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by a_c 3y ago
Found it. Turns out it is an audio book by Michael Lewis, The Coming Storm https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Coming-Storm-Audiobook/B07F43...
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I don't remember which podcast was it coming from, several years ago there was motion to shut down the US National Weather Service, or is it the NOAA I don't remember, because AccuWeather is all people need. No one seems to questi
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Many things have a "if my stuff keeps working, why is it a problem?" vibe. On personal level we have health - why can't I have fries and ice cream all day, everyday. That's what any sensible children would choose. Educat
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Am commenting without reading the article. The book that gave me a peek how the art dealership works https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42250022-boom It got me thinking the dealership side of software. One might
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Can't believe the website owner is still writing after 18 years running the website https://www.damninteresting.com/journey-to-the-invisible-pla... The website isn't getting much donation https://www.da
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The trick I use for myself is, if all I could see is binary (this is too easy, how hard can it be, or it is impossible), then I'm either too novice or I'm an true expert in this particular subject matter. As Bruce Lee put it, a pu
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This is almost always true. But this is also how a new company inevidently sprung up and eat your lunch. Everyone knows photoshop is bloated and slow, they have all the money and industry knowledge in the world, why didn't they come up
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Software always involve data. There is now a tendency for large companies to announce a slice of engineer's day to day to be a standalone position, and others will follow suit thinking they also need a dedicated position/team to h
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Thank you for clarifying. Re-reading the message, the intention wasn't obvious at all. For example, given a wet floor, 5-why tends to give a single reason, e.g. because it rained, and people may drill deeper into why it rained. My inte
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5-whys is useful. 5-whys is a linked list. Sometimes, things don't have a single cause. One mental model I find useful, while harder to apply, is to see things as a web of dependency. What are the whys for this layer of problem. What o
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I have been using duckduckgo's bang feature for searching a particular site. e.g. !hn to search on here, !w on wiki and !g back to google is the result from ddg looks off.
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Honestly It is more an impression than understanding. Maybe the lack of attention in various petitions, e.g. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/601932 Maybe the lack of mentioning of "caveats" of the bi
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As I understand it, most UK public are in favour of this bill almost Pavlovianly. There is a clear disconnect between us, the tech know-how, and the general public.
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Thanks for making my day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_0THARUP9A
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Want to add that the shortest path is only obvious from hindsight. And someone's shortest path maybe shorter than yours. Incremental iteration seems all the rage nowadays, but it didn't take one's taste and experience into ac
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IMO UK has so much potential in being economically and technologically relevant. It is english speaking, got top universities, healthcare is decent when compared to the US (not saying it is without problems), capital abundant, birth rate a
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It seems the UK is good at self inflicting damage. First the brexit, now this online safety bill. Brexit had half the population in support while the safety bill didn't garner much attention from the public (or I've missed them).
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I assume the article is a transcript of an episode of "How I Built This", if podcast is more your thing https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/atlassian-mike-cannon-...
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Language determines how one thinks. People from different cultures count differently for example, and that affect how people do math. "two-dozen is two times a dozen" is more intuitive than "twenty four is two times twelve&qu
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https://archive.is/r1NCq It is a beautiful piece. Don't let javascript get in the way.
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Before reading, I thought it is about Clojure helping designer to collaborate with engineers and getting customer insight on how the designed product is used. I was completely off.
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It took me one incidence to turn from "no one will ever conceivably even try to..." to "everyone will nod their heads and move on"
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The list is not complete without mentioning the site has a total number of users equal to or less than the amount of people you can spam and still consider you a friend
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Perfect pitch is the monad in musical training. Everyone not having it thought they want to get it. Those who gets it would know it really isn't helping that much. Disclaimer, I don't get neither
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As illustrated in the video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V1kOLhhSjl8 it is hard to solve transportation by patching part of it. How people go to work, get health care, buy groceries, go to school, get entertainment, etc al
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IME most time is spent on different shades of thinking what to do, from understanding the real pain to coming up a good enough solution, and understanding how the hell was my team, most of the time, myself, trying to do with the current inc
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This is illustrated in The Innovator's Dilemma and happens all the time. Established companies want to focus resources, increase profit margin, and improve operational efficiency. They improve their best product and sell to big custome
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As someone building something to tackle this problem, I'm under the impression that your situation is rare. Google famously kills product loved by customer. Reddit is committing suicide. facebook (almost) never built anything useful. I
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Nice analogy. I see "prices" as money and time. To save time, pay more money, to save money, pay in time. Ikea is maybe low on money, but definitely high in terms of time. Any software with good UX should be high on money, because
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Modern software development is so detached from what makes software useful - getting it used. All the practices people have been preaching doesn't include the context that making sure the piece of code they written is getting used. It&

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