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by ta_1138 2y ago
As projects get bigger, things might get sadder. I worked at a certain large SF company that uses a lot of ruby, so most development was repl-based too. But this wasn't a boon but a curse, as the total lack of data format guarantees on
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by ta_1138 2y ago
yeah, anyone that paints will care the most about other things, like which colors they actually have available, and the quality of the pigments. If you take, say, most single pigment reds that aren't very toxic, you'll see that th
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by ta_1138 2y ago
Let's imagine that a president decides to, say, stop aiding Ukraine, and in exchange, Putin promises said president a couple billion dollars. Stopping aid to Ukraine is definitely an official act, which, on its own, is within their pow
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by ta_1138 2y ago
This nonsense still happens in the early sierra graphic adventures: Administer sobriety test!
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by ta_1138 2y ago
Bicycles win when the level of density is still relatively low. If we are serious about efficiency, bikes don't make that more sense. Sufficient density so that most activity can be done on foot, and the rest is mass transit.
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by ta_1138 2y ago
Individualism in western countries varies quite a bit. In cross-country scores, Spain has numbers far closer to the middle east than to the US, and then Peru is closer to China than to Spain! So your invdidualism argument is only strong if
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by ta_1138 3y ago
Pilot failures are really visible, and kill hundreds atll at once. Bad medical decisions lead to more deaths overall, but it's far less likely the public will hear it, and even if they do, it's one person at a time. Far more peopl
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by ta_1138 3y ago
Not at all. Go to one of those almost-free european colleges, and then compare the experience to a US college. The US colleges expect most students to come from far away, live on a big, expensive, beautiful campus and have massive efforts i
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by ta_1138 3y ago
Yet many people leave college with few connections and little networking ever done. So by your standards anyone without those social skills should consider college as a total waste of time and money. College: only worthwhile for extroverts.
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by ta_1138 3y ago
It's a common problem in all kinds of low-perforing governments: You get extremely tough regulation that makes it very difficult to do any economic activity legally, and then you can bypass said regulation with corruption. The high bar
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by ta_1138 3y ago
Unfortunately production capacity for that is limited, and with sufficient demand, all pricing is an auction. Therefore, we aren't going to be seeing that card in years
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by ta_1138 3y ago
Disney had a group looking at NFT and metaverse initiatives, but as far as I have seen, they all got canned in last year's layoffs. manager and everything. The company is huge, so it's not impossible that other group like that mig
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by ta_1138 3y ago
It's far less profitable than you'd think. Many of the competitors in the industry lose money. Licensing fees/production costs/royalties eat a bunch of the money, but the infrastructure to run a streaming service isn&#x2
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by ta_1138 3y ago
I've seen that attempted: I worked at a very well known SV company as it was growing. When we looked at what we were asking to even get an interview, we saw that most of our best workers could never have a prayer of passing our resume
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by ta_1138 3y ago
The reason is pretty easy: You understand the value of your workers better than a random employer, because they work here. You know when someone is a bust, and when someone is a star player. If you don't give raises to your best people
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by ta_1138 3y ago
In my very long career, I have yet to hear a good story of someone taking said counter offer and staying very long, for one reason or another. I think it's a bad idea to offer it at all, as it sends a very clear message of what behavio
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by ta_1138 3y ago
It's often hard to tell what information is truly fundamental, and what will age badly. I look at many books of software engineering that were popular in the early 2000s, like The Pragmatic Programmer, Agile Software Development or the
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by ta_1138 3y ago
What nobody tells you is that the cost of hosting all that content, and streaming it live with little lag, is far more expensive than many would guess. Netflix can have boxes with cached content very near you, and your ISP even likes it, a
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by ta_1138 3y ago
Of course infrastructure is subsidizing those who use it. Even more so when it comes to infrastructure that takes a lot of space, as every square foot of surface dedicated to one thing cannot be dedicated to another. And infrastructure indu
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by ta_1138 3y ago
Netflix spends a lot more on per developer, and has been working on the UI for longer: See, for instance, how a big percentage of manpower at Disney has been spent going from two completely different UIs between D+ and Hulu into a single on
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by ta_1138 3y ago
You can be mean to people too! However, if you want to model the corporations correctly, you'll not go very far by thinking they are soulless machines. Most of the reasons corporations fail is people making awful decisions than help th
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by ta_1138 3y ago
If we didn't have at least 3 major services, ultimately said services would have made contracts that would have taken most of the value of the deal: That's basically what Netflix was doing when they were the only game in town. We