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Jeez, at what age was this true for you? Before puberty, surely. I think folks are mythologizing their past a tad bit here.

Bingo. The fact they all felt compelled to sign this could just as easily be a sign the board made the right decision, as the opposite.

The world needs more people like Jonathan David Mott.

They could … share email addresses.

Really good to hear that since I only saw them once and it was near the end, despite driving a car with a sonic youth bumper sticker for fifteen years. Thanks for the link!

It sounds like in the past you’ve used pandas/python for this. Any opinions on the best option for pivoting with those tools?

true. and it used to be spread() and gather() and those were bad

Should be illegal.

I like R’s implementation in dplyr, which is pivot_longer and pivot_wider. I’d really like to see those in Postgres.

I haven’t been in a cubicle since 2008 with a job I left, and yes this skews my perspective.

The office is the real environment. When working from home, people are more isolated and heavily restricted by silos and tracking systems. That’s the false environment. Compare talking to a friend in person to texting them from miles away.

Wtf

Of the reasons he says engineers want to rewrite the code, he says: badly organized code, slow processing time, and ugly code.

Maybe I’m not an engineer, because I bet perfectly pretty fast code is an indicator you should reorganize it to make it easier to adapt, add more capabilities even if it runs slow, and put some ugly fixes in there so it’s useful for the end user.

Agreed that wanting to over-engineer and perfect something that should be constantly evolving is not a good reason to rewrite it. That sounds like back office bubble pretend-work.

I’m guessing you haven’t worked for many companies.

Also like Walmart when they open a store next to a competitor and temporarily drop their price. Or any company with capital ever in existence.

Do you really want to work for a company that reviews resumes with AI? I mean many may not have a choice, but if you do - hard pass.

I’m not convinced anyone interacting on SO can diagnose something like this. The act of breaking down a problem to a tiny part so you can post it kinda guarantees this scenario.

But I think it will always be up to the user of SO (not the poster or answerers) to make the real judgement on what is useful.

Often I think SO is useful to use as a bunch of puzzles folks solved. You gotta decide if they are relevant.

We lose this when everything is recorded forever.

Stated more eloquently: https://twitter.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1681340407857422336...:

“I need to say this, even if it does not make sense until decades ahead:

Human intelligence and a foundation of consciousness is just as much the ability to forget somethings as it is to remember.

We will have to face eternal memories with AI technologies and this will be hard.”

I’d replace AI with just IT in general. Relatedly, I used to believe in digital rot but now I’m not sure. I can for example search all the photos on my phone instantly to return images with a given text string. So the technology is improving to comprehend any data format and effectively retain its data.

What if there was a highly paid and trained governmental entity that did surprise on-premise inspections for claimed and/or legally required data privacy standards.

Have ten of them do it independently and then they rank everyone else’s work.

Also, note the word “should”.

They have enough highly paid engineers they should be able to write an entirely new authorization system in binary in ten minutes.

Yea. Owners can say no if and only they really are the owners. Being privately owned does not ensure good stewardship but it allows it. Case and point will be Reddit once it goes public. Every single person in tech should take a corporate law class and it should be required in undergrad.

In the US, but I find that to be a great point. I only see this mentioned in the context of environmentalism (city dwellers use less resources). But yes! They use less city resources too.

I’m not following all that. Someone made an offer, the board legally had to sell as it was in the interest of the owners (the shareholders). What else matters? If it’s deemed to be in the interest of shareholders for Reddit to sell off every sub to a corporate, they’ll do that too.

It can be for-profit but it can’t be publicly traded. The reason we lost Twitter is because they legally had to sell to Elon. The reason we’ll lose Reddit is because they are going public and will legally be required to chase the money.

Twitter and Reddit used to be open platforms, and were not thought of as centralized. Which is an ongoing massive rug pull.

This reads like someone’s boss drunkenly told the author to “just tell them no human eyes will read it, har har.” The author then just phoned it in.

Once again, I have an idea I think is brilliant and someone else (many someones) already did it. I blame AI. Is AI outsourcing the AI work to AI, or have we not got there yet? ~AI

Now: yes. 10 years go: no.

I think data harvesting for AI is the real reason Twitter and Reddit want to limit access. Even I was thinking how easy it would be to mine both sites. It sucks because that’s the end of the (quasi) open web.