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by twh270 4y ago
Much better efficiency - sure, if you don't believe in ghost cities and ignore the real estate hyper-bubble (which is certain to come crashing down).
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by twh270 4y ago
I've got some developer PTSD from a previous project where the solution architect decided to use CosmosDB for the entire domain model that was very relational and very transactional, all because "NoSQL is easy to learn and allows
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by twh270 4y ago
Different people have different reward preferences. Salary is compensation, yes, but some people are motivated by other things -- public or private recognition, title bump, awards, extra benefits, etc.
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by twh270 4y ago
My experience has been that if your org doesn't intentionally do something to build rapport and relationships among remote staff, it's probably not going to happen, and consequently interaction will feel mostly transactional and c
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by twh270 4y ago
Yes. If you're going to do multi-threading, let the framework/language handle the hard parts[1]. [1] It's _all_ hard parts.
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by twh270 4y ago
According to the article, "A single comment, commit, or new issue posted to a project during a 12-month period will be sufficient to keep the project alive." Do the projects you're referring to also typically have no comments
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by twh270 4y ago
I've spun up plenty of clones and tiny projects that get attention for a few (days, weeks, months) and then get abandoned. I'd have no problem with most of them getting deleted: they've served their purpose. I'd bet ther
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by twh270 4y ago
Ownership of products (especially software) is turning into a license that allows you to use the product as long as the manufacturer allows it (i.e., under certain conditions which of course are revocable or amendable at the corporation&#x2
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by twh270 4y ago
Interestingly, I just went back and did not have that same experience. Seems that something changed.
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by twh270 4y ago
Article seems to be clickbait and, worse, after scrolling partway a popup appears demanding an email address and prevents you from reading the rest of the article. I have no patience for that kind of bullshit.
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by twh270 4y ago
There's perception, desire, and actual performance. Maybe we want to believe in certain institutions (a little) more; maybe we perceive them to be more trustworthy because of what we (think we) know about them. I agree that humans are
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by twh270 4y ago
Typing in those hex bytes didn't actually take that long. The worst part was making a data entry mistake. Later "versions" of the listings had a checksum for every line, but the earlier ones didn't. Finding where you typ
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by twh270 4y ago
I think during the lockdown phase most people worked hard to do their part, whether they liked it or not, because it was seen as temporary, and hey we're all in this together fighting a friggin' pandemic, and other reasons. And co
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by twh270 4y ago
Not sure what you mean by "- OCaml vs Kotlin: no JVM needed." as Kotlin has support for native and JavaScript compilation, and WASM via native.
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by twh270 4y ago
Has anyone worked their way through both this and Beautiful Racket? I'd love to get a comparison of your experience with both.
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by twh270 4y ago
I recommend "The Pragmatic Programmer" and "Code Complete" regularly. (2nd editions.)
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by twh270 4y ago
Another sign of a low-trust organization: lots of managers to "keep an eye on" employees.
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by twh270 4y ago
Some people don't have a strong enough work ethic to be productive when left without direct supervision, but there's hardly a more obvious and intrusive way to say "We don't trust you" than to take a screenshot ever
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by twh270 4y ago
Yeah that scene completely ruined my suspension of disbelief (which was already set to 7/10 because Top Gun is pure entertainment anyway). I guess you could theorize a 'capsule' consisting of some part of the cockpit that wou
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by twh270 4y ago
Very generally speaking: Older people acquire life experience and wisdom, which lets them make better decisions; but their decisions are typically conservative as they are invested in "the way things are today". (It's worked
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by twh270 4y ago
You had cassette tape?? Lucky... I had to write my 1's and 0's in the dirt with a stick. Damn rain.
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by twh270 4y ago
As you can probably see from the diversity of comments, this is a very subjective topic. I've seen (just in this thread) everything from "I'm fine with my 6x7" to "I'd love 3x10". Some people would find th
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by twh270 4y ago
There is no clear answer to the question of reasonableness/unreasonableness, but civil asset forfeiture as used today is *far* into unreasonable territory.
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by twh270 4y ago
That would get you banned from 95% of Reddit subs. (Kidding, mostly..)
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by twh270 4y ago
> It's like society has developed some weird way of denying people their agency when it could benefit them but hold them responsible when it is bad for them. For every task in corporate America there's a Process that defines ho
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by twh270 4y ago
I doubt it -- quote: "Not that we ever were all one nation and all on the same page." I'm curious, what do you think holds a country together?
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by twh270 4y ago
That is not a direct quote. Your semi-quote "but diversity also makes things come apart for a large secular nation like the United States" is inaccurate and extremely misleading; Haidt clearly ends the sentence at "come apart
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by twh270 4y ago
I agree fully with this. I'm currently at a small company (which has a different set of challenges), but my experience is that large employers come up with flavor-of-the-year useless metrics in an attempt to measure progress towards go
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by twh270 4y ago
I'd shorten that to "Maybe it's time to admit corporations went too far pressuring the average worker". It took me a long time to realize it, but work/life balance in the U.S. is weighted far too heavily in favor of
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by twh270 4y ago
If you want people to evaluate it on its own merits, then make those merits stand out. As it stands, your intro paragraph ("Hare is a systems programming language...") is so generic that it doesn't tell me why I might want to

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