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by yobbo 5y ago
> Just the people that have nothing to show at the end of the quarter. These positions are part of the incentive system: "if you're loyal and work hard, you might one day get a job like that." For most people, being able t
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by yobbo 5y ago
> The economy of the developed world for the last two centuries now has been built on demographic expansion It would be extremely difficult to establish this causation to some level that can be trusted. The causation is likely; economic
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by yobbo 5y ago
> Telling people they are victims of more powerful forces beyond their individual control. First, being victim of forces beyond their control is true for almost everyone. Secondly, it's probably more healthy for people to not unders
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by yobbo 5y ago
I don't think there is an understanding of why agile works, and why it is (essentially) impossible to implement in most places. One subtle, but necessary, effect of the original scrum sprint planning is that it splits accountability be
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by yobbo 5y ago
> As much as devs try to disagree, technology is not a goal in of itself Can you find one dev that has ever disagreed with this?
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by yobbo 5y ago
Tunnels are round because a round tube on the inside is stronger against compression than an equivalent square tube is. They are like vaults.
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by yobbo 5y ago
> Does this mean that the whiteboard coding interviews are flawed They are optimizing for something. It's just not what you think it is. A lot of it seems to be about the identities of the employees and the hazing ritual that initia
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by yobbo 5y ago
> Your friend’s terrible prototype is worth 100x more than your great idea No, something that exists and consumes space/resources/mindshare basically has negative value until proven otherwise. It has all sorts of misguided hang
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by yobbo 5y ago
> is still almost a rounding error in terms of usage Within the tiny set of scenarios where Rust is applicable as of now, isn't it completely dominating? It's dominating in hype and excitement for toy and pet projects. This is
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by yobbo 5y ago
This article is pointing out that interviewing/recruiting is as much dominance play for the interviewers as it is testing of candidates. Doing interviews can be considered recognition of rank inside the company. Some probably consider
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by yobbo 5y ago
> We should be able to implement services like these Implementation would be easy if we knew how to solve payments for decentralized hosting, maybe with ads as a possible business model. And the payments brokers mustn't be the centr
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by yobbo 5y ago
The lack of smell and explosiveness of hydrogen gas/air mixture is pretty terrifying. Consider an underground garage full of (possibly ageing) cars with hydrogen on board. There might be ways of storing hydrogen more safely than a pres
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by yobbo 5y ago
What would it mean to "handle a prolonged conflict with a peer enemy"? Isn't that, inevitably, going to be war-of-attrition or mutual destruction? The only way to win is to only fight weaker enemies, or be such an expensive &
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by yobbo 5y ago
Even if it's true, so what? Is it illegal in America to borrow ideas? It reads like selling the idea of an umbrella to a wet guy in the rain, and then suing him when later he refuses to pay.