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by dgreensp 8y ago
There are plenty of times in the day or night where we may be "thinking" about things but not attending to our thoughts very much or at all, such as while dreaming or zoning out while driving. Actually, driving itself is a great
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by dgreensp 8y ago
This is my experience as well. Product progress is prioritized over code quality, and the ultimate cost to velocity is real but often unacknowledged. Bugs go unfixed because they are very hard to fix, and this high cost is taken for grant
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by dgreensp 8y ago
Conceptual or semantic compression , yes, as the rest of that section makes clear. The very problem with deduplication without abstraction is not thinking at the conceptual level, only at the literal code level. There are lots of ways
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by dgreensp 8y ago
This comment is more insightful than the original post. The real problem is when engineers abhor duplication, and in order to reuse existing code, they simply call the same code from multiple places without thinking through the basis for th
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by dgreensp 8y ago
> People whose jobs were mundane/mindless/entry level, people whose jobs involved multitasking across a lot of things, and people whose jobs involved constant interruptions This is a great description of being a software engine
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by dgreensp 8y ago
The complexity, reliability, and user-friendliness (or technician-friendliness) of the kinds of software components you need to plug together to make a software solution are more like that of a space shuttle or fighter jet than, say, a car,
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by dgreensp 8y ago
A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll The dialogues are supposed to be whimsical and bizarre dream-like riffs on the topic at hand, a la Alice in Wonderland, not sharp teaching instruments. I think Hofs
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by dgreensp 8y ago
If you don’t prejudge everyone as lacking virtue, you have no reason to insincerely tell them they are virtuous to try to make them more virtuous. If you want to do some good in the world, sincerely appreciate the good in people and help th
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by dgreensp 8y ago
Anything can be an investment. There are laws about gift cards and equity. Cryptocurrency systems are so technically complex and overloaded with ideals, uses, and philosophies that they can be simultaneously nothing like and everything li
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by dgreensp 8y ago
It’s not a vulnerability in Firebase, setting aside the question of whether it’s a Firebase “problem” (ie how the blame is divided). How is it true that apps using Firebase “rarely” secure it properly, if only 10% of apps using Firebase a
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by dgreensp 8y ago
So basically, if you want to raise money by selling gift cards for a product that doesn’t exist to speculators who will trade them, make sure you describe it in terms of some inscrutable crypto protocol network thing that doesn’t map neatly
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by dgreensp 8y ago
Threads were overprescribed in the 90s. I’m pretty sure the original example code for drawing an image in Java involved typing “new Thread” so that the image could be loaded over the network in the background. Truly the way to write apps
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by dgreensp 8y ago
I think the article is helpful for a family in such a situation who might not otherwise think of, say, folding the laundry while hanging out with the kids and being receptive to offers of help, with the idea that down the line the kids coul
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by dgreensp 8y ago
I don’t think the article is saying there is anything magic about culture, just about doing chores around and with your toddlers (I have toddlers). It doesn’t take much money to park your kid in front of a TV or a cheap tablet. If anythin
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by dgreensp 8y ago
The biggest thing that interests me about Haxe is it is rare to find a high-level language with a sophisticated static type system and familiar syntax. This is why TypeScript is so much beloved, but Haxe has some awesome features TypeScrip
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by dgreensp 8y ago
Haha! Ryan may not have been the best person to design a novel package manager, and while he has some insight into his mistakes the first time around, he still may not be. Neither am I; call me if you need a compiler or a GUI. Everybody
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by dgreensp 8y ago
I’ve come across a couple true extraverts recently, and it has reinforced the idea that there are introverted and extraverted personality types. Previously, I don’t think I fully believed that anyone felt recharged rather than drained bein
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by dgreensp 8y ago
Scrum recognizes no titles for Development Team members, regardless of the work being performed by the person; Scrum recognizes no sub-teams in the Development Team, regardless of domains that need to be addressed like testing, architect
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by dgreensp 8y ago
Does Scrum itself empower individual members of the development team? Saying it’s on the developers not to be “mindless drones” and the managers to not be “bad managers” may be true but doesn’t really refute the article’s point. Maybe you
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by dgreensp 8y ago
Having worked at primarily at “informally agile” software companies in Silicon Valley (and I count Google as one), I see an important bit of truth in the article that Scrum ideas have become the embodiment of agile, and ideas from Scrum tha
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by dgreensp 8y ago
I have young kids. If violin lessons are apparently so expensive as to require you to be a millionaire (not merely, say, a six-figure-earner), what is a class or event I can go to to see all the poor, obese kids that I haven’t come across
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by dgreensp 8y ago
“As of 2016, it took $1.2 million in net worth to make it into the 9.9 percent; $2.4 million to reach the group’s median; and $10 million to get into the top 0.9 percent.”
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by dgreensp 8y ago
Wait, so 10% of the county is millionaires (more or less, if 9.9% are 1.2-millionaires), and these people have such “good family, good health, and good jobs” that they might as well be a different species? If I tell you how “good” someone’
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by dgreensp 8y ago
I would argue bad management is pretty easy spot if you have any reference point for good management; you don’t even have to be a manager. Sit down with a few employees and ask them a few questions. The effects of bad management are every
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by dgreensp 8y ago
Your brain may be telling you that you need to shift your point of view and focus your energy on different activities, but you may not be clear on what those activities are, or feel like doing them. Have you launched a product before? Do y
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by dgreensp 8y ago
Yes, the point is to not box them.
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Personally, I find TypeScript to be a joy. I am a team of one right now, but at the last company I worked for, we migrated the codebase to TypeScript, and it was a fair amount of work to migrate the existing code (especially since we had p
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by dgreensp 8y ago
I disagree. TypeScript is JavaScript plus type annotations. A team can move from JavaScript to TypeScript and see easy wins with little friction (barring my personal pet peeve, the difficulty of applying types to idiomatic React). I thin
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by dgreensp 8y ago
Innovating on the TBMs is definitely part of it; I don't know why you are concluding from a picture that it isn't? Boring smaller tunnels is also part of it. You can read more here: https://www.boringcompany.com/f
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by dgreensp 8y ago
According to Elon, conventional tunneling costs "as much as $1 billion per mile," which is the biggest reason we don't have more tunnels.

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