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by dasil003 4y ago
Why are you assuming the Bahamas did the minting?
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by dasil003 4y ago
There is no gray area. The world is black and white.
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by dasil003 4y ago
You're defining "smart" as some grab bag of traits that you deem virtuous. But if we use the common connotation of smart (ie. raw cognitive ability), and decouple it from wisdom, judgement, EQ, charisma, independence, self-a
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by dasil003 4y ago
Even if he did, would anyone believe it? This is Zuckerberg we’re talking about.
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by dasil003 4y ago
VC-funded companies don’t hire the number of employees they need , they hire the amount they can afford . For hyper growth companies, whatever brilliant spark created their trajectory will eventually be usurped by empire builders who wor
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by dasil003 4y ago
I wouldn't be so cocky about this. I agree with the value that software engineers bring, but you also have to look at the driving factors. Over the last 20 years, the web + smart phone revolution created an unprecedented opportunity
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by dasil003 4y ago
I agree, git made more sense to me after 6 months than svn did in the 5 years prior. The whole conflation of directories, branches and tags made svn an irredeemable monstrosity.
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by dasil003 4y ago
Your use of sarcasm is spot on though
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by dasil003 4y ago
What makes you think the person “responsible” did not make that point and Elon overruled them?
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by dasil003 4y ago
Do you mean working at Twitter now under Elon or historically? Because I’m not sure that Twitter has historically been more demanding.
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by dasil003 4y ago
What do you mean “whoever decided should be the first to go”? Musk decided. He’s pissed he overpaid and he thinks the whole company is a clusterfuck. This isn’t a “management failure”, it’s by design. Elon is cleaning house. Speed, not
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by dasil003 4y ago
This comment is a perfect microcosm of the title. Of course the issues you raise are real, and there is a whole constellation of systemic racism issues that specifically affect black people in a unique way. But when it comes to affirmative
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by dasil003 4y ago
> Should, but don't, is not doing their job. Most engineers don't have the luxury of using this defense their day to day job. Yeah, I should be doing testing, but I don't know. I should be writing clean code, but I don&#x
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by dasil003 4y ago
This looks like a serious agency, so I'm stuck on the question of why the free tier is so important to them versus simply paying for Heroku. Surely doing a mass migration to a new PaaS just to claim a small per-project savings is a du
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by dasil003 4y ago
Indeed! Every brilliant idea anyone ever posted online can now appear in ML-spew with all the context and wit stripped away.
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by dasil003 4y ago
You don't want to fuck around with inflation because at a certain point it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy (ie. merchants raise prices pre-emptively just because they internalize inflation at a high steady state).
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by dasil003 4y ago
This is exactly the type of novel analogy that ML can not produce because the words don’t tend to appear next to each other in any corpus.
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by dasil003 4y ago
This is an unconvincing straw man argument. Bad writing is just... bad writing. You can just as easily point to bad speaking and say people should talk more like they write. The fact is, speaking and writing are different, and even withi
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by dasil003 4y ago
I understand the sentiment, but this is just the inevitable result of "software eating the world" and huge demand for programmers. Rather than hand-wringing over all the clueless attitudes out there, count your blessings!
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by dasil003 4y ago
The original article is a classic because it paints a very vivid picture that is emotionally resonant with anyone who has dealt with the banality of corporate life. However it's important to remember that The Office characters trended
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by dasil003 4y ago
For driving or biking?
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by dasil003 4y ago
> students could then rapidly see what a decent essay or code body looks like. You mean like how today they study well-regarded human works? I’m not sure how the ML adds anything except which words tend to appear close to each other a
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by dasil003 4y ago
I love this framing. Own your impact. The best software engineers are relentless in their problem solving approach independent of outside judgement, and have some intrinsic drive to find good solutions (ie. even if it's just a day jo
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by dasil003 4y ago
> If the competitors never meet or agree on anything, is it still illegal? No idea how the laws were written, but the vast majority were conceived before modern big data systems were possible, and even today most regulators are unprepa
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by dasil003 4y ago
Well, first of all, in your example bridge building is not the only civil engineering discipline involved—traffic engineers absolutely would be involved in those other questions. More to the point though, software is not like a bridge. W
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by dasil003 4y ago
Right, because apart from the moon, all objects orbiting the earth are considerably smaller than the New York Metropolitan Area which would not be your understanding if you took the visualization to be a scale representation.
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by dasil003 4y ago
Because the competition becomes primarily about raising money and less about building a successful product or business. In that environment, being scrappy and doing more with less gets you crushed by overfunded competitors with slick decks
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by dasil003 4y ago
BS is a strong word. I would say it’s about bisecting the problem space and rebooting can address a lot of known and unknown states. Heck, just last week I got locked out of VPN on Mac OS due to not being up to date even though the system
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by dasil003 4y ago
This article raises some good points, but I disagree with the solution. Writing an official list of responsibilities will likely lead to hand-wringing tradeoffs any time a new ask comes in. This is not an efficient way to manage ones time
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by dasil003 4y ago
Or worse, other programmers are destroying the value of your code faster than you can create it because the underlying vision and principles beyond your chosen abstractions is not clearly communicated.

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