PaulStatezny

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by PaulStatezny 4y ago
Try sliding all the bars to the left (except sim time scale). The blocks seem to try to clear themselves. :-)
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by PaulStatezny 5y ago
5 or 6 years ago, I got big into Getting Things Done. I definitely gained real-life wisdom, but eventually I stopped because following David Allen's methodology was taking multiple hours a day. Do you find that it's taking a ton o
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by PaulStatezny 5y ago
This is accurate in my experience. Actually, I'd say you're lucky if you find a small company that isn't at least mildly dysfunctional.
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by PaulStatezny 5y ago
In the last few years my brain has been somewhat "re-wired" so that I'm able to detect and escape "negativity ruts" more easily. And it's the same story – some colleagues that have been willing to speak honestl
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by PaulStatezny 5y ago
> If we cancel people for being wrong, nobody will truly be right, they will just mimic correctness And that's assuming that the angry mob majority's viewpoint is actually right. When it's wrong, they'll mimic incorre
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by PaulStatezny 6y ago
It's repulsing that this kind of thing happens. It's because of the greed and sleaziness of companies like that that we end up needing regulation.
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by PaulStatezny 6y ago
They are saying that all of the leaked data has been leaked in the past in other breaches. And because every account has a unique address, this suggests that it doesn't contain newly leaked information.
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by PaulStatezny 6y ago
The fact that you're getting downvoted on such a simple, objectively true statement shows the blatant bias of the HN crowd.
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by PaulStatezny 6y ago
> The HN audience (mostly young, nerdy white men) have always been one of the worst demographics for social networking products... Wow, that's a very racist/sexist statement and you don't even leave a hint about why you th
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by PaulStatezny 6y ago
^ This is why Artificial General Intelligence is a pipe dream.
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by PaulStatezny 6y ago
In this comment you articulated what I usually struggle to whenever people bring up predictions about programmers becoming obsolete. Programming is fundamentally too technical to be able to elegantly replace with speaking/typing senten
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by PaulStatezny 6y ago
Isn't this already true to some extent today?
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by PaulStatezny 6y ago
You're right. It was about [REDACTED FOR PRIVACY - but much much less than parent's 48k medium income per person for college grads] before taxes, both with college degrees. I'm sorry lapcatsoftware if it sounded like I was ma
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by PaulStatezny 6y ago
Correct. It was from being very frugal in _all_ areas of the budget. Eating out, entertainment, internet, not taking vacations that wouldn't be financially responsible. Frugal dates, frugal Christmas/holiday celebrations, living i
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by PaulStatezny 6y ago
But the thing is, nobody said you have to pay for Netflix or Amazon. Each person is responsible for making good choices with his or her money. Lack of financial discipline is not society's fault. Yes, managing finances takes some level
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by PaulStatezny 6y ago
A well articulated and helpful comment. Can I ask which FAANG you work(ed) at?
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by PaulStatezny 6y ago
> I wish the[re] was a way to fix this attitude. This isn't a universal attitude. Numerous language ecosystems exist where it's completely normal to use dependencies that haven't been updated in a while _because_ they warr
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by PaulStatezny 6y ago
Can you clarify about the overhead you're speaking of? I assume it only comes into play at super massive scale like Amazon-level datasets.
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by PaulStatezny 6y ago
Regarding [1], would you be willing to expand on what you mean by a "self determinism" versus "guided/trained" parenting approaches? Thanks ahead from one parent to another.
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by PaulStatezny 6y ago
Exactly. It can be harmful to your culture and the perspective of people on the team even if it's implied to be a rhetorical device.
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by PaulStatezny 6y ago
There are a lot of cool improvements in 1.11, but I admit this is probably my favorite! Timex is great but I'm looking forward to having one less dependency on basically every project. ^_^
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by PaulStatezny 6y ago
Would you share the titles and authors of those two books?
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by PaulStatezny 6y ago
Couldn't have answered the question better/more succinctly myself. When I'm working on the JavaScript (front end) side of an Elixir project, I repeatedly get into these positions where I'm thinking, "Man, I could ex
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by PaulStatezny 6y ago
> But I've always found...that just the act of writing something down physically cements things in my mind. Same here! This is why I use a simplified Getting Things Done system, but at the beginning of the day translate it into a &q
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by PaulStatezny 6y ago
As far as I understand, your experience mirrors the research. External motivation (like a reward/penalty, accountability partner, etc) is weak. Internal motivation is incredibly strong. So the question becomes, how do you get internall
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by PaulStatezny 6y ago
I just read through a good chunk of this, hoping it'd be a good resource. There's a lot of good stuff in here: - Higher level than a spec, but still detailed. - He outlines the anatomy of an HTTP request and gives examples. - Lots
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by PaulStatezny 6y ago
This is perhaps the most useful comment with actual solutions in a thread with a mostly hopeless vibe. Thanks for sharing your wisdom, I may be referencing it in the coming year.
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by PaulStatezny 6y ago
I've been in this situation multiple times. You interview, you like what you see, form a (partially subconscious) opinion about the company/culture, take the job... and then discover some warts that weren't visible. Now you k
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by PaulStatezny 6y ago
> Bad code that ships is better than good code that doesn't. Logical fallacy: false dichotomy. What about good code that ships? Best of both worlds.
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by PaulStatezny 6y ago
PragmaticPulp is making an appeal to take responsibility for your time management. Reducing this to "suck it up" seems like a lack of listening/understanding to me.

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