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by cgrealy 5y ago
Absolutely. His "gravity is not a force" video led me through a whole range of emotions from "this is ridiculous" to "actually..." to "holy crap, I've been wrong about this my entire life". In te
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Product: we need to support doing x on a monthly cycle Dev: Actually, months are a really inaccurate way of measuring time and we should convince all our clients not to use them. CEO: you're fired. Programming is the art of turning mes
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by cgrealy 5y ago
And how many accidents are there in Wisconsin in January with 8 inches of snow on the ground? We don’t have to perfect automated driving; we just have to get it better than the average human… and that’s a pretty low bar. And we don’t even h
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by cgrealy 5y ago
> We haven't automated driving Yeah, we pretty much have... it just hasn't been widely adopted yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjztvddhZmI And honestly, from a business perspective, most people really don&
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by cgrealy 5y ago
"Development", (i.e. specifying, writing, testing and deploying software) can frequently be made agile. But 90% of the time, it's pointless since the business isn't agile. You have layers of management from the CEO throu
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by cgrealy 5y ago
Tests (specifically unit tests) are a way of documenting your assumptions about how a pice of code will be used.
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by cgrealy 5y ago
The important difference is that newspeak was designed to replace language whereas emojis supplement it. There are plenty of emojis that can be used to express dissent, skepticism or even out right anger.
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by cgrealy 5y ago
Honestly, I really couldn’t take him seriously after that paragraph.
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by cgrealy 5y ago
You missed my point. Cannabis is way more restricted and controlled than tobacco or alcohol in most places. If you buy cigarettes or alcohol, cops won’t bother you. If you’re caught with cannabis, you are potentially facing criminal charges
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by cgrealy 5y ago
Tobacco and alcohol are restricted. Almost every country has rules around how old you must be to purchase or consume them, where you can purchase them, where you can consume them, how much you can consume before driving (in the case of al
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by cgrealy 5y ago
Whether or not Bezos is a colossal twat (seems like he probably is) is irrelevant. The point was that this was not up for discussion. Sure, there are less twatty ways of phrasing it, but at least you know where you stand.
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by cgrealy 5y ago
Now imagine your problem is not smoking or drugs or alcohol but food. Imagine you're an alcoholic who has to have half a shot of whisky everyday. But hey, overweight people are just lazy and lack willpower.
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Again, I really don't understand that logic. You can express an opinion about something or support something without dedicating your life to it. This might also be a cultural thing. I live in NZ and I can happily talk politics with peo
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by cgrealy 5y ago
This is exactly what I'm talking about. Perpetuating the complete and utter nonsense that political issues are personal and not systemic. The notion that you can pull yourself up by your bootstraps with enough hard work and determinati
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by cgrealy 5y ago
You have a weird definition of “logical conclusion”. How about you can talk about political issues in an adult and professional manner?
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Or healthcare?
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by cgrealy 5y ago
It can , but it generally doesn't . Compared to whatsapp, for this use case, it's a crap user experience. I am not going to convince my elderly mother to use a new email client. She literally does not even know what an email cli
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by cgrealy 5y ago
or.... use the appropriate medium/channel/whatever for what ever it is you're doing. My family has a group whatsapp chat. It's mostly for sending pics of my nieces and nephews and random conversations. Email would be te
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by cgrealy 5y ago
This. So much this. At my company, we give out "values awards". People are frequently lauded for working late evenings and weekends. Everytime this happens, I cringe. If people feel they need to do this, it's a sign that pr
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by cgrealy 5y ago
> If you would be a good parent and want kids, then I believe the idea of delaying is harmful, especially if you are over say 25. 25?!? None of the people I know who have kids started trying for them until their 30s. There’s nothing wron
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by cgrealy 5y ago
In terms of the actual soud you hear, pickups, pedals and amps are going to make the most difference. In terms of whether you want to listen to it, technique reigns. The best gear in the world won't make you a good player and a good pl
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by cgrealy 5y ago
The same as everyone else. You might "work" 2h a month, because you spend the rest of it caring for family members, or maybe you're trying to get that first draft/beta version out the door. Or you might just not want to
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by cgrealy 6y ago
These days software development is a team sport. Yeah, there’s the odd outlier extreme genius, but in general, you need to be able to communicate with other humans. That doesn’t mean you need to be an extrovert, just that the old “weird dev
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Yeah, the whole point of stories was to get away from "Software Creationism " the belief that with a sufficently detailed specification, a normally talented group of engineers can magic a perfect solution without any customer in
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Tech savvy? I'd be happy if customers understood their own problem domain, let alone be tech-savvy enough to articulate product requirements.
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by cgrealy 6y ago
The majority of the article was a personal defence of Catholicism. Fine, I don’t agree, but he’s entitled to his opinion. But he entirely failed to make the case that religion has any connection to a decline of democracy. Also, a pet peeve
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by cgrealy 6y ago
> but is much better at cooking than I am and can communicate information well This is a really good point. To put it in simple geek numerical terms, if I'm level 20, I need someone who's level 50 to show me how to get to level
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by cgrealy 6y ago
This is crazy, but hear me out... Is it possible that cooking and making-videos-about-cooking are two entirely different skill sets? The funny thing is I don't disagree with the premise of the article. But I doubt I could think of a wo
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by cgrealy 6y ago
There are so many things that we should be teaching kids about how to live in the real world. - how to apply for a job (write a good cv/resume and cover letter) - how to deal with finance - basic cyber security - critical thinking
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Maybe you don't work fast or good enough, but the solution to that is not "work more". There are a number of possible outcomes here: 1: (most likely) you really are good enough, but the expectation is unreasonable 2: you need

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