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by crdrost 6y ago
Hoo nelly! You’ve asked a question that can easily get HN to write 50+ pages. Hope you like reading! To make a meeting matter, make a decision. You can make the daily stand up ritual into something meaningful to the participants, if you rec
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by crdrost 6y ago
I mean those sorts of issues are unavoidable and would be discussed in a court where there would probably be some invocation of what "a typical person finds" offensive, as has happened in obscenity cases before. What I made sure t
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by crdrost 6y ago
Yeah! Keep in mind that you do not need to write out the line separators; you can delete them potentially to “hide your crimes” so to speak and the benefits of memorability may remain
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by crdrost 6y ago
This is still a really fun and quick argument, even so. The risk might not be entirely "the Bitcoin market collapses in the next year" and the risk is an implicit perceived risk, so it might not map to reality. Those criticisms ar
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by crdrost 6y ago
Complexity is not just about these larger features, although they are certainly manifestations of complexity. So like a mechanical watch is complex, but it is complex in a very different way than weight gain or weight loss is. Nevertheless
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90s-ish videogame lore, “Time is an ally, not an enemy. Patience can sharpen even the smallest of efforts into a weapon that can strike the heart of an empire.” On my cube walls, whenever I get back to my cube: “magic is just cleverly conce
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by crdrost 6y ago
That sounds suspiciously like your team is not communicating enough in the first place though. I mean, I guess the profession does get its fair share of introverts, but I would have expected enough teamwork that everyone knows what everyone
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by crdrost 6y ago
We were worried that the singularity was going to involve artificial intelligences that could make themselves smarter, and we were underwhelmed when it turned out to be neural networks that started to summarize Stack Overflow neural network
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Yeah! I remember someone talking about the methane lakes of Titan and remarking that if there was intelligent life on Titan, they would surely rule out Earth as any possible habitat for life, and would be absolutely shocked at the idea of t
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by crdrost 6y ago
One of my instructors way back at Cornell was a grad student named Kevin Walsh, now an associate professor at Holy Cross, who had solved this problem in a bit of a radical way. Context was that back then you had Gnutella, LimeWire etc.—peer
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by crdrost 6y ago
These are most of my caveats. One other: there is a caveat of “given that the system works the way it does right now,” where there is sort of a wild-west approach to these types of big communities, then yeah Google is the sheriff of Play St
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by crdrost 6y ago
The passive collection case is presumably enough to justify it. Like, after those folks who were sniffing Facebook and MySpace cookies on unsecured WiFi routers were caught, I can imagine pushing for something like this, "just to force
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by crdrost 6y ago
If we knew how it did it, it wouldn't be machine learning. The defining feature of machine learning in other words is that the machine constructs a hypersurface in a very-high-dimensional space based on the samples that it sees, and th
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by crdrost 6y ago
This is the key point that I wish people understood. From an economic standpoint, articles like this one are really just arguing that the supply and demand in several different markets should be lumped together and aggregated. the claim is
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by crdrost 6y ago
There might still be some value in it. I think people will use tools like AdS/CFT correspondence for a while. And it is worth remembering that in terms of actual dollars, fundamental physics research is not that big of a spend. Like, p
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by crdrost 6y ago
This is a wonderful article, but I feel like it is kind of missing a certain depth. Read Donella Meadows’ classic Thinking in Systems for instance. So like, yes, of necessity the largeness of a system causes the existence of feedback loop
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by crdrost 6y ago
It might be more damning if the states were from both parties; there is a political interpretation in that Google employee spending is known and of the US$ 6.2M that is being spent 88% of it is on Democrats and only 12% on Republicans, so t
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by crdrost 6y ago
If you liked this article, you might like the book The Goal or its application to the “project context” that software companies find themselves in, Critical Chain . They define a lot of business thinking as being focused on controlling c
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by crdrost 6y ago
I love XSLT in theory. It had the daring to say that the most frequently programmed thing that we do is just translate data structures of one shape into data structures of a slightly different shape, and it said “That is what I shall focus
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by crdrost 6y ago
I wish I could upvote this multiple times. You go into any experienced woodworker’s shop, you can divide it into maybe 20% of the tools that see the vast majority of the action—table saws, band saws, milling machines, proper hammers. But th
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by crdrost 6y ago
Yeah, there's nature-nurture stuff going on, but there is also a strange inability to grapple with context shifts. What is “conventional” is changing, and an idea which seemed “independent” is no longer. This is why Alan Kay’s talks ab
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by crdrost 6y ago
> So it was not so much about any technical debt, but rather about the lack of understanding of what the client wanted (often the ignorance of the client himself of what he actually wanted). I cannot emphasize enough how much I want you
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by crdrost 6y ago
This blog post we're all commenting on is great precisely because it links Ward Cunningham's talk. His understanding is precisely this financial metaphor. I have considered giving a talk, “When Technical Debt was a Good Thing”.
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by crdrost 6y ago
That doesn’t fit. You don’t discover you’re terminally ill and then brainstorm a game while you're out trying to find yourself. If you think you're terminally ill then your notebook is likely to be full of meditations on the day&#
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That is more or less the approach that I would recommend to modern microservices, I would advise someone to read about domain-driven design and I would ask them to pay very careful attention to the notion of bounded contexts, the idea of a
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by crdrost 6y ago
I have often thought that if I were to teach a class on functional programming, I would use JavaScript’s fat arrow notation to introduce lambda calculus. Less succinct with all the extra parentheses that occur in function calls but I think
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by crdrost 6y ago
I’m not sure that we should read postmodernists as being willy-nilly relativists. Like certainly the sort of “practical postmodernism” that I see in Git is not willing to say “Linux is BSD” the way a relativist might. Linux is a unix kernel
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by crdrost 6y ago
To set up my question, maybe I should share a sort of hazy crackpot vision or dream. So when I look at Git, I see a variety of postmodernism that's like “look, we’re not being pretentiously intellectual or even pessimistic—we’re being
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by crdrost 6y ago
That you can find other special properties on various numbers is true in all bases, but 1/7 in base 10 is pretty special. So the property it has is: 1/n = n (2/b^2 + 4/b^4 + 8/b^6 + ...) which by geometric

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