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Gas stations are consumers of the products of oil refineries and oil wells. HP is a consumer of Intel's chips.

Free markets reward business to business sales very well.

you guys know that the plastic surgeons who were telling their clients they could make them look like Zuckerberg are hoping this doesn't get out, right?

I just spent the better part of a month cleaning up some CI issues. By the time I go to bed tonight, I hope to have a CI process completed for two platform implementations of an application that's been under development for some time. Part of the process is static analysis and linting.

I've seen the static analysis and lint results already. Not pretty, but we can clear most of it up as we develop new features.

Definitely a process that anything beyond a trivial app needs in place.

Depending on the personal injuries claims that courts hand out, this could be risky in some countries.

We're kind of talking about two different, but very similar, topics.

One is that Indian work culture is long hours, 6 day weeks, get it done and do it inexpensively. This is true, it's cultural. Some of their practices prefer manual and repetitive work over a style which requires a drawn out preparation involving planning and automation. If you're paying $15/hr for highly skilled labor, that can make sense.

The other is racial, the belief that can become a part of that work culture, where people who do not work like that are inferior workers. Given the rarity of Indian work culture and cultures similar to it, it's still cultural, but more racially limited. Someone of Asian descent, used to working in sweatshop style conditions, sees someone who doesn't look like they're used to it, and they assume the non Asian is an inferior worker, then it's racial. It's anecdotal, but I've been on the receiving end of both unspoken and spoken racism, veiled as cultural differences, about how North Americans are lazy and cheat their employers.

That said, I'm typing this out well aware of how this looks. It's important to note that I know not all Indians are like that. It's just a hard habit for people who spent 5, 10 years working long hours like that to break, and it's not always easy for them to look at a worker creating equivalent output with different methods in less time and say "yeah, that person works as hard as I do."

It's true. It's been my experience that Indians, the few hundred I've worked with, are willing to put in long hours. Many of which were spent playing ping pong, talking, getting coffees. They also were working, but, the long hours in the office weren't all work.

They also held the belief that they were harder workers than non-Indians, and preferred greatly to talk in native languages, likely unintentionally excluding non-Indians.

At some level, race is a factor.

What makes so many Indian shops terrible places to work?

the existing model has been to subsidize newspaper sales with advertising for a very long time. This same model carried forward through radio and television.

The alternative is a pay-per-view service, or subscribing to wires. I haven't done any research into the viability of that type of service, but it is a paradigm shift.

There are things in the world worth more than getting an idea out there. Knowing that the project(s) I've shelved has/have likely kept a few people alive is worth more than being able to say I stuck it to the man.

static wick failure, minor fuel leak, big bang.

That said, I really have no clue about how these things work. That's just one scenario I could see leading to a midair explosion.

I'll add another:

It doesn't matter where you go, until you change, everything will remain the same.

edit: For relevant context: if you're thinking about quitting, your alternatives are 1) give two weeks and leave, for another job or not.

2) stay and say nothing, hope it gets better

3) Risk it. Talk to your boss. Apply for other jobs quietly if you want some security.

I was going to snark and say "monster.com"

Then I went to Mattermark and read about it a bit... could be useful. Maybe a bit excessive to get more than the free trial for a job search, but, for investing, it could be useful.

why do i have this far off feeling that there's another winnuke style attack lurking in this...

I agree with most of what you're saying. It's just another point of view, and it might only even seem "bleak" because Gibson is so nonchalant about the worlds he writes. They're futures that the characters just accept as normal, whatever they are. As another poster says, only the children realized that they were in space.

If you read them with a sense of wonderment, and put aside the narrative, you see things like (in the book I'm reading) an SUV that can survive a flood and a massive accident with impressive safety technology. That's pretty cool.

The rest of the book isn't about a bright, shiny happy future. Life isn't like that for anyone, and it's not something I could see being enjoyable to read or watch, as a style in a dramatic narrative. A comedy, maybe, but they tend not to be ground-breaking future-predictors.

I'm going to guess you're either around 20 and just don't know many people who took up new pursuits in their later years, or that you're late 50s and haven't seen peers put the same amount of effort they put in when they were in their 20s.

Most of the 15, 20 year olds I know who are _good_ at something are almost obsessive about it. It's not just that they're young, it's that they're really hard workers.

It could be related to post-retirement activities.

Men, as a hypothetical, might take up drinking and fishing, leading to an increase in mortality caused by liver failure, cancer, what have you.

Women, again as a hypothetical, might take up other activities that don't increase mortality.

Legit question, no snark intended:

How well does node scale? It's running in one thread, and from my use (a very small amount of experimentation and reading), it doesn't look like it could handle more than a few hundred concurrent users without stringing together some more robust queuing outside of the node code.

JS has some kludges. They aren't disappearing in ES6. They might be marked for deprecation in ES7. They might be gone if Javascript makes it to JS8.

Most of the really truly shitty parts of js development are caused by the lack of cross-browser standards.

I used to say the same thing. I had the opportunity to work with some decently talented frontend developers and a tech lead with a strong preference for engineering over creative development.

I spend a lot more time improving my javascript skills now.

s/tweet/tweet using a voice-to-text software so you don't have to stop what you're doing for 5 minutes to type/g