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by dasil003 3y ago
This is not a good analogy as professional sports is much easier to assess performance and also much much more ruthless in terms of being cut.
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by dasil003 3y ago
I wanted to see where The Wire landed. Season 5 was the weakest but also rounded out the series by showing several cycles completing. Perhaps not the best, but in some ways the most important?
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by dasil003 3y ago
iPhone and AirPods are mature mass market items with historically juicy margin and volume. I don't think it's appropriate to compare Vision Pro on this basis because AR/VR just isn't there yet in terms of market adoptio
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by dasil003 3y ago
Regardless of the quality (which in this case seems decent at a glance), I can’t help but feel this type of research is fundamentally harmful to management decision making. One of two things will happen, either those with a pre-existing op
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by dasil003 3y ago
I agree with the first part, but not sure about the second. I believe software is much more engineering than science. The challenge is in organizing the bits. Most of the things learn, debate and design in software are more less arbitrar
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by dasil003 3y ago
Both! I started my professional career in the year 2000 where I learned how to be resourceful. In the 2010s this positioned me to “do more with less” while still cashing in on the overall prosperity and bigger budgets. Now that belts are
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by dasil003 3y ago
I think this is a bit reductive. Sure ZIRP created an environment where people could get away with trying crazy things, but there was still an expectation of growth in pursuit of some longer time-horizon market dominance. These kind of thi
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by dasil003 3y ago
The keyword you missed is "retool". Completely rewriting your clients at scale as is always a big risk, it's especially risky when you're rewriting from one to many, and you need a much broader set of skills to boot. T
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by dasil003 3y ago
Yes of course, if your reading comprehension is low and you prefer to apply your own personal black and white definition about what constitutes “good”, then it makes perfect sense for you to put these words in my mouth and ignore what I ac
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by dasil003 3y ago
If it makes you feel better to unilaterally condemn decision makers at big companies for not hewing to your priorities, then be my guest, it's a fun past-time. However if you're interested in why this happens you need to acknowled
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by dasil003 3y ago
> "Cleaner", for some definition of "clean". In this case, pretty, not accurate. What do you mean "accurate"? The developer decides when to commit and what message to write, rebasing just enables more con
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by dasil003 3y ago
Any advice is going to be reductive when measured against the reality of building a startup. While learning and continuous improvement are table stakes, I think the GPs advice is much better to get first-time founders overall. "Sharp
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by dasil003 3y ago
I agree with you, but I think it's more of a philosophical topic (ie. Chinese Room argument) than something that technicians working on raw LLM capabilities usually care to engage in. For them, the Turing Test and utility in applicati
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by dasil003 3y ago
Spoiler alert, there's only one more sentence after this, and it's of the "please like and subscribe" ilk, not any sort of conclusion.
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by dasil003 3y ago
Have you ever heard someone described as tone deaf? The narrative that works in your head is not necessarily a narrative that works publicly.
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by dasil003 3y ago
I agree with your final sentence that businesses often undertake very ill-advised software projects. However I don't think the building analogy is very illuminating here; the thing about buildings is that while they have complexity, t
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by dasil003 3y ago
I hear you, but the promise and curse of software is that it is malleable. We are not building bridges with extremely clear and obvious success and failure, we are creating user experiences that vary subjectively based on who is using them
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by dasil003 3y ago
> Regarding the correct "saving snapshots to a data warehouse", if there are one million web apps in the world, how many of them have the scale to noticeably benefit from either doing without foreign keys or from a data wareho
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by dasil003 3y ago
Interesting that this whole thread makes no distinction between read and write access, as those are dramatically different use cases. Read access is by far the more necessary, and is usually solved relative easily by saving snapshots to a
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by dasil003 3y ago
"just write test cases to check for [referential integrity]" is doing some awful heavy lifting in this comment. Assuming a standard n-tier application architecture, how do you guarantee the test prevents race conditions?
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by dasil003 3y ago
As a long-time vim user I admit this is probably true compared to modern IDEs/editors in the majority of developer workflows today. On the other hand though, if I'm logging into random servers and manipulating any kind of text, e
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by dasil003 3y ago
Interesting that you use the word "impact", which I interpret as software engineer performance review jargon to quantify the larger results of engineering work, and the word "alpha" which I interpret as financial jargon
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by dasil003 3y ago
This doesn’t follow, at least not without a lot more analysis. The biggest tech companies have tens of thousands of engineers make anything from low 6-figures to low 7-figures. That’s a huge salary burden that dwarfs exec compensation. S
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by dasil003 3y ago
I think it's definitely possible to create a better CLI than git, however I think the majority of what unhappy users of git are imagining when they ask for a better UI would oversimplify things and end up removing a lot of valuable c
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by dasil003 3y ago
B2B and B2C are completely different games. With B2C, the only thing that matters is scale, because users are incredibly fickle and price sensitive. An individual can pick up and drop any particular app with zero friction. This is the en
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by dasil003 3y ago
Do we want AI to be the only economical way for “content” to be created in the future? And for the corporate owners of AI to be the middle men on all creativity? I’m no great fan of the current IP regime, but the economics of building, mai
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by dasil003 3y ago
That’s true, but also keep in mind executives aren’t fired for making bad decisions, they’re fired because the board (or CEO) thinks someone else can do better going forward.
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by dasil003 3y ago
There’s no “branching a new commit” (except as syntactic sugar). Creating a branch creates a new head pointing to an arbitrary commit (even one that already has one or more heads). Committing creates a new commit and moves exactly one hea
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by dasil003 3y ago
That’s a false dichotomy and bad leadership judgement. I don’t doubt these arguments are made and sometimes won (especially in dysfunctional or apathetic orgs), but context matters, there’s no value system that supersedes critical thinking
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by dasil003 3y ago
Leadership positions should be granted not just on “projects”, but demonstrated technical ability and judgement. This often includes influence of what NOT to do just as much as it involves driving projects. Obviously any rubric is only a

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