afarrell

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   by afarrell 5y ago

   Emotional telepresence.
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   by afarrell 5y ago

   Honestly, the people who jump to conclusions about him saying this need to read some Berné Brown.
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   by afarrell 5y ago

   I’ve found kitty super useful for testing multi-service programs https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/remote-control.html
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   by afarrell 5y ago

   Indeed. Time & attention are limited resources. By eliminating the dominant class of bugs you have more time and attention for more subtle bugs.
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   by afarrell 5y ago

   Caveat: Saying “Just write it in rust” won’t change the fact that writing secure software is hard. The only thing that will actually prevent security holes is attentive software engineers deliberately choosing to learn tools and practice ha
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   by afarrell 5y ago

   > Are their some common, widely used libraries driving this trend. The rust community leadership made a strategic decision to pick 4 areas to suggest focus on. CLIs was one of them. (Scroll to “build it in rust” on https://www
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   by afarrell 5y ago

   > And a lot of those projects are just someone’s pet project, often written as a task for learning Rust I think 40% of the complaints people have about new JavaScript frameworks are from people failing to have the analogous insight to th
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   by afarrell 5y ago

   https://docusaurus.io/
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   by afarrell 5y ago

   1. Start by understanding that this is a primarily social problem. Techniques like documentation or microservices are only that: techniques. The real goal is clear communication by any means necessary. 2. Make it easy to see from a document
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    by afarrell 5y ago

    Yes. That doesn’t make it incorrect. A race to the bottom sinks all boats.
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    by afarrell 5y ago

    A Philosophy of Software Design. Except for what he says about TDD.
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    by afarrell 5y ago

    I would choose ReactJS because its what I know and because it seems to have the most momentum behind it.
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    by afarrell 5y ago

    I would focus on helping them find things to do in their city, friend-match based on that, and encourage repeated hangouts. Why? 1. People usually make friends through engaging in common interests. This takes time. 2. Building a business ta
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    by afarrell 5y ago

    Automated tests. The books by Harry Percival on this are good. https://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/
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    by afarrell 5y ago

    To call a distinction pedantic is to say it lacks importance to you. You are seeing a clash of values, not a bad-faith argument.
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    by afarrell 5y ago

    > when you know full well what I meant Reminder: humans lack telepathy and so they depend on body language, tone, and word semantics to communicate.
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    by afarrell 5y ago

    Keep forums smaller than 10x Dunbar’s Number.
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    by afarrell 5y ago

    The “Death Ground” strategy is more relevant in a situation where the greatest danger is a rout.
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    by afarrell 5y ago

    > when we improve things because we know they can be better instead of racing to avoid a disaster. I’d encourage you to read the Wikipedia article on Taylorism and then to read The Toyota Way and/or Leadership is Language.
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    by afarrell 5y ago

    Ah. This makes sense. If the author is heavily involved in the archaeological linguistics community they would indeed not know how well-known the Rosetta Stone is.
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    by afarrell 5y ago

    I think we should ask which particular humans are desperate and which are curious. Thousands of scientists and engineers would not have been motivated to work on ballistic rocketry and guidance systems if they had not been curious to learn
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    by afarrell 5y ago

    Ah, I may have misinterpreted the word “undervalued” as a value statement.
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    by afarrell 5y ago

    People also stay up late to see the stars. Where we see desperation in a company history, we should look again to check if it is actually relentlessly resourceful curiosity.
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    by afarrell 5y ago

    > they have no other options This isn’t really true and should not motivate us to value desperation. Survivorship bias prevents us from hearing the voices of those who chose the final solution to desperation.
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    by afarrell 5y ago

    > The article is pretty vague Yep. I think they are trying to write for too broad of an audience. It is spending a lot of ink trying to get people to care who did not already know a fact like > The discovery of the Rosetta Stone, whic
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    by afarrell 5y ago

    > we'd all be a lot better off if taxes were formulated as a program. They are. It is called turbotax and it is built and maintained by Intuit, who also has powerful lobbyists. I think what you want is a non-spaghetti open-source so
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    by afarrell 5y ago

    One important step is finding someone who will listen and reflect with you with honesty and rigorous compassion. That is hard to get from a forum of even the kindest of internet strangers. > is this not something regular people even worr
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    by afarrell 5y ago

    > not proper form Which is annoying to those who value form more than function.
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    by afarrell 5y ago

    Any medium of human communication (text, speech, body language, etc...) is lossy. Humans need acknowledgment, retransmission, and redundancy.
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    by afarrell 5y ago

    I would like to know too...