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Re:A study finds that bosses can be useful but also sneaky on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @12:12PM (#21336058)
> I worked at a place that had a very lean management:worker ratio, and instead developers ended up doing a lot of the management work, effectively becoming managers without the pay bump or recognition.

Also branded as "Flat Structure"

Re:Saudi Aramco Is the WeWork of Energy with Pulled IPO on Monday October 21, 2019 @09:49AM (#21312191)
> How much time needs to pass before the British aren’t blamed for the Middle East’s problems?

Are we just going to pretend the UK hasn't almost incessantly meddled in the Middle East for the past 75 years?

Re:Ask HN: Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro? on Sunday October 20, 2019 @01:40PM (#21305659)
Thanks to constant throttling. Which makes an i7 feel like barely an i3. (i7-7660U in an XPS 13, at least)
Re:Four kinds of documentation on Friday October 18, 2019 @07:49AM (#21290487)
I work with a very large, complicated piece of software which has quite a comprehensive API but it's basically CRUD on top of a database. There is zero documentation about what happens when you update an object - only OpenAPI. To find that out, you would have to dig in to the database triggers. Half of working with it is trial-and-error and the other half is hope-and-pray.
Re:UK drops plans for online pornography age verification system on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @11:37AM (#21271535)
> Instead, the government would instead focus on measures to protect children in the much broader online harms white paper.