Hermitian909

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by Hermitian909 3y ago
> I prefer that everybody gets the same raise, and that the company pays competitive salaries. I'm not sure how you square this with promotions (the main driver of performance reviews). No company who hired me five years ago could h
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What's proper here? I work in a TS shop, 95% of our in-house CLIs are in written in TS and to date it has been an issue... once a year? If we really need better than TS has to offer then sure, go write some Rust or Go, but most of th
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
Even if they know better suited languages, do they know the same better suited languages? I'm in a TS shop, 95% of our code is TS. I would assume that almost everyone we've hired knows at least one compiled language but that lan
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
> literally every different iteration is wildly different We have a basic disagreement on facts here. My experience of the world is that very few songs have any substantial difference from the world as 1,000 other songs. With a small nu
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Curation happens all the time in commodities. Tomatoes are clearly a commodity, but blemished or misshapen tomatoes (a purely aesthetic concern) are often worth far less and may even be discarded. Much of this process is done by hand (I&#x2
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I think there's some talking past each other going here. I think it's useful to bisect music into commodity/non-commidty categories. Category 1 is things like Taylor swift's music which is not a commodity. Category 2 is
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Senior leadership has many important functions, and more demands on their time than hours in the day, but their number one job is communicating a vision to the org. There's basically nothing else with similarly high impact as this is w
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
I think that OOP is the best way to accomplish the goals you list only if you stick to languages with mainstream appeal - but think it's sad that's the state of the world. Objects (as they are used in e.g. Java) default to statefu
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
SOC2 is also waaaay less expensive on the development side if you do just a little upfront development in dev tooling: logging, backups, encryption in transit and at rest, tagging data with sensitivity levels, IAM policies, and CI. I'v
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
> If you're spending more money for worse results, we SHOULD divert funding to better-performing alternatives. The data doesn't really say this. Two things to know about education: - A large percentage of school outcomes are di
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> But that’s because usually there is no trustworthy spec This is the key - most of our writing on modern software comes from people building things with requirements that are unclear. There are pockets of the software world where detail
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> managerialist capitalism I think the term of art you're looking for is actually "command and control structure". This exact phenomenon appeared under communist regimes as well and is not unique to capitalism. If you&#x27
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
> who could be having an even better time on MDMA A higher peak perhaps - but you can't be on MDMA 100% of the time, and taking MDMA effects that other time. Whether taking MDMA works out over the entirety of your life is a personal
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
I'm reminded of a recent interview with Chris Latner about the success of Swift - he credits the success to the fact that you could start with a large objective C project and begin writing Swift without rewriting anything. Part of Rust
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
Subject matter experts may be good at defining what the standards should be - that does not mean they need to be wholly and independently in charge of enforcement of those standards.
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> Because there is zero chance in hell Google is getting a multiple of that cost back in value from him. I have seen engineers at companies 1/1000 the size of Google generate $4 million in differentiated costs savings (definitely wo
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...sometimes? One of the lessons I learned from him about that level of impact is that it means the structure of your day is dictated mostly by the problem you're currently focused on. So one quarter he might spend all his time intervi
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
It's a tooling problem. Nearly every comment I read about formal verification being overkill are about proposal to incorporate existing formal verification tools into existing workflows. It is not easy to get an organization to adopt T
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
> They pay you more because they can't hire a replacement Sounds like the skills aren't very differentiated. IME it's quite rare for a business to miss differentiation in business impact in an order of magnitude. Going to
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
Not to be facetious, what's the difference? At the high end of the white collar market you're paid to deliver impact and your pay is determined by the quantity of the impact and how differentiated it is (no big bonuses for the guy
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
They are, and it's reflected in the compensation. I know a developer that Meta offered ~$6 mil Total Compensation, he turned it down for $10 mil from Google. It also exists in a much more banal state lower down the ladder. I have frien
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
> why not return it and charge a fee? Your suggestion proves my point! With social contracts I don't need to pay this fee, but by getting rid of them I do; I'd be getting charged for other people's anti-social behavior! St
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
The reason why AI/ML spaces want postgraduate degrees is because there is a massive glut of candidates relative to openings. One of the things we realized over the past decade is that if you are not in the business of hiring AI researc
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
It's true, and it's not great, but I think the flip side of this is that as I get older I find myself increasingly paying for the anti-social behavior of others. There are lot of nice customer service things that are only possible
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
I think something shown in the ideological hand here is that the tax hikes are framed as regressive tax hikes. You can make up a significant portion of the gap by adopting the sort of progressive taxes we had pre Reagan. There's also p
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
> If a tool makes you 1% more efficient, it's worth them putting 1% of your annual salary into it Hear me, nameless internet stranger, that you might learn from my mistakes: This is not true. Efficiency is only worth money if it inc
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> we want services to be sustainable - i.e. the cost of the service to be paid for by its users All of this applies equally to businesses that were sustainable (or on a path to sustainability). The amount of money a business can responsi
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- Patients can only buy cancer medication from their healthcare providers, and expect it to be covered by health insurance. - Healthcare providers will only buy cancer medication whose prices are low enough to be covered by insurance. - Ins
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I think the thing you're missing is that in Japanese culture this kind of interaction can't happen unless you're drinking. The social mores just don't allow these sorts of outbursts in any other situation. This can be
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
> reduced API access, worse free plan, and increasing costs. Expect a lot more of this over the next year. We've all gotten used to generous free plans due to the era of zero percent interest and high growth; that era is ending (at

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