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You would need a rotating task of each developer wetting up their environment from scratch on a regular basis.

aaa Ayn Randian true devotees won't let such squeamishness stop them from realizing their true potential. If anything, genocide is how you get rid of the lazy people that just drag…

All hail our new AI slaves, which require less annoying upkeep and political wrangling than our old slave class. May we leverage the labor cost arbitration in our incubator startup…

aaa All hail the expansion of the servant proletariat here to serve my Ayn Randian self-actualization in silicon valley, which will soon have a hidden force field to hide it from t…

ccc Horatio Alger lives, all hail Ayn Rand

agreed

sorry

aaa

I'm wondering if this is just reporting incompetence, or a symptom of the appalling degree of corporate influence on all modern for-profit reporting organizations. As usual I'll si…

Corporate campuses... where CEOs go to live in a fabricated simulation of a world that doesn't exist... where their rapacious extraction of resources, exploitation of people, and d…

Consider that Amazon's systems are built from the ground up at a certain point in time, practices, technology, and costs that were "primed" for a solid decade of relevance. Conside…

But 80$ / year for Prime isn't friction?

If there aren't masses of people to disenfranchise, then the Republican foundation of social darwinism would be discredited, and thus the ultra-rich wouldn't get that extra special…

Costco sells boxes of consumer stuff in a huge warehouse at discount prices. That is comparing macintosh to golden delicious.

Eh, probably because XML was so prevalent when YAML came out, and the fact that XML in most programmatic contexts was just a serialized tree data structure, not a "semantic documen…

um, property graphs are basically document databases with a special "relationships" property. Then you add the graph algorithms. Key-value is a reduction of document storage.

mocking / interaction / expect breaks encapsulation to perform "testing". Thus it is often a test of the implementation's assumptions when first written, and even worse, when the c…

Also: the fundamental undecidability of the Halting Problem

Um, you forgot the healthcare cost explosion. And the fact that we will never see a dime of Social Security.

It's too bad "psychopathy" remains so ill-defined despite the fact history and life experience show something approximating its popular conception irrefutably exists. I harbor a pe…

33% efficiency? Does that include generation heat loss / Carnot inefficiencies, or is that transmission and idle generator/engines?

"Note that there is one big catch: the default String type in Haskell is inefficient. You should always use Text whenever possible." I'm sorry to cherrypick, but how did this happe…

"Java is just a C++ pidgin language" Muahahaha, today on the interweb, we play: insult, or compliment?

The biggest problem with open market hiring: The best people aren't on the open job market. They'll get scooped up by their network. You're hiring the best of new grads, bullshit a…

A hot goalie is more important than a hot forward in the NHL playoffs...