Swizec

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by Swizec 2y ago
> happy to pay Spotify for their collection, new music discoverability, and availability, while also hating their podcast junk Spotify is fast entering that size of product where users who use it most all use different subsets of feature
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by Swizec 2y ago
> Doing a quick search shows that it's from a memory plot in "Atomic Habits" by James Clear. The post I linked predates Atomic Habits by 10 years :)
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Yes and feedback can be from your own experience of building upon the code with your next task.
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by Swizec 2y ago
Just do what comes naturally is great advice for beginners. See the pottery class parable: https://www.industryweek.com/leadership/companies-executives... tldr: Pottery class, 2 groups. 1 group instructed to make the
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by Swizec 2y ago
> It's hard to call those choices "wrong" so much as selected based on the flavor profile of a younger, much more anxious me, whereas I am now considerably more willing to swing for the fences now that I've realized j
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by Swizec 2y ago
> if he's old enough to know to text me if he'll be out late Kids certainly reach a stage where not texting you they’ll be out late is an important part of development. Teenage rebellion and all that. I loved telling my mom n
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> LLM chatbots are even worse. They have great latitude to say convincing and incorrect information, but can rarely actually do anything. It would be much better to just publish a good knowledge base. The problem of course is that users
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by Swizec 2y ago
WordPress is my favorite example of "It doesn't have to be perfect, it just needs to work" So many cool projects die because people over-complicate the first steps. You can always make it better later if people start using
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by Swizec 2y ago
> No, not even you, dear person reading this. You are wrong about some basic things too. It'll vary from person to person what those are, but it is guaranteed there's something. Kahneman has a fantastic book on this called Nois
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Yes. The problem with automatically deriving tests from your implementation is that you’re no longer testing your intent, just your implementation. Your tests and your code will have the same bugs dutifully recorded in 2 places. Your Beyonc
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by Swizec 2y ago
> How do people feel about LLM generated tests? LLM generated tests are the ultimate response to “Our CTO wants high test coverage but we all know it’s bullshit and provides little to no value”. They exist to tick a checkbox. Maybe there
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by Swizec 2y ago
> It's a Prisoner's Dilemma problem I think it's a Red Queen's Race problem. If everyone is running, you have to be running just to stay put (relatively). To out-compete, you gotta run faster. But there's only so
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by Swizec 2y ago
There's a dude from Slovenia who makes cement casts of famous philosophers! Although I think they're more desk than garden sized. https://www.etsy.com/shop/jurgenstudio
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by Swizec 2y ago
> Instead of half-working all day I prefer to work for half a day I have had a lot of success with this. I was also a stressed-out wreck the entire time. Turns out sprinting through all your work is exhausting. Who knew Ultimately I thin
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by Swizec 2y ago
I love this idea and have often observed the effect they describe in the intro. > Instead of half-working all day, it’s better to work in focused stints, with breaks in between to recover Yes! Super true. Strong agree. The discipline to
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> Maybe most people aren’t interested in that kind of work? It’s a long slog of working through the problems, My SO always says she could never be an engineer because she doesn’t like failure enough.
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To me cicadas sound like carefree mediterranean summer nights at the seaside. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keyFWfDexr0
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> HN is a pretty toxic place indeed This may be a personal style difference, but I find HN to be the least toxic of all social media I’ve tried. LinkedIn would be my example of ultra toxicity – the aggressive positivity there is unbearab
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by Swizec 2y ago
> all birds dinosaurs > Did you know all humans are living Kenyapithecuses? You’re making a cheeky joke but that’s not quite how it works. The kenyapithecus is a common ancestor of all great apes in the hominid family. But it is a sp
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by Swizec 2y ago
One of my happiest moments as a writer was discovering that my book is on torrents. With seeds! And people liked it enough after pirating to come back, hit the buy button, and tell me there’s pirated versions out there. <3
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by Swizec 2y ago
I once took a hard look at our user surveys. As a software engineer I’m not really expected to care. All our happiest customers talked about the service experience. All our grumpiest customers talk about the service experience. None of our
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by Swizec 2y ago
I feel like all these articles/research are written from an extreme American perspective where people never move unless it’s from the couch to the car. You basically can’t exist in a European (and many others) lifestyle without getting
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> Are product-based tech companies/startups still defensible if anyone can basically recreate the product with some English? The code is not the asset. It never has been. Deeply understanding your customer, their problem, and how to
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> It's this kind of thing that makes me think tackling big feature requests is still an AGI-complete problem. Perhaps if it gets good enough at pure coding you can iterate your way to success. I think you’ve just invented product ma
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by Swizec 2y ago
> I show every day because I exercise (and sweat) every day, Funfact: In ye olden days peasants were cleaner than nobility. Because they got dirty every day and had to wash (with cold water in a stream). Nobility never got dirty and bath
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by Swizec 3y ago
> The good news for these internal interruptions is that it should be much easier to control them Just get good sleep, great nutrition, enough exercise, and remove all stressors from your life. How hard can it be!? Yes really that’s the
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by Swizec 3y ago
I work from home. It’s very nice that the gym I go to daily is a 10min bicycle ride away (faster than driving), the farmers market is a 30min walk, there’s 3 large grocery stores in a 15min walk radius, I’ll never discover all the bars and
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by Swizec 3y ago
> What I am really concerned about is the composition of large programs, the text of which may be, say, of the same size as the whole text of this booklet. At 88 pages, I think that falls on the smaller end of what most programmers deal
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by Swizec 3y ago
> with users using higher level languages (e.g. "ORMs") to hide the nastinesses Maybe I’ve been doing it wrong my whole career because every project I’ve worked with the engineers eventually said ”Screw this leaky abstraction.
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by Swizec 3y ago
> Meta was hit particularly hard in the correction because.... reasons It dropped when they had an unprecedented day long outage.

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