Benjammer

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by Benjammer 4y ago
One way to solve that issue is to agree on the design pattern ahead of time before writing the code. Learning to think about the abstraction ahead of time is a powerful skill, but can be very uncomfortable to some people. There's a thi
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by Benjammer 4y ago
I apply the concepts from MMM in professional contexts probably more than all other books combined. So many absolute timeless gems. * No silver bullet * 2nd system effect * Mythical man month (adding people to a late project makes it later)
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by Benjammer 4y ago
Jealousy is a deep, natural instinct. There are tons of studies that show how various kinds of monkeys/apes will happily eat a piece of fruit or whatever, but if you give the monkey next to them a piece of candy instead, the first monk
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by Benjammer 4y ago
FYI - This type of workflow automation and connecting to Saas product APIs and moving data around can also be easily built using a no-code RPA tool like PixieBrix[0]. [0] https://www.pixiebrix.com/
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by Benjammer 4y ago
Here's the thing I wonder though. If you sat each one down and explained that the whole thing was basically a ponzi scheme, or like a lottery where everyone loses except one person who wins big, I'm not certain you wouldn't s
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by Benjammer 4y ago
There are infinite ways to "spin" inaction as cautious analysis or being conservative. It's much more difficult to spin an intentional decision that you are accountable for that went wrong. The higher up you go, the higher th
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by Benjammer 4y ago
I've never been convinced that physical immersion will ever be as compelling to the human brain as mental immersion through good story-telling. Having my real-life body and physical attributes thrust directly into a story/game jus
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by Benjammer 4y ago
>It's exhausting commenting on HN. You have to append every minor observation of a laundry list of responses to likely misinterpretations. Interesting seeing this response after you just posted: >If you can't be specific eno
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by Benjammer 4y ago
Reminds me of this classic: https://programmingisterrible.com/post/139222674273/how-to-w...
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by Benjammer 4y ago
I can confirm from talking to people who know him, and watching him speak about it at length in a small group, private setting, Ashton cares deeply about fighting child exploitation. His life outside of acting and family seems to basically
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by Benjammer 4y ago
I think the problem is that, at least in this area, the only people asking for more nuance are bitcoin supporters, and they aren’t open to nuanced reasoning for why people hate bitcoin. “Nuance,” to them, just means letting them win some of
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by Benjammer 5y ago
>For the people in this thread worried about violence against the reporter, I think it much more likely that drivers will simply get the message and turn off their damn engines. You obviously haven't tried to ask a delivery driver i
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by Benjammer 5y ago
You don't even really need to replace the divs, just add tabIndex="0" on the things that should be focusable/tab-able.
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by Benjammer 5y ago
The thing that is kind of baffling to me about so many people in this comment section is that they think their personal opinion about the ethics of what he did has any bearing on anything. That's not how the legal system works at all.
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by Benjammer 5y ago
I’m sure the lawyers could figure out how to argue that the MITM attack this person did is some kind of illegal identity fraud.
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by Benjammer 5y ago
I mean, it’s par for the course with someone who thinks it’s just a no-big-deal, “personal interest,” to MITM a bank’s mobile app in order to start poking around in their production servers, without prior consent from the bank.
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by Benjammer 5y ago
If this (not infosec) person was doing this type of security probing during work hours using work equipment, I could see them being fired even if they are hacking on the company’s own product. You’re not paid as a competitive intelligence a
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by Benjammer 5y ago
I think the key point from the OP you're missing here is mentorship/training to avoid all of the issues you described. I don't think the OP was advocating for hiring the best generalist you can find and then just throwing the
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by Benjammer 5y ago
Congrats on your perceived success! I tried to use softer words like "might," and I explicitly said "maybe this is just me," in order to not assume anything. It appears you took my language in a different tone than I int
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by Benjammer 5y ago
I think you might benefit from examining how bias can take over when you only do emotional labor on an ad-hoc, unplanned, unstructured basis.
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by Benjammer 5y ago
Heaven forbid anyone asks you to do any explicit emotional labor in addition to technical labor! The horror! " I get paid to write code, not to be a human!!!! " It's pretty obvious the bias here if you flip things. We all kno
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by Benjammer 5y ago
You do you man, but this idea of "I get paid to code, and I only do enough emotional labor to get my code merged and not get dinged on perf reviews," leads to a lot of the issues I have with working in big tech, personally. Maybe
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by Benjammer 5y ago
If you have a condition like Asperger's or Autism then I apologize, I don't mean to be insensitive. But, if you have run-of-the-mill social anxiety and/or shyness, then I think time-boxed, scheduled, regular conversations wit
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by Benjammer 5y ago
I've worked at multiple places that implemented weekly "Donut Buddies" ( https://www.donut.com/ ) and I think it's amazing. It never felt forced, let alone "infantilizing." The truly socially anx
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by Benjammer 5y ago
There's a 2003 movie version of Paycheck with Ben Affleck, Uma Thurman, Aaron Eckhart, Paul Giamatti, and like 4 other people you'll probably recognize. I watched it when it popped up on Amazon Prime last year. Seems like it&#x2
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by Benjammer 5y ago
Do you have the same feelings about radiation therapy for cancer?
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by Benjammer 5y ago
For anyone else who isn't familiar, type 1 fun is where it's a fun experience and you have fun memories of it. Type 2 is a not-fun experience where you look back on the accomplishment fondly. Type 3 "fun" is a tongue-in-
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by Benjammer 5y ago
>What are some ways to break out of this mode I would guess the best answer here is to write down everything. Keep a journal. Write down events as soon after they happen as possible, write down your thoughts about the event, write down y
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by Benjammer 5y ago
I remember having a babysitter when I was little who was doing her high school algebra homework. I was curious, so she tried to explain the concept of x/y variables to me and it made no sense to me at the time, kind of broke my brain b
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by Benjammer 5y ago
It's also so much more complicated than this. I've known more than one person who didn't act as a cynic, they outwardly preached and proselytized this sort of "change the world" viewpoint, in order to attract at

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