Draiken

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by Draiken 5y ago
This is always a tough subject for me because everyone seems to have at least an idea of what they want to achieve. When I was younger I had these silly dreams of moving to another country, getting married, becoming a programmer to make gam
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by Draiken 5y ago
I do agree that perhaps email clients are a good SPA candidante, but at the same time most of that type of interaction can be done with a sprinkle of JS. Because of a few simple interactions that are better without a page reload, people wri
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by Draiken 5y ago
This is one of the major sources of bugs in my experience. People write unit tests that are perfect and pass, but only pass because you give it exactly the right input to make it pass in the first place. Then when running the actual app, th
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by Draiken 5y ago
I've had similar experiences to yours, but maybe this doesn't fit the leetcode people are complaining about. We hire with a similar setup, but we try to keep the test extremely simple and close to reality. Something they would lik
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by Draiken 5y ago
I agree with you and never said that. But specifically hiring local developers for "knowing the market" doesn't match that criteria to me. I've given plenty of ideas that were profitable, relevant to the product, market
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by Draiken 5y ago
What? Sorry but that makes no sense to me. There are good developers and bad developers. Doesn't matter where they're from. If you're talking about "understanding of the market" that has nothing to do with developme
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by Draiken 5y ago
This reads to me as it's okay to discriminate as long as it's for the "right group". I honestly feel a bit sick about all this. Maybe it's the only way, but it doesn't feel like it is from my perspective.
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by Draiken 5y ago
I mean, the sentence translates to "there's no evidence this is better, but some people are doing it and liking it". This is not about being objectively better but only about preference. So that's not a "truth"
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by Draiken 5y ago
I'm not convinced drive is the word. A younger version of myself wanted to have a company and build something of my own. Today I know all the sacrifices that come with that and I'm simply not willing to make that sacrifice anymore
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by Draiken 5y ago
But if you die first, you won't get there, making the "eventually" false, hehe. My point is that I don't think saying "try and you'll make eventually make it" is very accurate. Survivor bias makes many peo
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by Draiken 5y ago
Yeah, fair point. But what's stopping you from simply asking for some face-to-face time and scheduling it? Sometimes the best solution is to have a discussion and it's a lot easier to do compared to writing. On those cases I just
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by Draiken 5y ago
But the act of tapping someone in the shoulder and break their concentration already does all the harm IMO. Once you've done that, headphones on or off is redundant. In my experience, 99% of these disturbances could be avoided with a b
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by Draiken 5y ago
Yeah, I guess you could always be safer about it, but I'm really not sure it would be enough. If we substitute FSD for any software, you have code tests, QA, the developers test it, and bugs still go through. It's inevitable. Unfo
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by Draiken 5y ago
The problem is that you could apply that argument for a drunk driver, a distressed driver, a driver without a license, a driver that hasn't slept enough, etc. Any of those could mean a car could randomly turn into the crosswalk. Humans
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by Draiken 5y ago
No, my point is that this is overblown just because it's Tesla and people love drama, so this makes headlines and trending topics. My comparison with drunken drivers is just with the regards to the odd behavior. If you look at a drunk
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by Draiken 5y ago
Genuinely curious: how would you even go about advancing autonomous driving without testing it in the streets? I'm absolutely certain that they've attempted to simulate millions of hours of driving, yet this odd behavior happened
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by Draiken 5y ago
Of course it's not fine in that sense. What I mean is that you don't see a headline on news outlets or twitter hashtags trending for every drunk driver fatality or crash that happens. Which for me tells that collectively, we are f
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by Draiken 5y ago
I mean... 5 minutes on /r/IdiotsInCars and it's very easy for me to understand how even with bizarre bugs like this, it's better than people. People say "how could it happen?!" and get angry for a software bug
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by Draiken 5y ago
Most languages I've used don't *need* to have 1000 dependencies like JS does. They also don't have thousands of projects depending on ridiculous packages like left pad because they actually have a standard library. The surfac
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by Draiken 6y ago
So if I create a culture of fear and abuse, but everyone on the company follows it, it's suddenly a good culture? That's very reductionist.
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by Draiken 6y ago
Compared to what? Cheap is not an absolute term. I agree with another comment here, it's absurdly cheap compared to almost anything else.
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by Draiken 6y ago
I don't believe this is sexism at its core. The entire west society is built on the one axiom that work means value. Everything else is extra. That's even worse in the US. I'm in a similar situation where I'd love to be
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by Draiken 6y ago
I have to say that sounds exactly how this kind of software should be built. We're not talking about the newest social media hype. This software actually matters. Specially since today most of these bureaucratic processes can't be
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by Draiken 6y ago
Oh, neither do I. What made me sad is that I'd likely have a very similar scoring if I did this myself. For example, I wish I didn't score sleep as a waste of time, when it's likely more important than many of the things regu
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by Draiken 6y ago
And that's exactly what I'm questioning. Why are Reddit and HN labeled as non-productive? Is it because it doesn't do anything to us or because we're trained to only label "skills" as productive? I learned more
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by Draiken 6y ago
> But if you are going to try and do things that "really matter" don't you want to be productive at them? I'd definitely try to, hehe. For me it's more about what we categorize as productive than the experiment i
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by Draiken 6y ago
But I never said tracking time inherently does that. I agree with you. It's a great way to put things in perspective. It's just my personal experience that the majority of time we label as "productive" is in fact product
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by Draiken 6y ago
I did read it :) My point is that the majority of "productive" things we do are geared towards our jobs. And the majority of jobs enrich the people at the top at the expense of your expertise and time invested. YMMV. Not sure why
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by Draiken 6y ago
I did. But it also mentions procrastination as a -4 point and sleep as a 0. And my sentiment is also from reading some of the comments here. So many people obsessed with productivity. Some have a clear reason to do so, but I fear many do it
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by Draiken 6y ago
I am always baffled how sad this extreme focus into productivity makes me. If you discovered you were going to die in a year, would you continue to spend all your time being "productive"? I figure almost everyone would shift all t

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