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Conferences, Clarity, and Smokescreens

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Facebook pay cuts for remote employees who move prove that labor market rigged?

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Help: Suicide note on blog

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Design Patterns Across Paradigms

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You Can't Engineer Around Taxes

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VP of Palo Alto's SAP Arrested in LEGO Bar Code Scam

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Talkers and Doers

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John Carter: the movie

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The Shrinking Expanding World of CI

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User Interface Programming in the (Near) Future

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Gamer Maker Jeff Vogel - I Don't Finish Games Because I Am Old

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Pixar Study - Mouse vs Touch vs Multitouch [pdf]

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Happiness is U-shaped

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Windows 7 ... Kind of Rocks

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www.atlasshruggedpart1.com 15y ago

Atlas Shrugged - The Movie - Part 1

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Generation Why?

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How Software Companies Die

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When Social Media Goes Awry - Toyota Van Fire

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Have Generics Killed Java?

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How to explain Singapore’s growth despite lack of stimulus?

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www.rebol.com 16y ago

Ubuntu needs to work on user experience

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The King is Dead? Long live... Scala? Clojure?

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Data-Oriented Desgin

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30 years of C

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DirecTV - an example of modern software incompetence

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One of the Most Time Consuming Startup Roadblocks

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Analog TV era ends, DTV begins, complexity thrives

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Not All Banks Are Failing

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Are Scandals Inevitable in Regulated Industries?

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But you are assuming distributed transactions as soon as you have two systems participating in the transaction.

It's a recipe for deadlocks and even live locks.

That's a reason industry moved away from this. Bc when it works it's magic. But when the problems start it's pure hell.

GM is running 0% interest, no payments until n deals right now.

That’s usually a sign that sales are not “just fine”.

It happened over Covid.

All those checks to business owners and farmers. Huge slush funds.

Californians used it to buy houses in smaller cities across the country.

Not doubled but a windfall of cash into accounts for the wealthy none the less.

Wheat isn’t grown in the same places that beans grow.

If you can, you’re rotating beans and corn every year. (“Roundup ready” of course)

Wheat is on the marginal drier land. Not that they couldn’t plant wheat there but beans are way more profitable and so they don’t.

The plains is by definition more arid, marginal land a step up from pasture/grazing.

A lot of traditional wheat/sunflower/barley/oats has gone over to beans and corn bc roundup and GMO.

On my family’s farm I don’t remember the last time we had wheat crop but that was our staple for like 50 years.

Should QA exist? 4 months ago

Should Accounting exist?

Should Legal exist?

Should Facilities exist?

Surely your average employee could own each of these functions.

Exact opposite. We are in the midst of the COVID hangover.

So that govt money went to the wealthy to buy up houses (Californians bought real estate in the Midwest as investments and it drove up housing prices along with small immigration to these states)

Farmers etc benefited from bailouts when they were doing very well. It was a large blunder.