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I wholeheartedly agree: don't say something in the UI and the opposite in the ToS. I can slightly sympathize that digital media may have different rules than physical, but some are just misleading.
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Just because something is hard to measure, doesn't mean it's not important to do - I think there's even a fallacy for that? I think it's also important to separate computer science from software engineering. Algorithms a
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> we (consumers) like to buy stuff This is naive. We are marketed to buy stuff. And then, the stuff we buy doesn't last and is built in the least environment friendly way possible, as long as it saves a dollar. Let's start poin
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I've hear this before and I found it nonsense. In short, I don't see any advantage to distinguish responsible) deliberate debt from irresponsible/involuntary debt. A debt is a debt. You take a loan to buy a house, knowing you
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"X amount of alcohol increases odds of disease by Y%". Without values, we can pretty much say that anything increases odds of disease: walking, driving, eating, shitting, sleeping. And what's to gain? Hysteria because there&#
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It used to be the Department of War, but Defense sounds nicer. Lots of countries did the shift in name. Reminds me of George Carlin's joke: shellshock becomes battle fatigue becomes PTSD. Don't make it better, change the name!
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Not sure why downvoted: lots of tech companies offer these benefits while omitting others which are much needed.
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You're asking for the evidence of a non existing factor in a complex process not fully understood... I'd say it's on you to provide it. Why is predicting the next word proof of intelligent speech?
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4 hours looks OK to me, even good if we are critical about productive VS non productive time. Answering questions in slack, checking emails, going to meetings, waiting for ci/cd: all chew up your productive time.
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Facebook doesn't go fast and break things anymore - that's a decade old logo, it's outdated.
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One of my high school teachers, who I respect a lot, argued that what a CS grad can do, an EE grad could as weel, and more. Therefore he recommended the EE career. I wanted to get away from physics so I ignored that, and in hindsight it was
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This reminds of lord of the flies: I'm not a native English speaker, and only read it recently. When Piggy says he doesn't want to be called Piggy, I figured that's what he would be called the whole book. Alas, he was, and I
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I'm also interested in them!
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We can criticize but this will never change. A CEO is the face of a company, everything they say publically is basically a PR stunt. - They won't say the company is falling apart until the insolvency, it's some new strategy or ref
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"there's money to be made" is one of the weakest arguments there is. Capitalism makes it all about money! There's little doing without it. This opinion can lead to some really ignorant statements (which I've heard b
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As some have said, reality is quite different. For example, my two last jobs: - company uses Microsoft stack (.net, SQL server, windows server), so its 100 employees are also on windows - company let's its 50 employees pick what they w
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We cannot omit the context: in most places, people need to drive to work, to get groceries, and everything. A car is tremendously useful but a 5 second distraction can result in a death. You can't expect people who drive every day to b
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An unquoted version 3.10 in yaml becomes 3.1. Fun stuff!
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With ad-hoc meetings, people can be overly cautious: "maybe this is not that important", "maybe my manager is busy". With periodic 1:1s, the manager has already allocated time to listen to you, so it's easier to tal
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I defend atomic PRs and squashing merge commits. It's simple, makes reviewing easier and works for 90% of the cases. Maybe I'm missing something, but I find it painful to rebase into a neat history, and my colleagues would probab
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I'm almost disgusted by this post! Jokes aside, it's funny how that sounds the most boring stuff to me and you'd have to pay me to sit in a chair for 2 hours watching that.
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Can you debug in a container, eg VS code debugger with breakpoints and steps?
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And some of these were on discount during Steam Winter sales. Elden Ring was avialble for 40 euros or so!
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That's never happened to me, but I'd hate if it did! Could this be an error from the producer? Or, dumb question, did it start playing related songs after?
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I agree that the cancelations are terrible. In the short term, the viewers get pissed and cancel, in the long term, you get a catalog of incomplete works. I have great respect for HBO: The Leftovers is a great show but wasn't doing wel
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That's too cynical. If it were an ad platform, you wouldn't be allowed to criticize those companies, or YC, or members from YC. But you can! It also doesn't ask for a lot of attention. You don't get notifications, infini
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I'm also against tracking users while on the app. If we compare it to a store, I'm OK with minimal tracking, eg security cameras, but I'm not OK with keeping the recordings forever or tracking my individual behavior (which is
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Great point. We also need to legislate against walled gardens to let other technologies flourish. Breaking down companies would also be great. YouTube has been mostly crappy but operated at a loss , only alive due to backing by the Google
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My 2 cents: I learned python 2 in 2015 or so because I was recommended "Learn python the hard way", whose author defended python2 with a passion. So I started with python 2 and found the book crap. The author's idea of teachi

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