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by dasil003 2y ago
Assuming the tradeoff is even energy related. Seems like the tradeoff could be against a whole slew of subtle things that apply in a diverse, natural environment, but may be less important in a monoculture.
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by dasil003 2y ago
Because whether it's people pulling the trigger or the gun itself, both are the direct source of harm. Bicycles are not the source of harm, cars are. The analogous argument one way would be quibbling over whether it's the driver
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by dasil003 2y ago
A union formed on the basis of supporting one side of controversial global political issues with no direct connection to the wellbeing of the union workers seems like it would be on pretty questionable footing
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by dasil003 2y ago
That's a pretty weak excuse that would raise serious concerns if one of my managers said it to me. The job of a manager is to debug these kinds of things, and frankly, distinguishing between technical gaps and personal issues is the e
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by dasil003 2y ago
This is why if you’re telling someone something they don’t want to hear it’s best to only give one reason. Senior dev overleveled and performing at junior level is one thing. Personal issues impacting performance is another. They have tot
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by dasil003 2y ago
Not everything is about impact.
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by dasil003 2y ago
Defining “active” seems like the tricky part
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by dasil003 2y ago
Of course the lawyers would see to that, but the lawyers don’t sell the product, that would have been catastrophic for revenue and market penetration.
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by dasil003 2y ago
Maybe country-level culture is too coarse-grained to tell any individual what is right for them? (BTW, I get the irony of an American saying this, but I do say it sincerely)
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by dasil003 2y ago
You're onto something here talking about cargo culting and received wisdom. Ideas like founder mode spread because it fits a pattern a lot of people see. That's how an idea gains traction. But once an idea gains traction, espec
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by dasil003 2y ago
This resonates with me, but also I don’t want to presume too much about the value of the old ways of doing things. AI tools are going to drastically lower the bar of entry to programming, so it will be flooded with dilettantes, but people
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by dasil003 2y ago
Fastmail
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by dasil003 2y ago
I think you’re probably right, though I fear what it will mean for software quality. The transition from assembly to high level languages was about making it easier to both write and to understand code. AI really just accelerates writin
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by dasil003 2y ago
Because the judgment of tens of thousands of individuals on the importance of their particular issues and the framing of said issues in a way the CEO can understand does not correlate with their disposition towards emailing the CEO.
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by dasil003 2y ago
The idea that companies needing no employees and AI doing all the work is the natural state of things that we have been evolving towards is laughable. The modern supply chain is not self-sustaining, it’s still based on human labor, just in
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by dasil003 2y ago
I generally agree, but I think it's more subtle than that. Levels and titles aren't really about productivity per se either, they're about defining role expectations and conferring authority to ICs in a corporate environment
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by dasil003 2y ago
For forecasting with no agency involved this makes sense, but when you’re executing a project things get trickier. The hard part is finding appropriate reference classes to learn from while also not overlooking unique details that can sink
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by dasil003 2y ago
I suspect it's because angry and disenfranchised people are over-represented in terms of hours spent playing online games. There's also a negative feedback loop where more casual and/or sensitive gamers opt out since they do
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by dasil003 2y ago
I grew up in the 80s too, and I hope by this age one would not be tethered to naive interpretations of whatever values were pitched to them as a child. I’m not the greatest natural communicator, and I didn’t get into software to work with p
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by dasil003 2y ago
It’s hubris to think we can know anything about the reason for the existence of the universe. But just because we can’t know doesn’t mean there is no reason, that line of thinking is just hubris in the other direction.
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by dasil003 2y ago
I wonder if it's due to contact with the soft shell
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by dasil003 2y ago
The thesis that Google was only good because they didn’t face competition gets it completely backwards. There were tons of search engines when Google started, their dominance came from having a lightweight killer product, not the other way
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by dasil003 2y ago
I am American, but did spend 3 years in London as hire #1, later becoming CTO. This was SV company that moved headquarters to London, this was slighty larger scale than you're indicating, but same order of magnitude when I moved to Lo
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by dasil003 2y ago
GP said "the system that we're in now", not the specific executive decisions and operational practices employed at Crowdstrike. I agree with you the latter could be addressed through accountability, but I struggle to see what
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by dasil003 2y ago
An automated attack would struggle to reach the level of destruction that this failure had due the scale of Crowdstrike deployment and the direct update vector and kernel mode failure. Even with the most critical type of remote vulnerabili
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by dasil003 2y ago
Even assuming you could narrow this down to a small enough set of people that can credibly be held responsible for creating the system we have now, and assuming you could impose consequences on them without violating their civil rights, and
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by dasil003 2y ago
Thanks for jogging my memory! I believe we did two rounds of QA, the first was unlimited but shallow and high latency, the final QA I believe was called Format QA and there was a quota, if you had more than 6 issues or something you were r
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by dasil003 2y ago
I never worked on games, but I did do a streaming video app for PS3 in 2010, during the time period when it was arguably the best media center box available. Working with Sony (SCEE) on this was eye opening how their QA process was set up.
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by dasil003 2y ago
> Calibrated burndown of story points is pretty much the only basis on which forecasting and management of expectations can be done in an agile process. Do you mean in an Agile process? Sorry I have a visceral reaction to this, having
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by dasil003 2y ago
I was 5 years into a professional software career when this was written, at this point I suspect I'm about the age of the author at the time of its writing. It's fascinating to read this now and recognize the wisdom coming from e

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