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by arthurjj 6mo ago
These were interesting but I don't know if they'd work on most or any of the places I've worked. Most places and teams I've worked at have 2-3 small repos per project. Are most places working with monorepos these days?
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by arthurjj 6mo ago
>The only access anyone has to those questions is through something like introspection: either their own, or someone else’s honest reports of their experience, or the accumulated testimony of literature and philosophy... I'm broadly
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by arthurjj 7mo ago
My favorite part of that site, besides it loading incredibly fast, is even though it has an ad, for a wholly subsidiary, on it it is hard coded in the html.
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by arthurjj 7mo ago
Netflix pays like a Big Tech company, is valued like a Big Tech company and was part of FAANG. 10 years ago the streaming tech they had was fairly high tech, even if it's now pretty standard. So they're considered Big Tech for his
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by arthurjj 7mo ago
I was thrown by > I do my best to boycott bad things. And I fail pretty often. I still use Amazon on occasion and I can’t get off Spotify. I use Uber and DoorDash a lot more than I’d like. And I have too many Apple products/services
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by arthurjj 9mo ago
Had a similar experience in around ~2017 and switched over to Linux. At the time I didn't have the time to build my own and bought a mid-range System76 laptop. Best computer decision I've ever made. I'm not a heavy gamer so t
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by arthurjj 9mo ago
Is this so you can automate the spell casting via robotics?
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by arthurjj 9mo ago
My 10 year old loves this game. He started playing it Wednesday or Thursday of last week and basically all of his screen time. Both trying to optimize and the level design scratch an itch that few games do
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by arthurjj 10mo ago
It makes me so happy to see this genre taking off. We did "ABCs of Programming" [1] when our son was 2 at least partially because there weren't any real kid's books talking about what "dad does all day". Funni
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by arthurjj 10mo ago
You still get in person for 1-1s, small team whiteboarding and pair programming.
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by arthurjj 10mo ago
My RTO'd team of 13 is distributed across 3 office and not evenly distributed (8, 4, 1) so the probability of the person you need being in the same physical office is ~43% instead of the 0%. So overall it's better if you value in
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by arthurjj 11mo ago
I've definitely watched repair videos on tiktok. And one of my favorite (indie) tv shows was only on YT for some reason instead of Hulu or Netflix. My kid watches videogame playthroughs on YT, not twitch. And that's completely dis
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by arthurjj 11mo ago
But Youtube isn't a monopoly. It's competing with Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu Instagram, Tiktok and Twitch off the top of my head. So they do have to make Youtube competitive Your theory of > just a way for some product manage
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by arthurjj 11mo ago
It's likely I projected the complexity onto the Art & Fear. Reading it every few pages I thought about how what it was discussing applied to creating software. But that's not really what the author intended, it's more the
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by arthurjj 11mo ago
He's upfront that it's novels only but I really enjoy short difficult non-fiction more. * Exit, Voice and Loyalty - about how organizations and people work. Easily the best social science book I've ever read * Art & Fear
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by arthurjj 11mo ago
I don't have a passion for racket sports but I have family who do (pickleball/tennis) and I could see them really loving this app. I can't count the number of times they've told me about a point or a game that they wish
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by arthurjj 11mo ago
Only the manager role appears to be remote
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by arthurjj 1y ago
This was my take from the article also. These languages are clearly dying and not many people speak them as their primary language so the human suffering is minimal. Which means keeping them around is a past time that some people happen to
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by arthurjj 1y ago
"Two prompts and then do it yourself" is a pretty good heuristic. Last year I was simulating a boardgame [1] and wasted ~1 hour trying to get ChatGPT to solve a basic coding combinatorics problem. I needed a method in python to ge
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by arthurjj 1y ago
This article reminds me of those silly "Capitalism is the real super intelligent AI" or "is a burrito a sandwich" arguments from a few years ago. Saying a "system with the explicit goal of the government judging le
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by arthurjj 1y ago
That graph doesn't perfectly match the OP's but is definitely close enough to be worrying if you were raising or looking to join a startup
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by arthurjj 1y ago
> They use Emacs because they read that Neal Stephenson essay and they feel VS Code is for normies and Emacs is Gnostic. hit really close to home for me. When I read it I was coding on Windows, and at the time and it didn't have gre
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You can choose tools that make you happy(borretti.me)
6 points by arthurjj 1y ago|1 comments
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Finding Java classes that are only used by tests(arthur-johnston.com)
1 points by arthurjj 2y ago|0 comments
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by arthurjj 2y ago
Thanks for this detail, I worked at Google, with SREs, and didn't know it. It seems like the type of 'design' detail that might be more important than this entire article
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by arthurjj 2y ago
I don't have a copy in front of me but throughout the book there are many comments made against modern society and some of the examples that she gives are clearly 'set up' to be against growth. I didn't realize she also
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by arthurjj 2y ago
Strongly endorsed for middle/high schoolers introduction. I read it last year and thought it was a good introduction but will feel a little simple for the HN crowd. Most of the value is in The Appendix followed by Chapters 1, 2 and 6
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Oncall should be Tuesday to Tuesday(arthur-johnston.com)
1 points by arthurjj 2y ago|0 comments
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by arthurjj 2y ago
I'm confused to the argument you're making as some of those are clearly ethically-problematic for Uber while legal challenges, government lobbying seems core to the business. The taxi market, in the US at least, was a textbook cas
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by arthurjj 2y ago
This is a common communication problem between Americans and Europeans where we're using the same word to mean two different types of organization. In the US you should replace "union" with "cartel, likely criminal"

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