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by xwkd 8y ago
Take a look at the lumber market. The cost of building materials has been shooting up for the past 10 years. I believe houses are getting more expensive because returns on new builds come with much higher risk. It’s cheaper to recycle the
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by xwkd 10y ago
I believe this is the correct approach. You're not hiding the complexity of the work, and you're also not compromising on quality. This leaves only the task of saying "no" when asked if you, "for now, could just..
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by xwkd 10y ago
They may have been referring to something like this: http://cepa.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/ednext20064_68....
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by xwkd 10y ago
"Electronics brands you used to be able to trust" only had that trust from historical establishment. I would argue that there are still brands that are trustworthy. They're just different brands. In 20 years we'll be
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by xwkd 11y ago
Funny. Faith in institutions created a great society. People worked together for the common good. Then, the corruption and abuses of power in those institutions left that society disillusioned; uncommitted. Everyone became disengaged an
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by xwkd 11y ago
Making a political donation toward a popular opinion (7 million people agreed with Eich) means that you are socially reprehensible? I disagree with him, but I would not let a dissenting opinion on a single controversial political subject le
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by xwkd 11y ago
The response is the same as we've heard before: If you're going to engage in an act of civil disobedience, you're throwing yourself at the mercy of the justice system. When in recent years so many programmers have had exampl
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by xwkd 11y ago
I agree with your first point. Pre-processors, especially in the CSS realm, are so intuitive that there should be negligible training overhead. I believe they should be used past a certain threshold. I disagree with your second point, how
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by xwkd 11y ago
> I don't feel Agile works from the top-down but rather organically from the bottom-up. I believe that is the crux of the issue. Larger organizations, and especially those that view IT as a cost center, do not feel comfortable givi