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this is where the difference between "which" and "that" is important.

Good question. How did they react after the Clinton Administration put them on that list?

That's been happening forever. Have you ever wondered why the law that says you can keep your healthcare when you leave your job is called the Combined Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA)?

The last time the Republicans put a special prosecutor on a Clinton that President was trying to stop Osama bin Laden from attacking the United States.

Again, there's reality and there's a belief that Hilary murdered someone.

I understand your argument and I might even agree with it. But, I would like to point out that there is a difference if we consider objective facts. Fact: Trump threatened to jail his political opponent if elected. That's how he has shown a disrespect for our system of government.

Now, I realize that Trump supporters really don't get why it's bad to put your rival in jail. But, that objective fact does actually matter to people who care about a functioning government.

At the end of the day, I don't think you can converse with Trump supporters. They are like creationists in their utter disregard for reality.

yup. I worked at a place where they would constantly write code. lots and lots of shitty code that never should have been written. issues scaling postgres -> rewrite active record to use the latest nosql db. issues with that -> rewrite the app again.

there's a difference between just writing lots of code and understanding what your doing. I like the approach of writing katas every day until you've really internalized the technique you're working on.

Same thing that will happen with Trump although whatever that is isn't very clear. Though, I think it's a long shot that you indite clinton over this. She should be insulated. Trump, on the other hand, has been indited for TrumpU

An NDA seems reasonable in this case. The article did state that Biederman objected to some of the stipulations which asked him to give up some of his shareholder rights. I suspect the lawyers will make some more money off this and then a more reasonable NDA will be signed.

I think this is exactly the problem the author wanted to solve: you don't get info from the webpack logs. He/She wanted to do something that exposed useful info about webpack.

why not ask to see the performance improvement plan and results? They should have documented the issues as they were unfolding specifically for a retrospective like this.

I would put the difference at military spending vs. everything else. The highway system was funded so that troops could be deployed quickly in the case we were attacked. You don't get that from HSR.

The route is a pretty poor outcome of special interests. I recall reading that the best engineering firms in the world said that we should essentially have a hub and spoke approach (i.e. you have a very straight high-speed line from LA to SF and then you have spurs that connect all of the small towns to that main pipe). Instead, the route curves around to get to every small town that wanted a whistle-stop.

I would personally love to see high-speed rail. SF->LA feels better to me but your observation that San Jose is connected to the bay area already and makes a great terminus is really good. Plus, I live in Oakland so I'd like it even more if it came right into my backyard :)

Ummm ... I'd call that salesmanship.

I also heard the CEO of SAP (I think) talk about a sales call he made while he was a JR sales rep at Xerox. It was also pure salesmanship but the end of the story was that he closed the deal without the woman who owned the company even turning on the copier or typewriters.

So, I think the thread that ties these two pitches together (one that was all demo and the other that was zero demo) is probably that the salesman got the decision-maker to trust him.

I've asked them. To a one, they got lucky. None of them had an actual plan for how their contribution would lead to a multi-billion dollar exit.

exactly. if you want people to stay at your company and add value, try not fucking them over. people who know that you have and will treat them fairly are more likely to add value to your business. people who know that they have 90 days to access the benefit of working for you will look for shortcuts to make sure that their interests are maximized.

Induced demand in housing would require people to buy second or third homes because they were affordable. So long as people are only buying or renting one home, there is no induced demand from housing stock.

There are many people who trade the market based on charts. Because the charts are well known, traders know what the sell signal is for a specific security. So, they will sell that security below the trigger so that all the suckers ... um ... people using IFTTT for the stock market will automatically sell the security. This will tank the stock presenting the pro trade with a buying opportunity.

this is an interesting thought. the Linux Documentation Project was full of full length books on every aspect of administering a Linux system. I printed out many of them, put them in a spiral binder and they lived on my bookshelf next to my O'Riely collection.

Now, I've only got one book on my desk and it's more of a coffee-table thing about html and css

I can't even get `npm install` to run perfectly on my mac. It _always_ fails and needs to be re-run a few times to get everything installed.

Anyway, the point is, everyone likes the smell of their own farts. But, they still stink.

This is great. I think `help` commands are fantastic things to add to projects right from the start. It really helps the next person to get up to speed.

I was thinking the same thing. Traders already play games with amature's stop-loss orders, etc... This just looks like a tool that unsavy investors will get themselves taken to the cleaners by professional traders.

As an observer I always assumed it was purposeful. MS was _not_ a company that conformed to other people's standards. After all, they're just now putting a POSIX compliant shell in their OS. They were playing a monopoly game not trying to offer an alternative.

I think it's hilarious when the same people who bash PHP will expound on their love of YavaScript in the next sentence. It's like there is not distinction between trendy and good. Actually, I think the author's post could be titled "PHP isn't trendy" without loosing any meaning.

I don't think this works in Silicon Valley. I'm a recent transplant but I've found that people here are very passive aggressive and it's always a mistake to be direct with people. Now, in NYC I never had a problem after talking to someone about a disagreement (obviously in private). But, it's just not affective in SF.

I just had a phone interview that was incredibly telling about the company. The interviewer ... didn't speak english. And, I've been doing this long enough that I embrace that broken english is the international language of science. This guy didn't speak english. We had to communicate by typing into the pair coding app (remember this was a phone interview).

Anyway, a company who puts that person on the phone as one of the first points of contact has serious communication issues. It was an easy pass for me (I already work in a company with broken communication).

Bill Gates was a drop-out, not an MBA. Steve Jobs was a ... wait for it ... drop-out but also not technical. Steve Wozniack was the technical founder of Apple.

If you really want to understand Jobs' talent, think about what Apple did when he left and how they changed when he came back. The technology didn't change that much (sure, Unix, but that wasn't _that_ big of a deal). The key difference is how they sold computers. After Jobs' was forced out, Apple started to copy the MicroSoft strategy: make computers highly customizable. Needless to say, that didn't work for Apple. After Jobs' came back, Apple stopped that strategy and started selling 3 options: good, better, and best. IMO, that's the real key of Jobs' Apple turn-around. He made it easy for people to buy computers.

Anyway, from that perspective, Jobs was all sales/marketing and not even close to what you'd consider a CTO.

I'm pretty sure it already has.

I don't know what your original comment was because it's been flagged. But, this slideshow did not work as I expected when I first opened the page. Honestly, if I have to think about how to get to the next slide, your software is worse than PowerPoint. Forgive me for being so harsh.

I've found dropping down to C to be a pain to set up the first time in any language (Ruby, Tcl, etc...) but once you have the tooling, it's just another workflow. When you think about it, even JavaScript takes a lot of setting up these days (preprocessors, linters, endless debates about why coffeescript is still a good language (hint: it's the existential operator)). But, you amortize the cost of this setup over the lifetime of the project so they are actually quite small.

But, it does seem that there are not regular blog posts about how to drop into C to make even the worst scripting language performant. Seems like maybe it's a dying art???

I'm just amazed that yavascript wound up on top.