LordFast

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by LordFast 7y ago
Book I found enjoyable and valuable, especially given today's environment of deteriorating social trust: https://www.amazon.com/Talking-Strangers-Should-About-People... Gist: don't think too much, it's gonna
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by LordFast 7y ago
"Get to the point, will ya?!" Vice versa, for the past couple of years I've started practicing verbally walking people through my entire thought process from beginning to end. I found that this has been useful in eliminating
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by LordFast 7y ago
Same here, I first read about this I think a few months ago back here on HN. Prior to this I had made the assumption that everyone has an internal dialogue. I'm 36.
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by LordFast 7y ago
> Unfortunately, I have sort of the same issue with conversation and logic problems. I tend to perform pretty badly in tech interviews because I can't think about programming problems very well while participating in a conversation.
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by LordFast 7y ago
Visualizing code is a pretty useful tool. I can't do it as easily for problems that I have yet to solve, but I can do it for problems that I understand well. Interestingly enough, however, it's the playing around with the 3D struc
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by LordFast 7y ago
Whoa, you just made me realize that my internal voice sounds like a typical Californian evening news TV broadcaster type person. Cool!
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by LordFast 7y ago
Thanks for answering. Makes sense to me.
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by LordFast 7y ago
Why is it a bad thing for your brain to be running DFS all the time? Is it a wasteful use of time? Does it cause behavioral issues? Is it a personal choice? Or...?
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by LordFast 7y ago
I have a couple of questions. 1. What type of product/service has your team been building? 2. What did you do when 10 non-permission-seeking engineers went off in different directions doing their own things?
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It's an entirely different job, that's why nobody can just drop into it from being an engineer and magically be good at it. Very few of the skills overlap even within the same categories such as architecture and execution. One is
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by LordFast 7y ago
Same for product managers as well, ranging from technical customer support agents at enterprise fortune 500s to app developers at small startups.
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True haters are usually those who do not fully understand the subject of their hatred. Because of that, it's always safe to ignore them because the target should know deeply within themselves why they are right. But there is also a cla
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by LordFast 7y ago
Ehh, that might be giving Jobs too much credit. He tried, and failed, quite a lot. But he did try. I don't think Jobs was diddling his employees though. Big difference.
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Agreed. And it's up to the citizens to make choices that reflect what they wish to reward or not reward as citizenry.
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I hope that picking a side in the business world works out. Not sarcastically, but genuinely. But I have serious doubts, and it's not even really the default mantra of human nature or any of that jazz, more so just the fact that large-
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by LordFast 7y ago
This is an idiotic approach. Learn to communicate better instead.
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I've always gone with my gut, which is nothing more than just common sense, and I've also been luckier more often than not. "Good enough" has been a highly rewarding concept for me.
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It works until it doesn't work anymore. Examples from mild to not-so-mild: Feds suing Bill; Madoff getting thrown in jail; Epstein losing his head. I get what you mean by "bug", but I think it's less of a bug, and more o
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by LordFast 7y ago
It's about 50k employers versus 5k employers, not 500 versus 5. The real effective argument/consideration IMO is the question of whether the technology MARKET is more prosperous /because/ of the centralization, and there
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Thanks for putting this so succinctly into words that I've struggled to find for the past few years without rambling on and on.
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Enterprise software sucks because not "sucking" is not its top priority. For its actual intended purposes, enterprise software doesn't "suck".
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When I take a step back and consider everything, I'd say there's a solid resemblance to an aggressive form of viral infection as well, in respect to planetary timescale.
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I found this to be a very good read: https://www.amazon.com/Capitalism-without-Capital-Intangible...
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And that's the overall number. Berkeley's College of Engineering programs have lower graduation numbers. P.S. It shouldn't be a good thing to brutally weed out students. Facts are facts though.
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This needs to be a lot higher.
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Let me clarify: - A non-decision by Google management to not place limits on its internal culture is a decision in itself, and has consequences that we are currently experiencing. - "Justice" is not something for a profit-seeking
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by LordFast 7y ago
Let me clarify: - A non-decision by Google management to not place limits on its internal culture is a decision in itself, and has consequences that we are currently experiencing. - "Justice" is not something for a profit-seeking
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Disclaimer: my comment below is directed at the culture of Google, and following in the train of thought from your comment. It's not directed at your comment or you. Reading this comment just makes me feel baffled. How much arrogance d
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Similarly, as the size and footprint of a company grows, the parameters controlling/sustaining the growth/maintenance of said company also change as well, thus changing the required talent profile accordingly. EDIT: for the sake o
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Agreed. Letting companies bind workers' abilities to remain in the country they'd like to live in is painfully similar to letting dictatorships bind people into indentured servitude.

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