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by untog 6y ago
> You look at the performance of their organization. But over what timescale? For startups especially it is not easy to evaluate a job that involves long term planning in the short term.
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by untog 6y ago
At the most basic level leadership is at a premium because there are fewer truly good leaders than there are developers. Now, is every well paid CEO a truly good leader? No. But I’d argue it’s a lot more difficult to assess a good leader th
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by untog 6y ago
Open source projects are full of smart people who want to contribute and are still often organisational clusterfucks. Unfortunately being smart and passionate alone doesn’t necessarily make you an effective leader.
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by untog 6y ago
What is the acceptable salary for the CEO of a non-profit?
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by untog 6y ago
I don’t really understand “influence over your work” here. I agree that there’s a possibility MS will add some kind of monetisation I don’t like in the future... at which point I’ll switch editors. But as it is, I’m much faster and efficien
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by untog 6y ago
That’s surprising, in that situation my VS Code tells me that it’s turned off syntax highlighting because the file is too large.
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by untog 6y ago
> You don't have a right not to be offended. A right? No. But you also don’t have a right to offend coworkers. I guess some companies consider not being offended to be a perk of employment with them. The free market can decide: if p
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by untog 6y ago
Sure. OPs comment was not specific to SF Gate.
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by untog 6y ago
> People need to grow the fuck up and stop getting so butt hurt over stupid little words And yet here you are, emotionally reacting to the words people choose to use! OK, you don’t see the offence. Fair enough. Are you the descendent of
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by untog 6y ago
Ad blockers don’t work by inspecting the source code of YouTube’s JS and modifying it. Instead they inspect the network requests being sent, cookies being stored, elements being created and with which styles, and so on. WebAssembly changes
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by untog 6y ago
We already have black box DRM binaries in browsers. That battle is lost. WebAssembly is not another Flash. It might allow someone to create something that resembles Flash, but WebAssembly itself is not. You might as well criticise C because
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by untog 6y ago
I remember when mapping sites worked that way: image in the middle. Want to move it to the right? Click the right arrow button and the page will reload with the map shifted a little. Compared to Google Maps it was the Stone Age. I get it, a
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by untog 6y ago
Some context beyond the Justice Department memo is probably useful: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/doj-designates-new-yor... https://nypost.com/2020/09/21/nyc-branded-an-anarc
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by untog 6y ago
Depends why you love Ruby. If you love it because you adore programming languages with red logos then yes, bad choice. But if you love it because it lets you work quickly and performs well then that is a reason to pick it. Not to mention, i
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by untog 6y ago
But once you reach that level of scale you have (or should have!) the resources to redevelop services that are holding you back. Not choosing Rails because you intend some day to get to Twitter scale smells of premature optimisation. (Twitt
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by untog 6y ago
“quarrycock.com” Well, time to start a new pitch deck I guess
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by untog 6y ago
As someone who was around at the time, it was absolutely because Chrome was a faster and better browser. If I recall Gmail was still in private beta then and Android hadn’t made a big mark yet.
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by untog 6y ago
One big thing would be Apple actually allowing full third party browsers on iOS. But no sign of that, 13 years into the platform.
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by untog 6y ago
That’s a pretty big “if”. I could apply the same logic to anyone that releases a closed beta of their software. “If they were to release the production version to a closed audience...”
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by untog 6y ago
> I remember when IE6 was the most common browser, it was hard to find a site that wasn't viewable in any other browser Man, we have different memories. Mine are of a sea of “best experienced with IE6 and 800x600” messages on sites
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by untog 6y ago
So everyone living in California is, absent of any evidence, automatically assumed to be a political enemy of the Trump administration? IMO this is one of the most damaging effects of the electoral college. There are plenty of Republicans i
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by untog 6y ago
More importantly, who do you ask “what is SWE” to?
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by untog 6y ago
The fact that you have to go back nearly 100 years to come up with an example kind of proves my point.
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by untog 6y ago
In this situation in 2020, I agree, they would. In 2016? I don’t see the reasoning that they would have. The reality of the situation is that in the US one party constantly pushes boundaries and test limits. The other party then adjusts to
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by untog 6y ago
> So there may be an opportunity to adapt and perhaps we'll have Pret a Manger vans driving around in residential areas I actually love this idea but I question whether Pret will be the people to do it. They're set up all wrong
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by untog 6y ago
> YouTube recommendations can be delightful, but they can also be dangerous. The platform has a history of recommending harmful content — from pandemic conspiracies to political disinformation — to its users, even if they’ve previously v
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by untog 6y ago
The difference (as I see it) is that taxes are paid relative to how much you earn/are worth, while road tolls are the same for all. Everyone (outside of major metro areas where you can use public transit) needs roads, and driving to wo
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by untog 6y ago
> they're looking for banning content they disagree with (i.e. censorship). That's an extremely unfair read of the situation. The extension doesn't even ban anything. It is a research project attempting to understand why t
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by untog 6y ago
It's normal, yes, but is it preferable for the buyer? I'd see it as a potential reason not to buy.
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by untog 6y ago
If Apple believe they can make a competitive product to Peloton (and I imagine they do) then the additional staff and offices aren't necessarily a good thing. To put it another way: why should Apple buy Peloton? Apple itself is alrea

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