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by cntainer 5y ago
Actually I think the advice is spot on if you want to continuously evolve your processes. Every time you revisit a process you can keep it, kill it or amend it. It sounds pretty evolutionary to me. What I liked is that adding some fail indi
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by cntainer 5y ago
The processes that just go and die somewhere were probably not good processes from the beginning, else they wouldn't be abandoned I liked the advice because it actually applies to good processes that become embedded in the everyday wor
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by cntainer 5y ago
> Every policy or process doc I write now has a section called “Reasons to Revisit.” It is essentially a reverse success criteria. Rather than a short list of things I would expect to see if the policy was successful Wow, what a great
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by cntainer 5y ago
> I don't understand why the result would had no value. I exaggerated that one, it has value, but to a lesser degree, imo. The value of the painting is in the skill of producing the copy, not really in having the creativity or insig
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by cntainer 5y ago
yep, I already addressed this in another comment, that's photorealism, and the artist always takes the picture so painting it is just the last step in the overall creative process. my point was that it feels weird for me to call it art
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by cntainer 5y ago
I understand that people can call art whatever they like. One can argue that doing an exact copy of a photograph with the end result being indistinguishable from the original photo is some kind of "meta" art and the lack of creati
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by cntainer 5y ago
By "weird" I meant that having great technique doesn't automatically translate to great art. It could translate to greater craftsmanship, faster and more precise work, but by art I understand the process of applying your own
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by cntainer 5y ago
Nothing, it's a great skill to have, and one that I never invested in.
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by cntainer 5y ago
Thank you for the details, and I agree that what you describe includes plenty of creative effort. I guess my scenario was much more narrow, as I was thinking about doing an exact copy of a photo that you didn't take yourself. Doing an
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by cntainer 5y ago
I always found that practice weird. When using a photo as a source it feels like you're just taking someone else's vision and photocopying it on a canvas. Yes there are many photos that you can call art, but if you're not the
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by cntainer 5y ago
I really like the "standing on the shoulders of giants" quote because it brings into perspective the fact that direct comparison doesn't make a lot of sense, especially in fields that are continuously growing and evolving (li
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by cntainer 5y ago
I completely agree with this but I avoided mentioning it as I wanted to get some objective technical answers, decoupled from any of the usual operational concerns: number of people, mindset of people, seniority, etc. I think the main cause
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by cntainer 5y ago
I can agree with the share-nothing architecture as a good selling point that keeps things simple but there are use cases where this is actually a limitation. Parts of the community seem to want to go over that limitation so things like Swoo
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by cntainer 5y ago
If I'm forced to choose PHP that's the choice I would also make in most cases, probably because it reminds me of some of the things I liked about Rails.
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by cntainer 5y ago
Haven't thought of this, I guess for some people it makes sense especially for small, personal projects. I'm more biased towards startups with a plan to grow or larger projects. In my case if the hosting provider doesn't have
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by cntainer 5y ago
I started my career in PHP ~15 years ago trying to do OOP in PHP 4.x. That was "fun". In the meantime I switched to other stacks but I've been keeping a distant eye on how PHP was evolving and I still am involved with PHP pro
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by cntainer 5y ago
That's a good point, life style does play a major part. But I think this point also opens another subject, preventive healthcare. Many modern healthcare systems are starting to focus on prevention for 2 main reasons: increase quality o
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by cntainer 5y ago
I didn't really suggest that the US Government spends money on healthcare, I was merely quoting the article: "Health care consumes 18% of GDP in America" Please note that the wording implies that 18% of GDP is spent on health
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by cntainer 5y ago
I guess my initial phrase is a bit superficial, from my European-centric point of view the US government seems less interested/involved in the health of their healthcare system compared to what I'm seeing in europe. The point I wa
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by cntainer 5y ago
> You're combining the cost of care for the people who get care with an average outcome that includes people who don't get care. Well that's the point, I think everybody should be taken into account in order to paint a com
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by cntainer 5y ago
It's interesting to see that "Health care consumes 18% of GDP in America" compared to ~10% in most developed countries. In my (non-american) opinion part of that difference comes from the fact that healthcare is already a con
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by cntainer 5y ago
You joined this year? 2022? That seems like a very short amount of time to expect complete trust. It's pretty normal that the old team has more trust. They put in the effort to get the product where it is today. If you plan to stick ar
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by cntainer 5y ago
I burst into laughter reading this, probably because it happened to me.
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by cntainer 5y ago
I never was a UI guy but the overall feeling described by the author hits close to home. As a developer I always wanted to write code as good/clean/elegant as all the cool people whose blog/videos/books I was consuming o
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by cntainer 5y ago
yep, that's why I called it a story, not a scientific experiment. It could even be read as a kind of anecdote of parable. While oversimplified, it can serve as a good example on how an initially rational practice could easily became do
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by cntainer 5y ago
This reminds me of a story I've read some time ago, about some monkeys and bananas. A group of monkeys in a room. In the center of the room is a tall pole with a bunch of bananas suspended from the top. Every time a monkey tries to rea
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by cntainer 5y ago
It seems to me that the article barely scratches the surface on how this kind of organization actually functions. How do they reach consensus when there are conflicting opinions? Popular vote? How is majority established? Half+1? How do the
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by cntainer 6y ago
Following most of the comments I've read I fall in the generalist population. But I'm trying to have a more nuanced perspective. My goal is to be a specialist in a couple of practices less likely to change not in the tools that ar
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by cntainer 6y ago
The article makes it pretty clear that they have the evidence to support their hypothesis about the history of bedding, so there's no question about that part :). My point was more focused on your example about footwear and on the fact
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by cntainer 6y ago
The issue with this kind of reasoning is that without any kind of archeological proof to back your hypothesis what you end up with is informed guessing based more on ones knowledge and experience than on scientific facts. For example, I cou

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