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by afarrell 6y ago
You are right about the general definition. In our specific case when someone says > I don't see how X Then what's often lacking is an experience or knowledge that would allow them to imagine X.
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by afarrell 6y ago
(Also, I don't think I actually make excuses very frequently at all. Occasionally I deceive myself, but far more often than that I give reasons that reflect a reality which is genuinely absurd in ways that are unfair to the listener ye
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by afarrell 6y ago
yes.
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by afarrell 6y ago
> if you're not making an active effort to bill as much as humanly possible for the minimum amount of actual work, you are bad at business. Deep Neural Networks who try too hard to maximize or minimize things will take weird misalig
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by afarrell 6y ago
> just going on common sense I don't see how a computer could prevent a hospital from admitting a patient. Common sense is knowledge gained by experience. Thats' why kids "don't have any". > I'm honestly
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by afarrell 6y ago
Doctors trained in a 1940s environment with 1950s communication habits and 1950s information-management systems were capable of doing that. I'm not sure a nonmilitary a doctor today could spin one of those info-management systems up in
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by afarrell 6y ago
Okay, so you write down that info on that piece of paper. You put the paper down somewhere. A nurse gives someone medication that they told you they are allergic to.
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by afarrell 6y ago
If you've hired someone who doesn't know how to predict how long the project will take and they suddenly stop development midway through, it is probably also your problem. > Imagine paying someone an extra $10,000 because they
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by afarrell 6y ago
If you are hiring someone who does not know how to tell how long it will take them.
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by afarrell 6y ago
> better... understood when presented visually Often true for me as well. I like `tig`. > What use case is better served by sticking to the cli? Good question. Knowing the "why" of things is important. My answers: 1. Focus -
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by afarrell 6y ago
> all of the initial employees would have loved to be founders, too (and with that, behaved as cofounders) Unless you actually had a conversation with them with real clarity about expectations, be very careful in holding this conclusio
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by afarrell 6y ago
How would Bob even know if he is qualified to tell if he is genuinely struggling or just suffering from impostor syndrome? How would he tell if he is just bullshitting himself about whether or not he has real a problem?
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by afarrell 6y ago
> If Bob did stress this very strongly with Sue, and Sue was the person in charge of allocating tasks, then yes of course Sue is to blame. Giving people tasks they can't do is bad. The trouble is if Bob doesn't know he can do i
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by afarrell 6y ago
Or rather, maybe you know how to make people know about things. Many people do not. I still do not know how to persuade people that I DO NOT have psychic powers -- other people's brains are separate from mine.
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by afarrell 6y ago
yep, it is a complex multifactor problem. > make the right people know about it. You cannot _make_ someone else know something. Even if you to grab onto their skull and scream into their ear, it would do no good. (I assume. I have not te
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by afarrell 6y ago
For some reason, I completely forgot about the pandemic when writing the second section...
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by afarrell 6y ago
Knowing Ben, following this advice would probably lead him to join a Quaker meeting house in his area. While that would probably lead to some interesting discussions about Agile[1][2], I think it would have the same problem. [1] https:&#x2
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by afarrell 6y ago
So I know "person with a neurological condition sees everything through that lens" is a genre that gets old real quick, but as a dude with ADHD I can't help but read > it doesn't feel like I have any say when it comes
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by afarrell 6y ago
> the job isn't to write clean code, the job is to create product that people love. Note however that as a person, your job is also to keep yourself mentally well-balanced. If your mind is crushed under the weight of un-encapsulated
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by afarrell 6y ago
> Then, if the bullshitter gets to the end of the sprint and says they didn't complete a 1-2 day task in 10 days, you can start asking why. They do this consistently across 2-3 sprints, you know something is up. Assume they're
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by afarrell 6y ago
Perhaps its an English proverb which caught on amidst a community of Serbian expats/immigrants.
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by afarrell 6y ago
> in places with legit coffee culture What about places with a newly-growing coffee culture? What about places with a coffee culture whose strength is starting to temporarily weaken? What about places which occasionally undergo change?
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by afarrell 6y ago
> Starbucks didn't kill it. Consumers did. Starbucks seems to act as if it has a habit of making quarterly plans and mostly executing according to that intent. But when I look at Consumers as a single entity it seems remarkably undi
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by afarrell 6y ago
If the plastic is sequestered in a landfill, then what is the carbon externality? Does decomposing plastic emit methane?
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Ask HN: Where I can pay someone to pair with me as I configure spacemacs?
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by afarrell 6y ago
> There is no equivalence between someone currently lacking programming skill and someone being too short for the NBA. Agreed. > You should encourage them to think in a healthy way about their current progress and encourage them to fi
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by afarrell 6y ago
My current strategy: Use emacs org-mode as a crutch to store information that keeps falling out of your Working Memory.
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by afarrell 6y ago
dexamfetamine might mean you don't feel the fog, but its your Working Memory will still be shot.
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by afarrell 6y ago
Code is a liability. Teams which can encapsulate complexity for others are an asset.
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by afarrell 6y ago
I think one easy mistake to make is thinking about this as an investment in software as a technical artefact. Which is more valuable for deterring war: A. An $80 million fighter jet with dysfunctional communication among its maintenance, lo

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