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It's not that I think Andy Grove is a bullshit artist, it's that I'm pretty sure the person assigning the OKRs isn't Andy Grove.

Easy to say if you live somewhere without winter. AI models are a LONG way off from the kind of driving you need in near-whiteout conditions.

The problems in this game are vastly overstated. I've been playing for a couple weeks and it's great. Does my framer ate occasionally drop? Yes. Does it matter? No! It's Cities Sky…

Having been sued for something like that tends to empower lawyers to turn a company into a boyscout.

Most executives are covered by Errors and Omissions insurance which protects them from personal liability.

Yeah but they also directly accused him of lying. You don't do that in a planned transition.

So disable the lining rule with a comment? That way you don't accidentally commit it.

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I find throwing an error that says "not implemented" to be a good solution. Or at least logging a warning.

You have a lot of opinions about a game you've never played.

Because the problems are vastly overstated. I've been playing fine since launch without any issues.

Space Cadet pinball is a fair game. Real pinball there are magnets under the playing surface that direct the ball and control whether the player loses the ball or not.

It's very fun, but I also have to have restrictions on myself while playing it.

It's not the non-competes that matter, it's the assignments of intellectual property.

There are a ton of development tasks that I do infrequently enough that I have to google how to do them every time, because I forget how to do them. For those things, I can just as…

Yeah but her lawyers know that and he'll have to pay the severance eventually. She probably has money to wait out whatever legal delay tactics Twitter counsel would employ.

We're also in the middle of a downturn, with many companies laying off tens of thousands of employees.

If they quit their H1-B gets revoked.

"But the code is self-documenting!"

The thing is for some.of the academics involved the social in-and-out are their whole careers. If you're a PhD who's entire work is about rust then this stuff matters a lot. I thin…

In a way it's just a sign of its success. There isn't a lot of news about most programming languages because no one cares.

This kind of thing has happened forever, it's just thst before social media it was confined to obscure listservs and usenet channels and most of the people using the language would…

I can explain it for you: when you start writing a long complicated legal agreement, you never start from scratch. You almost always ask your lawyer to prepare the first draft and …

Anyone who's written long contracts know you start with some boilerplate that contains a bunch of stuff and gradually whittle it down till it's just what you need. The error they m…

Part of the problem here is too much collective decision-making. Sometimes it's much better to just assign someone responsibility for something. Then if they screw up, they can lea…