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151.
by pts_ 7y ago
They are only hiring testers which is a big resource waste but lots of autists can create kickass software without needing to waste resources on analysis paralysis.
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by pts_ 7y ago
Hire juniors who can actually read the fscking code and docs.
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by pts_ 7y ago
>The creeping illustrates how the Ridgecrest quakes that began on the Fourth of July have destabilized this remote desert region of California between the state’s greatest mountain range, the Sierra Nevada, and its lowest point, Death Va
154.
by pts_ 7y ago
Because it is difficult and funding flows to workflows which treat software like brick laying.
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by pts_ 7y ago
In mob programming culture it's not even bum on seats but bums crowding around a seat!
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by pts_ 7y ago
Um dogfooding doesn't count.
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by pts_ 7y ago
That's pretty much it.
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by pts_ 7y ago
And yet it's not used for rockstar projects (change my mind).
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by pts_ 7y ago
Where do appointment letters fit in here?
160.
by pts_ 7y ago
Makes me want to lawyer up for relatively small shit than this but nonetheless shit, for an employer calling me low energy on taking a day off for flu and then telling me that my next 6 months' leaves are withdrawn.
161.
by pts_ 7y ago
It's far from boring. A planet closest in environment to us is interesting as heck for obvious reasons.
162.
by pts_ 7y ago
Relevant book Crichton's Sphere.
163.
by pts_ 7y ago
> Son is a powerful and connected political operator Yeah no shit. Most money is built on satisfying egos than actual work. It's a house of cards which will face its greatest challenge with the climate crisis.
164.
by pts_ 7y ago
For whoever it doesn't work, it wastes a whole of their time, and their life. Not to mention it completely wastes the chance to use their talents to take the society forward.
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by pts_ 7y ago
Is .Net better regarded than Java in Europe?
166.
by pts_ 7y ago
Would you buy a product with questionable reviews? It's how it is man.
167.
by pts_ 7y ago
It's because they want you to lie to the customer, or at least, make him/her happy to make money.
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by pts_ 7y ago
Vote bank politics version of academia.
169.
by pts_ 7y ago
Well someone passionate about thinking and implementing instead of talking and thinking loudly in a meeting room, and delegating the implementation to a low paid and low regarded individual.
170.
by pts_ 7y ago
What's 1000x worse than working on small code fragments, is designing programs by talking in meetings. Management types are drawn to it, not software geeks.
171.
by pts_ 7y ago
Go is already being used in lots of microservices.
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by pts_ 7y ago
Go is as performant for web backend CRUD as Java and .Net in my experience, despite being compiled. I am auditing Rust's performance but in the meantime changing the system architecture through things like message queues and/or in
173.
by pts_ 7y ago
The Indian private school educational system does teach phonics which might be why lots of Indian origin kids ace the spelling bee in the US.
174.
by pts_ 7y ago
Takes me back to the shitty ISP I had which decided to block port 21 to reduce traffic and increase security.
175.
by pts_ 7y ago
Why link to ad blogs instead of the actual study https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.01777 ?
176.
by pts_ 7y ago
At least put it in a CMS. Managing docs is so absent in workflows.
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by pts_ 7y ago
Gosh yes. These slow languages offload thinking to burning fossil fuels. INEFFICIENT.
178.
by pts_ 7y ago
Magazines all over are obsoleted unfortunately.
179.
by pts_ 7y ago
I thought the bash trap command article was a part of a long goodbye. That was indeed awkward.
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by pts_ 7y ago
To me dressing up is suits as compared to business casual. I hate suits.

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