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by chris11 8y ago
>This takes extraordinary discipline on the part of the in-office team. Fortunately, everything that's good for a remote-first culture is also just good for communication in general. I think it's even harder for companies that
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> This revolution should have started with mundane tasks, such as city street sweepers and perhaps garbage trucks. Honestly I would think that automating a slow moving vehicle in the city would be a much harder engineering challenge. Cit
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I think that cultural context definitely influences driving safely. And that's going to be a very hard problem for companies to solve. But I think it's solvable, and part of the solution may be to change how people interact with s
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by chris11 8y ago
> The presentation from Tom Stuart goes into much more detail. What presentation are you talking about? I'd be interested in reading it.
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Code should be written for readability, not typing speed.
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> There are a few different estimation techniques that are better than others but scrum actively avoids those techniques (probably for the best as they are expensive and don't show huge gains over other forms of estimation). What me
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by chris11 9y ago
I've usually had good luck filing claims with credit card companies, depending on how long it's been. The one downside is that the extended warranty service may not be as valuable as just filing a normal claim right after you buy
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by chris11 9y ago
I've read before that businesses take it much more seriously than people do. They will consider modify their products to remove the the need for warning labels. So the law can introduce changes. Here's an example of Coca-Cola modi
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I worked at a place that had recently switched over to microservices in the Cloud from a monolith on premises. Rumors were we were spending a lot of money on our cloud providers. I heard other rumors that pricing got less competitive after
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I don't know, I would think that the cost of finding good investment opportunities would increase as a fund gets bigger assuming all the funds have enough money to operate well. An opportunity to invest 20 million dollars with an expec
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That sounds like something out of Hustle a TV show the BBC produced about a group of contract artists.
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That's a good solution, but college-level mathematics was specifically where I had issues learning the material myself. I remember taking an upper-level college class for my cs degree that focused heavily on proof-based mathematics. I
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I'd say that it is definitely possible for selection bias to indicate a causal relationship though. Because hiring and compensation isn't just controlled by technical ability or productivity. So there is chance a supposedly non-ca
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> I disagree with the general statement that leaning maths is "pitifully slow without a teacher". How do you check your work then? I remember specific experiences in college math classes where I thought I understood something,
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I'd say that Uber/Lyft would be better positioned to take advantage of driverless vehicles. The hard part is the tech, personal for fleet management is a cost center. They have already mastered outsourcing low-skill cost center ty
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by chris11 9y ago
Especially with crypto, one small implementation error could ruin any security value. It's completely reasonable that they don't want their trademark used with code they aren't responsible for.
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I didn't find the video, I'd be interested in seeing it too. But I did find this: https://www.cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/cs1055.pdf It's a set of notes of a problem solving seminar that Knuth tau
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by chris11 9y ago
That's a fair point that I agree with. My comment was more about the need for real analysis when making large architectural decisions. Experimenting with new tech in small projects is good, and fun. But I've worked at places that
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by chris11 9y ago
I agree with the ideas that focusing on specific tools is dangerous, and that developers should get comfortable understanding the work other jobs do. But I found the argument by the 10x dev unconvincing, it was too buzzwordy. The dev's
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> Is there an example of a company that has implemented the philosophy in the Agile Manifesto in a way that actually meets the needs of developers and managers? I'd guess most companies that call themselves Agile or decide to try Ag
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I'd say that's common though. A lot of pc makers have widely different quality standards for their consumer and business lines.
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by chris11 9y ago
I think you have more faith in companies than I do. Jobs can have a lot of unreasonable expectations, especially if it is a low wage position with high turnover. And Amazon already has a poor reputation for it's low skilled positions.
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by chris11 9y ago
I've liked the idea of a hub-and-spoke model. I don't particularly like the idea of open offices, but does make communication easier sometimes. The idea of a hub-and-spoke space is that individuals have their own private work spac
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by chris11 9y ago
I had a ton of fun with Lego Mindstorms when I was a kid. It's not free, but she might enjoy it if she's interested in programming lego robots. It looks like you might be able to use those legos with python too, but that would pro
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App usage could definitely play a factor. But usually now turns off right after I get a low battery warning and it enters power-saving mode.
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That's exactly what mine does, it shuts off at 15% if I don't immediately plug it in.
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My Nexus 5X now stays on for a lot less time after I get a low battery warning than when it was new.
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I'm really not familiar with quant jobs, but is the company itself in good shape? And was your job going well before your team got laid off? I"m kind of curious about the three week severance. I've heard rumors that those com
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On another note, what metrics could be commonly used to judge individual dev productivity, and should they be used? I'm wondering because I have had places bring up metrics like average story points completed per sprint in performance
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> We store the source code for all services in subfolders of the same monorepo (one repo <-> one app). So I'm curious, does each service instance have their own server, or do you have multiple services on one server instance?

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