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by beyarkay 1y ago
Thanks for the feedback, I'm just using a static site generator so have limited flexibility, but I'll see what I can do to make it clear that something is a WIP vs a true 404. PS: I love your writing, thank you so much for putting
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by beyarkay 1y ago
> I agree that mentoring is hard, and I want to read your take. Thanks for the vote of confidence (: I'm kicking myself for not figuring out a mailing list before this essay went viral, but I'll cross-post the essay on my subst
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by beyarkay 1y ago
(author here) If you haven't watched the Factorio head developer's bug-fix videos on youtube, you really should. They're a goldmine of insight. Also the second video is a very strong case in favour of peer-programming. > n
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(author here) I'm not sure I agree. I certainly think that screen sharing is better than nothing, but remote screen sharing is a strict subset of what you can do while in-person. Working remotely means there's some higher bar for
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by beyarkay 1y ago
(author here) I agree that novices have an advantage in that they have few assumptions: > Something you can do independently (and possibly it’s best done without expert supervision), is exploration of the field. You know nothing, and hav
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by beyarkay 1y ago
(author here) it's a pity that there's no way to emulate an office's "just peer around your screen and ask your colleague" dynamic. Having your video camera always on is too creepy, and constantly being in a voice c
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by beyarkay 1y ago
(author here) I love the graduate student + nobel laureate reference, I had read that study but totally forgot how relevant it is to the essay. Absolutely it hammers home the point that there's something about just spending casual ti
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by beyarkay 1y ago
(author here) I think there's something to be said for having both (if I allow myself to imagine an unrealistic utopia). Imagining the distribution of how much benefit novices get out of a scenario, only having the watercooler interact
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by beyarkay 1y ago
(author here) This is an interesting point. I hadn't considered it, but I agree. Or maybe to be more specific, I think the novice has some prior that their idea will work, and hearing an expert's disagreement will update their pri
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by beyarkay 1y ago
(author here) Absolutely agree. Another commenter mentioned that sometimes the best mentor is someone slightly better than you, and not some seasoned veteran. You want someone knowledgeable enough to give good (and correct) advice, but not
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by beyarkay 1y ago
(author here) I absolutely agree that knowledge transfer shouldn't be left to chance, and that there should be more consistent processes in place to make sure this happens. But I still think there's something to be gained from exp
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by beyarkay 1y ago
(author here) Thanks! this was my first anything published to the internet, glad to see it's been received so well. > I really like spending time with novices From reading the various comments about this essay, it seems like there
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by beyarkay 1y ago
(author here) Ooooohhh this is a great example, I love it. Software can be so abstract with the footguns sometimes, but physical mechanisms are so much more intuitive
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by beyarkay 1y ago
(author here) I've always found this advice a bit of a double edged sword. I absolutely agree that it'll develop your career, but I don't really want my day job to become 100% drudgery because I'm the only one who bother
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by beyarkay 1y ago
(author here) Thanks! I appreciate your kind words. That scrapiness you talk of is interesting, totally agree that there's something there, and it's interesting to think of how to evaluate if someone has it without spending mont
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by beyarkay 1y ago
(author here) bless you for helping out the juniors. There's not nearly a strong enough culture of educating juniors IMO
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by beyarkay 1y ago
(author here) Apologies, I've (maybe mistakenly) put dead links for various essays that are works-in-progress, in order to figure out what to prioritize. I know it's annoying, but it does give me very good signal about what peop
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by beyarkay 1y ago
(author here) Okay I know this is how the internet works, but I posted my essay here a month ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43664345 ) and it died a silent death. Excited to read the comments! But damn the inter
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Experts have it easy (the unseen difficulties of being a novice)(boydkane.com)
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by beyarkay 4y ago
Sorry for the confusion, I've replied to your other comment.
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by beyarkay 4y ago
Sorry! I didn't mean it as an insult, there's just lots of bots nowadays with ChatGPT and whatnot. Loadshedding is what the South African government calls regular power blackouts, where the government agency in charge of power (ca
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by beyarkay 4y ago
You sound like a bot with all those keywords and repeated phrases.
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by beyarkay 4y ago
Hey, thanks for posting about my project! I saw some clicks coming through from HN. I'm happy to answer any questions people might have about it.