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The stuff about “lying” should be disregarded. Using rebase or merge is not a moral issue. Well, it would be bad to rebase master or some other public branch, so don’t do that. Not because it’s lying but because it will cause problems and confusion. Screw it up bad enough and you’ll lose data.

The chain of broken commits is unfortunate, but add a bug fix commit and then rebase to squash it into whatever commit it belongs. The problem is the assumption in the feature branch that the dependency is still there when it isn’t. The problem is not rebase. The fix for the missing dependency has to happen somehow, squashing in a bugfix is a fine way to handle it.

When conflicts are introduced, I’ll agree that rebasing becomes a lot more painful and less useful. Rebasing through the constant stream of conflicts is maddening. It’s not clear what to do here, but repeatedly merging brings all sorts of ugly pain with it, like the fact that your branch ends up littered with changes that you didn’t make and are unrelated to the actual purpose of the branch.

I’ll close by saying that if you work in a fast-moving monorepo, rebasing becomes a more pressing concern.

Oh no, not subjectivity!!!

People get what they deserve and deserve what they get.

But it can also have the opposite effect, demoralizing employees and driving valuable talent away, especially when it isn’t clear why some people are paid more than others.

Yes, if only something could be done about that.

It's just a slight misunderstanding. Visa (or Amex/Mastercard/other card networks) don't take 3%, but payment processors take a slice which is in that ballpark. To a business, all that really matters is when you accept a credit card payment you kiss a few percentage points goodbye, so it's easy to misconstrue as the card network taking that cut.

It’s about money not morals. Porn is associated with much higher fraud and chargeback rates than other commercial sectors.

It’s always about money. It is always, always about money.

I think I’ll probably be ok, mostly because I won’t have children. I don’t understand how people do that these days, unless they have a lot of help from the grandparents. Suddenly you need a bigger house and it needs to be in a good school district, or pay out the ass for private schools. And then it all just gets worse from there.

People shouldn't prefer things. Everything is exactly the same as everything else, and only a fool would think otherwise.

I didn't even understand the whole world of prestige and specialization among colleges when I was 16 or 17 and trying to pick a school. I didn't know that some schools were where the "good" people go. I just knew I was supposed to go to college, so I visited the local Penn State campus and people said "don't come here". Then I visited another state school and people seemed to like it, so that's where I went.

I wonder if people realize how rare it is to even understand these things. If you don't have people in your family who went to college you are unlikely to be initiated into all this. If you do have a lot of people in your family who went to college, that's a serious leg up.

Now I work in a fancy startup where everyone went to Stanford, MIT, Harvard. It's a very weird feeling.

Agree, though at least in America those two things are more related than your comment would appear to suggest.

Seems like an obvious point, and yet. And yet.

Thanks. I was wondering whether this would be some neoliberal hellhole or something actually interesting.

That's strange. I'm sure it could just as easily have happened to an Israeli citizen. (Just kidding!)

Right, you shouldn't use it as your only security, but it's fine to use in conjunction with other things.

Hell even recent Apple laptops don’t have one.

We’re at the part of late-stage capitalism where people find eating food to be too much work.

Steve Jobs died in 2011. Let it go.

A lot of people make this point but I just don't think the analogy works. For one, you use the headphones with the phone as well as other devices, and those things might not grow a Lightning port.

Hmm. My take was more like, this is great and all but wouldn’t it be better if Americans didn’t have to test their water for lead?

This is stupid

Well, I say x is efficiency.

Gotta build that brand, baby!

GGP stated "the rate of progress was pretty much identical", so are there two x values?

The midpoint between x and x is x.

I just want to make enough to where I don’t have to work in this industry, at least for a little while. It’s fucking awful.

It was very weird to see people take on this pearl-clutching tone when it was announced the iPhone X would cost a thousand dollars. "Can you believe how much the new iPhone costs?" If that's too much for you then buy the one that costs the same as the last few iPhones did when they came out.

Yeah, I don't get it.

It's incredibly irresponsible to see this and think "not my problem". This is the one form of discrimination that eventually comes for us all, unless you get rich or die first. And yet, does it come up in discussions of diversity and inclusion? Rarely, and if it does, pretty much just as an aside. I've never seen a company that had goals to hire people in certain age brackets, or even bothered to offer an age breakdown of recent hires, as they do with race and gender.

Everyone wants to strike startup gold, so selling shovels seems like a decent idea to me.

True, the customer base isn’t stable... but there’s a founder born every second, if you know what I mean.

I would be fine with that, personally.