PaulStatezny

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by PaulStatezny 2y ago
Apparently Boeing has had to pay _billions_ to settle lawsuits related to their shady practices.[0] I wonder how much their competitors partake in similarly unethical management. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/
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by PaulStatezny 3y ago
You need mostly integration tests, not unit tests. Unit tests which dependency-inject mocks of other parts of your codebase are 99% worthless . Source: Spent many years writing the latter and they caught close to 0 bugs. Moved to Elixir ec
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by PaulStatezny 3y ago
Pentatonic scale :)
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by PaulStatezny 3y ago
To answer your question, let's consider the ways in which the videos do _not_ work together: - They're not playing in the same tempo - They're not playing the same note lengths - They're not necessarily playing notes in
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by PaulStatezny 3y ago
> Wouldn't it be better to just have a "low vision" version of the app, a "low touch accuracy" version of the app, etc? I find your comment interesting because it speaks to users who can see, just not well . Whe
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by PaulStatezny 3y ago
I feel like there's something deeper to it, since there's some recursion to the answer. But it's not a joke about programmers, so I don't get it either, ha!
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by PaulStatezny 3y ago
I've never heard of VR/AR being marketed as a solution to tune out the bad parts of reality. Is this a serious take? Are there people who actually buy into that idea? Using VR/AR for this purpose sounds like it would have the
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by PaulStatezny 3y ago
Same – just like "asks". "Here's the ask" versus "here's the request".
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by PaulStatezny 3y ago
What's the "FG scale"? Nothing useful comes up when googling it. Edit: It's from the article. "F***s given" scale.
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by PaulStatezny 3y ago
This reads a bit like a microcosm of David Allen's "Getting Things Done" system. Unprocessed emails = "Collection Bucket" Follow Up folder = "Projects" list Hold folder = "Waiting For" list Excep
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by PaulStatezny 3y ago
How do you get folks to consistently repeat things back without sounding condescending? Sounds like a great strategy, but: > Can you repeat back what I said? Seems like it'd sound superior or arrogant. Betting you have better strate
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by PaulStatezny 3y ago
> Of course this would get upvoted on HN I agree for less pessimistic reasons. The Hacker News crowd prefers intellectually stimulating conversation. Playing around with new ideas. Considering unexplored alternatives. A huge pillar of th
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by PaulStatezny 3y ago
> Of course this would get upvoted on HN I agree for less pessimistic reasons. The Hacker News crowd prefers intellectually stimulating conversation. Considering unexplored alternatives. Exploring ideas is a huge pillar of this community
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by PaulStatezny 3y ago
This reminds me of when I attended the first official conference for Facebook's popular React.js library. (2014 I believe?) Got to hang out with some "hotshot" Facebook developers after hours. I remember Lee Byron (of React,
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by PaulStatezny 3y ago
> 2 years ago I thought we were decades away from general purpose AI...My time estimates have been proven very wrong. What's your working definition of "general purpose AI"? What does it include? What does it not include?
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by PaulStatezny 3y ago
Came here to upvote this. It's a book about UI design, but targeted at software engineers. Turned me into the "resident designer" on my last team. Can't recommend enough.
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by PaulStatezny 3y ago
I don't use Siri all day, every day. It's certainly not perfect. But did you know you can say things like... "Turn off the Apple TV." "Turn off low power mode." "Stop navigating." "Open [name of
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by PaulStatezny 4y ago
> Would you rather have a simple system that does nothing, or a complex / difficult-to-work with system that solves customer needs? With respect, this is clearly a false dichotomy. Creating the "simplest possible system" t
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by PaulStatezny 4y ago
There is a distinct and meaningful difference between unit tests and integration tests. flandish is not bikeshedding. Unit tests are about testing a single unit in isolation. Integration tests are about testing the integration of multiple u
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by PaulStatezny 4y ago
> I didn't fully grok OOP until I saw how composition and dynamic dispatch can be used in real code to create abstractions and flexibly swap out different implementations for your interfaces. > You could build a chatbot that supp
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by PaulStatezny 4y ago
> Why write Fixed-Point HTML? > simply the satisfaction of knowing that you and the browser are in total agreement So, just to clarify: there's no technical benefit, correct?
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by PaulStatezny 4y ago
Thanks for commenting about the community sentiment. Interesting that you didn't comment at all about my take on functional components not being the best tool for every job in React. Curious – do you have an opinion?
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by PaulStatezny 4y ago
To this sentiment – does anyone have a good way of auditing Firefox extensions for security? I find really useful extensions on https://addons.mozilla.org ... but they often require permission to look at all of my browsing data,
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by PaulStatezny 4y ago
Function components are a useful tool, but for the life of me I can't understand why the community currently builds everything with them. A lot of React code I run into these days would be simpler and less verbose with a traditional
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by PaulStatezny 4y ago
> the libraries for interfacing with actual third party services or doing mundane things are a bit lacking Can you provide concrete examples for this? I work with Elixir every day and your statement does not resonate with me at all. Inte
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by PaulStatezny 4y ago
You're right; the iOS Mail app works this way.
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by PaulStatezny 4y ago
This 100%. Some years back I joined a company with a significant amount of low-quality engineers. In hindsight, the interview process was a breeze. That's when I realized what should have been obvious: the less rigorous the interview,
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by PaulStatezny 4y ago
This chain of replies containing only pertinent facts to inform the reader exemplifies what's so great about Hacker News. :-)
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by PaulStatezny 4y ago
> You're not a 10x engineer. You're a 2x That's not a fair characterization. Did you read his post? He said, > In my direct team of 10 people, myself included, I have completed 71% of all story points in 2022 So on aver
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by PaulStatezny 4y ago
Two words: Refactoring UI https://www.refactoringui.com I read it and began to apply what I learned, and my team now considers me the design expert of the team. And trust me, I'm not a naturally gifted designer.

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