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by bulatb 3y ago
A software project has the features it implements, the capabilities it offers users, and the boundary between itself and the environment in which those features create value for the user by becoming capabilities. The "accounting"
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by bulatb 3y ago
The person you replied to is annoyed they have to do that when it seems like others don't. They think they shouldn't have to and it isn't fair they do. Explaining how to do it fundamentally does not address their point. If yo
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by bulatb 3y ago
>> why would a software dev have a portfolio? > For the same reason artists do They're asking more how it would happen, less for what purpose. Artists automatically accumulate portfolios by doing work that gets displayed in
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by bulatb 3y ago
Goodhart's law is always in effect. It can't be solved because it's not a problem, it's a fact of nature with annoying implications. It's the echo of the observation that efficiency is fitness as its consequences ri
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by bulatb 3y ago
You're standing in a four-lane road and see a car approaching. You're looking at an angle and the lanes are poorly marked, so you can't tell which one it's in. Your observation lets you estimate the chance you need to mo
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by bulatb 3y ago
I think this illustrates the problem: when it's framed in terms of rights, the conversation needs such careful wording and so many asterisks that it distracts from the point. I'm leaving out a bunch of things I want to say because
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by bulatb 3y ago
"The concept" is referring to rights. I can see how it could be unclear.
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by bulatb 3y ago
Invoking rights like this creates a bridge between the normative (what ought to be) and the descriptive (what will be, whether it ought to or not). Often, yeah, to borrow the obvious "truth" of a normative statement so a false d
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by bulatb 3y ago
"Return to office."
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by bulatb 4y ago
It has separate, stackable layers for query building, data mapping, ORM, and ActiveRecord-ish declarative models. You can pick the parts you want and ignore the rest. The query builder makes composable SQL syntax trees from raw text or Pyth
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by bulatb 4y ago
I've always liked this concept, but I've only ever seen it demonstrated with simple pure functions like gcd and sort . How practical is generating inputs for payroll_get_benefits_adjustment(org, employee, jurisdiction, period,
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by bulatb 4y ago
I guess moralizing could be seen as an extremely ineffective form of marketing, if it's done at people rather than problems. That's an interesting angle, thank you.
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by bulatb 4y ago
Alternatively: "Stop complaining no one eats their vegetables and make a vegetable that people want to eat."
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by bulatb 4y ago
For anyone interested, this is called the wait calculation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_travel#Wait_calcu...
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by bulatb 4y ago
He's said (I'm paraphrasing) that he goes for popular myths, especially when there's a single video or series promoting them. I've never heard him mention the groove or the dating thing, but aren't those pretty spec
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by bulatb 4y ago
Could you give an example? It's been a bit since I watched them (except the last one) but nothing jumps to mind.
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by bulatb 4y ago
World of Antiquity[0] on YouTube does a good job filling in the context around claims like this. He did one on the Netflix series[1] and has others about Hancock's take on flood myths[2], Plato's account[3], other Atlantis claims,
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by bulatb 4y ago
Git is software for manipulating graphs which, instead of drawing a graph you manipulate, makes you memorize a bunch of strings of magic words that map to certain transformations given certain graphs, try to imagine the current state of the
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by bulatb 4y ago
> it will summon a number in the head of others For anyone interested, a good search term is "anchoring" or "anchoring effect."
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by bulatb 4y ago
Maybe common structure, not common parts. "Framework" is a good description: it gives you the shape, you fill it in.
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by bulatb 4y ago
FOSS tends to treat aesthetics like developers complain executives treat software quality: This doesn't help me. Why does it matter? Why should I care? I see no difference. Improving either is an uphill battle when decision makers don&
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by bulatb 4y ago
By their own metrics, are they successful? Do they accomplish their goals?
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by bulatb 4y ago
There's a general pattern, not just with crypto. It happens all the time. Group A makes a bold claim. Group B thinks it over, finds issues, and comes back to A with objections they need to address for B to agree. A does not address the
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by bulatb 4y ago
I've been thinking about something similar. Maybe somebody can shoot it down. For many achievements, most credit belongs to the role, not the person. In other words, the counterfactual of "if we didn't all agree that somebody
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by bulatb 4y ago
That's true. But if zero knowledge doesn't help, and a little more won't either, then why make people suffer to acquire that little bit more? Which I guess just brings us back to the top of the question. My bad.
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by bulatb 4y ago
Oversimplifying leads to confidently wrong predictions based on superficial understanding. Basic intuition about differential equations doesn't meaningfully help you with the math of economic models, nor is math alone enough to underst
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by bulatb 4y ago
Clarity. A clear idea of the meaning and objective of an undergrad CS degree that's shared by students, teachers, universities, and industry. - What does it teach? - What does it not? - Why that, and for what purpose? - Who should take
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by bulatb 4y ago
That world exists in the imaginary term: the land of wonderful things we could have in the long term, if everyone would just not do the thing they absolutely will do in the short term. All solutions that need everyone to "just" un
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by bulatb 4y ago
Better information should in theory help with problems caused by lack of information. How it's implemented makes all the difference, of course. I have no idea what if anything this law will actually do.
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I get the sense you want me to defend a broader position. I was only answering that one specific question about why they mention d .

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