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by ziggus 5y ago
Bureaucracies often impose arbitrary measures of success on teams and employees that often have nothing at all to do with merit or productivity or any other measure that a reasonable person would use, and reduce or increase staffing levels
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by ziggus 5y ago
"Professional employees whose work is merit-based don't need labor unions." You're living in a dream world, Neo.
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by ziggus 5y ago
You're missing the point almost entirely. Yes, they're abiding by a weird set of made-up rules, but a set of rules that they've agreed upon as a community in order to preserve a specific set of moral and philosophical imperat
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by ziggus 5y ago
"...it isn't legal to maliciously add an infinite-loop to a library that you know is used by other companies" Um, what?
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by ziggus 5y ago
Yeah, it's only applicable to processes that are repeatable and have some amount of measurability - hence the natural application to manufacturing. I'm not surprised that managers in non-manufacturing/technical areas picked u
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by ziggus 5y ago
This is basically the PDCA cycle ( https://asq.org/quality-resources/pdca-cycle ) that Edward S. Deming wrote about, based on Shewhart's work. Lots and lots of material out there about this type of process in indust
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by ziggus 5y ago
Shouldn't the calculation of the 'value' of the average employee be the annual profit divided by the number of employees, not revenue?
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by ziggus 5y ago
Not sure how out-of-date this one might be: https://roguesharp.wordpress.com/
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by ziggus 5y ago
What do you imagine these experts would do? Rebuild the servers from raw materials each month, and hand-code all software in ASM weekly? In the real world, once most hosting platforms are up and running, the maintenance overhead is pretty l
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by ziggus 5y ago
Yeah, I had to dredge my memory for what an AST is - ran into it ages ago on a compiler design project, but I could see how it works in a text manipulation context as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_syntax_
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by ziggus 5y ago
Agreed. Probably the best recipe app around, just for the built-in browser that lets you grab any recipe from a site. I think I've run into one instance of a site that it couldn't scrape, out of hundreds.
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by ziggus 5y ago
I think you're wildly overestimating the influence of the minority within HN (or other similar communities) that actually care enough to switch to another search engine. This reminds me of the Linux gamers who claim that they can influ
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by ziggus 5y ago
Uh, if you read a bit about Leandro, you'll learn that he's a senior engineer at Grupo Globo in Brazil. I'll leave it to you to discover more about Globo.
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by ziggus 5y ago
This seems like a publicity stunt. Any employee in a C-level position isn't going to be managing front-line processes, and getting down to that level of detail betrays a mistrust of your management teams and/or a failure of proces
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by ziggus 5y ago
Aside from the whole "Why are terminals over WebRTC a thing!?" arguments, I have a minor nitpick: give some indication that the 'viewing' terminal is read-only. If I have a dozen terminals open, some of which are 'm
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by ziggus 5y ago
This is the same kind of organizational naivete displayed by armchair middle-manager wannabes that think stack ranking is a great idea too. Once you start trying to codify potential or current employees into buckets delineated by simplistic
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by ziggus 5y ago
I've found that most traditional developers have a rough time with SQL, because they're trying to use it like a procedural language, which it isn't - it's relational algebra/calculus based. Cornell has a good explan
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by ziggus 5y ago
This is a cool project! One question: why just dark themes?
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by ziggus 5y ago
I'll inform the news media immediately.
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by ziggus 5y ago
On the other hand... https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ab.21978
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by ziggus 5y ago
Wow, that is very cool! Well done!
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by ziggus 5y ago
None of those studies demonstrate a causal link between the rise of internet pornography and the statistical drop in sexual assaults - simply that there appears to be a correlation.
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by ziggus 5y ago
I love Bisqwit's stuff - he has such a pure love for code and technology, that I always come away from his videos or articles with a renewed vigor for coding. Thanks for your part in making the world's knowledge just a bit bigger.
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by ziggus 5y ago
"There is a core architectural difference between Unix and Windows. Linux is a file-oriented OS and Windows is an API-oriented OS... The interesting thing is that the Windows approach is winning in the world and that makes PowerShell t
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by ziggus 5y ago
Nope. Psychometrics is one step away from horoscopes and E-meter readings. Back to the 19th century where you belong!
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by ziggus 5y ago
Then say 'gatekeeping', and not 'walled'. The two mean different things.
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by ziggus 5y ago
What's your retirement plan?
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by ziggus 5y ago
Well, considering that Scrum Master certification can be done in a day, I'm not sure I'd be crowing about it.
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by ziggus 5y ago
Wait, are you saying that you started a company without a clear idea of what your product is, and if a market exists for it? Is that common in the software start-up world? If so, I can see how you'd need Agile processes, just to keep y
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by ziggus 5y ago
Based on the title I thought this was going to be about simulated organisms, but no, it's real organisms designed by an AI. This is simultaneously really cool and supremely creepy.

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