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by afarrell 6y ago
> objective data A single anecdote is an existence proof. (or a lie or misunderstanding)
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by afarrell 6y ago
> So keep mum, and carry on pretending, playing along that you are indeed normal. This comment leads me to wonder about the relationships between this topic and neurodiversity.
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by afarrell 6y ago
The existence of houses which are not fire does not mean the risk of house fires is unworthy of consideration.
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by afarrell 6y ago
If a company has 200+ developers already working on a 10-year-old codebase in the language, then the word "just" has a lot of heavy lifting to do in that question.
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by afarrell 6y ago
This is one thing that has made the transition to a larger company so hard for me. In smaller team, you can spend a bit of time cleaning up the codebase or tooling and know that investment will compound via increased velocity. When you shar
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by afarrell 6y ago
> It gives them far more power and freedom to build courses. This is a sign of a good UX. One impactful thing the FSF could do is create a case study the history and incentive structure of this project and extract lessons on how to struc
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by afarrell 6y ago
The biggest thing the FSF could do is innovate on economic models that help economically support people deeply focusing full-time on making the software as easy to use, troubleshoot, and understand as possible. There is a metaphor with Isl
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by afarrell 6y ago
To create change, make the change easy. If FSF wants school administrators to change their behaviour to stop using proprietary software, they'd need to make that change easy. If _they_ say that free software is too hard to install&#x2F
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by afarrell 6y ago
> the tips can be helpful to everyone https://medium.com/@mosaicofminds/the-curb-cut-effect-how-ma...
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by afarrell 6y ago
See also the top answer to "Ask HN: How To Overcome Information Addiction?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25870702
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by afarrell 6y ago
The person going to clean the park is the maintainer of some Open source software, offered for the public good. The monk handing over the book is the person who has done the work to write a pull request and gift it to the maintainer. The re
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by afarrell 6y ago
Part of the issue is inter-team communication and part of the problem comes from that very phrase "dumbing down". I often hear people argue for "dumbing things down" when there is an overwhelming amount of information, b
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by afarrell 6y ago
Let's do at most two things at a time so that we do them well.
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by afarrell 6y ago
Even if the monk wasn't doing that, I'd be annoyed.
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by afarrell 6y ago
I this is the first time I've seen the same person simultaneously assert that: 1. What really matters is delivering business value. 2. Networking at conferences and talking about the social context of technology is useless.
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by afarrell 6y ago
Suppose you go to clean up your local park and a monk walks up to you and hands you a book. They then ask you for a small donation. If this kept happening, would it discourage you from cleaning up your park?
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by afarrell 6y ago
You are free to disbelieve the answer, but it still stands.
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by afarrell 6y ago
> how is history going to land me a job interview Step 1. Go to software conference. Step 2. Get into hallway track conversation where a historical anecdote and its lessons are relevant. Step 3. Say things that prompt y'all to have
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by afarrell 6y ago
When you someone performs surgery on one patient, the legacy medical impacts of that surgery are contained to at most 2 people and their immediate families. There will probably be fewer than 10 surgeries where someone might think about that
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by afarrell 6y ago
yes, and if routine procedures cost money, then people won't do them until they are emergencies. Why? Many people feel that they "shouldn't" "have to" spend money on those things.
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by afarrell 6y ago
> I can assume everyone who uses my library is a responsible adult and I can treat them as that. What is great about python is that it acknowledges that even adults can forget things. Underscores are an affordance.
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by afarrell 6y ago
that should be: high speed and low velocity.
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by afarrell 6y ago
Honestly, this is the biggest reason I want UBI. I want it to be easier to operate a profitable food truck in Flint, Michigan so that it is easier to find a job building software that solves food safety problems for folks in places like Fli
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by afarrell 6y ago
That depends on what they've learned from the experience.
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by afarrell 6y ago
> even more in panic and hair-on-fire about environmental issues Panic is rarely useful. It might lead you to move at high and low velocity.
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by afarrell 6y ago
Some beliefs are facts. Some beliefs are a lens to focus on certain facts.
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by afarrell 6y ago
A. Meet your basic biological needs. Your brain is a part of your body. A person with an iron deficiency can feel compelled to chew ice[1]. Ice does not cures anemia, brains are weird parts of the body and do weird things when the body is n
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by afarrell 6y ago
Speculation: many downvoters are people who have repeatedly had a frustrating user experiences and are just exasperated at being repeatedly told how thier tools are good enough.
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by afarrell 6y ago
> containers hide the inherent mess that is modern computing, and the more they are used, the less chance is that this mess is getting cleaned up... ever If you have a roadmap for how 150 or fewer engineers can "Clean up the inheren
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by afarrell 6y ago
> Neither group takes away from the other In my experience, the symbol-focused people get pretty upset when people start trying to shift the conversation to understand the underlying causes of problems and questioning assumptions. Imagin

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