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by a4isms 11mo ago
If we look at this as a system with work flowing through it, the "theory of constraints" quickly tells us that code review is the bottleneck, and that speeding up code generation actually lowers system throughput. This is not new
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by a4isms 11mo ago
This is the answer, and it has been the answer going back to the before times when we didn't have pull requests but we did in-person team code reviews before merging branches (yes, really). A massive, complicated merge without document
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by a4isms 11mo ago
The beauty of `const` in JS is that it's almost completely irrelevant. Not only does it have nothing to do with immutability, it's also local . Which means, if I were to write `let` instead of `const`, I could still see whether m
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by a4isms 11mo ago
There is no exception for ANY data structure that includes references to other data structures or primitives. Not only can you add or remove elements from an array, you can change them in place. A const variable that refers to an array is a
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by a4isms 11mo ago
OG HN mainstay Joel Spolsky put it incredibly presciently back when Napster was a thing in 2001. The music studios were all raving about theft, but he pointed out that people weren't filesharing mp3s to save a buck, they were fileshari
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by a4isms 11mo ago
In languages like JavaScript, immutable and constant may be theoretically the same thing, but in practice "const" means a variable cannot be reassigned, while "immutable" means a value cannot be mutated in place. They ar
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by a4isms 1y ago
I'm trying to imagine a product manager calling me to say, "Hi, we just bought this product you use, we're raising prices and firing the dev team. But hahahaha, you can't quit us, I have a spreadsheet here that says you
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by a4isms 1y ago
Old-timers who date back to when Joel Spolsky's early musings on the business of software development were fixtures on the HN front page will remember him using the phrase "fire and motion" for Microsoft's old strategy o
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by a4isms 1y ago
Old poker adage: "The more wild cards and crazy rules, the greater the expert's advantage." Poker has nothing on Commercial Lawfare.
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by a4isms 1y ago
Are you seriously suggesting that Chinese automobile companies exporting to Europe and possibly North America are oblivious to the existence of winter? Their own country has cities like Harbin where temperatures can reach -35.
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by a4isms 1y ago
> Exporting your manufacturing base to a nation that opposes the fundamental values of a nation is completely suicidal How do you feel about integrating your manufacturing base with a nation that opposes the fundamental values of our nat
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by a4isms 1y ago
Rules in sports are always being adjusted, and participants are always looking for (barely legal) ways to get around them. Example: In cycling, they banned narrow handlebars. There's an aero advantage, but it was seen as a safety probl
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by a4isms 1y ago
He has often said things that are true, provided you ignore the ten to twenty times he said something else about the same subject with equal confidence. He is a master of goalpost relocation. Ask any Cybertruck owner. He shipped it, but was
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by a4isms 1y ago
There is a process by which functionality is pushed outward from the core to the edge. And there is another process by which functionality is pushed back from he edge to the core. For example, people did things in JS over and over and over
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by a4isms 1y ago
Take off and nacho them from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
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by a4isms 1y ago
I follow your reasoning. If we just look at businesses, and we include every business that pays money for AI and one or more employees use AI to do their their jobs, then we're in the Early Majority phase, not the Innovator or Early Ad
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by a4isms 1y ago
Once upon a time, society was all of us, but Society were the filks that held coming out parties and gossiped about whose J-class yacht was likely to defend the America's cup. Society with a capital S are the beneficiaries of the bubbl
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by a4isms 1y ago
> The 50x developer is a pervasive myth in our industry Doesn't it depend upon how you measure the 50x? If hiring five name-brand AI researchers gets you a billion dollars in funding, they're probably each worth 1,000x what I&#
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by a4isms 1y ago
Back in the days when desktop applications were the thing, I recall a (probably apocryphal) claim that nobody used more than 5% of Microsoft Office, but no two users used the same 5%. So it always appeared to be bloated with features nobody
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by a4isms 1y ago
No different than the Russians hunting for American dissidents to prop up. Well, a little different in that the Russians hunted for them in the Senate chamber and golf clubs.
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by a4isms 1y ago
I think everything you're saying about the difference between school shootings and NPM supply chain attacks is correct, but at the same time "You made a joke about why A is like B, but here's why A and B are actually differen
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by a4isms 1y ago
Anyone familiar with The Onion knows this, The Onion themselves repost the exact same thing every time there's a school shooting. Which emphasizes how regularly it happens, and therefore in turn I have no objection to a joke like this
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by a4isms 1y ago
Deeply underrated comment. You can peel back the layers of sarcasm like... An onion.
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by a4isms 1y ago
For future reference: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/usage-bad-rap-vs-bad...
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by a4isms 1y ago
I share "Intuitive Equals Familiar" on a regular basis. And here I go again: https://www.asktog.com/papers/raskinintuit.html
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by a4isms 1y ago
"/s" to the point of "/S!!!"
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by a4isms 1y ago
"Do you know how naive you sound, Michael? Political parties and mega corps don’t strive to undermine the fabric of democracy itself." "Oh? who's being naïve, Kay?"
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by a4isms 1y ago
How about if it's just to land the aircraft? https://www.garmin.com/en-US/autonomi/autoland/
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by a4isms 1y ago
A classic of its era, thanks! And there's something enduring about the basic issue of integrating systems that are fundamentally misaligned.
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by a4isms 1y ago
Is AI the Vietnam of Product Management in the same way that Object-Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science? https://web.archive.org/web/20220823105749/http://blogs.tedn...

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