Redundancy is easy to misclassify as waste, particularly for someone who has incentives to find more ‘waste’ they can cut and claim credit for.
There are a lot of group chats I'm not in because I'm not on messenger.
Then there’s perl, which doesn’t free at all.
None of which were made by accountants. They were instead made by engineers who have experience and training in dealing with complex software systems.
Native apps are where power users and other non-developers can do programming. The type of things that an engineer who lives in the terminal might make a CLI or TUI for, an accountant or project manager might want to do…
People will often write about something that worked for them, and from that pull out abstractions they believe are generalised and universal. They rarely are. Organisational patterns that work for startups rapidly…
I think the observed feminisation isn't a causal factor, but instead shares a causal factor - that every space must now accept everyone. This causes a few problems. 0. One of the ideas that has tagged along with…
You mentioned restrictions around sending money, but not restrictions on receiving money. If you put obligations on the banks receiving payments to refund scam victims, those banks will have incentive to stop people…
It wasn't just storage. In the 90s, most servers were single core. Databases already had network interfaces so they could be shared by non-web applications running on desktops, and so were the natural place to split a…
They perform elaborate cleansing rituals on any item brought into the crystal-writing room. When they enter, they wear special clothing, lest the impurities of the outside world taint the crystals.
This is also the reason perl was used before python began to dominate. It was installed everywhere before python was installed everywhere.
You need a way to assign technical debt to a process or practice, then you can evaluate the cost of that process over time. Could be something like... Our team spent 500 hours fixing bugs introduced during overtime, and…
You don't need a monopoly, you need competition. Renewables sell into the same energy market as fossil fuels, and get paid the same price. So you end up with low cost renewables making higher profits than high cost…
Being capable of spending millions on lawyers doesn't mean a rich company wants to spend millions on lawyers. In many (if not most) cases, loosing at a fair arbitration would be cheaper for the company than winning in…
A corporation is an organisation. It has internal processes, both documented/formal, and undocumented/informal - 'the way we do things here'. There are teams and departments, and relationships between them. There are…
IMO, it should be the bank that receives the money that should have to pay. Banks (even small ones) need to know their own customers, and they take on the risk of not knowing them well enough. They can impose…
The third value on that list is efficiency. Is staying at the Ritz-Carlton an efficient use of company resources?
There's the 'arrested' part and the 'taxes' part. There are limitations on the power we give the government to arrest people and to collect taxes. But the limitations are only there because of the freedom we loose in…
Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule
You can go further than that. Monitor every plant's lifecycle and yield, and save the best for seed. How many generations before you get superwheat? You could even have multiple strains for the varying soil conditions…
One way I've found fiction books that I wouldn't have otherwise read is to find High School curricula and go through the required/authorised/recommended books. Neighbouring school districts, other states, and even other…
The infrastructure those companies have built already exists, and the subsidies are mostly going to pay debt. If the subsidies stopped, the companies would go bankrupt. Their assets would be sold to another company,…
Victoria in Australia has recently passed laws making wage theft a criminal offence: https://www.premier.vic.gov.au/wage-theft-legislation-passes...
I don't know heaps about it, but for the terminology try adaptive optics and laser guide star.
Our taxes work the same way, but HECS repayments don't work the same way as tax. When you hit the threshold, you pay the percentage on your entire income, not just the income over the threshold. There are also multiple…
Redundancy is easy to misclassify as waste, particularly for someone who has incentives to find more ‘waste’ they can cut and claim credit for.
There are a lot of group chats I'm not in because I'm not on messenger.
Then there’s perl, which doesn’t free at all.
None of which were made by accountants. They were instead made by engineers who have experience and training in dealing with complex software systems.
Native apps are where power users and other non-developers can do programming. The type of things that an engineer who lives in the terminal might make a CLI or TUI for, an accountant or project manager might want to do…
People will often write about something that worked for them, and from that pull out abstractions they believe are generalised and universal. They rarely are. Organisational patterns that work for startups rapidly…
I think the observed feminisation isn't a causal factor, but instead shares a causal factor - that every space must now accept everyone. This causes a few problems. 0. One of the ideas that has tagged along with…
You mentioned restrictions around sending money, but not restrictions on receiving money. If you put obligations on the banks receiving payments to refund scam victims, those banks will have incentive to stop people…
It wasn't just storage. In the 90s, most servers were single core. Databases already had network interfaces so they could be shared by non-web applications running on desktops, and so were the natural place to split a…
They perform elaborate cleansing rituals on any item brought into the crystal-writing room. When they enter, they wear special clothing, lest the impurities of the outside world taint the crystals.
This is also the reason perl was used before python began to dominate. It was installed everywhere before python was installed everywhere.
You need a way to assign technical debt to a process or practice, then you can evaluate the cost of that process over time. Could be something like... Our team spent 500 hours fixing bugs introduced during overtime, and…
You don't need a monopoly, you need competition. Renewables sell into the same energy market as fossil fuels, and get paid the same price. So you end up with low cost renewables making higher profits than high cost…
Being capable of spending millions on lawyers doesn't mean a rich company wants to spend millions on lawyers. In many (if not most) cases, loosing at a fair arbitration would be cheaper for the company than winning in…
A corporation is an organisation. It has internal processes, both documented/formal, and undocumented/informal - 'the way we do things here'. There are teams and departments, and relationships between them. There are…
IMO, it should be the bank that receives the money that should have to pay. Banks (even small ones) need to know their own customers, and they take on the risk of not knowing them well enough. They can impose…
The third value on that list is efficiency. Is staying at the Ritz-Carlton an efficient use of company resources?
There's the 'arrested' part and the 'taxes' part. There are limitations on the power we give the government to arrest people and to collect taxes. But the limitations are only there because of the freedom we loose in…
Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule
You can go further than that. Monitor every plant's lifecycle and yield, and save the best for seed. How many generations before you get superwheat? You could even have multiple strains for the varying soil conditions…
One way I've found fiction books that I wouldn't have otherwise read is to find High School curricula and go through the required/authorised/recommended books. Neighbouring school districts, other states, and even other…
The infrastructure those companies have built already exists, and the subsidies are mostly going to pay debt. If the subsidies stopped, the companies would go bankrupt. Their assets would be sold to another company,…
Victoria in Australia has recently passed laws making wage theft a criminal offence: https://www.premier.vic.gov.au/wage-theft-legislation-passes...
I don't know heaps about it, but for the terminology try adaptive optics and laser guide star.
Our taxes work the same way, but HECS repayments don't work the same way as tax. When you hit the threshold, you pay the percentage on your entire income, not just the income over the threshold. There are also multiple…