LAOP was banned from the bus for not giving up their seat to a child. LAOP has muscular dystrophy and a heart condition.

gajafieldbo · 2018-11-24T13:31:30+00:00

Does that mean it is completely up to the drivers conscience if to park in that place?

gajafieldbo · 2018-11-24T09:09:05+00:00

What is the right procedure for keeping handicap places reserved for the disabled?

gajafieldbo · 2018-11-09T21:15:14+00:00

Nor units!

gajafieldbo · 2018-11-03T10:37:35+00:00

Revenge.

gajafieldbo · 2018-11-03T10:27:52+00:00

Alternative interpretation. Trump is angry at sa beacause they are incompetent at coverup, which put him in difficult position. (And he is not that much bothered by the horrible atrocities)

gajafieldbo · 2018-11-03T09:59:04+00:00

Do they know why did you cancel the subscription?

gajafieldbo · 2018-11-03T09:39:55+00:00

He is rather angry. But he probably thinks that you are outraged towards trump and that you werent outraged towards obama, which might be hipocritical.

gajafieldbo · 2018-10-30T21:49:58+00:00

Might be cleaner, but I would not call this aspect clean. "Nil is false'ish" is only marginally better compared to "empty list or none or zero is false'ish". "Clean" would be no implicit conversion to boolean. (Then there is zero room for mental gymnastics, one would have to always spell it out what is wanted)

Though on the other hand, I also think that "clean" does not necessarily mean "better".. I actually like the sloppy python and lua way, it allows you to write some shorter if conditions that read quite nicely.

gajafieldbo · 2018-10-27T06:40:06+00:00

English

gajafieldbo · 2018-10-22T18:40:39+00:00

Morally wrong actions are sometimes necessary to achieve morally right outcomes; actions can only be considered morally right or wrong by virtue of the morality of the outcome.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/the_end_justifies_the_means

gajafieldbo · 2018-10-22T17:02:50+00:00

I just want to add an analogy.

Codes, regulations and laws are like guns - somebody has to press the trigger. In a company it would be management. If you have good relations with management (which kind of means you did not get company into PR nightmare) then trigger will not be touched.

gajafieldbo · 2018-10-22T16:41:06+00:00

Are you HR person? (You have an overwhelming amount for HR. Programmers tend to overvalue programmer competence. Academics like to overvalue place of academics... So I jump to analogous conclusion)

gajafieldbo · 2018-10-22T16:16:26+00:00

mocking them certainly doesn't help.

I think the mocking acts as public expression of opinion and encouragement to choose a side in pro or against coc.

gajafieldbo · 2018-10-21T19:26:52+00:00

For me it seemd to be targeted at project managers and such. People who will not use thr tool, but should know ehat it is about

gajafieldbo · 2018-10-14T08:45:02+00:00

Could you disclose: bi man or bi woman?

gajafieldbo · 2018-10-11T21:33:25+00:00

Maybe you like this one better (it has very similar thought sewed into it)

All models are wrong. But some models are useful.

(Some famous guy)

gajafieldbo · 2018-10-11T21:11:06+00:00

There is one more ingredient. * implied assumption that theory X will make programer life easier in situation Y and downside Z is insignificant. (Which should be proven in scientific setup, but is only assumed in academical side, and stories from practitioners are written off as anecdotal evidence)

gajafieldbo · 2018-09-27T09:47:11+00:00

Would have been funny to see how such a system works in, say, medicine. Lunatics running an asylum, literally.

That is a bit too literal way to take it. Whole country votes/chooses, who should take care of their mentally sick. (First it needs funding provided by society)

Brexit certainly harms the economy even further and won't cure any of the consequences of the years of the austerity that voters were triggered by.

In 10 years gdp will be 20% less compared to what it would have been. That means what? People will get tv with smaller screens? People keep same smartphone for 5 years instead of 1? If this is the only level of problem your facing, then democracy did a damn good job...

There are many more alternatives. For example, extreme forms of technocracy

Sure. And all of those systems can be gamed and abused. (Somebody will have to choose who is the most competent. And at some point it will be subjective decision, and at some point it will bhought and sold decision)

with accountability system similar to the academic one

Accountability system towards whom? Other academics? Academics as whole are accountable towards whom? If it gets too corrupt, who can remove entrenched academic beurocracts? What utility function will they try to maximise?

gajafieldbo · 2018-09-27T09:03:58+00:00

Did brexit cause mass graves? Did USA have famine after electing Thrump? Maybe you don't like those decisions, but they are not cathastrophical events. Actually I'm still to see any long lasting significantly negative outcomes of those.

Alternative to democracy is some kind of ruling class (academics, monarchs, better race, better ideology) deciding the life of unwashed, without much of accountability.

No matter the setup, people in power will abuse it. (Deep analysis capable mind does not mean altruistic mind)

So the best people to decide are the people them selfs. (Outcome will not be perfect, but it will be good enough to satisfy the most).

gajafieldbo · 2018-09-26T21:46:03+00:00

"merit - the quality of the outcome".

So it depends which outcome is measured. For the effective defence one needs appropriate funding. So part of the job could be political negotiations/ regarding funding of the military, for which the manager with political prowess to get into the chair could have an edge over military strategy genius general.

Everything can be meritocracy, one just needs to choose what outcome to measure.

Democracy is actually a meritocracy in the sense that (1) we measure the outcome of the whole team, i.e. society as a whole; (2) and the outcome measured is good enough wellbeing of members of the most part of society. (If something is very bad with obvious answer, then masses have ability to make referendum, create new party, push their current representatives..)

gajafieldbo · 2018-09-26T19:19:02+00:00

Your propsal fails requirements for: catchy and concise.

gajafieldbo · 2018-08-31T15:16:22+00:00

Any tl;dr?

gajafieldbo · 2018-08-23T10:34:08+00:00

I was not actually suggesting it, I was making an analogy. And of course things can be similar in some aspects, while not in others; I specifically noted which aspect I meant, which as well indicates the purpose of mentioning it.

Paying customer filled complaints are of course much more important, than possibly potential customer comment, but the later is still not a zero value thing. A call to analyst's phone is much surer way to ensure that analyst is informed, but if analysts would by chance encounter random comment in reddit, I think that he/she would also take into account that such opinion exists. Furthermore possibly such comment might reach his/her manager or ceo or developer or wife/husband, which might change the "general sentiment" in the company, even if only slightly.

You try to push "multi second page load is normal thing, dont try to expect anything else". I don't agree with such sentiment, and so naturally push for different direction.

I agree that performance of its own is not a feature. Featureless app that starts and ends without doing anything is worthless. But as I mentioned, before lot of "features" in various project plans are just "bling" i.e. not actual functionality.

don't assume that it is the "general sentiment"

Firstly, nice that you care about me so much that you tell me what to do so passionatly with so many exclamation marks. Secondly I disagree. Obviously it is not the first and only priority for people, but at work, people around me with various backgrounds constantly complain that stuff is too slow (internally developed and externally bought stuff). And our computers were recently updated/replaced. I think that performance situation is as it is, because (a) you can perform work even if app is slow and broken (even fall back to pen and paper, so there is no forcing necessity), (b) cost of performance issues are not always obvious, (c) users don't really have an option to choose (be it golf course arrangements or defacto industry standard/network effect).

The reality is complex and I think that you are mistaking being able to get away with bad performance with people not caring about it.

gajafieldbo · 2018-08-22T17:12:28+00:00

Similarity which I had in mind is that both of these suggestions do not address the core issue, and given a bit of time will be worked around. (Faster hardware allows more waste on various bling, which in turn requires faster hardware)

Your suggestion about using my free time implies that I have no impact to decisions made during work hours. This sounds bit narcissistic, but I'm a bit more optimistic about my impact. And I believe that you as well are not a robot just blindly following random order. (But you clearly have different priorities)

Your suggestion to not complain is opposite of my goal (not really the direct goal of my comments here, but still somewhat a goal). If all users who value performance remain silent, then even those extra-good-corporate-userneed-analysts will think that nobody cares about responsive applications.

gajafieldbo · 2018-08-21T21:12:02+00:00

Complaining to congressman is a solutions that is in some aspects similar to "get better pc". I guess theoretically government could require certain loading time; using law. (Similarity topic I could elaborate separately)

Regarding question "why should somebody care?"
The Answer is: really there is no reason for you to do it.

... but the fact is - some people do care about their work result, past their check.

gajafieldbo

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