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by tspike 8y ago
I'm sure they do, they just assume that the benefits of ensuring low performers don't accumulate outweigh the costs of letting go some good talent. That said, I think quota policies are bullshit.
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by tspike 8y ago
Surely a rock or other heavy blunt object would be more effective.
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by tspike 8y ago
Have a look at firecalc.com, it simulates scenarios throughout history (including the Great Depression) and tells you if your resources would've been depleted.
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by tspike 8y ago
I just picked up a 6-speed manual 2015 Tacoma. It's the last of the 2nd generation that's been in production since the early 2000s, and it's wonderfully low-tech. It'll be one of the final vehicles ever produced with the
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by tspike 8y ago
This is great news and may serve as a model for other cities facing similar housing shortages. Was the speculation tax a ballot measure or something passed at the city council level?
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by tspike 8y ago
That's a great example. At that point, it's up to the family and the son to negotiate what's acceptable. Ultimately, whatever arrangement they choose, the family unit benefits. I think where this analogy breaks down and becom
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by tspike 8y ago
Take the complexities of society out of the picture for a moment and reduce the scenario to a family unit living on subsistence farming with nobody else around: if the family is somehow able to automate their food, water, shelter and energy
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by tspike 8y ago
It's because there's a conflict of interest in who reaps the benefits. If the company makes the decision to automate, it's clear that it's the company that reaps the benefits. If a worker chooses to automate, it's a
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by tspike 8y ago
Google's promotion and incentive structure is built around launching products. This will launch, putter along for a couple of years and then get shuttered unless it's a surprise success.
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by tspike 8y ago
For what it's worth, iCloud provides this for Apple devices.
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by tspike 8y ago
Thanks for sharing, that was very entertaining.
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by tspike 8y ago
It's even worse: one of each device for every OS version supported, which Apple themselves make exceptionally difficult as it's nearly impossible to downgrade to older OS versions.
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by tspike 8y ago
I'm surprised the coyotes went so quietly.
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by tspike 8y ago
It's easy to get trivial examples of native integration working, but as soon as you try more complex things it starts to break down. Code push? Oops, your native integration in old app versions just broke. Share an existing native UI l
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by tspike 8y ago
React native excels for a single use case: rapid greenfield development with limited resources. If I were a startup that simply had to support web, Android and iOS, it would be a no brainer. Unfortunately, there is an almost religious devot
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by tspike 8y ago
React Native only minimally uses native views. Rather than standard controls, they paint generic views, which still requires custom implementations and reinventing the wheel.
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by tspike 8y ago
Can we please stop trying to Javascriptify everything? The cross-platform thing has been tried again and again and again, and always runs into the same pitfalls: poor mimicry of native standards, inefficiency, debugging difficulty because o
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by tspike 8y ago
Just a few: - As another commenter mentioned, they ignore and close legitimate issues on a regular basis - Breaking changes are a way of life and extremely frequent - They ignore native warnings: our project had zero before introducing RN,
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by tspike 8y ago
Which, of course, cascades into an even worse problem in the areas where the Bay Area people flood into. "Relatively affordable" to people coming from the Bay Area translates to "completely out of the question" for peopl
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by tspike 8y ago
Obsolete how?
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by tspike 8y ago
By making a high end small phone?
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by tspike 8y ago
It's kind of the same thing, it's just the terminology that changes. What is "sacred" if not something to be respected. I am not religious, but I consider my disconnect time sacred.
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by tspike 8y ago
I love my SE but as an iOS developer I'm ready for an upgrade. I went into this year sure I'd be upgrading to something new, but they've offered me nothing. The March and June events came and went without anything interesting
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by tspike 8y ago
Don't forget my favorite, Panic Driven Development
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by tspike 8y ago
Even the people who insist on manual reinforce this cycle because the only cars that have one are older, so they buy used and then the few manufacturers who offer manuals in new vehicles look at the numbers and say, "hmm, nobody seems
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by tspike 8y ago
More blame should be assigned for being dangerous to the person who only glances up from his phone when he sees red lights than to the engine braker.
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by tspike 8y ago
Makes sense, but if they're advertising 99.92% uptime, what does that mean if you can't trust that the status page is updated for real outages?
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by tspike 8y ago
"Smooth sailing" Edit: What's the common practice here for status pages? Shouldn't they be using external health checks to auto-update the page? Edit2: Seems to be working again for me
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by tspike 8y ago
I see you've taken it down. Also bullied?
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by tspike 8y ago
Yeah definitely felt half finished. Where are they now? Edit: here's a more complete version of the story: https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/662854

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