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by User23 2y ago
In every big company high performer means “ships, a lot.” That’s one of the benefits of a higher job level. You get to claim credit for shipping everything you had a hand in even when your contribution was often little more than organizatio
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by User23 2y ago
One of the easiest ways to be a 10x dev is to sabotage the productivity of every other dev on your team. I suppose it’s often not consciously intentional, but that’s the end result when you ship features at a breakneck rate using the bolt-o
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by User23 2y ago
> Forget the cosmological constant having lucky values, what are the odds that physical constants exist as opposed to there being a matterless void? The odds of there being something rather than nothing are absolutely zero. This is easil
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by User23 2y ago
Yes that’s how analogies work, they’re not exact equivalents. The point was to illustrate that the actual value creating job of every employee from the bottom up to the CEO is fundamentally delivering products or services. An organization t
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by User23 2y ago
I have, in my adult life, had precisely one physician convincingly show that he cared about me. The overwhelming majority are obviously phoning it in, with varying levels if pleasantness.
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by User23 2y ago
This is pretty much exactly the mindset that I’m criticizing, yeah. In reality, in a well structured organization, someone leading a pizza team is analogous to a developer running five highly advanced AIs to help him build something. Sure s
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by User23 2y ago
Now I know little about kitchens, but I’m under the impression that the entry level job is pretty much just following instructions, chopping things up, etc. And as you rise from there, yes you get responsibility for those beneath you doing
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by User23 2y ago
That’s not really true. I don’t have a link handy (might try to find later), but I read a rather scathing critique of the state of crypto math by a mathematician. The short summary is that crypto math is overwhelmingly unnecessarily inelega
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by User23 2y ago
The other side of that is handling case insensitivity in Unicode bug for bug compatible with email providers.
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by User23 2y ago
That’s fine. The vast majority of the population wasn’t interested in the Internet in the early ‘90s and that was fine too. Better in many ways. The signal to noise ratio was many orders of magnitude higher, and the average intelligence of
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by User23 2y ago
Three legged table supremacy!
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by User23 2y ago
The Illuminatus! Trilogy.
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by User23 2y ago
Having to pay the fence to get your stuff back is so California. In the more civilized states pawnbrokers are expected to know the risks of buying potentially stolen property, and if they do they get to eat it. Maybe that's why propert
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by User23 2y ago
Rational approximation is a thing. 22/7 and all that.
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by User23 2y ago
My first exposure to fixed-point arithmetic was early cpu based 3d rendering. It’s a really neat technique.
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by User23 2y ago
I’m not really sure what you mean. Both prefix and infix if are both based on natural language conventions. So, for that matter, is reading code from left to right and any other number of patterns. The infix if form is as if not more readab
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by User23 2y ago
Except mainframe IO and interrupts actually work reliably. Unix on the other hand is a proud member of the worse is better club. It still doesn’t really handle interrupts correctly, but thanks to 40 years of kludges most people consider it
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by User23 2y ago
Try thinking of it as prefix if and infix if? And in any event it’s a very natural language pattern if you know what I mean.
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by User23 2y ago
> employers are wise enough to hire people who are 30-40 years minimum from retirement. Well I hope they’re wise enough to not let any good employment attorneys catch wind because that’s blatantly illegal.
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by User23 2y ago
One can write reliable, and I mean airtight good enough for medical devices and nuclear deterrence, in basically any even vaguely modern language (think Algol-60 or later). It’s simply a matter of disciplined design and running on hardware
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by User23 2y ago
Replying STOP sends a clear signal that this number is being used by a real person.
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by User23 2y ago
> We don't have proper language, but certainly we've improved. Even since Peirce. You're right that many people are not well versed in the philosophical and logician discussions as to what reasoning is (and sadly this lack
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by User23 2y ago
I agree with you, but it’s an indisputable fact that Rails is why the overwhelming majority of Ruby programmers have paying jobs.
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by User23 2y ago
We don't really have the proper vocabulary to talk about this. Well, we do, but C.S. Peirce's writings are still fairly unknown. In short, there are two fundamentally distinct forms of reasoning. One is corollarial reasoning. This
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by User23 2y ago
This makes me wonder if there is some useful way to apply lattice theory to software development estimation. Essentially, take the tasks and compose a lattice using a “definitely harder than” relation. While we are observably bad at predict
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by User23 2y ago
All else being equal immigration drives down wages by increasing the labor supply and drives up housing by increasing housing demand. Nevertheless sufficiently wealthy (if they actually onshore that wealth) and productive immigrants can be
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by User23 2y ago
A typical textbook gives me around an 11x17 display area with better than retina resolution and a refresh limited only by the speed of my optic nerve. That’s about the usable area of a 27” monitor after all the UI trash has taken its share
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by User23 2y ago
I agree with you, but it’s really simpler than that. China makes things and the west increasingly just sends emails.
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by User23 2y ago
It will be interesting to see this challenged in court, because it's a clear violation of the first sale doctrine. In any event you are within both your moral and legal rights, in the USA at least, to backup any software you have purch
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by User23 2y ago
> As is usually the case, the government will be left holding the bag. To be fair last-resort bag-holder is one of government’s primary jobs right behind monopolizing violence.

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