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by blowski 3y ago
I do agree, but this is HN, so I'm going to do a thought experiment. Imagine ChatGPT could "translate" from grumpy-old-curmugeonish into friendly-human in realtime, then which soft skills would still be valuable? Imagine goin
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by blowski 3y ago
Fascinating! What numbers did you get in nominal terms?
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And indeed, there are many projects that spend so long trying to gather and process feedback that it becomes a talking shop with no useful output. Better to share something early and then iterate.
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by blowski 3y ago
I agree, I'd imagine as a senior you have a good sense of what counts as good enough. Unfortunately, there are too many would-be seniors justifying horrendous amounts of accidental complexity as "good practice".
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by blowski 3y ago
What constitues the "best" code depends on the incidental complexity of the problems you're trying to solve. Great code is when you have just enough of all those things, but have too much or too little and the code is worse.
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by blowski 3y ago
If our solutions don't solve our customers' problems, then either our customers need different problems, or we need different customers.
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by blowski 3y ago
No. There is no silver bullet, magic trick, or secret technique that will improve programming. Take time to develop a deep knowledge of your tools and domain, and communicate well on projects, are the only true, proven methods I can offer.
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Ask HN: Maths problem – shape and size for fondant covering a round cake
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by blowski 3y ago
I teach a code club to 8-10 year olds. They understand functions, and that the main script can call functions, and that functions can call other functions. Conceptually, they struggle with a function being assigned to a variable, passed in
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by blowski 3y ago
I like this, it’s lower-level than Scratch, with a focus on doing stuff more than making funny noises and animation. I want to have a play with seeing how you can demonstrate composition. Do you suggest any good templates for this?
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by blowski 3y ago
I've heard it referred to as "nominative dissonance".
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by blowski 3y ago
Many, many companies claim to be doing what they do for the good of all humanity - they would have you believe that any profit made is just a nice side effect. Examples: * Aon insurance - At Aon, we exist to shape decisions for the better —
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by blowski 3y ago
And yet. Why invent new scummy ways of making money if the old ones still work?
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by blowski 3y ago
So Excel supports reusable Lambdas then? In the same way that many tools introduce new features and users need to upgrade versions to get them.
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by blowski 3y ago
I believe the OP is referring to array formulas which effectively explode the results into multiple cells, which was introduced in 2018.
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by blowski 3y ago
This fits: > Facing reality, whether Apple or EU, is core requirement of good management
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by blowski 3y ago
The whole server metric is meaningless. Do VMs count? Containers? Serverless?
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by blowski 3y ago
It's easy to say what they should do when there's absolutely no accountability for your recommendation.
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by blowski 3y ago
Information foraging. If the effort to obtain the promised payoff is more than perceived value, then I won’t bother.
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by blowski 3y ago
"Should" is perhaps disguising the fact that these projects normally do take a lot longer than 11 weeks. I know of multiple tech companies that are years into an unfinished k8s migration. Everyone on the project will have a ton of
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by blowski 3y ago
I think the parent comment agrees with you. It’s the use of float to, for example, position menus on the page which is no longer relevant.
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by blowski 3y ago
Is berry-picking the only job where ADHD actively helps?
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by blowski 3y ago
If that's right, then it follows that giving medication to suppress it is a bad idea for humanity as a whole. Although it may help an individual cope better with a local situation, it would be better to have more situations in which an
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by blowski 3y ago
I consider the size of relevant “horizons” - time, number of features, number of people. A junior should be able to have a positive impact working independently within very narrow horizons (a single function, 1 other person, 1 hour), and is
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by blowski 3y ago
London also has a lot of fantastic free parks, museums, galleries, libraries. So I'm not sure I understand your criticism.
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by blowski 3y ago
I don’t check the Facebook feed at all. I have to use it to post and read updates in a community group, and nothing else. Never had Instagram or Threads. I use WhatsApp as little as possible. I mostly rely on email and SMS.
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by blowski 3y ago
I used to work like this with email, to the point that I’d intentionally not sync emails for a few hours. But in my company, everything is done through “SlackOps”. Incidents (including alerts) line management duties, deployments, getting ac
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by blowski 3y ago
This is the challenge of the modern manager, especially in remote jobs. You turn on the computer with a plan, and then 345 Slack messages and 10 Zoom meetings later, you consider working on it. As an EM, I really miss that state of flow and
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by blowski 3y ago
Spotify is a background noise generator. With hard work it can be used to listen more attentively by searching for specific albums by specific artists, although the amount you’re contributing to those artists is ambiguous.
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by blowski 3y ago
I bet the owners of the film studio had a really hard Christmas that year, with no profits. The issue is that the studio takes the profit if it succeeds, the taxpayers take the losses if it doesn’t.

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