Hermitian909

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by Hermitian909 3y ago
I have a partial solution to this I'm happy pretty happy with. First, is that I dove farther into CS fundamentals. This has made new fads a lot easier to deal with because usually they're recycling old CS ideas. React hooks is a
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> This denial of responsability is a cancer on society I think this is an unproductive way to think about problems of collective action, which are capital H hard. We have three known mechanisms for solving collective action problems: 1.
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> The obvious explanation is that the cops/ambulances have a set of rules that take priority over the park's rules I prefer the following quote as an explanation: "There are no rules, only consequences." There are no
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> Why don't they judge me based on my 4 year long degree which is only done to rubber stamp that I can do the job. If you spend enough time hiring you learn that a 4 year degree is a very poor signal for "can be a productive en
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I get the impression avoiding take homes is becoming standard advice. I hang out in a few communities of engineers (alumni groups etc.) and it's gotten to the point that many people see requiring a take home as a red flag. Not just bec
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> they seem to use esoteric language in order to create a veneer of importance, It's kind of true, but also I think the real answer is that you're not the target audience. A lot of time you use esoteric language because part of
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> A few, maybe IME >90% of non-junior engineers understand most of the slowdowns they're introducing and choose to add them anyway. > Most just want to get paid and dont give a shit. My point is that you can't get anyone
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> ... Met at a mixer? ... Saying business is about nepotism is unattractive and doesn't really help you I think it's unhelpful to consider this level of socialization "nepotism". A word often associated with a rich pa
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IME many web developers do know, but don't do anything because of incentives. Leadership rarely uses the surfaces you make slow, and people don't generally report an extra half second of latency. So their incentive structure looks
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The thing is, for many communities public search is an anti-feature. This is obviously true if the community is private, but most public communities are centered around something that's monetizable. The incentives to create promotional
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> Take Apple, they don't seem to care about speed or continuous delivery at all, yet are widely celebrated for design excellence. For a large software product to be designed well I think you need at least the following four things o
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As an engineer at a large company whose moonlighted as a designer it's felt like a huge win. It's now way easier to both stop designers from adding one-off design and interaction patterns that confuse users and to write truly re
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There has always been a tension between individual freedoms and societal good, it has not been clear cut for any generation in American history. As an example, 1933 is the origin of the Accredited Investor rule in the US which directly in
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Sure - and the question is - do we as a society want to allow that, do we think it's worth the tradeoffs? Five years ago I think the answer was still "wait and see", I think it's reasonable by now to say "actually,
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Do we expect experts to not have informed opinions? You may disagree with his conclusions but I believe we want expert witnesses to tell us what they think. As a former crypto-optimist I think this is a totally reasonable conclusion to ma
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> What you described is a culture of fear No, most people are not aware enough of these dynamics to feel fear. People want to start and maintain communities. What they know is that certain systems make maintaining community easier or har
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I volunteer with the homeless in the Bay Area and am tapped into the "scene" as it were and so can speak to this. Absolute numbers of homelessness are on the rise, in the Bay Area there was a dramatic uptick in COVID. This is in p
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> Surely Android is an absolute cesspit at this point then. I mean... yes? Like, it's not the bad old days of Windows in the early 2000s, but people demonstrably don't want to spend money in the Play Store and what money they d
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> And the cost is lack of discoverability, basically forever. Sadly, this is actually a feature. Discoverability of content adds an incentive for SEO-style spam. It's very hard to implement technical solutions to this kind of incen
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In many ways this is the same choice of wanting to live and do business in countries with a strong rule of law. I don't want other people to be able to opt-out of the law when they think it suits them, I want good ground rules that mak
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> Enjoy this type of game while it lasts, because this era is coming to an end, it's just not sustainable. Do you also think blockbuster movies are not sustainable? Because AAA games have a very similar business model. Actually in
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> Why would developers want to make a game that isn't fun? I mean, why do people want to write buggy software? It's not on purpose, they're just not good enough to deliver quality in a timely fashion. My experience with m
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> but note that you've made two arguments. Apologies if I was not clear, but I only intended to present the "heuristic" argument. > The second does not. Someone who has this heuristic is violating expected utility. May
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IMO the one urn problem does nothing to get away from this. Recapping the one urn problem: 90 balls in one urn. 30 are red, 60 are black or yellow in unknown proportion. Users must pick a set of gambles called a scenario, then pick a partic
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Like many "thought experiment paradoxes" I think this makes perfect sense if you get out of the habit of thinking too abstractly. The mathematical assumption is that for the urn with the unknown number of red and green balls all d
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> So much that Bootcamps started being a popular way of getting people up to speed without going through the 4yr+ education that was deemed not entirely required and relevant anymore by more and more practicing engineers in the startup
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> I don't think you understood the article or what I wrote. Funnily enough you appear to be responding to the article's author. If you notice his other comments in this thread its apparent his reading comprehension is not at a
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As someone who volunteers with the homeless a lot I mostly agree, but I will take the other side for a moment: It's very hard to a voter base who feel financially squeezed that their taxes should be going to people who, usually, are no
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Having been on the other side of this - often times our users are unhappy with the unfinished features, but our customers are delighted. That is to say, the CxO or director we've sold to has everything on their checklist and is get
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> I understand the spirit of the law, but I do not feel like that can override an analytical interpretation. You may feel so, but our entire legal tradition is based on the idea that this is not the case. In fact, no active legal tradi

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