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The Intel motto you quote is a much better formulation of this concept, if in fact the recent noise from Basecamp is a sign that they agree with Intel on this. Communication is also an important skill for leaders, and that seems to be lacking.
No, its just the way he is and has always been.

Its really sad. He misunderstood a comment about a pyramid and instead of investigating a bit more about the meaning he decided to assert managerial power.

When he finally gets to the point where he realizes his mistake, I wonder how he'll spin it (subconciously) into a rant about how awesome he is that he realized his mistake.
If someone slips an AirTag in your car to stalk you, your own phone would enable your stalker because by default it would automatically update the location of the AirTag, even if you are not an AirTag user.

It is a bit different if your stalker used Tile to track you. You'd have to download that app and opt in.
That would be fine if the only important information in a commit was the message. But that's not the case.

A commit gives you a message, but also a specific line of code and its surrounding context. The message is just one more bit of information (an important one!).

By squashing, maybe you keep the messages, but without their associated changeset (which you lost when you squashed), these messages are of poor to null value.
In japan some rural households use propane solid oxide fuel cells in this manner. Instead of combusting the fuel, which is loud, it’s pushed through a piece of exotic ceramic which causes a chemical reaction that splits the fuel into hydrogen gas and water vapor—the resulting free electrons are used for electricity, the hydrogen gas is used as a home/water heater and to keep the ceramic fuel cell at its reaction temperature, and the water vapor is simply vented.
>As for no more dwelling on past decisions, that is the same thing as Intel's cultural value of "Disagree, but then commit."

You mean the company who is flailing in the market, losing employees and generally considered a bad place to work?

>"See, I told it wouldn't work" is about the most immature and unhelpful attitude to have - no matter how correct it may be.

Blame free post mortems are vital for an organization to grow and improve with time. If you cannot review past bad decisions and learn from then then you will be forced to repeat the same mistakes while your competitors evolve.

>but it undermines everything if someone keeps harping on a prior decision.

If accepting a mistake was made and then publicly coming up with a plan to not have it happen again undermines your ability to lead then you are a horrible leader.
Imagine being so insufferable that your CEO will half ruin his company to get you out.

That's the takeaway here.
You mean that a compelled expression of a view is not disingenuous? Forcing someone to express their support is the definition of disingenuous, because they do not do it out of their own volition. I think virtue-signal is perfectly suitable here.

>People are not being harassed to virtue signal. People are being harassed to be explicit about the contents of their character.

Whatever way you frame it, it is still harassment and IMO shouldn't be tolerated.
I believe you. But I also assume you're not dead weight your employer would be better off without. However, dead weight is what a lot of commentators online claim to think the departed employees were--and that Basecamp cleverly rid itself of them today--without any real evidence for these bold ideas.
> These guidelines exist for a reason.

They exist because of the economic context at the time and place that they were generated, which may not have been valid for much more than that immediate context.

If you can find and examine the mathematical assumptions about cost and risk that justify the rule of thumb against current conditions, then you can make an informed evaluation of whether or not it applies to the current situation. If you can’t, like folk remedies, the advice is as likely to harmful as helpful in your actual concrete circumstances.
I worked while attending college. I suspect the supply of those jobs will be affected, meaning marginally employable youth will just be unemployed.
This is a point which I think is really tough for people to come to grips with. If you're in the majority, if you're what's considered "normal," then a whole lot of things aren't "political" for you but become political when someone else starts talking about them. When Bob talks about his wife, he's just making small talk; when Fred talks about his husband, he's "a gay activist." And god forbid one of your employees be transgender or nonbinary: requesting that they be acknowledged as such can be interpreted as an overtly political statement. Look at how many people get super, super angry with anyone who voluntarily lists their pronouns somewhere.
Yes, the point of most franchised chains is to extract wealth from communities rather than invest in a stable, skilled workforce delivering a good product.

McDonalds, YUM Brands, et all charge large franchise fees and force use of particular vendors and business practices to ensure they extract as much income as possible from their franchisees.
ISC urges updates of DNS servers to wipe out new BIND vulnerabilities
Ah, so no evidence at all was presented to support your claim that it was international, and your suggestion that the court found it so turns out to be bullshit since the court didn’t even rule.
The trans person is "dictating other people’s words" in one, very limited context: when referring directly to that person.

Given that the only obvious reason to actively refuse to use their preferred pronouns amounts to a pretty deep attack on the legitimacy of their identity, you can see why it would not feel like a trivial thing.

You might be similarly intent on insisting that people call you <actual name> rather than <offensive nickname>; that's just as real an example of "dictating other people's words".
Couldn't Basecamp just have designated bathrooms, choose one way or the other, employees follow company guidelines and HR for dealing with complaints? Would employees discussing this internally finally solve the bathroom war and bring everyone to one side?
It boggles my mind that someone pays for a CMS. Given the abundance of free options what are they paying for?
> At a whopping 7%, I expect a lot of startup founders and small business owners looking for an exit will be moving across the border to Portland right before they sell their companies.

Why? Oregon has income tax of 9-10% on all income over $9k/year.
It's not. It really only affects those working part time jobs from 15 to the age of 18. Full time work is not allowed in most Australian states until the age of 17.

There's far fewer 15-18 year olds than there are 18-65 year olds. There's also fewer again that can work during school hours.

The idea that teenagers are being paid too much or have an advantage in Australians case and that therefore this should prevent changes to minimum wage laws is just a distraction. It keeps getting brought up by people desperate to push a position but who don't want to argue about the far bigger issue of adults trying to survive on minimum wage. Teenagers are an edge case in this discussion and they really shouldn't be the focus.
NFTs are probably more similar to baseball cards and other collectables than you give credit.

I can easily find an image on any card and print it. Still we value the original. NFTs are a proof the you own an original and not a copy.

A piece of cardboard is all you own with a baseball card. Value comes from artificial scarcity that owner has no control over. Baseball card companies can easily print more cards and destroy value. They don’t. There’s a social contract between collector and producer. Similar to NFTs.
I don't know about big, but when I was at school-leaver age I would pretty regularly hear about friends getting way less shifts at their job once they hit 18.
Political speech is anything related to normative discussion of public or social policy especially as it relates to government action. Simple.
Can you elaborate some more on your cloud backup solution? More specifically, I'm curious about the privacy/security aspect. It's the main reason why I've been somewhat hesitant to adopt cloud backups for my own computers. \
If you want to take the experience further, I would recommend the following Redline engine rebuild time lapses that Hagerty has. They are mesmerizing and incredible. Their engine re-builder David is a master.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHKCmmH-x9mI1aCu3Xr4_...
Former member of the Rails core team, in fact, from which he has also resigned. https://twitter.com/georgeclaghorn/status/138813101023207424...
Why do you need to run that on the client? And even if you do need to run it on the client for some reason, GitHub has APIs that you could use which have an allow-all CORS policy (as all APIs do).

CORS is defending against a particular class of attack, which is indistinguishable from the scenario you outlined: evilexample.com wants to get access to your private repos on GitHub (which can be reached purely through GET requests).
~200,000 is number directly employed by McDonalds. They have 5-10% of stores. There doesn't seem to be a current accurate number for total including franchisees - but seems to be in the 1.5 - 2 million range.
There's no doubt that it's causing significant harm now, but I think you're not seeing this from a longer term perspective: if they think continuing to allow political discussion is likely to create more workplace problems in the future, then that could outweigh any problems they cause now in their hiring pipeline. Two possible points in favor of this trade-off:

1. I've heard vague hearsay that it's hard to get a job there and they don't hire that often, they're not a big company with a big revolving door. Hiring new employees may be a less frequent and less consequential problem than avoiding workplace issues that affect existing employees.

2. This has apparently enhanced the company's image amongst some people, just read over this HN thread. It's not clear that this will damage their hiring appeal and overall ability to competently fill positions.
It's not an anti-dumping measure. TSMC would be profitable paying their workers that much and so will be SMIC.
Wow, that LiquidPiston rotary looks very interesting! I hadn't seen that before - I too hope it pans out.

> I'm not really surprised they stopped making them, due to fuel economy...

Eh, nobody bought that car for the fuel economy!

The car sold itself... just one test drive and you had to have it. I've owned and driven muscle and other sports cars, and still nothing compares to the RX-8 - it's just such a unique experience.

Not sure how you're doing the conversion, but if you're keeping the carbon fiber driveshaft (vs. a motor on each wheel I suppose), there will be nothing keeping it from screaming off the line with an electric motor under the hood (traditionally the wankel wasn't good off the line with low RPM's, power band kicking in around 6500 if I recall - could make for a great "sleeper"). Although I'm unsure if the driveshaft would stand up to the torque a motor would output, since the wankel wasn't particularly torquey.

If you're not already, keep a blog and pictures of the conversion - that would make for an interesting read!
https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/27/22406673/basecamp-politic...

> Employees say the founders’ memos unfairly depicted their workplace as being riven by partisan politics, when in fact the main source of the discussion had always been Basecamp itself.

> “At least in my experience, it has always been centered on what is happening at Basecamp,” said one employee — who, like most of those I spoke with today, requested anonymity so as to freely discuss internal deliberations. “What is being done at Basecamp? What is being said at Basecamp? And how it is affecting individuals? It has never been big political discussions, like ‘the postal service should be disbanded,’ or ‘I don’t like Amy Klobuchar.’”
There's a global pandemic.
The idea that “politics” is a distinct idea is absurd. To use your example of sex jokes, I can very easily see the same people trying to ban “political discussions” supporting sex jokes at work. It’s just a joke! Laugh or don’t, that’s up to you, either way it’s not big deal. Just grow up and accept that there are different types of humor, and complaining about jokes is just a way to bring everyone down. Focus on your job, not the jokes. In fact, that was the very argument before sexually harassment and hostile work environments became grounds for civil lawsuits.

Also, the very idea that any company is “above politics” is patently absurd. Is labor organizing political? It’s certainly about the workplace. Is advocating for a tax shelter in Delaware and Ireland political? How about advocating for removing the tax shelters? That’s certainly about the company.

Nah, banning “politics” is just a way to enforce the CEO’s politics and place them above question.
God help us, what does a Holiday Inn mean over there!
I suspect these security bugs are deliberately inserted by the state security apparatus.
FWIW, many states allow you to serve alcohol once you're 18. But the "high schooler" lack is still in play.
True, but you can also use a tiny bit of battery power to do "reverse acceleration" to do the final stopping.

It is true that electric braking would continuously use a small amount of power to stay stopped on a slope. That wouldn't be an issue for a few hours, but you couldn't park on a hill for months without ending up with a flat battery, and then eventually the car rolling away.

Small locking pins are the answer to this, rather like the "park" on automatic gearboxes. They are very cheap, since they don't need to do any actual stopping, but merely keeping something stopped.
Realistically, GDP has grown substantially with the owners receiving nearly all the benefits.

Raising the minimum wage is unlikely to affect employment much because of just how profitable companies are today

Mind you I think a better tslternative to a specific minimum wage is to have a guaranteed government job at a specific wage. That sets a bar that all labourers have an option, while some lower paying jobs can still exist if they're otherwise competitive in other experiences
I haven't measured it, but the client lib is extremely light. Definitely under 10kb compressed, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's much less.
There's nothing wrong with a teenager mopping some floors. On the contrary, I learned a lot from the experience.
Saying "I don't think we should make fun of our customers" isn't a flame war. 1/3 of employees don't leave because a few unreasonable people are told to tone it down.
It doesn’t though. Poverty is well defined (and is defined based on the number of people in the household).

https://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty-guidelines
Hi Femme, my basis is their career choice. There are plenty of non-profits hiring in tech and doing some great work. And yet, these individuals chose not to work in this space. The earnings-to-give model sounds awfully similar to trickle down economics. Or, “once I get mine, everyone else can have theirs”. I don’t believe that as an altruistic premise. It’s what people convince themselves of in order to continue to feel self-righteous without really sacrificing anything. It has nothing to do with whether these people care or not, it doesn’t matter. Because when push comes to shove, they chose an avenue in spite of what they claim to believe in.
> There are times where the grid is producing more energy than is being demanded

That never happens. The production and demand in the electric grid must always be matched. When they are not, the voltage and frequency increase (excess production) or decrease (excess demand), and control mechanisms on all generators in the grid regulate the production so that it matches the demand again; if that's not possible (because the production and demand are too mismatched), safety mechanisms disconnect parts of the grid (and power off the generators) to avoid costly damage.
I wonder how those who wanted political discussions allowed would feel for example if they had to have political discussions with Trump supporters.

I’ve never come across a leftist who wanted to debate anything or was open to changing their mind, or even wanted others to change their mind.

It’s all just intimidation tactics, name-calling, and cancelling.

This is what is unique today. There’s no trying to convince someone to “come to our side”.

Once an enemy, always an enemy.
This should be comments #s 1 2 and 3. There are 5 billion people living in countries with lower standards of living than the US. The reason corporations unanimously support immigration is precisely because immigrants from poorer countries will work for less. This is why immigration from Guatemala is very unpopular in Mexico, but no one calls Mexicans racist for wanting to protect their hard won wages and standard of living.
Name one state where someone making minimum wage can afford an apartment, food, healthcare, and utilities, and some form of transportation. I think it's fair to say that if you can't, that counts as poverty.
Thank you for a thoughtful nuanced response. I think your perspective that questioning hyperbolic rhetoric is not the same as tacit support for the underlying issue is really important. It is critical to maintain perspective in discussion and avoid vilification of a counter party.
I prefer to be addressed as “your holiness” and not doing so is to disrespect and violate my dignity.
They usually figure out the mapping/array of dates per month early.
Why would this be an issue for machines on the cloud? If someone can upload binaries to your machine you have bigger problems, no?
Would have been the early 80's typing in BASIC games on BBC Micros at school, followed by a VIC-20 my aunt owned that led to getting my own C64 in '85 when I seriously started programming.
it's funny you think crypto is a hedge when it is highly correlated with sp500. doesn't bitcoin have a beta of like 2 or something?

If anything I would view it as a leveraged bet on the broader market.
>With such a small profit margin, arbitrarily raising everyone's wages is likely going to kill the business.

There are maybe ten lunch places within walking distance of my (suburban) office.

The variety is nice, certainly. I like having a bunch of options. I don't think it would destroy society if I only had half the choices, though.
> Artificially inflating cost of parts can trivially be used to enforce planned obsolescence.

It could, but nobody has presented any evidence that Apple is doing this, and their business strategy is openly stated to involve increasing the lifetime of their devices, so that they can deliver services to more users, so this is just innuendo.
This. 1000x.

If you've never experience a spittle-inflected rant disrupting a meeting, because some individual felt it their duty and privilege to engage with everyone on their particular viewpoint ... you simply don't know how disconcerting this can be. I have. I don't care much about my co-workers political views. I'm always happy to have a beer and discuss things after work (well, virtually these days).

But making people uncomfortable because you feel entitled to push your world view at work, makes you more of a liability to the company than an asset. Which in the case of Basecamp, the owners may have addressed well for all concerned.
Android apps are written in Kotlin, and Gradle config is also written in Kotlin. How come it is different from the JS situation? Even though Gradle can be configured in Groovy, and Android apps can be written in Java, it is still the same ecosystem - basically, the situation of TypeScript/PureScript/WhateverScript and JavaScript.

Gradle wrapper is just a name for a script (automatically created by Gradle btw) which allows one not to have any kind of Gradle-related tooling installed on the machine (basically, to run build tasks you execute `./gradlew someTask`, and it takes care about downloading and running the appropriate Gradle version) - which I think is a clear benefit over the fact that you need to have `npm` installed system-wide or via a tool like NVM in order to build JS projects.

Gradle has its own warts, and a lot of them, but at least there is only one major build system in this area, and it is simply impossible for a library published to a Maven repo to be dependent on the build system it is built with.
People say "If a business can't afford to pay a living wage, then they should close". But won't that hurt consumers and distort the market?

Personally, I like having many options for food to eat. If all the marginal small businesses had to close because they can't pay someone $15/hr to wipe tables, then we might just be left with large chains like Olive Garden or Cheesecake Factory. I think people should get paid what they are worth, whatever the job. But I also like being able to get food from small restaurants from different cultures.

And if all the marginal restaurants close, won't that just give more power to the larger corporations? they'll be able to raise prices, lower wages, whatever they want because there will be less competition.

Obviously, the unemployment increase / stimulus in the US will end at some point. And then there will be a lot of people looking for jobs at once. People should figure out what they think a fair wage is for entry level jobs and take it if it's being offered.
Firstly, who defines the "sides". There is a massive amount of US presence online which often reduces to Democrat vs Republican.

Except for those of us outside the US, who have no interest in US politics are often been told if you don't pick a side you are siding with evil.

Secondly, that statement is basically public cohersion. If you are told, you have to pick - victim or oppressor - absolutely noone is going to publicly pick oppressor. Its kafaesque in its simiplicity.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26878110
Ah, "cat.jpg". 100 millionth file name, you can see the post where that nugget was let out, and the followup apology from DHH on the svn blog still.

Thing is, Taylor, the head of Ops who made the fateful blog post made it up as a joke. He didn't check, or look it up, he wouldn't have done. The chance of it being called "cat.jpg" is slim. It was literally a joke based on the number of cat pictures that people uploaded to the Internet.

DHH proof-read the post.

People complained that we were prying into customer data (we weren't, and Basecamp's customer data privacy and security policies are incredibly strong), but DHH wouldn't let us "come clean" believing that people would think we were covering it up, so he apologised for it as if it were real.

Source: Worked at basecamp at the time.
Is a 15-18 year old working fast food child labor?
Movable Type did this in 2004 and was never heard from again. Their users fled to WordPress.
The experience is smoother with Roku TV. You only have one UI to deal with.
This is a good example, I think. Just about everyone insists that other people use their preferred pronouns; it's just that most of us are lucky enough that ~everyone automatically does so.

If you would complain if a colleague persistently referred to you as 'she' (if you're a man) or 'he' (if you're a woman), your real argument is not that nobody should be 'forced' to use a certain set of pronouns when referring to another person.
So, my take has been that Apple’s been doing a long push to switch incrementally from a Unix user/group/ACL security mode to a capability model: the various entitlements, things like PowerBox not having an API, notarization, etc.

The big issue I’ve always had with capability security (as implemented here and in Fuschia) is that, while it is a better security model in many ways, it’s also a lot easier to use against developers and power users, especially when you depend on PKI to implement your unforgeable tokens.