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by pytester 7y ago
IME when a candidate gets dinged for a reason that would make people quit to avoid working with him (e.g. "he obviously doesn't shower") then people don't tend to invoke the words "culture fit".
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"Not the right culture fit" is pretty much code for "we have reasons we'd like to reject the candidate which we don't want to go into too much detail about". The vaguer the reason for rejection the more suspici
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I don't feel like I benefit from a new brand of jerky brand with razor thin profit margins every week. It makes me wonder about what kind of crap is in the jerky, in fact. Consumers might benefit if mass retailer accumulates liabilit
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by pytester 7y ago
Among other things: * Implicitly casting strings, integers, dates, etc. to boolean (e.g. "if x" being true if x is a non empty string). Cause of more unexpected bugs that I can count, but would cause massive headaches if implement
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by pytester 7y ago
>In one case, I was iterating over the contents of what was supposed to be a list, but in some rare circumstances could instead be a string. Instead of throwing a type error, Python happily went along with it, and iterated over each char
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by pytester 7y ago
Except every other oil dominated country - e.g. Iraq, Libya, half of Africa is more like Venezuela (worse even), than Norway. The oil curse is very real and, for Venezuela, largely unavoidable.
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by pytester 7y ago
Employers will always try to reduce their wage bill by getting rid of unnecessary workers. It's not something they do in response to minimum wage hikes, because if they could reduce headcount and maintain the same level of service, 9
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by pytester 7y ago
>Literally the opposite. In which case we should see toilets going uncleaned, coffee not being made in response to minimum wage hikes and a clear spike in unemployment that couldn't be attributed to anything else. Doesn't happe
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by pytester 7y ago
>For the record, I’m pro raising the minimum wage. I was just stating that it is absolutely true that _some_ jobs will go away. Yet the study I linked to very much disagreed with this hypothesis of yours. You can cut profits without cutt
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by pytester 7y ago
>If a business's profitability drops, that very frequently translates to lost jobs or cut hours in order to preserve expected return Businesses that slash necessary costs in response to cut margins have a special word to describe th
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by pytester 7y ago
>In a brutally competitive industry such as restaurants, where profit margins of 6% are considered extremely healthy, there has to be some sort of downstream effect to keep the business viable. Most likely they'll all just raise pri
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by pytester 7y ago
>A doubling of the minimum wage would likely increase by expenses by 35% - assuming the minimum wage didn’t impact where my food was purchased. This is why there a large fields of economic theory that warn against minimum wage hikes. Rig
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>Anyone interested in the truth will tell you that raising the minimum wage will destroy at least some jobs. This is the "big lie" used to justify keeping it low. The reality is that minimum wage hikes hit profit margins first
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by pytester 7y ago
This may be a healthy dynamic. There's always a risk both of over-automating and under-automating and people tend to sway one way or the other.
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by pytester 7y ago
"maybe in the future" are four words I've learned to dread hearing from any developer. YAGNI goes much, much deeper than most people realize.
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by pytester 7y ago
>Land has value. It is not free. And if you derive any rental income from the land value whatsoever, you are milking money from something valuable you did not create and did not make valuable. It's a purely parasitic form of value
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by pytester 7y ago
>Masking the true price (cost) of something is what causes the market to be inefficient, resulting in excess or insufficient supply. This is why the Land Value Tax is such an effective solution to this problem. It's fair, economical
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The nature of the javascript type system means that large software systems written in it are built on very shaky foundations. This means that it's very easy to build a framework but also that it's very likely for a framework to br
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by pytester 7y ago
Estimation effectiveness is inversely proportional to the intrinsic difficulty of the problem you work on. Being a programmer who is good at estimation is a bit like being a doctor with the lowest post-op death rates - it doesn't neces
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by pytester 7y ago
This is why I actually prefer it if people don't learn them. Where people apply them directly I've seen them misused more often than not and where they were used correctly, more often that not they emerged naturally without anybod
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by pytester 7y ago
>Junior developers get hired on their technical skills. Mid-career developers get hired on their communications, interpersonal, and domain understanding skills. I found this to be true outside of tech hubs (Silicon Valley, NYC, London, e
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by pytester 7y ago
Automated kiosks for ordering aren't new - they date back about to the 1890s. They actually went out of fashion in the 1950s-60s when wages grew the fastest and died out entirely in 1991.
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by pytester 7y ago
The realistic reading is that it mainly just transfers money from profits to wages. Demand for minimum waged labor is very, very inelastic.
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by pytester 7y ago
The irony was everywhere. I wasn't paid because of a bug in their HR IT system. They also sell HR IT systems.
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by pytester 7y ago
They had one large customer lined up. I didn't really follow what happened with them after I left but I don't think that customer was particularly happy and calls with this customer were fraught and somewhat terrifying. It certain
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Not just that though. Also the existence of a somewhat toxic work environment which functioned sufficiently where all they needed was cheaper, less skilled, easy to hire employees doing more rote kinds of work but which hampered both creati
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by pytester 7y ago
I worked at a company that tried to do this - Willis Towers Watson. It went pretty badly for a number of reasons: * The internal software was built up over a number of years as a series of hacks that rarely if ever got unwound. The people r
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by pytester 7y ago
>The problem is that what you throw together is invariably the base for the real thing. This isn't invariable at all. More often what you throw together gets thrown away. I'd estimate this happens to more (working) code I'
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by pytester 7y ago
>isn't how easy it is to write good code, but how hard it is to write bad code In many languages they make it harder to write bad code but they do so at the expense of delivering functionality quickly. There's a clear trade off
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by pytester 7y ago
You are lauding the "financial responsibility" of 18 year olds taking what it usually the losing side of an enormous lifetime financial gamble that they are forced into? You're arguing that choosing tails on a bent coin is th

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