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by afarrell 5y ago
Huh? The world did not forget. I did not forget. What leads you to say that?
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FPTP is really quite common in the western world. Going so far as to say it makes the government “barely legitimate” is a strong claim. Without other evidence, this claim relies entirely on how much we trust your sense of proportion. Your c
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> over commit No. No no no no. This sets you up to under-deliver and lose people’s trust. This means you won’t have enough slack if you need to ask for help and wait for someone to help you.
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What definitely does not help is to tell them to “fake it til you make it.” Instead it is far better for them to learn self-knowledge and to express themselves clearly. Berné Brown books help too.
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I'll bet that a good project for a different person who has idly thought "y'know, I'd like an excuse to learn rust..." could be doing that.
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> I assume governments have models to make decisions about utility now vs utility later, and the way that trades off with cost now vs cost later. I'm curious where this assumption comes from. It seems more likely that it would be ma
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by afarrell 5y ago
> Among the conditions that were very strongly found to be dimensional only were depression, anxiety, and ADHD. which makes sense if those are abnormal levels of neuromodulators like serotonin, cortisol, and dopamine.
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My first impulse is to say “Really? Pffft… Cmon thats not a real problem. Grow up.” because that would not bother me at all. I would not make the choice you are making for myself. …which is projection. My first impulse is not worth listen
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by afarrell 5y ago
Or you could choose work at companies which primarily use OSX. They are common enough that this is feasible.
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I believe the quality and design of software has an influence on people's level of productivity and experience at their job. If I had a preponderance of evidence that this is false, I would conclude that UX design and much of software
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> an enterprising and determined individual or group could use to stifle discussion… This is true. Ultimately no manifesto or written commitment can constrain a people into freedom. The best we can do is strive to say what we intend, see
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I'm going to name the phenomenon you're arguing against "UX projection". As a software engineer, when I imagine myself doing a lawyer's job, I would want a tool like this. But that misses the point. Good UX requires
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I would say it is sometimes a good use of time to build a date-picker as a learning exercise
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Yes, MIT’s university culture does genuinely encourage a collaborative project-based approach. However, some grads will believe that the business world expects them to be as brilliant as Tony Stark and able to “carry a message to garcia”[1]
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Bush Sr. was not re-elected after winning the first Iraq war.
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There is no political benefit for Biden in going to war. The left doesn't like war -- it wants to fix problems at home. The right doesn't want war -- it elected Trump partly on anti-war sentiment.
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Yes. In an office, you can read someone’s body language to tell if they are “in the zone”. Not so with remote work.
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Indeed. In the choice between punishing a corporation and solving the problem, we should pick solving the problem.
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> Nobody likes them. If that was true, financing wouldn't exist for consumer products. In practice, people pay extra to turn a one-time payment into a subscription.
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That indicates leadership which is overstressed and has a poor understanding of the nature of software engineering productivity.
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Elon’s job isn’t to make sure that the cars actually have brake pads. Elon’s job is to ensure he’s hiring leaders who won’t repeatedly use racial slurs for the people whose jobs are to make sure the cars actually have brake pads. https:&#x
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by afarrell 5y ago
It is worth adding "Is this fulfilling?" or something similar as a second question. Going for a walk with friends is hard to justify as "useful" per se...but it is fulfilling and necessary to a good life.
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There is a difference between authoritarianism and believing it is worth seeking out a trustworthy team.
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Discipline and consistency has also been a challenge for me. I have found it useful to embrace the humble beauty of boring things. It is easy to get on the hedonic treadmill of seeking ever-greater levels of excitement. Doing this will mean
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> But its subtle things that make all the difference between average and really good in something, these ones you can’t really learn without gettyhands dirty and making own mistakes. I strongly agree here. It was the subtle things about
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> avoiding risk is avoiding life. True. A life well-lived requires courage. Courage in means risking trauma. Yet if you don't distinguish between trauma and daily hard work, that sets you up to either: A. Avoid hard work... possib
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by afarrell 5y ago
Agreed. There are are far too many stories nowadays which say we are living in times where the courage of men fails and we should break our bonds of fellowship.
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Hard work and trauma are not the same. A good days work should leave you feeling tired, not beaten down & broken.
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Incorrect. I learned that it was wrong to casually point a firearm at someone before I had the experience of firing a gun. I also first learned to direct my visual focus to the front sights. Knowing that rule enabled me to then gain more nu
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Good judgement comes from a mix of positive and negative experiences while paying attention to the right things.

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