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Ciaphas posted:i got an extension to not render that section of the webpage like a dog's age ago look at this incompetent who didn't just block it in an adblocker
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iospace posted:As for the rest, I think that's exactly it. The whole "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" mindset is really prevalent in the tech world, especially when you take the whole dot-com boom into affect, and everyone wants to be the next Uber. too many of the wrong type of libertarian make libertarian socialist again 🏴🏴🏴
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fishmech posted:look at this incompetent who didn't just block it in an adblocker tbh i'll cop to this because there is something about the way ublock lets you pick elements to block that i just don't grok, i tried for like 45 minutes to block that godawful pinned gold thread background last month
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Crazy Achmed posted:oh god my allergies
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if you're watching youtube videos that have lovely comments you need to find better videos
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CommunistPancake posted:if you're watching youtube videos that have lovely comments you need to find better videos yeah videos like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93jgFDMsBZM
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The problem with youtube comments is specifically that every single video that has comments enabled ends up with terrible comments on it eventually. You know what else is terrible? elon musk
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fishmech posted:look at this incompetent who didn't just block it in an adblocker the best of all things Ciaphas posted:tbh i'll cop to this because there is something about the way ublock lets you pick elements to block that i just don't grok, i tried for like 45 minutes to block that godawful pinned gold thread background last month styling removal is a whole different bag and i have a stylesheet i load to tweak sizing on the forums because i am a weirdo
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hailthefish posted:You know what else is terrible? i hear he beats his girlfriends and then forces NDAs on them
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infernal machines posted:i hear he beats his girlfriends and then forces NDAs on them yeesh these preorder requirements are getting ridiculous
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exploded mummy posted:the company name shall be spacexx legit frustrated someone beat me to posting that Ciaphas posted:can we keep youtube or whatever less poo poo alternative is around at the time, please opiate for the masses etc...
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i'm a junkie, it's a fair cop
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Ciaphas posted:a fair cop
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paul blart, fair cop
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ADINSX posted:It must drive tech companies nuts how much they spend on developers, As a consultant who regularly interacts with the CTOs of major companies- driving them nuts is an understatement. Ciaphas posted:can we keep youtube or whatever less poo poo alternative is around at the time, please take a page from the japanese playbook: youtube stays up but the ad network goes down
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Rex-Goliath posted:As a consultant who regularly interacts with the CTOs of i would like to subscribe to your newsletter
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CommunistPancake posted:if you're watching youtube videos that have lovely comments you need to find better videos a friend of a friend was featured in a perfectly nice restaurant-review video a while back. the comments were full of creepy horny poo poo because this friend of a friend is female
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Rex-Goliath posted:As a consultant who regularly interacts with the CTOs of and yet almost every single platform and application is a buggy piece of poo poo
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Stringent posted:i would like to subscribe to your newsletter not much to say besides i work with a niche tech and any time we're beginning a conversation with a new potential customer the cto's first loving question is always how much it will cost to hire and retain employees for the system. then throughout our entire engagement their primary concern is almost always how much we can train the cheapest resource available. it's not a coincidence that every company has staffed our proof of concept projects with interns, fresh grads, and contractors
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TK-42-1 posted:and yet almost every single platform and application is a buggy piece of poo poo this too- is not a coincidence
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Lutha Mahtin posted:a friend of a friend was featured in a perfectly nice restaurant-review video a while back. the comments were full of creepy horny poo poo because this friend of a friend is female tamitha skov, phd is a solar researcher that can barely post her weekly solar weather reports because the comments are full of thirsty old hams
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Rex-Goliath posted:not much to say besides i work with a niche tech and any time we're beginning a conversation with a new potential customer the cto's first loving question is always how much it will cost to hire and retain employees for the system. then throughout our entire engagement their primary concern is almost always how much we can train the cheapest resource available. it's not a coincidence that every company has staffed our proof of concept projects with interns, fresh grads, and contractors like, 'well our tech really isn't THAT hard to learn if you're willing to find competent workers and take a month or two to train them up you should have no problem' isn't at all an acceptable answer. if you aren't offering them a fresh vein of ripe h-2bs to exploit then it's going to be one hell of a hard sell
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Jonny 290 posted:thirsty old hams seems redundant
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Jonny 290 posted:thirsty old hams mods please please make this kelly comic label quality name true
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ADINSX posted:I think it has more to do with how insanely easy programmers have it. We get paid an insane amount of money compared to the difficulty of our job, and (at least in larger cities) can jump around jobs with relative ease. well if we keep creating new ever more esoteric javascript frameworks faster than the little shits can learn them oh my god I think I just figured out why npm exists 
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I was watching the unveiling of Audi’s first all electric vehicle and one of the things that they kept bringing up was that Audi has over 100 years of experience in building cars and has a solid supply chain. There was an underlying theme of “we have the experience, institutional knowledge, and professional management to actually deliver on what we’re saying”
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Mr. Apollo posted:I was watching the unveiling of Audi’s first all electric vehicle and one of the things that they kept bringing up was that Audi has over 100 years of experience in building cars and has a solid supply chain. There was an underlying theme of “we have the experience, institutional knowledge, and professional management to actually deliver on what we’re saying” it only took 15 years for everyone to forget the Audi 5000
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Mr. Apollo posted:I was watching the unveiling of Audi’s first all electric vehicle and one of the things that they kept bringing up was that Audi has over 100 years of experience in building cars and has a solid supply chain. There was an underlying theme of “we have the experience, institutional knowledge, and professional management to actually deliver on what we’re saying” also, really sorry about the diesel thing, really
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Mr. Apollo posted:I was watching the unveiling of Audi’s first all electric vehicle and one of the things that they kept bringing up was that Audi has over 100 years of experience in building cars and has a solid supply chain. There was an underlying theme of “we have the experience, institutional knowledge, and professional management to actually deliver on what we’re saying” all of the traditional manufacturers' marketing departments, looking at tesla: https://i.imgur.com/RSwnLQM.mp4 like you wouldn't think that "we can get all the parts we need to build our cars, and put them together properly, and also get them shipped to you reasonably quickly" would be a very powerful argument but, well, here we are
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Qwijib0 posted:at this point shouldn't all the drama be baked into the price by now? no investor reacts in 3 microseconds it's all bots doing sentiment analysis on the news ticker, bots reacting to the bots, bots repricing their derivatives against the bots reacting on the underlying, and bots repricing the underlying in response to the bots repricing the derivatives, while market making bots remove liquidity due to uncertainty over the next ten milliseconds and unintentionally increase volatility further iospace posted:The stock market reflects one thing and one thing only: a company's ability to pay dividends. Nothing more, nothing less. AT&T has taken out loans to be able to pay dividends, otherwise its stock would crater (despite being profitable as a company), because a company's public perception lives and dies on the stock market because... incels interlinked posted:most stocks don't pay dividends, and may never pay a dividend. paying a dividend is basically a tax obligation for the recipient (and not deductible by the payer) and an admission by the company that they don't know what else to do with the money other than return some of it to shareholders. its just moving money around and provides an alternative from selling the underlying stock for cash
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I know a guy who works at a geo info startup and their largest success is forecasting earnings calls by taking pictures of parking lots the day of but ahead of the call itself
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yep quote:Companies announced $433.6 billion in share repurchases during the period, nearly doubling the previous record of $242.1 billion in the first quarter, according to market research firm TrimTabs. its a big part of why the stock market is so high right now. companies would rather issue bonds to buy back their own stock than actually invest in anything or, you know, pay their employees more
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Rex-Goliath posted:like, 'well our tech really isn't THAT hard to learn if you're willing to find competent workers and take a month or two to train them up you should have no problem' isn't at all an acceptable answer. if you aren't offering them a fresh vein of ripe h-2bs to exploit then it's going to be one hell of a hard sell There's some sort of mental disease about IT/tech management that causes them to start huffing fumes from the accountants and believe that people are all spheres of uniform density and can be interchanged with zero consequence. like literally the idea of our cio was/is "fire contractors , replace with grads" because we spend too much money on contractors, but the reason we spend so much money is 1) experienced contractors cost money and 2)they have spent years refusing to hire permanent staff to reduce costs and numbers of people on the books so there is very little long term knowledge in permanent staff and the idea that you can just use fresh graduates as a replacement is laughable and will tank the ability to do anything. not to mention the 6 month lead time to get anyone new to learn our hosed up processes. The same happens with offshoring. idk it's like musk and manufacturing: fail to understand the problem, ignore input from people who do understand it because it conflicts with your view, believe your own hype about the solution (because you must be smart if you're the cio/ceo right)and then blame someone else for the fact it hasn't fixed the issue my dad worked for IBM in the 70s though and he says it's the same poo poo he used to deal with so in summary: people are the problem
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Jabor posted:i wonder if a company could issue a press release that was 100% truthful with the facts, but phrased things in such a way that all the analysis bots would guess wrong a giant capcha-ed "it is Opposite Day so the the following is not true" at the top then "we have filed for bankruptcy protection..."
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