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by debt 7y ago
Money side is like a mini-VC like ecosystem inside a large corp; people on the money side spend the money in whatever ways they need to maintain their little fiefdoms. Additionally, and with their new found power, they'll layer in a bu
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by debt 7y ago
RAND corp has a really interesting video on their website about how hyper-sonic intercontinental ballistic missiles brings the length of the OODA loop down to about 5 or so minutes which is a very short amount of time to make a decision to
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by debt 7y ago
Thank god. NPM is so crappy it desperately needs institutional support.
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by debt 7y ago
Catalyst is pretty weak. I think that's why Electron and RN are still more appealing.
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by debt 7y ago
Should add support and all the boilerplate for NSDocument and CoreData. That's a bit more robust DefaultApp. Love this though.
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by debt 7y ago
But it’s a career. Work defines a career. If a crappy PM wastes an engineer’s time by having them churn out useless product features, the PM is ruining their own career and the career of the engineers. It’s important to work on meaningful w
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by debt 7y ago
I don’t see why exceptions couldn’t be made for smaller businesses that obviously couldn’t afford to compensate for commute. But yes enormous, corporate conglomerates should pay.
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by debt 7y ago
The executive team can trim a few million off their annual bonuses so the very low number of workers that commute far distances can be compensated for that time sitting in the car. Alas they can but they won’t and they’ll fight you in court
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by debt 7y ago
This is actually a huge source of potential litigation. Lawsuits that easily end in settlement given CCPA, GDPR etc. He’s likely not just doing this for his blog. It’s akin to “Injured at work?” billboards.
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by debt 7y ago
I do this exact same thing except I prepend at the top of the file the days notes. Also the only consistent structure is the putting the date before each note.
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by debt 7y ago
I’m already here
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by debt 7y ago
Code is meant to be thrown away. Not to mention there exists industrial-strength automated code refactoring which will just get cheaper and smarter. So write code you can deploy today, monolith or micro serves, in the not-to-distant future
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by debt 7y ago
The xcodebuild command line tool is insanely powerful. The one provided by vanilla Xcode is awful.
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by debt 7y ago
Honestly, the biggest value Mint and all the Intuit products have is the import from X-bank/investment account/etc. I'd pay for the ability to import into a spreadsheet from my money accounts.
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by debt 7y ago
Normal Mailer once said he writes even if he doesn't want to because he was always able to write himself into a writing mood.
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by debt 7y ago
Cryptocurrency does not have anything close to widespread consumer adoption. If the Coinbase’s of the world don’t fix this, cryptocurrency will be massively devalued.
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by debt 7y ago
"...how often I run into things that are completely broken..." That's because the shotgun approach(sick 40 developers on a single problem idc how they dole out the workload) works well for most low stakes, non-safety-critical
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by debt 7y ago
"...would result in saving many human lives worth of time." Meh this is manager-speak for "saving human lives" which they definitely were not. They weren't saving anybody. I mean, there's argument that, in mode
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by debt 7y ago
Okay so you don’t live in China then I take it
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by debt 7y ago
There’s a lot of awful work that many software engineers simply don’t want to do and naturally the ones that do work the awful stuff do a pretty piss poor job because it’s hard work. So as long as there’s awful work, there will be a market
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by debt 7y ago
People that thought this way use to be referred to as a “hipster”.
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by debt 7y ago
“Aural platforms don't have this capability.” Using 3D sound, you could surface multiple things simultaneously to the user. For instance, a user could instantly recognize three beeps at varying loudness and location relative to themsel
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by debt 7y ago
Yeah Hollywood has been doing this for decades. It’s called timing. They let particular scripts sit on shelves for years until the culturally correct moment to have them be made. The same can be true for just about any industry, it’s just d
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by debt 7y ago
Also, I think this point might be missed to some young people, once you work on drone software that kills people or ICE software that detains people, you cannot reverse your contributions. That work will permanently be part of you and your
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by debt 7y ago
Apple TV without a doubt has the most poorly designed UI of any Apple product. There is so many problems with it it’s like they invented AppleTv+ solely to raise money to pay a team to basically entirely rewrite AppleTV. It’s hard to believ
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by debt 7y ago
Figure how to support it without being involved in actual deliverables. Or transfer to a new team/project. Or both.
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by debt 7y ago
I’m trying an experiment in my new role where I deliberately avoid these types of projects. They usually don’t deliver on time and are too stressful to work with. It’s not worth it both personally and from a career perspective. However if t
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by debt 7y ago
"it's unfortunately more about politics and luck than merit" To reiterate, software is not all about writing software. There's usually an immense amount of buy-in you'll need from other people, not limited to other
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by debt 7y ago
“organizational approval” Is the literal problem, which necessitated the pop-up. The Organization Does Not Approve™ It’s like asking someone if you can kick them in the knee before doing so. What do you think they’ll say? Y’all seem confuse
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by debt 7y ago
It’s sort of ridiculous to think any boss would approve this, which is why she did it the way she did it in the first place.

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