brianpan

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by brianpan 3y ago
All legacy is technical debt. If Unix and C are the greatest technical debt, it's because of their widespread use and influence.
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by brianpan 3y ago
As a person who has mentored people and is currently a mentor, I can name a number of reasons- * to contribute to my company/community * to make myself a multiplier (I can do work or I can help 5 junior engineers be a little better at
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by brianpan 3y ago
More time to respond is a plus. Adding hardware is a minus. Good enough is good enough.
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by brianpan 3y ago
See also ABC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American-born_Chinese
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by brianpan 3y ago
https://www.target.com/p/mr-coffee-5-cup-switch-coffee-maker... Mr Coffee carafe markings is 5oz per cup. This is not an espresso machine that makes "small" cups. This is a good old fashioned American pot of
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by brianpan 3y ago
Attributing data to a single user is what allows 3rd parties to amass a detailed profile of you (by looking at all your data from many websites that all share with the same 3rd party). I doubt people are educated enough to care about this s
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by brianpan 3y ago
What are you asking though? Are you asking how a blast of heavy smoke compares to a constant cover of fine smoke? A lot all at once or a little over a long period of time are both bad. With a campfire, you can always scoot your chair back i
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by brianpan 3y ago
> Butter is a key component of a quintessential American sandwich - the grilled cheese. To YOU it is (and I agree with you). But people make it with oil or mayo as the fat. I doubt most people think of butter as a required ingredient.
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by brianpan 3y ago
"Fast-forward 2 minutes" to skip commercials made watching on the Apple TV way better than watching on my laptop, especially for sports.
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by brianpan 3y ago
The Hawthorne effect doesn't necessarily apply to all people, nor does it affect all behaviors. For example- it's difficult to poll people on some contentious topics. If you ask people, "Are you racist?" they tend to ans
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by brianpan 3y ago
You might also like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35567026
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by brianpan 4y ago
You can solder carefully without adding flux. Or you add flux and it erases all mistakes before you make them. There's no need to make it more challenging when flux is available.
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by brianpan 4y ago
I don't have a "beef" with Discord, but I have the feeling I really don't get it when I use it. I joined a couple of servers related to games I play and some sports. But I feel like there's conversations going on th
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by brianpan 4y ago
I expect a calculator to multiply 2 numbers for me very quickly and correctly. Every time. I don't hold any human to that bar and that's perfectly ok.
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by brianpan 4y ago
This is insightful. I've been thinking that the problem is that GPT doesn't seem to have a sense of what is really true vs untrue (or conjecture or fantasy). Maybe it does, but it isn't letting the user in on the confidence l
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by brianpan 4y ago
The flight simulator is the strangest thing? Not the Psychological_Thriller_Horror_Success page about the Salem witch trials, Chimera, Leonardo Da Vinci, and the Easter Bunny? https://yvettesbridalformal.p1r8.net/psychologic
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by brianpan 4y ago
They are not mutually exclusive because they are defined in orthogonal ways. "Vegetable" is defined by how a plant is cooked and eaten, and so has a lot of cultural and context specific influences. A vegetable can be a root (potat
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by brianpan 4y ago
It's not wrong, it's not clinically useful in the same way that horoscopes are not clinically useful.
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by brianpan 4y ago
Myers-Briggs has been discounted by personality psychologists for quite some time now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indi...
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by brianpan 4y ago
Except that rubber ducking is literally a way to be a lone developer. :)
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by brianpan 4y ago
I'd argue that there's a difference between a git branch (an implementation detail) and a development branch (a process feature) and that's the difference the author is running up against. Are you teaching someone about devel
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by brianpan 4y ago
Sounds like your auth integration is busted. But I was able to paste the slack link into the Slack search and it found the post (skipping the browser and auth completely).
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by brianpan 4y ago
Next up: Fighting Distraction with Pair Programming. I'm a distracted developer, but you'll never guess the unexpected advantage I discovered of pair programming...
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by brianpan 4y ago
> What's the point of The point of a smart phone is not ringtones. The point of a smart phone is not even being a phone anymore. It's everything else you do with it. The point of a smart watch is not cool watch faces. You want
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by brianpan 4y ago
It's not the time, it's the unknown/unseen factor that's making it likely or unlikely. You think you are seeing lighting striking a tree. But maybe what you are actually seeing is lighting striking a lighting rod. Lightn
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by brianpan 4y ago
Don't forget about Galactus, the all-knowing user service provider aggregator. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
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by brianpan 4y ago
I think other people have sort of answered it, but a more general version might be: If you observe an extremely unlikely event, you should update your Bayesian prior about how likely that event is.
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by brianpan 4y ago
Also, people who can't afford bread can eat cake. It's a simple change in behavior.
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by brianpan 4y ago
How about working out makes you cognitively sharp because it requires COGNITION? It's not the kind of "thinking" we normally consider but your brain is working to direct your body. Basketball is my favorite way to exercise an
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by brianpan 4y ago
Oh, no! Is the world headed towards: "Your car has encountered an unexpected obstacle or situation. Please wait while we connect you to a representative. We apologize for the delay during your trip!"

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