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I worked at a very large Ruby shop where errors in production were very expensive. This meant that we spent many times more money on instances running the test suite for every buil…

Let's be realistic here: The US supreme court always tells us what the law is, every time, regardless of how clear the law's writing is, and how the court had rules in the past. Th…

I worked with Ferrucci in BW. The internals of the employee rating system that preceded him were hilarious. In short: Everyone is encouraged to rate anyone else in a variety of cat…

It's a turbulent time in games media: See how Yatzhee just quit The Escapist, taking with him most of the video team. Either way we slice it, we'll all soon see what is what brings…

I've been a part of a system like this (a financial system that happens to not be technically a bank). The system was constantly under attack by fraudsters: You could find subreddi…

And it gets worse the smaller the market is: There is a chance that a youtuber with sufficiently large following could actually choose to buy said mac pro, because their revenue mi…

It's a matter of letting things degrade so that the maintenance becomes outright firefighting. I am currently working on a project where a processing pipeline has a maximum practic…

No modification is perfect: While all GMO modification tries to be as narrow as possible, it's not like things are ever so perfectly narrow as to only just express a bonus protein …

There was an old patent about making generations completely infertile, but yes, never used. Bayer's corn seeds are optimized enough that, while the next generation grows just fine,…

This tells me you don't know much about Monsanto / Bayer Crop Science. Roundup Ready is a relatively good idea: Roundup applies easily, and after the first few generations, when th…

It often has to do with the size of the company: the larger you are, the weaker your decisionmaking. I work for a very large corp. As part of a round of layoffs earlier this year, …

An unsung part of the economic disadvantages of supersonic is how often the value of speed in the connection of two cities is not anywhere near even in both directions. Say we are …

It's a common problem in many large companies that have significant barriers to handing out promotions, like google's need to work on promotion packets, and passing past review pro…

Oh, I've seen a team get completely obliterated by moving back to in person, even though everyone really did live in the same city and with reasonable commutes. This was a startup,…

That street's sin is not the lack of trees, but having 6 entire lanes for cars, which apparently all go in one direction. An uncrossable nightmare that only even has stores at one …

I think of the cities in Spain with the hottest climates, and I don't see a lot of crowds being protected by tree shade: Instead, the traditional design is narrower streets which a…

There's a little more to it: Make sure your manager, and maybe even your manager's manager, likes you. If your manager doesn't like you, change teams. If your manager's manager doe…

For the same reason Monsanto sequences basically anything: Because we can tell what proteins are encoded in there, and what is near them, and we can have good ideas of what protein…

In what mature organization takes it more than a week? My current org is quite mature: You probably use it. It's also not a cloud provider: Our aws bill is in the high 8 figures a …

Iger wasn't sure about the purchase of ESPN in the first place, and we can see why. The story is really about how the internet has done a lot of damage to sports television, and sp…

One of the strangest experiences in my career involves working for a very well known startup, which had lucked out into an extremely high talent pool, thanks to some key early hire…

Document mishandling can lead to a slap on the wrist if you let the investigators come in and take a look (Clinton, Biden), but if you refuse to give investigators access, and braz…

I have seen platform teams work extremely well. I have also seen them fail spectacularly. The main reasons? The organization's ability to identify, or hire, the kind of developers …

But the issue about the multiple return types is not pointless at all: Optional types, and pair types, were added to the language way later than checked exceptions. We didn't even …

A big part of this in the US is our continued evolution in suburbs: In practice, in person contact with others is a lot more work than historically. This makes children have very l…