CognitiveLens

11 ms·

61.
by CognitiveLens 7y ago
It's worth pointing out that the research found a 10x _spread_ between the least-productive and most-productive engineers - a '10xer' isn't someone who does ten times more than the average, so it becomes less mythical if
62.
by CognitiveLens 7y ago
This take makes a very clear argument, but I think it's important to question that, as a company grows, it is generally "willing and able to deal with building owners directly" - a similar argument could have been made for th
63.
by CognitiveLens 7y ago
To be fair, if we're staying in the parameters of the thought experiment, we're targeting the HN user base, which I suspect isn't using IE11 at nearly that rate...
64.
by CognitiveLens 8y ago
Alternative title: "Amazon's web marketplace is so complex that it sometimes makes unexpected automated up-sell recommendations" There's not really any news here, other than the fact that managing such a huge _and extrem
65.
by CognitiveLens 8y ago
Here are a couple great articles about code review that I've learned a lot from - they address the 'social' aspect of code review specifically, which I think is where you're having a hard time finding traction. - https:
66.
Effective code review through principled pragmatism(medium.com)
3 points by CognitiveLens 8y ago|0 comments
67.
by CognitiveLens 8y ago
Many terminal-based programming environments allow you to run code - you essentially just need a REPL, but there are more sophisticated environments that could still be considered 'single purpose'
68.
by CognitiveLens 8y ago
For anyone unfamiliar with Project Zero, it's a team at Google dedicated to finding security vulnerabilities across the internet (and in software in general, it seems) https://security.googleblog.com/2014/07/a
69.
by CognitiveLens 9y ago
to get an estimate, you only need a sample
70.
by CognitiveLens 9y ago
> If 64 bits isn't enough, the next logical step is 128 bits. Can someone explain this? Is there some kind of awkwardness/waste with anything less than doubling the number of bits?
71.
by CognitiveLens 9y ago
Probably not, actually - I have a similar thing and was told that although the MRI machine won't rip the metal out of your jaw like it would for ferrous metals, the titanium will essentially act like a little antenna and obliterate the
72.
by CognitiveLens 9y ago
If you can't generate positive user perception, at least you can buy it. I'm glad this is happening, but it's hard to see it as a fulfillment of the company's mission rather than a cheap ploy to get some positive media a
73.
by CognitiveLens 9y ago
Observables are pretty great when you have to coordinate a lot of async actions. The main downside is that they have their own learning curve - an article describing a Model for Reasoning about Observables would likely be much longer than t
74.
by CognitiveLens 9y ago
My guess is the Erlang OTP: http://learnyousomeerlang.com/what-is-otp
75.
by CognitiveLens 9y ago
Quick lookup of other sources all state figures between US$2billion and US$3 billion
76.
by CognitiveLens 9y ago
All of the built-in React Native components are wrappers around the corresponding native widgets: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/components-and-... You can also integrate other native widgets not des
77.
by CognitiveLens 9y ago
HTML as a data entry format is error prone, and HTML as a cross-platform data source requires a lot of tooling and unreliability compared with a properly-structured field-driven JSON API
78.
by CognitiveLens 9y ago
particularly for a young or fast-growing product, this makes a ton of sense - shipping features that multiply your target market can be a _much_ better strategy than keeping 2% of your current user base.
79.
by CognitiveLens 10y ago
You wouldn't. The argument is so straw-man that it verges on trolling.
80.
by CognitiveLens 10y ago
I'm not sure what the technical term would be, but I think it's less about false equivalence but more that saying that other things are bad doesn't justify making another bad thing. "This proposed policy will make things
81.
by CognitiveLens 10y ago
yeah I'm thinking about it in the way that is assumed by the original author, with the idea that visitors from the future would be somehow identifiable.
82.
by CognitiveLens 10y ago
There can be no action/reaction without time. If there is no past and no future, there is no cause and effect, so everything is either pre-ordained (odd) or it just 'is' in a completely trivial sense.
83.
by CognitiveLens 10y ago
If you go with the pop-sci idea that intervening in the past changes the future, then we are just on the timeline in which time travel never occurred in our recorded past, by definition. It's not that people from the future _don't
84.
by CognitiveLens 10y ago
If it wasn't an illusion, then the moon would literally be changing size depending on when you looked at it, by definition.
85.
by CognitiveLens 10y ago
I agree that it's a slightly odd way of describing the situation, but it is true that this is a _different_ kind of architecture update than what Intel has done for the past few years, which is worth pointing out to readers. For people
86.
by CognitiveLens 10y ago
Here we're talking specifically about "visual contrast", which has a meaning in perception slightly different than the common usage of "contrast". Visual contrast is measured on a spectrum that starts at zero and go
87.
by CognitiveLens 10y ago
I know it's from big, scary government, but why would they ask a few yes/no questions without requiring any sort of detail? A high school newspaper could do a better investigation. Dear Congresspeople Pallone, DeGette, and Schakow
88.
by CognitiveLens 10y ago
for a non-medical implant like this, though, you probably wouldn't be able to get official documentation. I'd hope that sense would prevail and it wouldn't be an issue, but good sense doesn't always govern airport securi
89.
by CognitiveLens 10y ago
Sounds like you actually agree, and have identified an underlying problem. The technical ability to capture knowledge, particularly for craft trades like glassblowing, has existed for as long as humans have been organized into societies - i
90.
by CognitiveLens 10y ago
Thank you for writing this article. On balance, I disagree with the justification but it's so much more clear and thoughtful than the popular discussion about gun rights from either end of the political spectrum. Hooking into the &quot

More ›