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by ajuc 3y ago
High base effect. If you measure growth from erronously high starting point and then base your estimates on that mistakenly low growth rate - you'll significantly underestimate the future values.
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by ajuc 3y ago
Well you should. It costs almost nothing and it can have very high positive impact.
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by ajuc 3y ago
JIRA contains more context than you can put in even most elaborate comment. For example links to duplicates, test cases, screenshots, core dumps, discussion with testers/customers, etc. And it's updated over time. Would you change
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by ajuc 3y ago
> a hellish experience. It's literally 1 click away. Or even just a hover over the margin. > The place for comments explaining why the code is needed is right next to the code! On an adjacent line! And then you refactor the code
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by ajuc 3y ago
If you change a line of code without doing git-blame on it first you're doing it wrong. I've been bitten by this many times - I change obvious bug, I'm about to commit the changes, I see the previous commit which introduced t
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by ajuc 3y ago
I agree commit messages are the most important form of documentation. But I disagree about the format. I prefer commit messages like: JIRA-123 one-line 80-char-at-most description Long description if needed (but preferably keep
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by ajuc 3y ago
> Brilliant! Maybe it was brilliant early on, but by 2000 like 99% of computer users didn't knew about the typist layout and yet it was always one accidental keypress away :) It was a shortut that you could press accidentally when y
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by ajuc 3y ago
Or qwertz for that matter. The Polish-machinist keyboard layout even stopped being enabled by default in Windows after causing countless "I can't log in" problems for like 20 years :)
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by ajuc 3y ago
Diversity is mostly perceived through American lenses = skin color, gender, sex :) It's a cargo cult at this point.
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Outlook has a shortcut Alt+S to send the current e-mail. In Polish "Hello" is "Cześć". When you acidentally have non-Polish locale enabled and write "Cześć" in Outlook - you send "Cze" as your whole e
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by ajuc 3y ago
> That's not how human imagination works. Where do you think I got that idea from? Do you think I couldn't execute it?
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by ajuc 3y ago
You can imagine pi for one trivial example. It has infinite details but it's not infinitely interesting. You can map it to infinite boring story (let's say John moves west/east depending on the next binary digit :) ). Kolmogo
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by ajuc 3y ago
Yup, imagination is infinite, you're paying writers to filter it.
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> And the universe doesn't spontaneously do things as you're wishing it to do to support your argument. That's the whole point. The theory reduces to "if conditions are right life will happen" which moves the who
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by ajuc 3y ago
That's just antrophic principle, no need for any selection pressure or any particular theory at all. That's why all of them are shaky.
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by ajuc 3y ago
There are ways for the matter on the moon to dissipate energy faster than moon dust. We could build a moon base for example. It doesn't do it. In fact as far as we know - most of the space in the universe is doing the dissipation in a
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by ajuc 3y ago
So where's the bacteria outcompeting moon dust? Theories which make life inevitable are inherently shaky because we have 1 sample.
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by ajuc 3y ago
Is it really still this hardcore math meritocracy in Romania? In Poland it became gradually less hardcore as 80s baby boom passed through universities and at the same time private universities started to appear everywhere. Now it's pre
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by ajuc 3y ago
I highly suspect zero alcohol is correlated with less health than some alcohol only because when you have health problems you often stop drinking.
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When you look at elements' abundance in Earth's crust lithium is about 50% more common than lead, but we mine 268 times more lead every year. We just weren't looking very hard to find lithium compared to lead till very recent
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by ajuc 3y ago
European houses in climates where it matters have better insulation that American houses. You can check it's true by looking at the energy use per capita.
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I meant solving stalking and general violence level of the population with staircases :)
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by ajuc 3y ago
It's fucked up that you have problem with society and you think the way to solve it is building code.
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by ajuc 3y ago
Timothy Snyder calls this pattern of motivated thinking "politics of inevitability". At first you think everything's fine so you don't have to do anything. Then when it's no longer possible to lie to yourself about
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by ajuc 3y ago
Chinese probably stole the cliparts without understanding where they come from and what needs to be adapted. Similar thing happened with "Polish dancing cow meme song" being used in some singing toys. The song is very vulgar and t
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by ajuc 3y ago
Seems to be working perfectly fine in my local Lidl. The ones in Stokrotka are much less reliable but also work ok most of the time. Yes you need 1 person to solve issues people have (which are mostly mistakes they make) but that 1 person i
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by ajuc 3y ago
I don't know how it works in USA but here in Poland you earn like 4 times more as a developer compared to a computer science PhD at an university. The incentives aren't exactly healthy. And the programming culture is basically - l
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Polish system is weird in that most people in IT create one-person companies and work on B2B contracts (and then there's no such restrictions in addition to tax benefits once you earn more than about 10 000 PLN per month which almost e
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by ajuc 3y ago
This is already how politics works, political parties hire thousands of trolls to spam social media with comments supporting their propaganda from whatever POV the profiling showed is the best for the given target group. This was measurably
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> The concept of a self-eating rocket engine was first proposed and patented in 1938. However, no autophage engine designs were fired in a controlled manner until a research partnership between Glasgow University and Dnipro National Univ

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