scaryspooky

Building codes themselves are driven by industry and manufacturers. This has been a huge driver for the increase in size of house, compare a 1960s era bathroom against modern code and you will find the increase in minimum sizes dramatic.

> 2. Tests: "With increasing complexity your codebase will become much harder to maintain and control — tests will do it for you." Good intentions here but be careful. Tests can cause people not wanting to refactor/fix because now they have to fix the structure of the tests. Refactor means more than changing the implementation of functions.

Isn't the entire point of tests that you can refactor the code under test without changing the tests themselves? Otherwise how do you ensure that you have not introduced bugs in the code by doing your refactor because you've changed the thing that tested the code in the first place.

A refactor of the tests should be done independently of the code under test.

Public employees are paid via taxes, so yes they do 'fund' public pensions.

Poster you're replying to said 'new HQ' indicating their comment was about the place Amazon is shopping to build, not their current Seattle HQ.

That's not true at all. I've rarely been turned down after an interview.

Have you tried just closing his door for him?

I did math, graduated at the dotcom bust where all the jobs were actuarial (not my interest). Went back to school for EE, and I've found there are more jobs, more interesting jobs, and better pay writing software than being an EE.

This is what bothered me about the whole Net Neutrality debate -- you had to be 100% in the camp of the Democratic party or you were wrong completely. Here we see why there are shades of grey for party affiliation.

I've always wondered who the magical developers are that did the greenfield development of every project I've been on-boarded to. I never seem to get ahead of the maintenance grind to the point of being one of those creating the mess instead of wading through the mess.

Or you delete Cortana and completely break all of that bullshit. Though it has made it so a Windows 10 update will no longer apply, which is a frustrating side effect but one I am willing to live with.

If you have the cash to be able to buy the house outright why would you default in the first place? Otherwise, after a default (which likely includes bankruptcy) you will be unable to get credit.

I've often thought that JIRA workflows are Turing complete, I was hoping your list would have evidence.

Your employees will rarely show up if they don't get paid and if they do they won't stick around for long. If you run a business and face a cash flow dilemma the easiest thing to not pay is yourself.

I never said Linux is crap, do not put those words in my mouth.

I said the Linux desktop experience has not been good to me, with any of the hardware (even the stuff I picked specifically for good support) with very popular hardware. I still use Linux as my desktop OS, and really would love to ditch Windows 10 permanently but don't feel like I can without a lot of frustration. The same as it has been for the past 20 years for me.

If these were issues I've only encountered on the Apple hardware I would agree. I've encountered issues like these on every computer I've put Linux on, which is every computer I've built or bought since 1996.

I currently run a Linux desktop (Ubuntu 17.10) on Apple hardware. The list of problems:

The camera fails to work consistently (the driver does not always load)

Audio fails to work consistently (restarting pulse fixes this)

Closing the laptop lid initially sleeps, but then the laptop wakes up a few minutes later for no reason (so I wrote a script to disable all the events that can wake the laptop up, but this in turn causes it to not wake up at all sometimes when I actually want it to)

kde plasmashell will crash if I try to use ffplay, and doesn't reliably recover so I end up needing to restart my session which loses any work I hadn't saved since I can't switch windows

These are all problems I have never experienced with my Windows laptop, nor macOS.

Anecdotes obviously, but I've been trying to go only Linux for the past decade and never felt like I could reliably do so.

There are plenty of jobs that don't require Google on the resume.

It's slightly above zero but a race toward zero.

Not taking a stance, but this exchange seems kind of suspect:

braindongle 43 minutes ago [-]

Seriously. "the consequences of high minimum wages, excessive taxation, and mandate-happy public policy are not limited to the death of cheap sandwiches." No leap to conclusions about causality there. Nope. Can't possibly be that greedy bastards simply used this policy change as an excuse to make a statement. reply

igravious 27 minutes ago [-]

Haha. You and I both just simultaneously quoted the same absurdity and both followed it up with sarcasm. :) reply

mikeash 43 minutes ago [-]

I think the article grinds its axe way too hard, but I see no attempt to disguise it as neutral reporting. reply

igravious 44 minutes ago [-]

Choice quote, “Sadly, the consequences of high minimum wages, excessive taxation, and mandate-happy public policy are not limited to the death of cheap sandwiches.” I know, right? Isn't it just awful that the working poor might get a decent living wage and decent public services. It's enough to make you puke. /s

The blog is aptly titled: "Hit & Run"

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braindongle 40 minutes ago [-]

Haha. You and I both just simultaneously quoted the same absurdity and both followed it up with sarcasm. reply

The title posted left out a portion of the actual articles title that is relevant.

Can you describe common pipeline problems that deter women from entering tech? I'd like to be part of the solution if possible, but I don't know the cause(s).

I've tried to be involved in school districts, and every single time there is a group of women who assume all men are pedophiles and make it extremely uncomfortable for any male.

It's simply not worth the harassment and suffering to attempt to be involved in child education if you're a male.

Or just clear local storage and cookies for them...

> Seems to me one could make money selling widgets that are a little different than the last ones sold, so the customer keeps coming back for more

The Apple/Samsung model.

> Disney is selling a product I've purchased hundreds of times over.

Disney is extending copyright terms with heavy lobbying and cronyism, and then every few decades opens their "vault" for the new and younger generation of parents to buy the same product. As long as they can keep successfully lobbying for longer copyright this is a sustainable business model because quantity will be limited, and who owns a VHS player any more? Guess you should buy that DVD player after all, and the new DVD copy of Snow White. DVD? What's that?

Gold is insanely useful as a conductive metal.

Why? Lightrail is a pretty big disaster in terms of efficient commuting with stops every block. I tried to ride the bus and then lightrail downtown but the commute was twice as long as if I just drove (45 minutes to an hour because the bus/rail weren't synced perfectly)

No, you don't, at least in many ag-based US states. You can own and operate a truck without a license or insurance on private property. Which means nothing would stop someone doing that, and then driving it on the roads and running people over other than a cop being lucky enough to pull them over first.

Who do you think is going to represent the company?

Honestly the biggest fear is you can't lawfully use water to grow your own food. Patents be damned, you will be in jail in many states if your water use wasn't to just poop in a toilet. I guess people in a desert like Phoenix will be able to justify a grass lawn and a pool via some absurd use of water law.

Ah, socialism. Who wants a non-totalitarian state when you can just enslave the people like all the utopian socialist societies.

Oh, are we just being hyperbolic? A capitalist would say a socialist is wrong and this is cronyism. A socialist would say capitalism is wrong and this is cronyism.