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by awkward 2y ago
Don't worry, he also asked his own reviewee, who said the reviews were helpful and in no way obnoxious.
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by awkward 2y ago
Github's code review tool is uniquely bad. Notably it presents every comment as blocking and requiring sign off - even a "Glad someone cleaned this up! <thumbs up emoji>" needs clearing before merge. It also has some UX
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by awkward 2y ago
I’m aware of the distinction. A/B testing is the killer app for feature flags from the perspective of business decision makers.
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by awkward 2y ago
Development work at all of these major financial companies is likely distributed across three continents and 6 time zones, nevermind the network of offices in multiple major cities. Even "Hub" models likely have cleave points like
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by awkward 2y ago
Pure, disinterested A/B testing where the goal is just to find the good way to do it, and there's enough leverage and traffic that funding that A/B testing is worthwhile is rare. More frequently, A/B testing is a politic
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by awkward 2y ago
The subway was insane. Could be the snow, though.
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by awkward 2y ago
There's a big gap between the big list "what we have to do" and being able to furnish a brief summary that both focuses the team's attention correctly and shows higher leadership that what's happening is meaningful.
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by awkward 2y ago
I can see github platform internals caring about this for anomaly detection, but as a developer, who cares? I suppose a botnet could be making fake stars on a malware project or supply chain attack, but the problem there doesn't seem l
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by awkward 2y ago
The problem is that all of the qualia that can only bee seen and articulated by a professional practitioner aren't necessarily stacked in a heap. It's more of a Jenga tower of mutually reinforcing practices. Maybe some of the bloc
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by awkward 2y ago
For me, the fast shipping is at a point where more reliability would be better than the current speed of delivery. If it's on time, I'd prefer to get a package in two days than have it delivered at 10pm in one. If it's behind
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by awkward 2y ago
The best example of this is probably the Diablo 3 real money auction house. It was a launch feature of the game that would allow items to be sold for real money or in game gold. It was removed about eighteen months in, because it made the m
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by awkward 2y ago
Most AI code is kind of like that. It's sourced from demo quality examples and piecemeal paid work. The resulting code is focused on succinctly solving the problem in the prompt. Factoring and concerns external to making the demo work
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by awkward 2y ago
Tastes may be siloed but they're also a lot more concentrated. Recorded pop music is bigger than ever. In an environment where recommendation services drive a lot of discovery, music is more winner take all than ever.
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by awkward 2y ago
Never welded professionally, but I learned to weld from a few friends, one was a woman who let me into the art school's jewelry shop. She considered welding as a trade, but as someone coming out of college, part of her hesitation was t
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by awkward 2y ago
Even calling them "zsh commands" would have been more accurate.
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by awkward 2y ago
If you've dealt with human behavior at scale at all you know that more friction produces less activity. Of course doctors are going to deny treatment if it's treatment that comes with special legal scrutiny. Of course a new layer
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by awkward 2y ago
Amazon is publicly claiming that they have saved hundreds of millions on jvm upgrades using AI, so while it feels trivial - because before that work would end up in the "just don't do it" pile - it's a relevant use case.
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by awkward 2y ago
Stuff that works well with AI seems to correlate pretty well with high churn changes. I've had good luck using AI to port large numbers of features from version A to version B, or getting code with a a lot of dependencies under mocked
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by awkward 2y ago
I’ve heard that it’s depressing! Hard for me to get that one.
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by awkward 2y ago
I've liked this post for a long time. It articulates a way of growing in this field that I haven't seen in a lot of places. Whenever I've posted it in a slack or similar it seems pretty divisive - some people don't seem
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by awkward 2y ago
One similarity it has with fonts specifically designed to counter dyslexia is that every character looks different. The handwritten look introduces more cues for the reader to pick up on than a more precise font.
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by awkward 2y ago
Every customer has one pet feature. They want that feature, then they want less downtime and more performance, then maybe they want the features other customers want. The biggest problem with bespoke deployments like this is that they can w
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by awkward 2y ago
If this is true, big if, it’s because air gapping doesn’t happen without a specific threat model in mind. Think of the airplane with red dots.
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by awkward 2y ago
That's the one. What a screed.
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by awkward 2y ago
I remember seeing an activist investor powerpoint going after peloton in 2021. The thing that stuck with me the most is the CEO saying he would talk to the CTO maybe once every couple months.
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by awkward 2y ago
Only if the information clears the market. If sellers don't get exposed to this, they don't know to lower the price, if buyers aren't exposed they'll think they got ripped off and resell or become predisposed to churn.
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by awkward 2y ago
The article definitely elides that the words didn't become loaded on their own, but there were deliberate projects and fights to load words like "welfare" with baggage. While "differently abled" is the result of dis
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by awkward 2y ago
1. If there's expenses, there's a take. 2. Gambling will always be subject to one dynamic - if you're up, you're still in. If you're cleaned out, you're out. That asymmetry gives the house advantage even in rou
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by awkward 2y ago
What kind of load is code review bearing in your process that you want 3 days of active work to approve? Some mixture of automated validations, acceptance testing, and manual regression testing should cover whether the code is correct beyon
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by awkward 2y ago
There's no way to create media that doesn't have an editorial line. LLM generated media has an editorial line, in terms of what gets filtered, what gets injected into prompts, and what biases exist in the data. Attribution of work

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