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etaerc commented on Mutiny at HQ Trivia Fails to Oust CEO techcrunch.com/2019/04/14... · Posted by u/daniel_iversen

etaerc · 6 years ago

Also a funny side note: Why do people who seemingly care about public opinion so much always screw up their public opinion? I'd argue torturing people is more in their interest than actual public opinion. With the latter they just try to stay above zero as long as possible to continue with their actual addiction, getting hard-ons from watching people suffer.

That's also why such people can under no circumstances really succeed with businesses. It's not the same kind of personality as Steve Jobs for instance. Jobs also hurt people, but the goal was always to increase public opinion and make money.

The differences between a sociopath (Jobs) and a parasite (this dude here).

And knowing that he's a parasite and not a sociopath, why keep him on as a CEO? The secretary or toilet cleaning person would have a lower chance to screw everything up.

etaerc commented on Mutiny at HQ Trivia Fails to Oust CEO techcrunch.com/2019/04/14... · Posted by u/daniel_iversen

orliesaurus · 6 years ago

I didn't know their old CEO died of drug overdose...wow! That's crazy to think... bad luck? I wonder if VCs have C levels take any drug tests or carry pretty thorough background check on founders who they invest into?!

etaerc · 6 years ago

Huh? There's a political battle for CEO in a multi million dollar startup and then the very new CEO dies on a drug overdose and nobody talks about possible murder?

etaerc commented on Why Do Buses Bunch? setosa.io/bus/... · Posted by u/elliekelly

zhte415 · 6 years ago

> To further the transportation analogy, the buses (scanner threads) in our city avoid clumping by teleporting themselves to a random stop (location in the table) if they get too close to the bus in front of them.

Subway trains do this "to regulate service" iirc is the term used on the London Underground.

Takt time［1］and Drum Buffer Rope［2］both related concepts of regulating flow through a process/system.

［1］ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takt_time

［2］ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_constraints

etaerc · 6 years ago

I don't really understand why they don't "teleport". There are additional ways to get to a point ahead of a slowed down train with a replacement train, right? When you see one is dragged down too much and starts clogging, introduce a new train in front that jumps in at an expected schedule, then slowly empty the old train and take it out of the loop when its empty.

I haven't seen that but I'm not sure why its not done. I don#t think it will be more expensive in the long run than increasing slack. And the service experience and maintenance level is increased drastically.

etaerc commented on CityBound – An open source city simulation game in Rust github.com/citybound/city... · Posted by u/formalsystem

siavosh · 6 years ago

Anyone know of any ASCII city planning games in the spirit of dwarf fortress?

etaerc · 6 years ago

Problem with that is user experience, even for hardcore terminal users like me. So I doubt anybody would really develop it in a DF level of indepth-ness.

Like, think how non-square zoning would work.

etaerc commented on CityBound – An open source city simulation game in Rust github.com/citybound/city... · Posted by u/formalsystem

theyinwhy · 6 years ago

I saw there are PRs open from 2 years ago, like "added truck". Why hasn't it been merged, there are no comments, only thumbs up, and what's your general take on PRs? Are they welcome or not?

etaerc · 6 years ago

If you merge all the PRs into your fork and he doesn't, then you are the main branch. Welcome to open source.

etaerc commented on SUSE will soon be the largest independent Linux company zdnet.com/article/the-new... · Posted by u/CrankyBear

etaerc · 6 years ago

And they fail so much it is painful to watch. Strangely in capitalism the fit will sell themselves when able to get a really sweet deal. But the unfit will "survive" in some sense as "independent" units.

etaerc commented on Who can I hire to hack me? shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/03/... · Posted by u/edent

etaerc · 6 years ago

Most people probably forget how you could use a "stalk my ex" russian bulletin board service for $50 to stalk yourself. Russian script kiddies are probably happy to comply since the FBI can't really harm them.

But I think in most countries you would still be liable to Google/FB etc if the attack gets detected and linked to you.

etaerc commented on GitHub may have been blocked in parts of China viewdns.info/chinesefirew... · Posted by u/sexy_seedbox

jjjjjjjjjjjjjjj · 6 years ago

Sounds strange. Programming resources usually aren't blocked here - even when they're on Wikipedia. StackOverflow isn't blocked, and GitHub hasn't been blocked either.

E: Excluding Google search I've only encountered one blocked programming resource when sporadically programming on my spare time here: golang.org - which I'm guessing is because it's on hosted on Google's servers.

etaerc · 6 years ago

Yeah but how do you search for stuff there if google doesn't work? I.e. you try to learn "udp hole punching" how do you get the relevant wikipedia, stackoverflow etc pages?

etaerc commented on GitHub may have been blocked in parts of China viewdns.info/chinesefirew... · Posted by u/sexy_seedbox

etaerc · 6 years ago

I have a friend in China who's trying to learn software development by himself. It's ridiculously hard compared to the west. It shouldn't be underestimated how Wikipedia, Stackoverflow and Github can increase your learning speed.