There are VCs in the US who are willing to invest in all sorts of things and willing to take chances. There are few VCs or banks in Canada that would take a chance on Facebook, Twitter, SnapChat or Ube
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by omouse 10y ago
Ordinary people don't have much qualms about using a commercial service despite all the privacy warnings in the world: just look at the 1B+ users on Facebook. That's changing, more people are keep their mouths shut more often on
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by omouse 10y ago
This is something that I would love to see happen with open source projects: 1. company is created around the project 2. other companies started using the project and find it handy 3. companies need maintenance and support: consulting compa
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by omouse 10y ago
They should have stuck with AGPL.
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by omouse 10y ago
I wrote up a tutorial on Perl 6 and tried to get it more widely known there are a lot of neat features in it and it looks far better designed than most languages: https://www.codementor.io/perl/tutorial/how-to-use-
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by omouse 10y ago
The fixation on Silicon Valley isn't dumb when wages were deliberately suppressed by Google, Apple, Adobe and others. The big tech companies really do want to keep salaries low and H1Bs can help them with that, along with paying for th
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by omouse 10y ago
Just wanted to leave a comment about the ChangeLog which is a list of commits. It would be nice if they sat down for a day (or two) to write down proper release notes that made reference to various commits and outlined exactly what is chang
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by omouse 10y ago
So why use Mechanical Turk in the first place? Turkers will work for a single penny in many cases. Exactly what I was looking for: the cold brutal logic of captialism. It's all good if it's low-cost. Even after all of this you
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by omouse 10y ago
PMs as a group hoard information on projects: devs have almost no visibility into the current set of available, unstaffed gigs. Their goal is to be remain necessary and collect a paycheck. They're middle-men and this is why I encoura
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by omouse 10y ago
On the contrary, it comes off as very professional. All other companies would hide this, they would show off a very cleaned up post-mortem and say "problem solved" and that's it. Ok so what does that mean, does it mean the
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by omouse 10y ago
What's interesting is that the economics favour low cost at the expensive of quality.
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It looks like it's just a starting point to be used for future studies so they all have similar classifications and coding for surveys/questionnaires. I'm also not sure how low of a bar it is when they did a study, coded the
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by omouse 10y ago
It's an academic study, and I thought this was computer science . Of course you're going to see conclusions that sound simple and obvious, it's just now you'll have actual stats across multiple studies and teams and com
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by omouse 10y ago
It doesn't look like that's the point. It looks like the point is to have a good starting point for further studies that will use the same codification for surveys and questionnaires so that various studies can be compared.
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by omouse 10y ago
AWESOME
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by omouse 10y ago
That's not really an advantage. Cab companies are location specific, the network effect is limited by the number of taxi medallions handed out. It's also a good starting point for local companies to be the Uber or Lyft of their
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by omouse 10y ago
Ugh why would you ruin a perfectly fine GNU/Linux machine with Mac OS X?! ;-)
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by omouse 10y ago
I like thinking of GPL and AGPL as licenses that solve the freeloader problem. Corporations and their employees love to lower their costs and externalize their costs; therefore they use MIT/BSD/Apache licensed code as much as poss
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by omouse 10y ago
Why not let people work but for fewer hours instead of laying them off? This is ridiculous.
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by omouse 10y ago
Yep, they're consolidating the market and becoming a bigger monopoly. At almost every company, and especially the large ones, JIRA is the "tool" that is used. I keep wondering whatever happened to all the other tools out ther
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by omouse 10y ago
They not only get subsidies, Microsoft and Oracle get to rely on patents and intellectual "property". They absolutely do care about tax breaks.
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by omouse 10y ago
Reporting back, I started setting up a Base database for invoices, customers and products/services. It wasn't too bad to work with and you do get the power of SQL underneath. I think it generates a web interface so it's basic
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by omouse 10y ago
I know about GDB, that ain’t a good debugging experience I can't take this article seriously after reading that and after reading this: So I spent a few evenings with Rust How long did it take you to learn C, C++, Java, Python, Rub
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by omouse 10y ago
To get any programming done, you have to learn certain things, you can't complain that it takes weeks to learn a new programming language and months to assimilate it's model of thinking. But saying "you need to spend a few
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by omouse 10y ago
This is precisely why there's a strong focus on deliverables in project management. You can have a meeting with 20+ people every day if you want, but if there's no deliverable that moves the project, it's a waste of cash and
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by omouse 10y ago
Not only that, we also sometimes worked on public holidays when everyone else was enjoying with their families This part is illegal as hell and pretty much sums up why a union is absolutely needed in some workplaces; to curb this kind of
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by omouse 10y ago
Yep, a lot of businesses rely on Excel until a certain point and then they try and find a product that fits them or try custom software dev that amounts to "convert this bunch of crazy Excel sheets into a web/desktop interface&quo
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by omouse 10y ago
Have you used LibreOffice's equivalent, Base?

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