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by afarrell 6y ago
> but they speak little to the broader society Folks like Mark Manson and History Youtube still speak to broader society. Of course there are some humanities professors who are as out-of-touch with direct applicability as the people work
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by afarrell 6y ago
I don't think any individual on this forum has enough information to answer this question without generalising from a sample size that is too small. > The students there don't join any of the extracurriculars or sports teams Re
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by afarrell 6y ago
Those forces lack any sort of central Executive Function. Expecting them to have a consistent focus on one over another ignores the fact that they are inherently split-brained.
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by afarrell 6y ago
> Do you consider yourself to be a disabled person? > Yes: No: Prefer not to say: ughhhhh.... As a mixed-race ADHDer: Is this box becoming a thing too? I totally get that this is a hard thing to design a database schema for (see ht
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by afarrell 6y ago
> the focus The focus of...whom?
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by afarrell 6y ago
> It is therefore a bit offensive that the conclusion you draw is that developers who use PHP must have a deficit in their ability to work through problems. That is distinctly and meaningfully different from what I said. I did not say PH
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by afarrell 6y ago
That is like expecting that carpenters are going to keep making jigs and saying "measure twice, cut once" in various forms. If you could read the advice of a from carpenter 2000 years ago, I think he'd also be talking a lot a
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by afarrell 6y ago
> I don't really like when a topic keeps coming and doesn't bring anything new to the discussion. It is fine to value novelty. And also sometimes it is important and useful to return to tried-and-true ideas that others are alre
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by afarrell 6y ago
The problem is the interaction . ---------------- If an RJ45 connector won't fit into a USB-A slot, what is the problem? A. The RJ45 connector B. The USB-A slot C. The action of trying to fit one to the other ---------------- If a str
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by afarrell 6y ago
I imagine programmers who do not place a high value on the impact that their tools have on their ability to think through problems effectively. I am not saying that you are dumb. I am saying that your values clash with my needs. This clash
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by afarrell 6y ago
> it's a band-aid around dysfunctional inter-team working. If inter-team communication isn't a hard problem in software development, why are we even talking about API technologies? If inter-team communication wasn't that h
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by afarrell 6y ago
Copyeditors have to pay rent, and they only have one way to monetize exposure At least until Brave takes off...
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by afarrell 6y ago
The best forms of documentation are, in order: 1. Encapsulating complexity to eliminate the need. 2. Well-designed UI Affordances to eliminate the need. 3. Documentation presented just in time at the Point of Action 4. A concisely illustrat
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by afarrell 6y ago
This depends upon what you prioritize. If your goal is to make sense of the whole world, I would recommend you first: 1. Attempt to upload a 1 Terabyte attachment to gmail. 2. Attempt to purchase a 1:1 scale paper map of your home country.
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by afarrell 6y ago
> my ultimate goal is to reach a master level in CS coming from an unrelated engineering background/undergrad studies. Why not literally get a Masters degree? Find a professor who is studying something you want to study, then go app
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by afarrell 6y ago
The problem is finding someone who knows about software engineering or software project management. (Really, what I'm looking for is someone to teach me how to do estimates. But at this point in my career, such a person would also need
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by afarrell 6y ago
This is a good question and I would love to know the answer to it. Personally, I'm looking for help finding a therapist who has experience both in C-PTSD and software estimation, but I don't even know where to begin finding a... t
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by afarrell 6y ago
> Either people trust you, or they don't. Trust really isn't binary. > would increase somebody's trust if they had your understanding of the underlying technology. Or if they had a handwaivey "I've heard that
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by afarrell 6y ago
yes. For example, my wife hosts a weekly videochat with our friends.
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by afarrell 6y ago
> Always put the product first. This is likely to cause a fair amount of friction with your developer peers who put their code preferences first. Always do right by the business and keep the moral high ground. Your best defense is good w
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by afarrell 6y ago
I'm pretty sure that what power really does is either: 1. Reveal the already-corrupt 2. Impose stress and poorly-assigned responsibilities that lead people to unhealthy actions.
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by afarrell 6y ago
I'm pretty sure that is what Marxists mean by "owning the means of production" vs alienation. I also suspect that the USSR was "Communist" in practice in the same way that many companies are "Agile".
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by afarrell 6y ago
It can if you only have one customer. The issue is monopsony.
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by afarrell 6y ago
> What do I have to do To answer the question: 0. Before starting, accept that some stranger on the internet can only give you a direction or mental framework -- I cannot answer this question. Answering it requires building a relationshi
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by afarrell 6y ago
> Why is it like this? 1. It is hard to guess what someone else will understand. 2. There is a trade-off between using words everyone knows, being concise, and getting enough richness of meaning across. One of the world's top profes
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by afarrell 6y ago
Part of the problem is that when you get to be an adult, people start to assume things like: 1. Your question has an ulterior motive. 2. You actually do know the answer to your question, but are playing dumb somehow. 3. You would be upset
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by afarrell 6y ago
Proposal for someone with more free time than I: Improve the format of org-mode. Make it primarily easy for humans to interact with but also easy for cheap scripts to parse and manipulate. Create a super-fast CLI for it which ships with the
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by afarrell 6y ago
PACER's UX is pretty bad. Convincing organisations that their UX is pretty bad is...hard.
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by afarrell 6y ago
Organisations generally strive to have multiple sources of revenue so that they can continue to pay salaries despite interruptions in one source. This also applies to the Federal Courts, which do not have any one source of funding they see
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by afarrell 6y ago
A relationship without well-founded trust is often a worse alternative to no relationship at all. * A contractor who insists on an hourly rate for a project with unknown timeline does himself and the client the favor of killing the deal. *

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