Recommendations and referrals strike me as one of the ways that groups with an unintentional diversity problem end up persisting it. The composition of the group gets carried forward as people vouch for each other. The…
> Are we expected to be available 24/7/365 to act on Google's unforeseeable impulses? Almost all software nowadays involves some back-end with 24/7/365 availability, which means that unplanned outages can occur at any…
> Pi comes from logic, not nature. What if logic is different in different universes? Logic is universal... but is it multiversal?
> Why is the startup trying to be a consulting company? This doesn’t sound like the story of any visionary startup I know of. Why does a successful software business need to be a "visionary startup"? Taking on…
It's not really a WTF. In any disagreement about intellectual property, where some part of Amazon is working on a game and it happens to conflict with some other employee's personal project, Amazon wants all the…
> ...not eat and litter during the show. Historically in US movie theaters, there's so much popcorn grease and spilled soda on the floor that your shoes actually get stuck to it while you're watching the movie. EDIT:…
Moreover I don't see how free a society would be if cryptocurrencies became widely accepted and early adopters began to pass cryptocurrency inheritances from one generation to another. The descendants of the early…
When you want to do something simple but you have to bring the entire philosophy of CSS into consideration to figure out what the right way to do it is.
As a meta-point, I'm kinda surprised how attitudes among programmers have reversed in the last 20 years, from phoning home being suspicious under any circumstances, to telemetry being indispensable. I suspect the two…
The tone of the post from the Musescore developer at [0] is so bizarre I wonder if the people who manage the company's policies and communications even know about it.
Along those lines, this was an interesting statement: "You should learn how to use these commands, but they shouldn't be a regular part of your prod workflows. That will lead to a flaky system." It seems like there's…
> What would make someone think that this applies to Audacity, the program, and not Audacity, the website? Because the first full sentence of the policy at https://www.audacityteam.org/about/desktop-privacy-notice/…
I think it was a reasonable point. Inter-generational wealth transfer is very durable over time. Whether or not someone inherits "house money" (and can plan their lifestyle and tolerance for risk according to that…
I suspect the Great Filter is that sufficiently intelligent life has no interest in expansion, and doesn't communicate at all.
An approach that combined "no code reviews" with "continuous deployment" would be similar to coding on the production server, but with a better audit trail and consistent deployment across machines.
> If we're moving past pure reason into useful tools and tricks to diminish people's standing... Without getting into the "cancel culture" aspect (which seems like a red herring), in order to even get to a point where…
Why does it seem like C++ is constantly replacing its subtle hazards with even more subtle hazards? It's like they never go away, they just turn into something more obscure.
> What about the self-censorship of our neo-cortex telling us not to insult other people? Is that bad too? Sometimes it's bad. Insults are an occasionally useful tool, and can be wielded to diminish the standing of…
> Amazon’s decisions seem hard to explain. We should let it remain a mystery This gets back to what I disagree with. If Amazon's decisions seem hard to explain, the decisions should be brought to the public's attention…
> The report would be a lot more useful if there were some context for this data. I disagree with this, or at least the implication that there should have been more information gathered before publication. If the data…
I mean map which companies use this SME acronym and which don't, similar to how "soda", "pop", and "coke" map to different regions of the USA.
Same here, 25 years writing software, never heard it, even working in the Bay Area. I got a pretty large number of upvotes on the three-word post above so I think the term is common in some circles, unheard of in…
What's an SME?
Anyone can make a mistake. I think it speaks to their professionalism that they test with straightforward content in the email instead of having "underpants gnome alert" or a bunch of swear words in there. We just got a…
Because if Tether is defying gravity now, there's no way to be sure it won't defy gravity even harder before it collapses. With a short, you can't just be right in the end, you have to find a way to not blow up if…
Recommendations and referrals strike me as one of the ways that groups with an unintentional diversity problem end up persisting it. The composition of the group gets carried forward as people vouch for each other. The…
> Are we expected to be available 24/7/365 to act on Google's unforeseeable impulses? Almost all software nowadays involves some back-end with 24/7/365 availability, which means that unplanned outages can occur at any…
> Pi comes from logic, not nature. What if logic is different in different universes? Logic is universal... but is it multiversal?
> Why is the startup trying to be a consulting company? This doesn’t sound like the story of any visionary startup I know of. Why does a successful software business need to be a "visionary startup"? Taking on…
It's not really a WTF. In any disagreement about intellectual property, where some part of Amazon is working on a game and it happens to conflict with some other employee's personal project, Amazon wants all the…
> ...not eat and litter during the show. Historically in US movie theaters, there's so much popcorn grease and spilled soda on the floor that your shoes actually get stuck to it while you're watching the movie. EDIT:…
Moreover I don't see how free a society would be if cryptocurrencies became widely accepted and early adopters began to pass cryptocurrency inheritances from one generation to another. The descendants of the early…
When you want to do something simple but you have to bring the entire philosophy of CSS into consideration to figure out what the right way to do it is.
As a meta-point, I'm kinda surprised how attitudes among programmers have reversed in the last 20 years, from phoning home being suspicious under any circumstances, to telemetry being indispensable. I suspect the two…
The tone of the post from the Musescore developer at [0] is so bizarre I wonder if the people who manage the company's policies and communications even know about it.
Along those lines, this was an interesting statement: "You should learn how to use these commands, but they shouldn't be a regular part of your prod workflows. That will lead to a flaky system." It seems like there's…
> What would make someone think that this applies to Audacity, the program, and not Audacity, the website? Because the first full sentence of the policy at https://www.audacityteam.org/about/desktop-privacy-notice/…
I think it was a reasonable point. Inter-generational wealth transfer is very durable over time. Whether or not someone inherits "house money" (and can plan their lifestyle and tolerance for risk according to that…
I suspect the Great Filter is that sufficiently intelligent life has no interest in expansion, and doesn't communicate at all.
An approach that combined "no code reviews" with "continuous deployment" would be similar to coding on the production server, but with a better audit trail and consistent deployment across machines.
> If we're moving past pure reason into useful tools and tricks to diminish people's standing... Without getting into the "cancel culture" aspect (which seems like a red herring), in order to even get to a point where…
Why does it seem like C++ is constantly replacing its subtle hazards with even more subtle hazards? It's like they never go away, they just turn into something more obscure.
> What about the self-censorship of our neo-cortex telling us not to insult other people? Is that bad too? Sometimes it's bad. Insults are an occasionally useful tool, and can be wielded to diminish the standing of…
> Amazon’s decisions seem hard to explain. We should let it remain a mystery This gets back to what I disagree with. If Amazon's decisions seem hard to explain, the decisions should be brought to the public's attention…
> The report would be a lot more useful if there were some context for this data. I disagree with this, or at least the implication that there should have been more information gathered before publication. If the data…
I mean map which companies use this SME acronym and which don't, similar to how "soda", "pop", and "coke" map to different regions of the USA.
Same here, 25 years writing software, never heard it, even working in the Bay Area. I got a pretty large number of upvotes on the three-word post above so I think the term is common in some circles, unheard of in…
What's an SME?
Anyone can make a mistake. I think it speaks to their professionalism that they test with straightforward content in the email instead of having "underpants gnome alert" or a bunch of swear words in there. We just got a…
Because if Tether is defying gravity now, there's no way to be sure it won't defy gravity even harder before it collapses. With a short, you can't just be right in the end, you have to find a way to not blow up if…