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by danabrams 3y ago
Julia Evans's writing is just so much fun.
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by danabrams 3y ago
That was my first thought, reading this. Although it’s almost like a combination of lisp, self/smalltalk and prolog, with OTP being the innovation.
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by danabrams 3y ago
The automaker cycle - Focus on adding value for the customer, gain dominance, milk it for all it's worth financially, drop precipitously, complain about how Toyota is beating you in the market.
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by danabrams 3y ago
I’m a chatGPT skeptic, but willing to admit this is true… but only because most physicians aren’t very good.
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by danabrams 3y ago
Not for me but for my dad. He has a giant vinyl collection from his teenage years at his country cabin in Vermont. I hooked a raspberry pi zero up to it about 7-8 years ago, and streamed the audio to a custom app on an iPhone, so he could p
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by danabrams 3y ago
"So I think what happened is computing has turned into pop culture" -Alan Kay I love conferences, but I also loved other types of clearly pop-cultural conferences, and that's what they are. I used to make a living producing l
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by danabrams 3y ago
This is why I don't think AI will be as world changing as many believe. If it just replaces human thought more inexpensively, we already have a technology that does that called outsourcing, and it has mixed results.
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by danabrams 3y ago
The breakthrough of Edison in the case of the light bulb is less the filament (which he did try thousands of materials for) but the innovations: 1. He figured out that the filament wouldn’t immediately burn out in a vacuum 2. Built machiner
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by danabrams 4y ago
I took a refactoring class where we used scratch and it was a lot of fun. I now have a 5-month old and I can't wait to introduce him to scratch jr in a few years.
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by danabrams 4y ago
Even if the problems get reported, this helps the CEO get insight into how to prioritize fixing them, how much to invest in doing so, etc.
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by danabrams 4y ago
All companies have politics. What you’re describing is the difference between the messy politics of having to convince others vs the easy politics of telling everyone what to do. But dictatorships don’t have nearly as good a performance rec
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by danabrams 4y ago
The kind of communication we’re talking about is heavily two-way and dependent on the previous signal. Each individual signal is low in content, so the biggest determinant of throughout is latency.
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by danabrams 4y ago
Remind of this Steve Jobs quote: “This becomes even worse if the third party is supplying a cross platform development tool. The third party may not adopt enhancements from one platform unless they are available on all of their supported pl
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by danabrams 4y ago
I’ve written quite a bit of elm professionally and it was an issue for me and was a contributing factor (but not sole factor) to leaving Elm behind. A viable solution to my problem in professional contexts would have been private packages,
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by danabrams 4y ago
Based on this thread and many others, one thing’s for sure, Elm was polarizing!
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by danabrams 4y ago
The type system is not sound… that is there are things which the type checker cannot prove. Not that the languages themselves are unsound.
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by danabrams 4y ago
Haven't the big tech firms mostly had their share prices drop precipitously in the past 12 months. Shouldn't the CEOs be fired if they not only failed to make shareholders money, but in fact lost lots and lots of money for them?
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by danabrams 4y ago
And over the last 12 months, most of the CEOs have lost lots and lots of investor money as share prices collapsed, yet they still have their jobs
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by danabrams 4y ago
And over the last 12 months, most of the CEOs have lost lots and lots of investor money as share prices collapses, yet they still have their jobs
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by danabrams 4y ago
Is remote work a tool? It saved me waaaay more than 30 minutes a day. And those were unpaid hours too.
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by danabrams 4y ago
Wile E. Coyote’s problem was that he was too smart for his own good. His plans were intricate and too clever-by-half, they needed weeks of planning and sophisticated, usually untested equipment.
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by danabrams 4y ago
Those spies are going to know I burned the roast!
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by danabrams 4y ago
He gets to learn from his mistake while 28% of his company is held accountable for the company’s lack of productivity. What’s so complicated about that?
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by danabrams 4y ago
My experience is that you can find developers who are 10x as productive as their peers, but rarely at the same company. That is, the average engineer at company A is 10x as productive as the average at company B. I don’t have data on it—it
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by danabrams 4y ago
But my larger point to the original comment was that wwii may have had an order of magnitude more causalities, but it also came with at least one order of magnitude more disruption. My own grandfather lost over a year of his life to POw cam
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by danabrams 4y ago
Let me clear that I’m not saying all of the govt actions that took liberties away in wwii were justified or helpful or good. Japanese internment is one of the clearest examples of paranoia that was destructive and did not help the war effor
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by danabrams 4y ago
There are any number of cases in our society where we decide that you can’t just decide what you want to do because your behavior has consequences on others. You can’t speed 65mph through red lights, for instance. In public spaces, or with
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by danabrams 4y ago
During WWII, in the place least impacted (USA) there were substantial, government imposed interruptions to daily life and business: government mandates on production, rationing, a military draft, curfews, the literal internment of Japanese
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by danabrams 4y ago
In some states (perhaps even most or all) this is true. It is your legal responsibility to drive a safe enough distance to the car in front so you can avoid collision always if they stop short for any reason.
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by danabrams 4y ago
This article nails it, but I still like microservices because I’ve yet to see a team doing a modular architecture in memory keep from creating a spaghetti mess of interdependence. Yes, the same often happens in microservices, but the extra

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