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by tghw 13y ago
> The managers at Fog Creek don't do code reviews, don't look at commit logs, don't look at the features that developers have built? Correct. The only managers are the founders and maybe one other person. Everyone else i
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How is this a lot of rules? As far as I can see, it boils down to three: 1. Be able to communicate with your team. 2. Have a place where you can work, distraction free. 3. Get approval from your team lead. (This one barely counts, since the
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by tghw 13y ago
Clearly. That's the only explanation for a happy employee with such terrible rules.
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An explicit one? No. But it's not needed, because there's a social pressure to be working. People can see you not working in the office. But if you're at home, no one knows if you're not working. So some guidelines are p
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Video chat seems trivial, but we found out the hard way it's pretty important for team communication.[0] Think of all the impromptu meetings you have on site, just popping into someone's office to ask them about something, pulling
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As Fog Creek's first full time remote employee[0], I fully disagree with your assumption. Coming from Fog Creek, that statement has no weasel words in it, it's a genuine sentiment. Back when I was working for the company on site,
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> and everyone starts using semantic HTML, they will Eh, I doubt it. The problem with the "semantic web" is that your semantics might not match my semantics. You might use <article> only for the main content of an artic
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I don't claim to know the full extent of the law, but how does accepting only female applicants not violated the protected class of gender?
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You could have Javascript populate it on page load, since it's still required to update the CSS.
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Your time must not be worth very much if you're really considering rolling your own. How long will it take you? A day? You might think so, but no. A weekend? Possibly, but you won't handle all of the corner cases. A week? Getting
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TeX needs to be more widely taught. It saved my ass in grad school.
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Exception: Division by zero
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Out of curiosity, I went looking for medical error rates from before the max shift lengths were decreased a few years ago and, compared to now. The study I found on it concluded that error rates did not meaningfully change, even though the
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I find it very hard to have sympathy for someone who says "For better or worse, email takes up a large part of my work life." and then chooses to use a free, ad-supported email service. If this is such a crucial tool for you, th
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That's what I was getting at, we'd have to double taxes, though for anyone below $70k/year, it'd be a net positive.
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True, but most apartment buildings will want at least one basement layer for mechanical and storage.
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The primary reason they dig those holes is because tall buildings need solid foundations. It's not as if they can just build the building at ground level if only it weren't for those darn cars. Foundation depths vary based on too
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The app wouldn't accept a password, just a time and location to unlock. I'm not sure if that's better, but it technically sidesteps that issue.
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2012 Federal Tax Receipts: $2.45 Trillion This is where it falls apart. To implement this program, you would need to double tax receipts. 98% of income taxes, which account for about 46% of all receipts, are paid by the top 50% of the popul
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I'd call that more of an effectiveness thing than overkill. And it would be possible for an app to not unlock the phone until it enters a certain geofence, like the hotel.
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zshell automatically links `cd` to `pushd`, which means you can go back with `popd`.
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There is not enough data to support your assertions. "Count the incidents" is not a satisfactory answer to the question. We did boarder screenings before 9/11 and 9/11 happened. You need stronger data to back this up.
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Sorry, but I fail to see how an app locking you out is more overkill than wiping all of your devices every time you cross a border.
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As someone else pointed out, there's no reason it can't track and store things for later, when it does have a connection.
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Why wouldn't the microphone pick anything up? Sound waves are unaffected by a Faraday cage.
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by tghw 13y ago
The Bay Bridge is gradually appearing on Google Maps. Zoom in and you'll see the missing segments with "Planned" on them.
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That's a great video. Everyone should watch it.
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Seems like a clear case for Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity
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Somewhere along the way, we decided that the threat of terrorism outweighed our constitutional rights. In the heat of the moment after 9/11, it may have seemed right (to some), but the further we get from the event, the more people are
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by tghw 13y ago
Most of what you're describing as "madness" is already done in head.js and require. They have no particular speed penalties and handle dependencies better than just putting script tags in the right order. The one difference i

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