Re: Price fixing by algorithm is still price fixing

I lived in a building that was owned by a hedge fund and used algorithmic pricing. It was frustrating to know the vacancy rate in the building, how desperate the sales people were for residents, and still be told that rent was going up hundreds of dollars a month because of demand in the region.

Another thing they did was to offer lower rent if you moved into a unit that was vacant. They ”incentivized” people to move every year instead of just increasing the rent a reasonable amount. I’m talking rent going up $500-$1,000/month unless you moved into the identical unit next door. Most of the people in the build paid the increases but we were young so we moved.

Our first year we lived in a small 1br. When the lease came up they wanted to increase our rent by $600/month. We opted to move into a huge 2br with limited light that had been vacant for a year or two. When our lease on that one came up they wanted to more than double our rent because there was such high demand for the unit.

We were the demand.

miiiiiike, 14 hours ago

Re: You've just inherited a legacy C++ codebase, now w...

Question: Why does some of the product source code look like it is the output of a decompiler?

Answer: Our office was in the WTC and was destroyed on 9/11. Luckily everyone got out alive, but then we discovered we had no off-site backups of the source code. In order to continue development, we had to retrieve the released binaries from our customers and decompile them to get back source code.

skissane, 2 days ago

Re: Twenty years is nothing

Young devs won't believe it, but until the early 2000s, most companies used source control systems that forced you to LOCK any file on a centralized repo before you were allowed to modify it (MS's SourceSafe, ClearCase, Perforce)... This was often the case even if you just wanted to touch a file locally for some experimentation... insane.

So, at a customer site (while I was doing consulting for them), I couldn't stand it anymore (I had been using CVS myself since 1997). So I installed SVN to work on their project and showed it to the team. I was called an "irresponsible engineer"... "Modifying files without locking is a crazy! You don't do that on real engineering teams!"

The open-source world was at least 10 years ahead.

ferd, 4 hours ago

Пополнение в копилку для тех аутистов, кто любит проигрывать с тупых совпадений в кириллической раскладке:
git - пше
rgb - кпи
self - ЫУДА

// Всегда знал, что Rust и Python это православно

Тем временем тип, который хотел настучать на Боинг за ДДД скончался при загадочных обстоятельствах за день до слушания

Re: Boeing whistleblower found dead in US

He was scheduled to appear for day two of his deposition testimony the morning of his death. Had he died Sat night instead of Sat morning, the transcript of Saturday's testimony could have been read to the jury during trial. Obviously that can't happen now and whatever he was going to say in Saturday's testimony is lost forever.

keernan, 13 hours ago

>In 2019, Mr Barnett told the BBC that under-pressure workers had been deliberately fitting sub-standard parts to aircraft on the production line.

He also said he had uncovered serious problems with oxygen systems, which could mean one in four breathing masks would not work in an emergency.

русня ниє, що компанії Microsoft та Amazon з 20 березня 2024 року закриють доступ до своїх хмарних продуктів на території московії

Зазначається, що для російських компаній це означає, що скористатися цими продуктами або отримати доступ до даних, що містяться в них, з 20 березня 2024 р. буде неможливо.

Припускається, що Google також обмежить доступ корпоративним клієнтам у росії.

Ці обмеження визначено у 12 пакеті санкцій ЄС, який обмежує постачання в росію програмного забезпечення для бізнес-аналітики (business intelligence (BI), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) та інших продуктів

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