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by blueboo 6y ago
> I don't know about any research supporting this (see what I did there) but in my experience the best performing teams provide a safe space The term in organisational behaviour is "psychological safety" and it comes up pr
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by blueboo 6y ago
The fact that it's a judgment call doesn't absolve you of responsibility to use your judgment.
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by blueboo 7y ago
Are you unimpressed with rich candidates, or is there a taint to getting admitted to an an exclusive university? For some, that admission is a far greater achievement than acing a CS curriculum at a state school later in life. It might be
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by blueboo 7y ago
Beware of congratulating yourself on spotting one fallacy (appeal to authority) while faceplanting into another (selection bias).
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by blueboo 7y ago
Yes, other multi-hundred-billion-dollar businesses with regulatory capture do the exact same things. What a comfort.
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by blueboo 7y ago
> Although I personally never bought into the hype of Magic Leap in particular, they did inspire a whole generation of developers in a way that hasn't been done since the release of the original iPhone What on Earth is this claim?
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by blueboo 7y ago
Lists like this are the reason Google superseded Yahoo. It was never hard to find these entries. What’s hard is getting an informed opinion on why to choose one option and not another.
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by blueboo 7y ago
How can you find that convincing? I think it's too far to claim that if it weren't for Apple, we wouldn't have smartphones with paid apps.
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by blueboo 7y ago
Ah, but the big question is how much curve-flattening stretches it out in your country of residence. Some societies will choose such that their medical infrastructure will be at 10x capacity for ten times as long rather than be at 100x capa
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by blueboo 7y ago
In context, gifs have a killer feature over videos in most environments: they auto-play and loop. From twitter to Slack to slides, gifs “just work” in a way that videos are constantly face-planting.
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by blueboo 7y ago
I mean, it’s only human to want the benefit of a huge audience without the implications of having a diverse one. My toddler also wants pancakes for every meal. As adults we grow past such a narrow and self-serving view. Most of us, anyway.
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by blueboo 7y ago
It is. It has exactly one enormously consequential customer.
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by blueboo 7y ago
I’ve noticed the master software engineers around me tend to have a particular acute sense for naming things, as if after living with and mastering the universe of abstractions around their craft they’ve embraced the linguistic dimension of
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by blueboo 7y ago
Maybe it can be incorporated into the design: refresh as a kind of 5m warning before your next meeting. I’ve certainly enough meetings not to exhaust ten refreshes before the next head’s up flash...
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by blueboo 7y ago
This doesn’t put a tight clamp on it. We’re not systematically testing and quarantining so this is more akin to a light tap on the breaks. The UK PM wouldn’t even venture end of June as his most optimistic forecast for returning to normal
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by blueboo 7y ago
To further illustrate your point: The UK and South Korea reported their first cases on the first day; SK has slowed new cases to a trickle and the UK is facing mass infection.
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by blueboo 7y ago
Human+AI play was forecasted to be the next big thing, but has proven to be a mere curiosity. After all, imagine a sitting down next to a grandmaster who helps you play your moves. Every move comes down to: Do you want to play the best mo
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by blueboo 7y ago
Let's say we discovered a cure. For simplicity's sake, this is a hypothetical vaccine that instantly destroys the infection. How long would it take for such a product to go from the lab to application in the general population?--
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by blueboo 7y ago
People mostly aren't interested enough to actually learn how to tackle those problems nor resourceful enough to act on that learning. Ideas are cheap. That long-nursed startup idea you've had has been tried a half-dozen times and
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by blueboo 7y ago
There is a "be nice" rule in life, insofar as people care to enforce it. It's being enforced. Be nice.
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by blueboo 7y ago
Let's. But first, let's colonize the ocean. And the sky. And the moon.
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by blueboo 7y ago
It doesn’t. The author’s is a bizarrely outdated view. Disciplined high-achievers -/ folks who somehow already learned excellent skills — might avail themselves of online education. Kids, in general, not so much. http://www
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by blueboo 7y ago
Every moment you're working, you're getting better at doing that thing, so there's that box ticked. Now you can justify going down with the ship, because you're getting really good at bailing water. Magical thinking to t
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by blueboo 7y ago
I admire this post as an exception to the usual cheerful failure porn. Failing sucks. But-I-learned-something is the very least you can achieve without being in a coma. The time is lost. Your waning bank account measures your (and maybe yo
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by blueboo 7y ago
To make math work, you need to arrange multiple viable meetings ahead of time. They don’t just happen because you show up to Moscone with a GDC badge. And such meetings don’t even require a GDC badge... There’s every chance you could do t
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by blueboo 7y ago
Indeed. If the ads were effective and appealing, sellers would trip over themselves to sign up. If they're not, the only way to enroll would be this approach. Their strategy doesn't preclude the possibility of the former, but it
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by blueboo 7y ago
Oh, honey. Rents are equivalent in the UK, childcare isn’t free, prices are higher, and health care in the US hardly makes up the 100k+ difference.
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by blueboo 7y ago
No interview process is invulnerable to bad faith interviewers. Refusing to help you past roadblocks just makes for a worse interview signal. Maybe the candidate doesn’t know X but has extraordinary depth on Y, and so on. Bad interview t
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by blueboo 7y ago
Two questions. How long do you think it would’ve taken you to prepare and ace these kinds of coding interview questions? (I bet less than 100 hours.) But I’m more interested in the following: what interview process do you think would have
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by blueboo 7y ago
You might be interested in the dynamic described here: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200130-the-life-hack-... I can attest to the efficacy of scheduling life things with respect to mitigating the ambient

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