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by 1penny42cents 4y ago
Reminds me of this talk, "Stop Writing Classes": https://youtu.be/o9pEzgHorH0 Changed my perspective on this newfound tool I'd learned to use called "indirection". My favorite quote is something lik
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by 1penny42cents 4y ago
Monoliths and Microservices: https://youtu.be/gOZFmFNl1uk Types vs Tests: https://youtu.be/apu-J0msaiY Stop Writing Classes: https://youtu.be/o9pEzgHorH0 Breaking up your test suite: https
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by 1penny42cents 4y ago
Nailed it. Focusing on sales to solve internal problems is like focusing on work to solve internal problems. It can work to an extent, but sometimes you need to solve the internal problem before you can get the results you need. So it'
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by 1penny42cents 4y ago
That oscillation is necessary to be able to converge on the optimal medium for any given problem. Otherwise we get stuck in "modularization bad" or "modularization good" mindsets, where both are wrong.
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by 1penny42cents 5y ago
The problem is that the loudest backers overshoot and oversell the true potential. The truly innovative people are those who add the proper constraints and work within them to solve the problems where blockchains actually fit best.
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Ask HN: What was that research paper about choosing which task to work on first?
15 points by 1penny42cents 5y ago|2 comments
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by 1penny42cents 5y ago
Focus on how you feel, and the rest will follow. Do you want to feel bored? Boring? Not good enough? Figure out how to feel excited, and the results will follow. If you remain feeling boring, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. The result
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by 1penny42cents 5y ago
> it has been difficult to establish whether alcohol directly causes cancer, or if it is linked to possible confounding factors (such as smoking and diet) that could generate biased results. > It was also unclear whether alcohol is li
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by 1penny42cents 5y ago
Is there any evidence in this article or is it all conjecture + reference to a documentary?
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by 1penny42cents 5y ago
[meta] questions like this are a great antidote to the survivorship bias that plagues entrepreneurships. Lots of great insights, but also just great to hear about all those ventures that didn't succeed.
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by 1penny42cents 5y ago
I've read that this mainly happens in periods of hyperinflation. But that would mean 50% inflation month-over-month, so way more than what we're seeing or will likely see in the near future for developed countries. Not sure why it
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by 1penny42cents 5y ago
lesswrong.com
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by 1penny42cents 5y ago
Haha.. Yes it's obvious in hindsight. I think a few factors played into it. First was an underestimation of the half life of caffeine. It stays in your system for a while, and stacks when you have multiple throughout the day. Another w
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by 1penny42cents 5y ago
>It's one of the few addictions that probably ends up being good for you I thought that for a long time, until I realized that afternoon caffeine was correlated with my inability to fall asleep at night. Cutting coffee (even dark ch
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by 1penny42cents 5y ago
OP touches upon a critical point of human reasoning: we have a bias towards simplicity. We favor the legible (as the article calls it), the tractable, the countable, the fungible. At certain levels of complexity, seeing reality as it is is
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Ask HN: What RDBMS optimizations can we do for append-only tables?
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by 1penny42cents 5y ago
This is a nitpick; but the first example doesn't make sense once we use ReadOnly, because it doesn't return the copied+sorted array. So in practice the final version of sortNumbers would have no effect afaik.
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Democracy vs. Autocracy(camhashemi.com)
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Ask HN: When would you go with Kinesis over SNS/SQS and why?
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Building Through Uncertainty(camhashemi.com)
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by 1penny42cents 5y ago
It's so interesting to see the amount of pessimism/skepticism/realism in the comments, considering how much employee stock options are touted as this magic alignment of incentives in tech.
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by 1penny42cents 5y ago
Isn't that the response you should expect on any topic where the population's preference is split across a decision line? When go didn't have generics, those in favor commented. Now that it will, those against are commenting.
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Refactoring Is Like Surgery(camhashemi.com)
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Problems, Then Solutions(camhashemi.com)
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Accurate Estimations (2020)(camhashemi.com)
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by 1penny42cents 5y ago
I completely agree with this essay. I wrote more on the problems with estimations, and some solutions, here: https://camhashemi.com/posts/accurate-estimations/
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by 1penny42cents 5y ago
You nailed it with that split. Focus vs Coordination aims to be a bit less verbose, but what I really mean is "doing stuff well" vs "aligning on the stuff we should do". It's also important to emphasize that doing s
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by 1penny42cents 5y ago
Focus (as I tried to define it) is not just "paying attention", but more like "a flow state that moves things forward". The problem is that coordinating forces us to break from that flow state in order to spread, organiz
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by 1penny42cents 5y ago
There's a strong relationship between writing and focus. The more writing done beforehand, the more productive a meeting can be. But writing is harder to coordinate over. Just think of all those multi-day hundred-message chat arguments
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Focus vs Coordination(camhashemi.com)
90 points by 1penny42cents 5y ago|11 comments

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