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by afarrell 5y ago
I disagree with this as good advice. I think the post is at a point where any more self-editing would be navel-gazing. Instead, I’d advise first posting it to 1-3 editors whom you trust. “Consider your audience” is good…but also not very ac
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by afarrell 5y ago
> At this point in this conversation, some part of me starts to feel concerned about complacency. I know that my standards are unrealistic. But they also serve as a big part of my motivation system. And I feel concerned that if I just re
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by afarrell 5y ago
If you are writing for the web or building things for a different use-case than deno targets.
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Aren’t the Haqqani network involved in significant smuggling operations?
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by afarrell 5y ago
This sounds like overgeneralised social distrust. Individuals have been living in and benefiting from communities for years.
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by afarrell 5y ago
Assuming positive intent is generally good, but it is not very specific. So it can be wise to follow it with a step of clarifying intent. If I assume you intend to make me a delicious soup, that is still quite dangerous to me if your intent
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by afarrell 5y ago
Because markets carry useful signals. Part of the move to decarbonised energy is creating the free economic systems which support it.
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by afarrell 5y ago
Yes. Solving problems for the future generally requires using problematic systems that currently exist.
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by afarrell 5y ago
> less than 5% are producing the actual products This is also true in the military, where a tiny fraction are trigger pullers. It is worth picturing what an army with no logistics personnel would look like.
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by afarrell 5y ago
That sounds even better than what I was thinking of because you wouldn’t need people to download an app. Also, ESPN and Sky could have a version of that which it could license to broadcast the audio of a football game at bars or pubs
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by afarrell 5y ago
This app indicates that existing Android and iPhones can already act as receivers. Can you (or anyone more familiar with the tech) verify that is true? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27294649/i-want-ble-broa..
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by afarrell 5y ago
Because few people already carry FM store radios in their pocket, so relying on them requires solving a logistical problem.
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by afarrell 5y ago
Could you please pitch this app as a more scalably-profitable revenue stream for your employer?
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by afarrell 5y ago
Because they want people to read things, view ads, and maybe subscribe to their publication. Its similar to the motive for mundane stories published in magazines 30 years ago: so people read them in exchange for money.
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by afarrell 5y ago
The trouble is that you need to distribute headsets to people, hope they don’t get broken, and then collect them back. If there is both an android and iPhone app, then you can let people use their own earbuds. You’d merely need to tell peop
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by afarrell 5y ago
It would be nice if there was an app that a could let a bunch of people tune in to an audio stream hosted by a phone within 30 meters. Then, a professor could lead walking lectures without having to turn around and shout. This would also be
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by afarrell 5y ago
It is rather uncommon to believe that people in a society where everyone can publish their opinions must be artificially manipulated into conflict and dissent. I’d think that harmony and consent must instead be artificially manufactured. I’
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by afarrell 5y ago
It seems like WeWork has a significant opportunity to buy departments stores in commuter towns and rent to people who want to regain their sense of work-life balance.
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by afarrell 5y ago
The best emotional argument is to listen and to put emotional labels on the situation. > "jeeze. that sounds really scary" > "oy. yea. I'd be quite torn." The second best emotional argument is just to go fishi
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by afarrell 5y ago
Yes
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by afarrell 5y ago
The hard part is that leaders will hear this as advocating for organisational silos. Many, especially Americans, associate organizational silos with the violent deaths of 3000 Americans 20 years ago.
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by afarrell 5y ago
Pair-drafting pseudocode with a colleague into a Dropbox Paper document is a great way to evaluate tradeoffs.
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by afarrell 5y ago
Also, if we want to end world hunger we will need to figure out how to build a highly efficient means of distributing perishable goods. Selling off all of Jeff Bezos' assets and then trying to use the proceeds to do that seems highly w
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by afarrell 5y ago
So it was a vicious cycle. 1. Recruited during a massive hiring push. Joined a team whose lead had joined less than 6 months earlier. 2. Encountered weird and unexpected difficulties. 3. Told my team lead that I felt like I wasn’t really de
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by afarrell 5y ago
> Why not just explain the thing? I asked first if y’all wanted to know because: 1. It will take a long time to write the answer so I first wanted to know if it would be at all interesting or if it would be dismissed as whinging and excu
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by afarrell 5y ago
Those employees will leave unhealthy relationships for ones which are better for their career.
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by afarrell 5y ago
I changed teams and went on a meditation retreat. Things are much better. Your larger point is correct up until the point where the decision is “I, Mr. X am not going to take on that additional work.” Until Mr. X exercises the autonomy to s
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by afarrell 5y ago
> never received the information that Mr X promised If you re-read the above, you’ll notice that Mr X never promised to have the data. He instead said he lacked the data. One reason a person can end up losing credibility and making lots
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by afarrell 5y ago
This is similar to a frustrating pattern of my own behavior over last year. Would you like to know what is behind it?
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by afarrell 5y ago
> a painful option Yes. > many don’t really care enough about the enterprise’s overall success Or they are unwilling to do what’s necessary because it is very painful or scary and they are exhausted.

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