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s2g··on A Case Study in Not Being a Jerk in Open Source
I'm not sure why you think that skilled people who won't walk away and go devote their time to a project where they don't have to put up with an asshole boss and his army of apologists.
s2g··on A Case Study in Not Being a Jerk in Open Source
> These changes look OK, but I'm not sure about the rationale.

That's a weaker statement to me.

"The changes look OK, but I strongly disagree with the rationale" sounds better.

s2g··on A Case Study in Not Being a Jerk in Open Source
> Linus seems like a jerk

Linus is a jerk and he gets away with it entirely because apologists like you make excuses for him at every turn.

He's a dictator. he can say no and leave it at that. He can say no and explain. Acting like a jerk is not a necessary part of this process.

s2g··on States Can Require Internet Tax Collection, Supreme Court Rules
How many mom and pop stores go through the hassle of maintaining their own software for this vs just paying someone else to handle it, who can do so trivially?
s2g··on States Can Require Internet Tax Collection, Supreme Court Rules
> and who act knowing you are powerless to object

I still have the power, mostly, to just not buy from other states.

s2g··on Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Contract
Then we don't punish the supposedly moral beings in charge.

It's a great way to allow the evil to rule society.

s2g··on Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Contract
> Al least, in our democracies, you can decide the government with your vote.

and depending on hwere you are, you get bonus points added!

The "all government is evil" idea sounds ridiculous to me. Governments can be evil. Perhaps by their nature they will almost always do some evil. But evil in general, nah.

s2g··on The software engineer’s guide to asserting dominance in the workplace
Get the browns.

Don't listen to anyone here who tells you no. Get yourself the browns. They really aren't that loud.

also consider o-rings.

s2g··on The software engineer’s guide to asserting dominance in the workplace
or long distance runners.

Not people who do a 5k once a week as part of working out, or run a couple miles.

The people who obsess about it. Everything is about running.

s2g··on Fewer Births Than Deaths Among Whites in Majority of U.S. States
Does Trump inspire people to have kids?
s2g··on New US Tariffs are Anti-Maker and Will Encourage Offshoring
> Why would that trust be necessary? It very clearly isn't.

Okay, why should North Korea cooperate with Trump?

Why should Iran?

He says one thing then turns around and does another. How do you come to an agreement with that sort of person on anything?

It's not about having good or bad policies. It's about being able to do any sort of good faith negotiation.

s2g··on New US Tariffs are Anti-Maker and Will Encourage Offshoring
> you tariff me, I tariff you

Really, cause they described Trudeau as stabbing them in the back and said there is a special place in hell for people like him. He said Canada would respond with tariffs after Trump put in tariffs.

s2g··on New US Tariffs are Anti-Maker and Will Encourage Offshoring
> Smoot Hawley Act anyone

generally regarded as making the depression worse.

I don't think I've ever seen someone defend that.

s2g··on New US Tariffs are Anti-Maker and Will Encourage Offshoring
and yet the other response is exactly what that post described.

If people are discussing in good faith, why aren't they willing to do it on an account that matters to them?

s2g··on New US Tariffs are Anti-Maker and Will Encourage Offshoring
> tell me there isn't a large Chinese presence.

What does this have to do with anything?

Could do doesn't mean are doing.

s2g··on Netflix Is Why AT&T bought Time Warner, and Comcast and Disney want Fox
Fire TV does that.
s2g··on Netflix Is Why AT&T bought Time Warner, and Comcast and Disney want Fox
I won't pay for Star Trek Discovery because it's on CBS all access. It's just not worth it.

Amazon/Netflix/Hulu/HBO are worth it. thats what, about 50 a month? not bad. Even so I still end up on youtube a lot of the time.

s2g··on Wealth of millionaires surges 10.6% to top $70 trillion for the first time
The "market" inevitably leads to conglomeration and monopolization.

It's the natural state for the bigger entities to devour the smaller weaker ones and grow.

s2g··on Wealth of millionaires surges 10.6% to top $70 trillion for the first time
> Democracy seems to be working out decently well

Doesn't seem to be working particularly well in the US.

s2g··on Wealth of millionaires surges 10.6% to top $70 trillion for the first time
> Instead we get the opposite.

because young people have less money, less opportunity to get money, and the expensive things are far more expensive.

s2g··on Elon Musk emails employees about 'extensive and damaging sabotage' by employee
Warming up the excuses. /s

I wonder if any of these changes made it into production automobiles.

Hurray for OTA updates to safety critical systems. Go Silicon Valley, disrupting lives everywhere!

s2g··on [dead]
> But why weren't people who are supposedly watching this quite before trump. It really boggles my mind

Because Trump is upping the level of cruelty and rhetoric.

s2g··on [dead]
> Why? ICE doesn’t deport legal immigrants.

They have detained citizens. What the hell makes you think they give 2 shits if someone is here legally or not?

s2g··on [dead]
It's not racist at all, it's the reality of the situation.

I don't worry about it that much. I'm much more worried that would end up arrested and held without trial for however long ice feels like it only to be deported. The deported part is not that big a deal, since I'm from Canada.

The idea that any small fuckup on my part could turn into months of hell because the US federal government doesn't really consider me a person, that scares me.

s2g··on Just How Much Money Do “Influencers” Make?
> I believe that understanding this makes us less jealous of people who seem "undeserving," and also helps us make better decisions in our own careers.

oh no, now I'm just jealous they were able to convince people of the value of their vapid bullshit.

s2g··on Just How Much Money Do “Influencers” Make?
> It used to piss me off a little bit, given how hard I have had to work to get to this stage

ha, as if the vast majority will ever make close to 800k a year.

s2g··on Fatalities vs. False Positives: The Lessons from the Tesla and Uber Crashes
Or we could not let companies murder people with shitty half baked hardware and software combinations.
s2g··on Bird is the fastest startup ever to reach a $1B valuation
What much more sane version of reality do you live in?
s2g··on The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study (2009)
moving backt o high level IC isn't usually considered the same way. You just move the person to work on something else as IC, and they say it was their choice because they like being a Principal engineer better.
s2g··on U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes, Ramesh Balwani
Oh good. Glad the investigation finally got some charges.
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