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>Google spent decades selecting for these "moralizers" and is now reaping what it sowed; "don't be evil" was a cultural slogan that carries consequences if it attracts a particular…

>One cannot publicly criticize a company while enjoying cushy paychecks Why is it that you think that the people who see the sausage being made are exactly the ones most unqualifie…

I'd probably read an article by a ex member of mensa that wrote that. Arguing vociferously about how that "wasn't such a big deal" would make me wonder what ax you had to grind wit…

To be fair Google did downgrade their "do not evil" value to "it is possible to conduct business without being evil" but it's fair to be reminded of all the evil they do do that le…

A lot of people on hacker news get threatened by collective action. This is understandable, given the number of employers, wannabe employers and people with large portfolios who fr…

Yes, I remember it was a problem with Django. It wasn't just the application server, you might need to run some scripts, after the database is up, before kicking off the webserver.…

in those instances I'm almost always glad I went afterwards even if I wasn't feeling "hot to trot" before.

https://docs.docker.com/compose/startup-order/ >The problem of waiting for a database (for example) to be ready is really just a subset of a much larger problem of distributed syst…

docker compose is the tool that winds me up the most.

Racists don't use the term racist to describe what they do either. Language policing is still big in dem circles.

Nuclear has shown no particular inclination to come down in price whereas renewables have. It's just not cost effective without both massive implicit and explicit government subsid…

Reliable and predictable at 2x the cost. Saving 50% on generation gives you a lot of options in terms of demand shaping and storage. It's also far, far less capital intensive and d…

Curl to shell is usually indicative of a package manager that could be doing a better job.

The point, however, is that the customer/regulator dictates quality standards, not the person assembling the burger. Whereas apparently many software engineers do not take their cu…

Correct, it aims for mediocrity. If the customer requested 50 McDonald's hamburger, is it a cultural problem that you're not delivering one steak?

IME that culture, where it exists, varies from organisation to organisation and is driven from the top. I think a lot of companies don't care about bugs as much as their developers…

I'm inferring that you believe that the regulators were wrong to ground it.

China's approach with its 737MAX competitor, has, ironically been the exact opposite of this. Their fear wasn't getting the price low enough to satisfy shareholders but not getting…

It's also a business endeavour that's done a lot of bragging about the number of people it will render jobless. It's not going to be an easy political sell to erect lots of additio…

>Luddites complained about the automated loom as well, saying the cost to society was too great despite its benefits They actually didn't. They just broke them because they (rightl…

The truly damning part was "I wouldn't let my family fly on a plane where the pilot was trained on MAX simulator".

>If there is an opportunity to not over-pay, you should be able to start your own firm and put overpaying ones out of business. Sure, but first lend me a few hundred million in cap…

Why not? Wind is a ~50% cheaper source of energy per kWh than nuclear. Edit : apparently the answer to this question is "downvote" :)

The point is that Chernobyl could have turned Ukraine into an unlivable country. Badly although it was managed, it could have been even worse.

>Hard skills are surprisingly small percentage of the overall picture of the person from employment perspective. This is true outside of tech hubs and in companies with non technic…