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by afarrell 6y ago
> You're just a constant pain in the ass Not as much with inattentive-subtype. Then you just spend lots of time reading and are somewhat disorganized. Until you get to adulthood.
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by afarrell 6y ago
Also an ADHDer here. My current model of things is that Dopamine broadly signals messages like "you're going the right way, keep going". Insufficient dopamine and you end up being really open to needing frequent positive feed
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by afarrell 6y ago
> engineers disease what do you mean by that?
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by afarrell 6y ago
Know the enemy, but also know thyself. For example, it would be a bad idea for me to say "I am not going to write any automated tests" for a 3-week MVP. That decision would lead to me producing nothing.
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by afarrell 6y ago
Is your role is to develop the plan directly or to develop the engine that builds and adjusts the plan and sustains its clarity? If the latter means finding people who have talents that work well together, and ensuring they have focused-tim
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by afarrell 6y ago
Which is an argument in favor of leaving off some features. Don't half-ass password reset. Wait until you have the need to whole-ass it and make things conceptually-coherent.
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by afarrell 6y ago
yep, this is my argument
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by afarrell 6y ago
> ideal code One problem in these discussions is that people quickly start using absolutist language, which makes it hard to find balance .
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by afarrell 6y ago
I think there is a 4th category: This is not an obviously blocking issue right now, but it creates enough mental load that it prevents my work from being rewarding.
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by afarrell 6y ago
> with large resource stores left intact after WW2? Also that the largest sea empire in the world spent that war desperately buying stuff from us.
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by afarrell 6y ago
How does UBI take away people's ability to work and provide for themselves?
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by afarrell 6y ago
One class of markets that I suspect is a target-rich environment: disability-adaptation tech. 1. There is a decent chance that existing entrants are tied down by a focus on meeting the regulations rather than on delighting users. 2. You mi
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by afarrell 6y ago
https://xkcd.com/1053/ sometimes it is nice to bask in the glow of another person's TIL. There is a simple joy to it like the smell of freshly-cut grass. yes and -- informing someone that the term is more widely u
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by afarrell 6y ago
I used to work for a company that used a process mostly like the following: 1. Hit 'copy' on a Dropbox Paper template of usually-important questions. 2 Write the name of the project at the top. 3. Collaboratively write whom (we th
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by afarrell 6y ago
Or to have the infra team learn how to do UX design. No I do not mean Photoshop/InDesign/Balsamiq/Dribble etc. I mean user experience design. Like https://fishshell.com/ or https://www.digitalocean
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by afarrell 6y ago
The media writes that because the AI which decides what links to show people knows that drives clicks.
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by afarrell 6y ago
I need help understanding this at my company, but I do not know how you could convince them to buy it or to give you their data.
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by afarrell 6y ago
Sidenote: I've just realized why the 4-quadrant graph has a "missing emotion" for the top left (low-confidence optimisim): 1. English does not have a specific word for that feeling of excitement about things accompanied by in
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by afarrell 6y ago
I'm curious what knowledgable folks think about Slate Star Codex's description of Mania as "high confidence optimism". It sounds like the top-right quadrant of https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/03&#x2F
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by afarrell 6y ago
> our examples are contrived and just plain odd Huh? "line-of-business software for foodservice" and "line-of-business software to do customer relations" seem like incredibly mundane examples. > your food truck bus
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by afarrell 6y ago
> Does not solve the issue of 'meaning' and 'purpose' For an engineer, it absolutely does. How? By giving a broader range humans the ability to shout "This problem matters to me. Please build something to solve
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by afarrell 6y ago
UBI people also tend to be the same people that believe that housing costs will go down if you allow companies and non-profits to build more housing.
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by afarrell 6y ago
Getting a good education is a lot easier when you have notebooks, filling breakfast, and parents whose stress or sleep-deprivation doesn't exacerbate untreated mental health issues.
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by afarrell 6y ago
If only there was a way to turn money into more housing on top of the same area.
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by afarrell 6y ago
Lobby their local government to prevent new apartments from being constructed unless they meet 47 conditions and are truly affordable.
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by afarrell 6y ago
If the Wales or Scotland (to say nothing of the united island of Ireland) can field rugby teams in Six Nations, why cant the Iroquois field a team?
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by afarrell 6y ago
Sure, but it is a moral duty with so few resources to learn how to meet it.
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by afarrell 6y ago
Who pays journalists? Companies that depend on ad revenue. Individuals have agency. A set of persons responds to incentives.
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by afarrell 6y ago
But thats because the civil rights movement had a bunch of humans intentionally amplifying the Rosa Parks story to accomplish a particular policy goal. Today Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have machine learning models trained to amplify t
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by afarrell 6y ago
Do you ever worry that we are building Superhuman Artificial Intelligences with the goal of maximizing the amount of attention paid to advertisements? I'm concerned that they might accidentally either turn the world into paperclips or

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