Swizec

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by Swizec 9mo ago
> For me, the writing speed has never been the issue. The issue has been my thinking speed. I do not see how an AI coding assistant helps me think better Similar to moving from individual work to coordinating a large codebase: coding age
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by Swizec 9mo ago
> without other the states not being in on it California represents 12% of USA population, 14% of US GDP. Effectively that means CA can throw its weight around and companies are forced to at least pretend to comply. Whether they actually
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by Swizec 9mo ago
> So by the time "active" cooking is taking place, it's a pretty chill affair Nice! As my mom used to say: A good cook leaves the kitchen cleaner than they found it. I do a mix of mise-en-place and frantic chopping in betw
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by Swizec 9mo ago
Here’s how you optimize the time it takes for things to boil: You spend that time prepping ingredients, cooking another dish, or cleaning the kitchen. In cooking there’s no such thing as waiting.
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by Swizec 9mo ago
The time it takes for water to boil is your time to prep all the ingredients or clean the kitchen. In cooking there is no waiting.
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by Swizec 10mo ago
Blind optimism is silly. But time and again we’ve shown that tit-for-tat is the best strategy in repeated games. Start optimistic. Stop if it doesn’t work. In the long-term you don’t need to win every iteration, just enough for a positive e
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by Swizec 10mo ago
> > but optimists win. > Win.. what? Depends what you want to win? You won’t have happy kids and a good family life, if you don’t think it’s possible. Same as you won’t make a cool open-source library, if you aren’t optimistic (or
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by Swizec 10mo ago
> I've tried the ultra-cynical view at workplaces, and would have had better results with some "idealism", which he rightly notes in his form is just a more effectively action atop a base of clear-eyed cynicism. Cynics fe
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by Swizec 10mo ago
While not exactly a blog, I've collected ~16 years of [startup] engineering lessons into a book and I think it came out fantastic. People are saying super nice things. https://scalingfastbook.com
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by Swizec 10mo ago
> Hamming was also writing from a highly privileged position. Hamming had a lot of career capital. He was the only person in the world with his track record. If you needed his kind of research/output/teaching/etc, he was t
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by Swizec 10mo ago
My favorite lens on this comes from Hamming: > It is well known the drunken sailor whos taggers to the left or right n independent random steps will, on the average, end up about sqrt(n) steps from the origin. But if there is a pretty gi
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by Swizec 10mo ago
Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.
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> If your grading is based mostly on correctly reproducing facts and applying algorithms you memorized then that’s the outcome your education system optimizes for My favorite college class was compilers. The whole semester you worked on
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by Swizec 10mo ago
Yes most people would fight back against foreign occupation
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Show HN: I wrote a book about software engineering in startups(scalingfastbook.com)
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by Swizec 10mo ago
Ruth is a historian who hosted a bunch of BBC documentaries about regular day to day life a few decades ago. They’re great, strong recommend. I assume BBC generally does strong fact checking for things like that. The episode was about how e
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by Swizec 10mo ago
Having grown up less-well-to-do and post-communist/socialist, my favorite thing to remind people is that working class women always worked . The idealized past of stay-at-home moms never happened for a large majority of families. Su
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by Swizec 10mo ago
> you are well within the top decile of income for the US Yes and still can’t [responsibly] afford to buy in my locale :) The situation is truly fucked and it’s about time Americans admit that housing cannot be both an expectation and an
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by Swizec 10mo ago
Good question. We make tech money and rent a 3bed. No more rent control than SF defaults, we’ve only been here 2 years. The shocking part is that we pay 5k in rent, but mortgage on the same place would be closer to 9k. Plus the commitment p
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by Swizec 10mo ago
> there is a chance you’re spending more than 1/3 of your income on housing. People with higher rates and people who are renting, spend a lot more than 1/3 of their income on housing. We live in San Francisco and pay rent at ab
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by Swizec 10mo ago
I’ve seen Picallilli’s stuff around and it looks extremely solid. But you can’t beat the market. You either have what they want to buy, or you don’t. > Landing projects for Set Studio has been extremely difficult, especially as we won’t
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by Swizec 11mo ago
There are glaciers as far south as Slovenia. Spitting distance to the mediterranean. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skuta_Glacier Granted it’s not a very big glacier, but it’s there :D
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by Swizec 11mo ago
> When you're an employee, you can hide behind process and blame the market. You can still blame the market. A good market makes everything easier, a bad market makes everything harder. But here’s the catch: You choose the market. T
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by Swizec 11mo ago
> I hated it, /../ I mainly kept it, because I couldn't trust anyone else to do the job correctly. I think the best managers are people who will even do management if that's what it takes.
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by Swizec 11mo ago
> A Principal Engineer should be just as valued and well-treated as a CTO. Most companies fail to do this, so everyone wants to be the CTO. Establish a career track, where technical people aspire to technical positions. I spent my whole
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by Swizec 11mo ago
> The interest rates often make those unattractive. You also expose yourself to the risk of a margin call with its many implications FWIW my brokerage gives me a margin loan at 4.9% up to 30% of the portfolio. The interest is literally l
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by Swizec 11mo ago
> The following breakdowns are largely just people's net worth (assets minus liabilities) with the credit they can tap because of their assets. > Not sure I entirely understand the point. Yeah, people with assets are generally mo
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> such as dogs and cats, to slavery. Cats famously domesticated themselves though. More of a symbiosis than subjugation
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by Swizec 11mo ago
> I don't know if I trust Waymo cars with my life, but at least there are SOME standards, compared to the natural variance of humans I’ve ridden in a lot of Waymos – 800km I’m told! – and they’re great. The bit that impresses me mos
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by Swizec 11mo ago
> It wasn't until working through practice problems later, on my own, did it become clear how much detail I was missing. This is a common problem in learning. Recognition is easier than recall and smoothness is confused for understa

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