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Rowling is a bigot and it's unethical to promote her works, even indirectly. She uses her wealth and fame, legitimized by continued engagement and spending with the Harry Potter IP…

The visibility is a huge part of it. It signals "it's okay to be yourself here" when most professional life, even in tech, is dominated by keeping up "professional" appearances.

You can't compare a decision made in possession of all of the facts in a calm environment with full hindsight, with decision made in the moment with limited information and hundred…

Go's module system got a lot right, but it's a complete nightmare to work with. The author actually highlighted one of it's very worst traits: > Go got it right from the beginning …

The big thing is that dealerships do not have new cars sat around on the lot waiting to be sold. They usually have second-hand cars available, but new cars are always built to orde…

Ignore the advice of anyone who doesn't have ADHD, or a medical degree with a speciality in ADHD treatment. Anyone that tells you that you just need to try one "trick", a planner, …

This isn't a tangential discussion. Ring has shown they're willing to work with law enforcement without due process, that's the entire point of the EFF's article. > you're mistaken…

The feature doesn't exist yet. Ring have said it'll be user consent, but we don't know that for sure. My point is that Ring can change their minds about this at any time without in…

The two are very different. If you are subpoenaed then you're obligated to respond, and the same is true for Ring. But that's not what we're talking about here. This is law enforce…

Yes, but they have to subpoena you. That means process, that means getting a judge to sign it, and it means you can limit scope (i.e., if the incident under investigation occurred …

That also jumped out to me as pretty weird. Buildkit as a library is nice, but there's no way it's good enough to justify throwing out the entire project. It feels like there was s…

> Do you have some political goal? Again, what political goal or agenda do you think I’m pushing?

> Changing does not bring any advantages. Sometimes, progress requires fundamental change. > So why waste any time with them? Can you not envision a business model that is not a hi…

I disagree with the implication that flat structures "don't scale" or can never work. To be effective in a flat environment requires a fundamental shift in perspective. Hierarchy i…

Yes. H. P. Lovecraft is a good example from literature. He was profoundly racist, even beyond the cultural norms of his time. However, as he has long since passed away buying and a…

In the long run, in many cases, it probably would be cheaper. It's just that the incentive structures between the long-term health and executives are not aligned .

> wouldn't there be a huge competitive advantage to being the CEO who said, "hey, we can get rid of all our expensive SaaS, free up a bunch of cash for productive investments, and …

There's a difference between identifying areas where a new technology (AI) can solve a problem in a better way, and just slapping "Now with AI!" on an existing product purely to ch…

One of my soft requirements for engineering roles is "no agile". Usually if a hiring manager tells me that team is an agile one it's a very clear sign that I don't want to work the…

Minecraft is still pretty opaque. It's gotten a lot better with the recipe book and advancement list giving some guides. But if you'd never played or interacted with Minecraft befo…

The whole concept is so fundamentally flawed that no amount of tweaking or improvement can save it. Of course the implementation is terrible, but even if the implementation was per…

I'm getting increasingly nervous about baking in assumptions on software that doesn't have a strong guarantee of staying open source. Foundations like the CNCF help here, where pro…

Which of those options do you view as 'the style'? One block, two blocks (core library and others), or three (core library, 3rd party, same-source-tree).

For an internal-only dependency it's possible. But if you've got a lot of active branches, or long-lived feature branches, it'll create chaos in merge conflicts. Even worse if you'…

It does a lot well. For example it correctly pins dependencies by hash in go.sum. It's by no means the worst dependency management system I've ever used. IMO the biggest miss with …