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by craigyk 13y ago
at building video game engines. Do you think he'd be 10X at building CRUD application after CRUD application?
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by craigyk 13y ago
Then the mythology is worthless. The focus should then be on eliminating bad engineers, not to go chasing after unicorns. Or even more importantly, figure out why some "10X" become "0X", or vice versa.
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by craigyk 13y ago
I think the danger of the myth arrives from the idea that one can label some engineers as consistently 10X better than their peers, regardless of the actual tasks, personal lives, health, etc.
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by craigyk 13y ago
I just finished reading the Mythical Man Month, and while it was certainly very good, the part of the book on 10X engineers struck me immediately as a gross oversimplification. Are there people that are 10X more productive than their worst
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by craigyk 13y ago
WHAT? First, Samsung doesn't use a Nike-esque marketing playbook? Does Apple? I'm not even sure what Nike-esque means.
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by craigyk 13y ago
The way I look at it, is that Apple is trying to have its way by shopping between Samsung, TSMC, and any others. Their leverage doing this comes from offering bulk purchases, or in the case of LCDs, helping to finance large capital expendi
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by craigyk 13y ago
What bugs me most about Go is that it is already filled with internal inconsistencies, and since it practically demands idiomatic usage, these aren't easily avoided. In C++ one can at least avoid using "bad" parts and patter
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by craigyk 13y ago
The thing, IME, is that someone writing code in C++ is more likely to be aware that they are using an approach with suboptimal O. In a high-level language you can just as easily write a routine with bad O, especially if you don't unde
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by craigyk 13y ago
It's funny that self-plagiarism is the offense he cites most. One of the things that drives me crazy about the current system is how much time is wasted in that largish section called the Introduction. On the one hand, it's my f
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by craigyk 13y ago
sounds like a good fairy tale. are you claiming he phased data he had already using the model in the postcard? seems unlikely.
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by craigyk 13y ago
node's packaging system is easily one of it's best features, IMO. They've clearly learned from the mistakes of others. Now if only npm could shadow repositories...
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by craigyk 13y ago
I think the RAIDZ is also less susceptible to data loss due to the RAID layer and the filesystem being tightly integrated.
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It exists and it's pretty good so far, but it's still far from the functionality and polish of ZFS.
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by craigyk 13y ago
I also agree. I run a pretty heterogenous set of servers, mostly linux, with a single FreeBSD machine using ZFS with about 100TB on it, and I really like it. There's a lot of missing conveniences from Linux, but overall FreeBSD seems
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by craigyk 13y ago
ditto. I even asked for (and received) a refund as I was quite irate that the game mechanics had obviously been tuned with something other than fun as the top priority. This makes me think of giving it another go. I was hoping stuff like
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by craigyk 13y ago
years later, I'm still waiting for the supposedly better algorithmic underpinning of btrfs to pay off. I also understand the conceptual benefits of technology layering as done in linux (RAID, and/or LVM, FS), but ZFS's verti
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by craigyk 13y ago
Fukushima hasn't released anywhere near enough radioactivity (in quantity or kind) to worry about making all seafood in the Pacific inedible.
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by craigyk 13y ago
Lots of things eat jellyfish, or more commonly, their young. We're just killing the predators off.
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by craigyk 13y ago
Yup, and there's been success with legislation. Take the clean air and clean water acts. My parents say these have had a profound effect in a relatively short time.
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by craigyk 13y ago
oh geez... then why is gay rights making progress? or MJ legalization? what was their mechanism for "fizzling-out" Occupy?
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by craigyk 13y ago
one of my favorite recent quotes: "growing up is becoming the kind of hypocrite you can live with"
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by craigyk 13y ago
And I, for one, am actually glad to learn that governments do in fact still outrank corporations. Re: net security. I just had to complain to our building manager that some other tenant in the building had appropriated our "assigned&q
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by craigyk 13y ago
? I have just always assumed that's the kind of stuff the NSA did, after all, what else would they be doing? So the Snowden revelations were more disappointment than shock.
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Most humor is in "poor-taste" to someone. IMO, when certain topics are taboo that just a bigger indicator of a cultural problem: "move along, nothing to see here".
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> This makes using ControlMaster workable. Best part of reading this article. I had turned off connection sharing because of this. So what, in more details, are the downsides to ControlPersist?
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When you're 14 though every injustice seems gross and all the broken parts of society seem obvious to you and you don't understand why everyone else doesn't see it too. When you're 14 you're smart enough to recogniz
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IMO, for most people 1-2 really good teachers are all they need. Also, there is some value in teaching people that sometimes you just need to do what you're told... and that's coming from someone who has always been diagnosed as h
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by craigyk 13y ago
That's ignoring the actual "accuracy" of most employee "ranking" algorithms. And continual, though diminishing improvements is only true if your method of ranking employees is significantly more accurate on existin
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by craigyk 13y ago
I think you are wrong. I think randomly drawing any significant number of people from a pool that isn't normally distributed is still likely to result in a normal distribution. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central
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by craigyk 13y ago
Maybe that's a wise policy though? I don't think mandatory IQ tests are common in private industry, but there are plenty of jobs were being "too smart" is a huge knock. And it makes sense really, smarter people are mor

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