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by dasil003 4y ago
The reason people distrust Web3 is because it's a VC-fueled gold rush. The vast majority of people involved are trying to get in early to position themselves where they can become an indispensable pillar of the future ecosystem. They
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by dasil003 4y ago
I found a lot of value in The Middle Passage by James Hollis.
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by dasil003 4y ago
Yeah that’s interesting. I hadn’t thought about it until now, but what they are looking for are people who “have grit”, which is very different from “being gritty”.
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by dasil003 4y ago
I dabbled with GTD in the late 00s/early 10s. This coincided with growing the team at my startup and generally needing to keep more balls in the air from a management perspective. I even used OmniFocus for a while. But as I moved in
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by dasil003 4y ago
Kudos to you for successfully delivering in a similar situation. That said, I think your advice is a bit cavalier. The industry is littered with the carcasses of failed rewrites. The fact that you have done it in one context does not mea
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by dasil003 4y ago
I’ve felt this way before. But is it the same as your feeling? Probably not exactly, but I bet we could connect on it at some level. Ultimately I’ve learned that it doesn’t serve me well either way to be too guarded or to expect a lot fro
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by dasil003 4y ago
For all the leverage the US has militarily, what control did it actually exert in Afghanistan? What about Russia in Ukraine? War and occupation is one thing, but I'm speaking more of the consent of the governed. Do you think the bil
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by dasil003 4y ago
Being made obsolete by technology is nothing new (see the Luddites). But regardless of how replaceable any individual is, we're still in a human society. Maximizing profits by laying off humans can work for a while, and systems can r
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by dasil003 4y ago
Sorry, is what the new rule of thumb? My comment did not mention anything about customers, so not sure where your straw man is coming from.
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by dasil003 4y ago
Minor contributions I made to Rails in 2007 led to being recruited as the first tech lead and eventual CTO for a nascent startup. There was no premeditation here though, it was just serendipity. I've found most big breaks in my life
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by dasil003 4y ago
I’m not sure why you think that 100% market freedom ought to be this audience’s primary index of importance. Many of us own or work for companies that will likely be negatively impacted by this. Antitrust has been systematically marginali
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by dasil003 4y ago
That's impressive, but on reflection it makes sense: these days we can buy almost anything we want with a couple taps of our phone, unless... our phone is broken.
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by dasil003 4y ago
You summed up my reaction to the article perfectly. Anyone working in a large company can easily point a half dozen problems off the top of their head. This is especially true of software engineers who are detail oriented by nature. Lots
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by dasil003 4y ago
I agree that SQL is needlessly baroque. Not sure whether I agree that there are too many hoops for trivial things though. Leaving SQL ergonomics aside for the moment, isn't relational algebra something which does require one to thi
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by dasil003 4y ago
Agreed that SQL lends itself to spaghetti. However after working with it for 25 years both as a developer but also collaborating with analysts and data scientists, I have to say I appreciate its basic declarative nature and remarkable port
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by dasil003 4y ago
Sure it's annoying, but backward compatibility has a non-trivial cost. In terms of tech behemoths, Apple and Microsoft are on opposite ends of the spectrum. I think it's a pretty easy argument to make that Apple should do a litt
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by dasil003 4y ago
Absolutely. I'm not endorsing the decision, I'm just saying this is how things happen in the corporate world. It has nothing to do with embrace/extend strategy, and it's not a product of Microsoft acquisition per se, it
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by dasil003 4y ago
Nah, this take it just conflating unrelated historical talking points about Microsoft without regard to how specific things actually happen. A better question is: what incentive does Microsoft have to alienate its playerbase this way? The
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by dasil003 4y ago
So peloton is the most efficient and Peloton is the most inefficient?
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by dasil003 4y ago
As someone who's spent 25 years straddling the IC/EM line in companies of all sizes, I can tell you unequivocally that management—especially engineering management—is not easier. I think it's fair so say that gross incompet
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by dasil003 4y ago
If you want to lean into the novice feeling you could watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1RVNGDSdw4
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by dasil003 4y ago
I would say trust your instincts on this one. VC absolutely comes with strings attached, and those strings can easily lead to worse outcomes for both you and your customers. Of course VC has its place, and some things are better off target
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by dasil003 4y ago
Sure, but the danger is that they just tune based on return rate without any consideration of quality standards. Amazon has shown they are more than willing to mix merchant inventory and allow unlimited streams of counterfeit merchandise w
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by dasil003 4y ago
> Negotiate with my company and threaten to leave? Not fully sure of this. More alligend to leaving anyway as I find the excuses for location based pay pathetic. You should negotiate, but do so from a position of strength and leave emo
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by dasil003 4y ago
> The reality is that the market for good developers is so competitive that they could just walk out and find 10 other places with better answers to these questions. Sure, but will that be a better place to work? Ultimately there are m
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by dasil003 4y ago
Snark is too easy. What do you propose for tragedy of the commons scenarios like climate change?
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by dasil003 4y ago
What I’ve noticed over the decades is that performance on large teams is largely a function of systemic behaviors and culture. The larger the “team” (ie. everyone you have to interact with to get something built), the less any one individu
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by dasil003 4y ago
Depends on your criteria. If you are interested in the best solo developer it's probably true. But in software engineering the hardest part is working in teams. Building a large scale system too large to fit in anyone's head wh
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by dasil003 4y ago
Yeah, well I wouldn't have canceled by Dropbox subscription if they hadn't been so eager to turn it into some broad all-encompassing enterprise app. I get that they have an audience, and the stakeholders have every inventive to tr
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by dasil003 4y ago
> Hard, hard disagree. I hear tons of of discussion around recent shows like Squid Game, Bridgerton, Selling Sunset, The Witcher, and Money Heist. Saying that Netflix only has Stranger Things is kind of like saying Nintendo only has Mar

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