CTmystery

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by CTmystery 5y ago
I'm somewhat sorry to say this, but don't you see the irony in tricking your non-technical manager into not improving your life at all? A competent manager can _make your life better_. If you are working 80 hour work weeks and sle
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by CTmystery 5y ago
Good list, thanks! For the projects in your post, how did you solve #3?
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by CTmystery 5y ago
> After enough experience you realize that expressivity and convenience are antipatterns and don't actually simplify things but are harbingers of complexity, bugs, tech debt, even the downfall of organizations and products. Suggesti
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by CTmystery 5y ago
Perhaps we disagree on the definition of 'the authority of science'. Also FWIW I am not at all religious, in case you think I'm trying to restore scripture to it's rightful place of authority over science. I am just intr
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by CTmystery 5y ago
I believe the parent understood more than you are giving them credit for. You don't think you're being too dogmatic when you replace one authority (scripture) for another (science) while retaining the exact same language?
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by CTmystery 5y ago
Sure, it's a great method for understanding causal relationships in the world. It's also a method that humans invented, and it's not proven that some future invented method could not provide as much insight into the world as
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by CTmystery 5y ago
> Science is the only and ultimate final authority Junk science led to the American eugenics movement that included forced sterilization of 64k Americans in the early 1900s. I love science, but calling it the only and ultimate authoritit
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by CTmystery 5y ago
I get it, it can def be discouraging. For me, I really _want_ to know what the great problems of the day are that bitcoin/blockchain can solve (or assist in solving). I imagine many others are too. So far, from my cursory reading, I ha
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by CTmystery 5y ago
Perhaps the downvotes were harsh (I was not one of them, can't downvote :), but the question was "what problem does bitcoin solve?". I'm having a hard time seeing any problem in the parent's comment. Instead of iden
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by CTmystery 5y ago
> Please no, this is how you end up with 20 different experiments and zero consistency in everything. This comes from a lack of discipline in the org, not from the parent's (IMO) correct guidance that an org should undertake archite
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by CTmystery 5y ago
I'm trying to understand this comment. Do you never use package managers?
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by CTmystery 5y ago
In self rule, The goverment is us. We can take away any part of the bill of rights that we see fit, with a new amendment
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by CTmystery 5y ago
> like 90% of the tests are catching things that would be caught automatically if we had used a proper language with strong types/compiler It sounds like the tests are testing the wrong thing > seems optimized for shoving crappy
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by CTmystery 5y ago
What I find most admirable is not the complete fileting, but the humble acceptance of error on something that proof author had obviously put much effort into. It sucks to hear that something you've worked hard on is fundamentally flawe
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by CTmystery 5y ago
You start by saying the argument is annoying but then you don't refute it in the slightest. Illustrating that the gov also invests heavily in gov agencies does not sever the productive link between gov investment and private industry
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by CTmystery 5y ago
Are you genuinely curious or do you have an axe to grind? Have you seen anyone accuse such an invention as ableist? This is exactly what new technology is supposed to do: make things possible that were previously difficult or impossible. I
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by CTmystery 5y ago
Tangential to your point, but how did 'unit tests' end up in your list of complicated things? They are conceptually easy to understand, and they are certainly not only for large scale enterprise users. Granted, it takes years to l
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by CTmystery 5y ago
Very helpful, thank you!
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by CTmystery 5y ago
I've been programming for a while, but can't make heads or tails of the 'simple imperative language'. What is the prereq for understanding this?
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by CTmystery 5y ago
Even after you control for all the things you propose controlling for, you still have a huge confounding factor in genetic makeup. So then you need prisons with thousands of identical twins, each pair living out the same life in all ways bu
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by CTmystery 5y ago
I wouldn't mock the parent so quickly. See page 24 here for the game that's being played: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3242314 Particularly the section "Stepped-up Basis on Death (
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by CTmystery 6y ago
Awesome work! Towards the end, José hits on a couple points that Jupyter does not do well: - Minute 25: Saved notebook is readable (markdown) - Minute 23: Live collaborate on a single notebook - Minute 22: Visual indication that cel
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by CTmystery 6y ago
I have some experience with this. My advice: pick the skill that you are absolutely strongest at from a specialist's viewpoint and interview for that role. Once you are in, you will find your generalist skills help you excel quickly. I
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by CTmystery 6y ago
> The Team Topologies book suggests to favor teams that are end-to-end, that fully own a problem to be solved, supported by platform teams and teams that manage a very complex piece of technology. Does anyone have first hand experience w
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by CTmystery 6y ago
Agree! Bringing up those around you is the real way to be seen as a 10Xer. The alternative story of one hacker solving all of the business's problems on their own is a fairy tale.
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by CTmystery 6y ago
Nice, thanks! Looks like you are working on growing mind share for the foreseeable future and layering in enterprise-specific features to close big deals. Do you foresee a sales team for this? Or do you think independent devs will self-serv
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by CTmystery 6y ago
I looked at the deck. How will you make money?
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by CTmystery 7y ago
Can someone please explain to me the excitement for category theory in this forum? I've gone through the first 10 chapters + exercises of this book, and truth be told the content is interesting but the ROI is low for programming (FWIW