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Every contract has some crap in for what seems like unlikely scenarios. If you can’t negotiate it out it is either that or the highway. If these startups could get YC funding they probably would have. So for some it is accept a possible imperfect contract or back to employment. Employment itself being full of contracts with crap clauses as well as common law itself having crap. Show me the perfect contract!

Aboriginal Linux 2 years ago

AbOrigin would be a better name

Although the self hosting thing doesn’t make it an origin in my book. More of a quine? The first Linux release would be the original. As for aboriginal I don’t think the metaphor even works.

Psychologist? Without being ageist :-) I think later in life once you been around the block and got some scars is a good time to be one (of course the formal training and education is 99%) but experience means something. As a bonus you can eventually earn what you were as a developer (probably more in Australia where I am if you are location flexible, for example happy to fill a position somewhere remote)

I think this meets your requirements. It is in danger of AI replacement though. Which would be sad. But reckon there is 20 years of red tape to cut before we get there.

But if you don’t want to talk to people and be on a schedule then carpentry might be a good one. The sort where you make things as oppose to fix architraves in old houses.

AI plus machinery could make “home made” looking stuff but cheapos will keep going to ikea and there will still be a market.

If I didn’t need to make much money and just stay occupied probably do walking tours for free in untouristy places (think the “boring” countryside between cities that ain’t in any guidebooks) or just for a bit of cash walk people’s dogs at the park.

Robots may eventually do these things but to a dog a robot won’t smell like a human so they are the last to be fooled. I imagine in 2050 everyone will have a dog (bred to be small and generally dosile and easy to train) to sniff people for bot detection.

Sure that is indeed true!

I meant polynomial time can in practical terms stomp computers even if you are allowed to time travel to a future point in moores law. Maybe n^2 is enough but need to do the math! The derivative is 2n so seems like it depends on n and the problem and of course the constants.

Or maybe human life is just too short to wait for the “42”

I wont claim to understand C and the reason why <> is better than “”. I assume it is.

But the fact that a merge can have arbitrary changes in it always bothers me!

This is a case for rebase over merge if there are conflicts.

You could have a merge of 2 empty repo parents where the result is the complete source of the latest version of Kubernetes!

I agree! IANAP though.

Also in this case I suspect they needed to learn proper takeoff procedure. Since you can’t practice dying more than once the mitigation has to be avoidance (in addition to the stall practice you mentioned)

I see “avoid if ultra processed” as a heuristic. If you want to be healthy eat mostly food that looks like it has grown from the ground.

However of course some processed stuff can be healthy. A vitamin D capsule is super healthy if you are low on vitamin D!

Not to mention you need to consider quantities. A gram of refined sugar is OK, probably neutral.

For cattle vs pets, it originally referred to devops: https://www.engineyard.com/blog/pets-vs-cattle/

However I have extended it here to any situation where you have systems in place that you can tweak over say hiring 3 staff and treating them very individually and not having much of an overarching plan.

I worked places where you had one star sales person with 20 years of experience in the industry and that person could sell like mad but if they left you lose all that there is no system around it. But in the short term paying that person overtime and getting out their way makes for a good quarter. But long term the org doesn’t learn anything.

Not in sales myself but just what I have observed from the engineering silo!