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You keep saying this is your lived experience, and a lot of other people are saying that it is too rare to be worth making a presumption without putting in the work to go look. What I’ll say to you now is that if you are actually looking fo
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If the code is only a couple of months old, why presume anything when the original authors are probably still around? When the pull requests are right there to look at? When the JIRA tickets either completely explain, or link to documents t
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by a4isms 5y ago
Joel Spolsky, just about 22 years ago: Back to that two page function. Yes, I know, it’s just a simple function to display a window, but it has grown little hairs and stuff on it and nobody knows why. Well, I’ll tell you why: those are bug
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n=1 counter-example (ha!) I know two retired lawyers. When they downsized from a mansion to a luxury condominium, they had an incredible kitchen installed. They don't cook much personally, but they have someone come in and cook a coupl
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It's never wrong to quote The Twilight Zone.
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by a4isms 5y ago
Either “one true language,” or just as possibly, humans tend to wander from one local optimum to another. At the moment, most mainstream languages are orbiting a certain obvious local maximum with lots of “functions as first-class objects l
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News "articles" that speak to the future of the war and spend most of their words describing new, expensive technology that will replace the existing military approach sound an awful lot like pieces planted by public relations fir
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Generating sequences of primes in Conway's Game of Life (2009)(njohnston.ca)
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Fred tosses and turns, unable to sleep. Wilma sits up. “Fred, what’s the problem? Why are you tossing and turning?” Fred comes clean: “I owe Barney $10,000 and I promised to pay it tomorrow. And I know he needs it, because he bought a new s
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p.p.s. I want to be very clear that there's nothing magic in my mind about being a "senior" engineer. You don't have to be a senior engineer to make more money in this industry: You can be a serial intermediate! Consider
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If a product takes 2-4 iterations to reach maturity, and a candidate is only involved in one of those iterations, they haven't participated in the complete multi-year product cycle from skateboard to scooter to bicycle to motorcycle to
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p.s. There's more than just shepherding long projects, that's just the easiest thing to explain. But to add some colour, other things a senior engineer is expected to demonstrate are: 1. Experience with the consequences of their c
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I interview 50% or more of the senior engineers we (A YC-backed company that is post-IPO and still growing rapidly) hire. I assure you that our interview process for engineers at this level is weighted towards significant involvement in pro
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I was once in sales for a majors electronic components distributor. All salespeople and sales management were required to spend two weeks in the warehouse for onboarding, and were told that if the warehouse staff didn’t give them a favourab
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Flip-flop hubs are a thing: https://cyclistzone.com/what-is-a-flip-flop-hub/ In my case (scroll back 35 years), I would ride a fixed gear around the city, but change to the single-speed freewheel for Toronto's leg
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I have ridden as a courier in Toronto. For me, it was the 80s, and IIRC, I rode for Sunwheel Couriers, who had an old-school (even by the standards of the 80s) touring/randonneur culture. I was riding a bike very similar to what you de
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Yes, and both have my sympathy. Sometimes, a musician revisits their earlier work and finds new things to explore. Joni Mitchell and Ryuchi Sakamoto come to mind. But other times, a musician feels that although their earlier work may be new
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I am a writer, and fully conversant with the fact that an em dash signals a break in the flow of a sentence, and one such use of a break in the flow is to use two of them to introduce a remark about the sentence itself, and then return to t
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Alan: Dozens of people died of COVID last year. Beth: You forking idiot, millions died, not dozens. Alan: Okay, so it's a lot of dozens. What's your problem?
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Organized sports at the professional and international level have been in the business of sportwashing practically since their inception. Do you sell tobacco that causes your users to die a painful and lingering death from cancer? No proble
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I'm a big fan of em dashes, which—when used like this—signal a parenthetical remark.
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Just imagine if J or K could be as glorious as this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4
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AR is colloquially understood to mean overlaying your field of vision with graphics that interact with reality in your field of vision. By way of a real-world example, military pilots have heads-up displays that overlay IDs of aircraft on t
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TL;DR: “The problem with polarization is all those brainwashed people over there."
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There are some flat bulges at 10 and 2, and while I cannot hook my thumbs on them in any way, I can rest my thumbs on them if I put my hands at 9:30 and 2:30, instead of resting my hands on them at 10 and 2. If I put my hands right on 9 and
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I married a Chinese woman, and thus at New Year’s all the children would go out of their way to do me favours so I would give them their red packets. I jokingly complained that I was getting a bad deal: I didn’t get red packets as a child,
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“I think a gift card is a bad gift. You take money that is good everywhere...” (long pause, punctuated by applause and laughter) —Mitch Hedberg, 1968 - 2005
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I can’t speak to that, but I can tell you that the steering wheel is shaped to make it easy to hold at ten and two.
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I use “Pilot Assist” in a 2018 Volvo V90CC, and on the one hand, it has all kinds of “issues” that require my active attention, including confusion about construction areas, or even just a general wandering when I’m in the RH lane of a high
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With Prime, you can type the name of a product and get it right away.* ——— * For sufficiently next-day values of “right away.”

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