Tideflat

Letting software engineers use their favourite tools, even if those tools are suboptimal, is a way to make your engineers happier without paying them anymore.

it may cost you more in slower development times.

I, for one, can see what he posts and they aren't hidden in any way.

In vanilla C, exceptions do not exist. Thus goto is the standard (at least for the Linux kernel) statement for handling exceptions.

Inkscape is defiantly software where reading the manual is a good idea. I tried to use it with out doing so, and found it unusable.

Not all markets are superstar markets. Some places the 100th best worker is about just as good as the best worker, like for janitors.

Use boustrophedon for equality!

Many countries are irregular polygons like Chile. Thus a square is very close to a circle, relative to the other shapes.

Less well known languages like Japanese tend to have higher returns on investment than common ones like Spanish. IIRC Spanish has a return on investment of about 3%.

This only works when there are economies of scale. If there are significant dis-economies of scale smaller firms can out-compete the large firms.

The large firm can't just buy up all the small firms either because new firms are started all the time, and if every person who starts a small firm is rewarded with a buyout, the industry will attract more and more new firms until the large firm can no longer afford to buy out new firms. --------------- Examples of industries that not dominated by three or four large companies: mining, farming, house cleaning, and being a land lord.

Job training by employers doesn't work great, because the worker can get training at an employer that gives training and then switch to one who pays more because that employer doesn't have to do training.

Though possibly that could be fixed with proper regulation.

The business owner also doesn't have the training to account for the actions of all the other businesses. The economics professor does.

Some employers dislike tipping because they can't control what percentage of the price of food goes towards paying the wait staff.

Having little or no fees was supposed to be one of the big advantages of bitcoin compared to traditional financial transactions.

Note that MySpace still exists.

Woot! I can stop feeling guilty about hosting my hobbist code on sourceforge out of laziness and not understanding git.

The people that still use flip phones do. Not everyone is on the forefront of technology.

There is a tendency to make names that are okay for print but hard to pronounce like X.org or XFCE.

The costumers do get VC-subsidized cleaning for a while though.

(Not saying it great, but it is good for the costumer is the short run.)

Or Wikipedia books: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Books (This is not Wikibooks.)