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by blurker 5y ago
Ooh, zero dependencies (not counting dev dependencies). Such a rare treat to see that in the JS ecosystem <3 edit: oh, there is also a manually included jquery dependency :P Still pretty minimal and impressive <3
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by blurker 5y ago
> People are terrible about planning 30-40 years in the future and terrible about making sacrifices to help people they don't know in small ways that are statistical and abstract. Exactly my concern. The pandering appeals to us not
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by blurker 5y ago
That makes sense to me. Then in your situation, assuming you need those metrics and they are helpful, it may be helpful to add a metric like "satisfaction" or something that could counterbalance the negative effects that the other
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by blurker 5y ago
FWIW, I am not saying we shouldn't try to innovate and I do very much want us to invest in science and technology that could be helpful. I don't think we should count on these things such that we don't also take direct steps
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by blurker 5y ago
Using a metric like mean time to code change could incentivize brute forcing work. Developers who are aware of the metric may work unsustainable hours and that could lead to burnout. Also, they may try to cut corners on tests, reviews or do
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by blurker 5y ago
I too have come to think that no simple metrics will ever replace the need for a competent manager who can use intangible, subjective context to evaluate their team. I think that even if you get some metrics that work well initially, the sy
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by blurker 5y ago
Also "climate change" is a more accurate name to describe the wider issue, imo. Climates around the world are changing in many ways, not just getting warmer everywhere. Some of the effects of climate change will be some areas gett
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by blurker 5y ago
One of my concerns as someone who is part of the tech community is the innovation delusion. Many of us are focused on "magic pill" technology solutions to get us out of this. Things like fusion, carbon capture, electric cars, etc.
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by blurker 5y ago
This reminds me of an episode of 99% Invisible [0] that I listened to. That episode also covered a bit about the history of indexes (which is relevant to the history of alphabetical sorting), including how scholars feared and resisted the a
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by blurker 5y ago
This is really cool, I'm going to try it out and probably hack on it! Minor nitpick: it would be nice to have a requirements.txt included to make it easier to download the right dependency.
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by blurker 5y ago
I love this message. I think that most of the time it's best to have an optimistic mindset about your team and trust that they are doing their best, or at least want to. In my experience, more times than not, unproductive teams aren&#x
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by blurker 5y ago
All in all a good writeup and I enjoyed his series so far. In his inserts article [0], I was going to nitpick about the change in records/s for the "same" code, but then I noticed that he actually changed the code subtly (Con
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by blurker 5y ago
thank you for the recommendation :)
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by blurker 5y ago
thank you for the recommendation :)
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by blurker 5y ago
I see it being like this: Value: move fast (positive) Anti-value: break things (negative) Breaking things is not positive normally, but it's the compromise for moving fast.
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by blurker 5y ago
I appreciate the repost. It's quite timely for me, because I had recently been reading and participating in a post about HN's apparent toxicity. This has helped me to gain some more perspective on the topic. Especially about how m
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by blurker 5y ago
I think that it's not just people not knowing about the lifecycle feature, but also that when they start putting data into a bucket they don't know what the lifecycle should be yet. Honestly I think overdoing lifecycle policies is
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by blurker 5y ago
How is "break things" not a negative? That seems really clear to me and I think is an excellent example!
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by blurker 5y ago
> Just like influencers in any other field, developer-influencers often describe a reality that is aspirational even for their own companies. It may be true that people writing about ideal processes live in an idealized situation where i
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by blurker 5y ago
> The next largest concern was that the language would become too complex (33%). I'm also in this camp, although I would go further to say that Rust is already "too complex." Or maybe not. Go has already done an excellent
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by blurker 5y ago
I feel like some others aren't seeing the humour in your comment. Or maybe I'm just weird. Orr maybe I'm new enough to Rust still that I don't get offended. Anyways, you got a laugh from me at least!
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by blurker 5y ago
It would be really cool if godoc had a way to generate a module-specific documentation site like Rust can with `cargo doc`: https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/commands/cargo-doc.html Basically, read the go.mod and ge
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by blurker 5y ago
Even if it's registered in a local jurisdiction, the paper work may not be reliable and it will be possible for scammers in those jurisdictions to get that paper work. It's not like there aren't plenty of shady incorporated c
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by blurker 5y ago
Can you elaborate specifically which ideas you thought were terrible and why? fwiw, I am not the biggest fan of Google's level of control either, but I think that the ideas in the video stand for themself. Forget the Chrome-specific st
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by blurker 5y ago
yeah, about that paper work... 1. The paper trail is probably not as good as you think. I feel like you're thinking of a US system where there might be some pretty solid systems in place, but what about all the other countries around t
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by blurker 5y ago
> At the basis of love are four neurochemicals. Each has a different role but together they motivate us or to give us confidence to go into social relationships. So love is basically some chemicals causing us to feel lovey. Makes sense..
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by blurker 5y ago
I feel like a lot of commenters may not have watched the video of Emily Schecter's that was linked in the article. IMO it actually did a better job of explaining the problem with EV's than the author's post did. Or at least i
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by blurker 5y ago
What about the Stripe Inc. example? That example alone is a pretty big nail in the coffin for EV in my opinion. Not to mention all the usability problems that user studies have found which render it effectively useless. It's not just t
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by blurker 5y ago
I thought this was a pretty good summary, but one thing stuck out to me as not quite right: > To be price competitive, cultivated meat needs to match the cost of animal derived meat. I don't think that's strictly true. Plenty o
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by blurker 5y ago
I am in awe. Also, I think you are a huge masochist! It's like wood working with cutlery. But it's actually really informative about some advanced bash knowledge. Kudos!

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