seti0Cha

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by seti0Cha 3y ago
Obviously it makes sense for some companies and not for others, and so you see some buying real estate and others leasing. The point isn't that no company should ever own property, it's that it makes sense for many to rent.
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
A strange thing to get hung up on. The purpose of rental is not to have someone to call to get things fixed, it's to avoid having to engage in the complex legal and financial considerations that come with property ownership. A company
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
Sometimes companies do buy offices. But very often they don't, either because they don't want to or can't afford to. Sometimes they buy offices, then rent out space to other companies. Sometimes they sign long term leases, bu
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
We'll see how far the whole working from home thing goes, but there are a number of types of business for which it is impractical (e.g. anything that requires expensive or bulky equipment) and many people prefer to work together in per
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
A long term lease is beneficial for the renter in many circumstances. They don't want to have the conditions of the lease renegotiated every year because moving a company is a lot more disruptive than moving to a new apartment. They al
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
Office rentals are also a service. They provide a stable office environment that you can do business in at a fixed rate.
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
Much like the car rental agency is a pointless middleman between you and the car manufacturer.
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
They provide rentable office space for companies that need office space. What alternative are you suggesting? Companies build their own offices? Builders retain ownership and become landlords? The banks become landlords? Companies just don&
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
I once worked at a place where we shifted some content from a two column layout to three columns. We had users telling us it was literally giving them headaches and making them feel ill. This despite the fact that it now looked basically li
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
Please stop using the "that's a talking point of the enemy" dismissal tactic. It's lazy and harmful to actual discussion.
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
Intellectual merit turns out not to have much merit when it comes to software ecosystems. "Worse is better" remains in effect.
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
Perl programmers have been making that same argument for literally decades.
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
Seems to me like it does work, based on many successful projects using it. There's nothing that forces you to handle the error at the place of origin, you can pass it on like you do with exceptions. You just can't bubble it up mul
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
That's a feature not a bug. Go intentionally forgoes abstractions of that sort. I personally prefer well written Java exception handling, but often Java exception handling code is a bolted on afterthought. Go's approach is to make
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
The younger generations of coders are indeed more susceptible to hype, but if you go around dismissing things that are hyped, you're going to miss out on a lot of good things. I've got 15+ years of Java experience, and I think Go
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
I dislike it because of the ultra-complex build system that over-ambitious devops engineers ended up building in my shop. Our build system was the hardest part of our code base to reason about, which is pretty screwed up.
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by seti0Cha 3y ago
How are they escaping scrutiny? They hardly seem interested in hiding what they believe seeing as how they are both very active on Twitter. And whose scrutiny do you consider them anxious to avoid? Their opponents know very well what they a
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
Yeesh. Sad that people seem so determined to prove that you can't have nice things. Hopefully you don't get too discouraged. Happy though that you let my registration through. Kind of expected that my habit of using random usernam
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
> I had friends who became Trump supporters, and I unfriended them. I believe in morals. Ironically, the behavior you describe is immoral in my view. I also am a religious person, and I also don't believe in bending morals or that t
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
The LSP stuff has actually unlocked a lot of fringe editor choices. Even new editors with tiny communities can provide a lot of IDE like features by just implementing the client side of the API.
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
The code is opensource, but not the ecosystem. Microsoft is maneuvering towards the same position as Android with respect to Google Play. Not technically mandatory, but so many conveniences are built on it that it may as well be for anyone
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
I've never used Teams. Why does everybody hate it?
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
We don't hate the elderly, we just don't value family. We expect our kids to leave home as soon as they are able and we don't bat an eye when they move a few thousand miles away. Marriage rates have been declining for a few d
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
Ok, let me say it a different way. They don't have the power to demand more than they are worth, because the amount the employer offers reflects what the employer thinks they are worth. You may disagree about how much value they supply
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
I think you have the causality backwards. A person is able to demand higher pay not because they are in charge, but because the owners/upper management want them to be in charge. That is, they get hired with high pay because that'
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
I agree with the spirit of your comment, but not with the particulars. Yes, employees and contractors both have to deal with job uncertainty, but not to the same degree. An employee is unlikely to be laid off with anywhere near the frequenc
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
I've noticed a lot of times what appears to be procrastination is actually uncertainty as to how to proceed. The mind recoils from it's own inadequacy and just labels the whole thing "bad". An advantage of breaking it do
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
Ah, but then you need to remember to make the checklist, and you need to remember to check it. If I get past the first step, I invariably fall afoul of the second.
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
Exactly! I didn't start getting anywhere with anything until I realized that I should ignore what other people told me about getting stuff done. For whatever reason, I don't respond to normal motivators. There are a few giant labe
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
My money is on the quiet failure mode. The demographic collapses we see happening around the world continue and spread as more people have the resources to live individually, without family. Through automation we overcome the economic issue

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