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by a4isms 4y ago
Also “picking up nickels off of railroad tracks.” It’s very seductive. I like the railroad tracks analogy because in my real-world experience, railroad tracks can be seldom-used, and look like they’ve been abandoned. But every once in a whi
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> Contributing to open source projects, having side projects, et al are pursuits of leisure. This is an old anti-pattern: tests that sound like they're about competence, but they're actually about "culture fit." Examp
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The thing about the natural world is that “Nature does not practice OOP.” Our nice hierarchies of animals reflect our desire to build hierarchies. Those hierarchies are tools that are useful for many purposes, but they weren’t blueprints fo
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They aren’t exactly rocket science, agreed, but there’s an interesting trap here: Implementing classes on top of pre-ES2015 JS wasn’t exactly rocket science either, so there was a “Cambrian Explosion” of home-grown implementations and OSS l
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The quip I like best for this is: “Any sufficiently complicated model class contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a state machine.” Lots of models I've encountered eschew being organized
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> No-code or low-code still means you're creating software, even if you're using a drag-and-drop UI to do so. And if you're building software, you're going to want things like version control, environments, code revie
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So Musk is picking fewer than two? Fair.
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But Mitsubishi does not provide all three, and its prices are lower than Honda and Toyota. See also econoboxes from Eastern Europe. So my claim is that Honda and Toyota provide high value by balancing a low-ish (but not the lowest) price ag
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> No brand new car should have issues that need fixing “Price, quality, manufacturing at scale. Pick two.” Ok, that’s a little flippant. But the underlying truth is that quality for software and manufactured goods is one of many variable
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Here's a comment I made a few days ago here on HN about a blog post, it may be relevant: ————— The author is relating second-hand information. That’s useful, it’s good to have people who have a skill of curating business advice and p
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And not just secure system design. “Undo” is powerful in any app, not just because it can roll a change back with a single click, but because scary dialog boxes (“Really, really REALLY delete this file? It can not be recovered once deleted,
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Would this be the Coinbase whose CEO just spent $133 million on a home? https://www.ibtimes.com/inside-coinbase-ceo-brian-armstrongs... Capitalism is a harsh mistress.
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Who is Moxie? Moxie Marlingspike. What is Moxie? A regional beverage that is the origin of the word, now the official soft drink of the state of Maine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxie
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Meta-comment: The author is relating second-hand information. That’s useful, it’s good to have people who have a skill of curating business advice and pointing us in good directions. But my first-hand advice is to recognize the difference b
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by a4isms 4y ago
A classic rant on the subject: Steve Yegge's "Code's Worst Enemy:" https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/12/codes-worst-enemy.h...
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Second the comment about code quality. Many decades ago (at least three, but at most four), during the era of terminal-style full-screen applications, I read a book about software development. The author was a consultant, and to make this p
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I was a successful retail and enterprise salesperson earlier in my career. I also suffer from lifelong depression. I did not fake "happy happy joy joy," but I also did not allow self absorption to inject my mood into my business.
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As was said fondly of computer magazines during the era when they were the size of telephone books and you could shake a rainforest's worth of inserts out of them: > Everything is an advertisement, and some of it is clearly marked a
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by a4isms 4y ago
You are very welcome. Although in my haste I mixed my metaphors up! Not sure if Atom was a fruit that grew into an orchard or a seed that grew into a garden. How about both?
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Nathan, I remember your passion for this project from its very early days. It has already borne fruit that has grown into a garden in the form of Electron, and I'm excited to see you are reimagining Atom in the form of Zed. Best wishes
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As you've read in the replies, most of the credentials are not worth the paper they're no longer printed on. But that being said, judging whether athletes are exploited by the characteristics of those who make it all the way to be
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One of the finest movies ever made about sport is a documentary called "Hoop Dreams," it follows the fortunes of two high-school basketball players attempting to make it into the NBA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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An absolute must-read on the subject of exploitation and outright abuse in elite "women's" gymnastics and figure-skating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Girls_in_Pretty_Boxes
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It's not "people volunteering" to test performance enhancing drugs in sport any more than it's "people volunteering" to test the effects of concussion on the brain in contact sports. It's a perverse set of
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My 2c is that these transitions aren't about giving up culture, they're about changing to a different culture. There are companies that make a lot of money and grow both organically and via acquisitions where people have a well-de
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At no time do I give them the benefit of the doubt, what I did was point out that their behaviour is functionally identical to the behaviour we allow with another class of huge, predatory corporations. If someone were to say, "Hey, now
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Never mind startups, I once had a client who was in the printing business, a numbers-driven blue-collar culture at the time. They worked out the loss of productivity from workers going out to the coffee truck and decided it was a win to spe
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Having been through this transition multiple times, I agree that it’s not about the sodas or the CFO. Why do you think they hire CFOs? To do things like this. To impose cost discipline. To be the person everyone is mad at instead of wonderi
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Not as long as those platforms have web browsers that haven't been crippled in some way. If I can buy the tee shirt I'm wearing from ebbetts.com on my iPad, there is more than one store I can shop at on my iPad, it's just tha
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Something to think about: It is traditional for landlords operating malls to enforce "percentage leases," where the tenant business pays a flat fee plus a percentage of sales, or a percentage of fees with a certain minimum rent. S

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