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by britch 8y ago
I think the point is to never communicate in evaluations. Observations are not codes for evaluations. Observations force discussion of concrete actions, which have a bunch of benefits over evaluations. Let's say X and Z are coworkers.
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by britch 8y ago
There's a great interview with Ellen Shell about this exact thing[0]. The argument is obvious in retrospect but, call me a dummy, I hadn't considered it until I heard it. The act of automating is expensive, regardless of the work
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by britch 8y ago
> would you even want to go? I wouldn't. It is shortchanging the achievement, and really missing the point of what admission to such a university represents. I think a lot of people (arguably the majority of people) view a degree as
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by britch 8y ago
Is this purely in chronological order of publication or is there some algorithm selecting relevant stories and shuffling them to the top?
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by britch 8y ago
Lyft has plenty of revenue to be sure. It also has lots of fixed costs. You can't just "dial back" paying drivers. I also get the impression that the costs of rides are artificially low right now. Lyft is subsidizing them to
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by britch 8y ago
I couldn't pay a late bill once because my ISP's website was down for several days. Luckily for me I could afford the fine. Imagine if this is your power company and a bugged website means you can't pay your bill before your
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by britch 8y ago
Yes and NYC is known for the many home owners and lack of renters. Sounds like it'd be good for landlords, I'm not sure about the person living paycheck to paycheck to make rent.
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by britch 8y ago
I feel like there's a conflation of density with bad design. A lot of good design is minimalist. I don't know if it has to be. Sometimes it makes sense to present a lot of information in a dense block
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by britch 8y ago
God it frustrates me when Zuckerberg/Facebook/Twitter attack "gate-keepers" like they aren't ones. What do you call determining what appears in a feed? Even if they're using an algorithm trained on user data, t
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by britch 8y ago
I think a lot of what's wrong with modern Facebook follows directly from Zuckerberg's original vision and shortsightedness. It's possible to imagine a Facebook which stayed small scale, friends of friends, and served primaril
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by britch 8y ago
Irrational if all you care about is money. Pretty rational if you care about preserving your heritage and history.
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I will never understand "People are Mad on Twitter" stories
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Yes there are people who will be "remembered" for a very long time. People will likely know artist's depictions of Julius Caesar and George Washington for a while. We know some ancient people's names. We can imagine some
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by britch 8y ago
If you haven't read "Why Doctors Hate Their Computers" [0] I highly recommend it. It relates exactly to what you're talking about (in terms of boring admin work) and applies to more than just doctors. My takeaway was tha
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by britch 8y ago
> Whatever you choose will bring positive value to the world. This is simply not true. There are many jobs where the company's profit and your income come from hurting or exploiting others. Yes, you would be "surviving" li
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by britch 8y ago
Or be a different brand of extremely-hateful white supremacist while also being anti-nazi
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by britch 8y ago
You're taking money for people without a good way of getting it to them (or ensuring that they want the money at all). My friend Mark had an accident and I think he needs help paying for it. Would you give me some money to help Mark pa
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by britch 8y ago
I'm inclined to agree. I'm against it in principle (why should taxpayers be subsidizing large corporations at all?) but it isn't robbery. I guess it get fuzzier when you factor in in harder to quantify costs like further incr
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by britch 8y ago
It's unclear to me from the article is this a one time cost? Is it yearly? Monthly? edit: On reading a bit closer it's over $48,000 per job over 10 years.
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This really seems like the ideal. I don't understand places that don't use machines like this, it' not like Chicago/Illinois are rolling in money.
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I don't see how you can reach this conclusion from what you describe. The list explicitly part of a larger list of possible symptoms. The fact that you, I assume not a psychologist, were able to change your "diagnosis" by fud
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by britch 8y ago
You're absolutely right, it would change the character of the neighborhoods. But the argument you present is exposes the hypocrisy at the center of people in these neighborhoods and hits at some of what Giridharadas is getting at. I su
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by britch 8y ago
Linters save so much formatting time, I don't really see what it has to do with ego. I certainly could go through and make sure all the spacing is exactly right, the functions/properties are in the right place, and rest of the rul
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by britch 8y ago
That is so broad... it's hard to answer. Bad design is consistent, but it's easier to remember the good stuff from way back when then the bad. Can you give more details on what you consider modern design and what you consider olde
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by britch 8y ago
That's definitely a dangerous situation that involves tech, and to some extent tech addiction, but is different from smoking which in all cases has a negative effect on your heath.
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To be fair I could not run Wolfenstein: The New Order with an AMD card on Windows, and from what I read online it's a common problem. I don't think this is a Windows/Linux issue, the game just doesn't play nicely with AM
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by britch 8y ago
That's kind of reductionistic. Most liquor, cars, technology and clothes are sold as coolness. I agree Apple leans into it heavily, but so do Samsung and Google (although less effectively). I don't think coolness is all of it. I&#
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I'm curious, do you have any evidence that most people are installing ad blockers as a privacy measure? I don't have any hard evidence, but I imagine most people block ads because they don't want to have to scroll past a bunc
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I think a lot of anger is misplaced from people who are calling for a lot of censorship. While people complain about it, it's not necessarily the problem that FB/Twitter/YouTube allow extreme views on their platform. It'
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I agree there needs to be more discussion about the degree to which large companies can impact peoples human rights. I think there's an important distinction in the criticism though, even though the rhetoric might be similar. Apple was

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