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Seems to me this does not work with encrypted drive(s).

(writing this from a MacBook with an encrypted SSD)

Thx, highly appreciated.

Yes, but there are more low income Amazon warehouse jobs than mid income building cars jobs.

I'm pro new org structures and ways to work together. I'm interested in Valve and Zappos and others.

But the nagging feeling is what this Valve employee (who was fired) described: The company is led by the bullies just like in highschool.

Classical progamming language is important fallacy.

90% of people choose Git because everyone else uses it. Noone has been fired for buying IBM.

Let me translate: "if this tool is not exactly like Git, I will not use it".

I at least do not get angry about München being called Munich or Köln being called Cologne by occupation forces.

"Surrounded by smoke and fire and deafening noise and hoping (or maybe not caring) that the strike they call in hits the right target/s vs all the nearby civilians also hiding and cowering in a village?"

I would be interested in the statistics you base this on. How many strikes are fire support strikes vs. "lone" drone strikes? My impression up to your comment was that most drone strikes are not fire support strikes.

I don't want to imply Catherine Bracy is right or wrong.

From looking at it, PG describes how things are (YC applications, startup CEOs) and Catherine describes how things should be.

I myself get often argued with because people confuse when I describe things a I see them with I tell people how they should be.

The StG 44 was the first "modern" assault rifle, there were several similar automatic weapons earlier.

What comes to mind, again, in the discussion if he is a criminal or not:

"“Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them to be broken. [...] One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."

As a "boss" I'd love this.

The only downside I see is that some people will be disappointed because the salary reflects their skills and the value the company puts in them. For some this is hard to take if they are in the bottom 20% of people in their peer group.

Said that, it's probably a good idea to start with this compared to introducing this later.

As someone who owned severals Lenovos at work, and several MacBooks at work, from my experience 3 Lenovos broke the plastic rim of the screen and keys flew out, MacBooks have all been fine and upgraded to new ones while still working.

In 2006 I wrote about how everyone claimed Apple was so expensive, and compared it to a similar specced Lenovo T60p, guess what? The Lenovo was either more expensive or same price, depending on the MacBook version.

Yes.

It's a little more complicated, but yes [1].

The current government promised a 8,50EUR minumum wage.

Fun fact: The leftist German news paper TAZ who was fighting for minumum wage for quite some time, argued against the minumum wage for it's intern as "not possible".

[1] e.g. when you are below some wage, the government pays you some money for the "gap"

The alternative is Basic Income. But yes, countries need to decide how distribute work in the future (automatic cars will destroy a lot of low level jobs, taxies, logistics, ...)

Germany has minimum wages, but not for every industry. The government standpoint was up to now that minimum wage needs to be negotiated between employers and employees and it's not the government job to set the level of the minumum wage.

This might change with the current government.

You get social welfare money if you have no job. There is a discussion if it is enough or not, but the state pays your rent in Germany and noone needs to die because of hunger [1].

[1] There are quite some people living on the street though - especially in larger cities - who for various reasons can't or won't claim their social welfare money.

Education in Germany is mostly free except a (unfortunate) selection process after 4th grade (most states). So people have access to education, and Germany made some great steps forward towards easy business creation (new limited company types, standard contracts, lower costs, ...) in the last 10 years [1].

So what's next?

[1] That said the common idea is in school and on television since around the 70s: The coolest guy is the one with the worst grades - every celebrity boosts how bad they were at school. And living on welfare has become a verb ("harzen") and is the live goal (perspective?) of many young people.

Wash hands? We evolved to fight bacteria. How is washing hands superior to the acidic surface of my skin? And don't get me started on soap.

Gnucash comes to mind.

Sorry, not 1996, learned VC20 BASIC in 1981. Learned it in a department store from some other kids, trading tricks and POKEs.

Giving some workshops I did with non IT (marketing, middle management, ...) here at the company, I think a lot can be gained by some 3 hour workshops with e.g. Scratch/Blockly.

Understanding the breaking down of problems into commands, loops, conditionals using variables, data structures, functions, about abstracting solutions into more general solutions, about refactoring, legacy code etc. helps a lot, even if one is not "a programmer" afterwards.

I can only recommend to everyone doing this at your company.

Minor point: Nullable types and Maybe are two completely different things, which can be used for some overlapping use cases.

And Scala as another JVM language.

Except I'll pay another 63% for p&p.

"Learning never to use them is just as legitimate."

Indeed! I would from my experience not use Z80 assembler - though I like it much more than 6502 - and CP/M as an OS for a social media website.

I have the gut feeling though that your comment might be about Java, which might not be warranted. The last company I've worked for makes >$200M in profit a year and will be sold soon for >$1b - based on a Java platform. The next company I worked for was skyrocketing and sold for $200M - based on a Java platform. Both profited from good performance, stability and GC maturity during high periods of growth and load and a good pool of developers during peak hiring times.

But then we might differ in our goals and evaluation criteria, mine is about getting things done to support a business in a sustainable way.

Criticizing tools is excellent. Deciding about their benefits and limitations, learning about when to use them and when not to use them. Sharing experiences so people can make better choices.

Criticism in this way is rare though. Bashing a language to be cool, be part of the hip crowd, make you feel better about your own choices, bashing languages for karma or laughs, bashing languages you have no experience in comparing it with a language you've used for some weeks is not criticism.

Does it help others? If it does, it is criticism. If it doesn't and only makes you feel good after posting, it's not.

[Edit] And the really sad part is that people make language arguments into people arguments, stereotyping people to make themselves feel better.