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by pytester 8y ago
>Company agents are employed by shareholders to maximise returns on invested capital. Myth: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/01/myth-maximizing-shar...
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IME unfound bugs tend to cluster in specific areas where testers didn't realize that they needed to look. Once the tester is aware of where they need to look for them then they quickly evaporate. This method requires that a tester is l
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Training requires loyalty to work - if companies can't expect trained personnel to stay then the investment is pure overhead. To be fair, it's corporate America that burned that bridge in the 80s with layoff culture, citing "
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>This random reddit comment describes the situation with NYC subsidies pretty well. His argument was "I found it hard to start a business in New York, therefore it's nearly impossible to start a business in New York without hel
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The central point of the original essay appeared to be that it was bad for renters. The point of the article was that it simply shifts the distribution of economic rents from property developers to renters.
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The author's point wasn't that. The point was that the main outcome of rent control was simply to shift the distribution of economic rents. Instead of the landlord capturing all of it, the renter got a large chunk of it. The trans
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A counter point, for those who are interested: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/03/17-million-reasons-r...
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Just checking for the @ symbol is fair game. Anything beyond that is a bad idea.
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>In a pure language, signatures are extremely close to documentation (you know exactly what a function will do by its signature). The same can be true of tests. I've started generating API documentation from mine: e.g. https:/
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Second this. I really would rather have something I can configure fully with YAML or JSON.
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>The worst code review comments are “this isn’t performant/idiomatic/maintainable, fix it” or other statements of opinion presented as facts. This behavior is usually symptomatic of an excessively dogmatic outlook. That is, I d
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He's definitely no bullshit but he's not very good at contextualizing the stuff he writes. Instead of writing "we did X in Y situation and it worked out great, but it probably wouldn't work well in Z situation" he j
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>We have to recognize that and fight against it because some people have said, "Oh, we're going to 'post-agile', we've got to come up with some new word," - but that doesn't help the fundamental problem