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by awkward 5y ago
The OP's system seems good, but the initial system, where the guy lists everyone he knows by A, B, C and D seems like he's creating informational toxic waste, IE something that causes damage if it gets out. Even if all it means is
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by awkward 5y ago
The same way you avoid getting sucked into anything - go in knowing how much time and effort you're willing to expend and cut your losses when you hit the limit.
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by awkward 5y ago
You're stating the overall position of most western public health policy, and the outcome of that thinking hasn't been good. Manipulating stated goals from real goals and influencing behavior via nudges rather than argument can be
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by awkward 5y ago
Keeping the side project work different from day to day work is huge, too. - Frameworks are great when you need to keep a team to a standard, and keep standardized answers available. There's no way I'm going to debug someone else&
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by awkward 5y ago
Keeping a task board, written documents about the planned goal, and all of the other project ephemera can be a great way to keep up this kind of 15 minute momentum.
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by awkward 5y ago
You just keep putting stuff in smaller and smaller Matryoshka dolls and then poof! No more stuff.
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by awkward 5y ago
A colloquialism that I explain in the second paragraph.
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by awkward 5y ago
This article from 2005 definitely captures some sillyness around dev work at the time, but in retrospect a lot of that was caused more by Big Objects than by frameworks themselves, although Big Objects was definitely enabled by frameworks.
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by awkward 5y ago
Lots of people talking upper body strength, but the real reason is because all of these are on site, some on the road, in situations with poor recourse for harassment. You're right that there's a cultural fix, but it's big.
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by awkward 5y ago
I'm surprised to hear about comp sci students who feel their experience was low value, especially on this website, where you presumably work in the industry. While I picked up very few resume bullet point skills from college, I tend to
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by awkward 5y ago
Conversely, there are less blue collar, uncredentialed jobs that are typically taken by women that pay well. Construction, plumbing, and extraction all remain low credential, while nursing, care industries, and education all require more cr
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by awkward 5y ago
Glass 2 is doing solid but not google like numbers in industrial applications.
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by awkward 5y ago
Google glass had this air of inevitability about it. The glasses were hyped to be the the next iphone. Not only that, but tech was going to create iphone-level product categories every 3-6 years. Then it completely fell flat. It just didn&#
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by awkward 5y ago
LOL I'm very sorry that happened. None of this is scientific - over and under engineering in this thread are abstracted from actual results. I'm more than willing to admit that convoluting concerns between presentation and billing
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by awkward 5y ago
Generous to think that you would consider a project over engineered, but still rely on its internal abstractions.
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by awkward 5y ago
This is the opposite of my experience. Under engineered code tends to be simple, straightforward work with a low blast radius, such that "make one change and test" covers most cases. Over engineered code tends to be more convolute
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by awkward 5y ago
Good move to compete with Belize or the Seychelles as a hub for international money laundering.
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by awkward 5y ago
Framework devs getting sorted into "high skill" without knowing core web skills is definitely the other side of the problem. By high skill I meant more of a steep learning curve - there isn't much a developer without a signif
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by awkward 5y ago
As frontend development has gone towards the "developer fontend", meaning complex technologies that focus on complex state management tasks with complicated configuring workflows, there has been a large number of people with layou
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by awkward 5y ago
1. System configuration has always been the bottleneck to learning programming, so much so that the first sentence of paulg's learn to program guide is this: Find a friend who knows how to program. Get them to set you up with a s
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by awkward 5y ago
And it blows the f35 out of the water.
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by awkward 5y ago
It is a joke, but the goal of the joke is to provide a friendly onramp to cryptocurrency
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by awkward 6y ago
The story doesn't have to be about how the old days with the old barriers to entry was the way. What it's definitely about is the flaws and problems in the current way, where platforms collect from continuous posting and participa
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by awkward 6y ago
This is a full reversion of where we were at the start of the century. Back then, the AI paradox was in full effect - if no reliable implementation had been found, it was AI. If you could just A* your way through a maze, it wasn't inte
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by awkward 6y ago
This is a well written piece. It describes an issue that, while you could say there are more important issues, is certainly the most important issue in tech. However, there is an issue with it that prevents me from sharing it, and that is t
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by awkward 6y ago
It's the paradox of tolerance. How do you tolerate a platform that doesn't conform to your idea of tolerance? How do you distinguish that censorship from, say, Marvel rewriting Doctor Strange to remove Tibet?
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by awkward 6y ago
Scientific programming is a perfect storm of extremely smart people, with strong abilities to do it themselves, distain for the subject matter, and no direct experience with the price of failing to write portable code. In some circumstances
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by awkward 6y ago
The goal of the current startup system - YC especially - is to do productive work young, and make money off investment later. There's no reason you can't do productive work in your thirties - I am, and plan to continue for a coupl
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by awkward 6y ago
Right. The big error in this one is that it's completely blind to where rules come from, only personal psychological relationship to them. By the limited model in the essay, you can imagine an "Aggressive Nonconformist" put i
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by awkward 6y ago
What else is this site for?

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