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by diatone 1y ago
As a non American I’d love to hear about this, any leads I can explore?
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by diatone 1y ago
Schooling
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by diatone 1y ago
Yes definitely, it tends to autocomplete patterns that extend beyond basic intellisense. Also there are scenarios where wiring up exhaustive cases would be tedious or require clever use of a vim macro, that a call to AI tends to do in sligh
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by diatone 1y ago
Don’t think Catriona was commenting about whether or not it’s possible to make something great period. More that greatness doesn’t excuse not treating people like human beings
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by diatone 1y ago
The criticisms shared by GP are that MBTI is unscientific; ie: unclear or hard to disprove. There’s a funny irony that you’re using a rhetorical device, as opposed to a rigorous scientific methodology, to try and navigate that criticism.
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by diatone 1y ago
It’s a classic failure mode of the software engineer to decide to change something to be “faster,” before even checking to see if and when performance could become a problem. I personally bucket this skill under napkin math and it is extrem
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by diatone 2y ago
Given the volume of bots they tend to be remarkably good at detecting bots source: I work in a team that uses this kind of bot detection and yes, it works. And yes we do our best to keep false positives down
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by diatone 2y ago
Bingo, if the meeting is geared for openness but people aren’t open, now you’ve got conflict. Of course if people aren’t open you might run into trouble anyway but there’s a grey area there
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by diatone 2y ago
Ahh, it gets really interesting when you read code that does have named variables… and they’re misleading. A strength of functional idioms is that they expose the structure of the code in a way that a name - even a well chosen name - can on
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by diatone 2y ago
That’s odd, unlike the USA, Australia is in fact a country the size of a continent…
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by diatone 2y ago
Yep this reads like someone who tricked out their car, blows out the clutch because it has too much horsepower, then starts pining for the days when they didn’t need a double clutch. You never needed a double clutch! As an aside I’m surpris
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by diatone 2y ago
You’re not going to like this but: it’s a matter of perspective. You’re right and wrong at the same time. Call that classist if you want
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by diatone 2y ago
How long are these Q&A sessions, would you say the work of ICs getting blocked isn’t worth having the manager be able to eg: advocate for that work upwards?
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by diatone 2y ago
It depends!
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by diatone 2y ago
I’m sure you mean well but reading GP’s post I’m convinced that the laziest and least trustworthy language to use is actually, “you’re sloppy.” Good idea to think in systems and figure out how to lift the quality of the team but it’s okay t
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by diatone 2y ago
Not exactly a watertight metaphor as https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypochondriasis and anxiety exist, but I certainly agree that it’s possible to lie or mislead with statistics.
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by diatone 2y ago
It’s interesting in this example that the docs try to show that a for loop is useful, when there’s already an idiomatic approach here: ``` const result = items.map( i => i.length ? i.toUpperCase() : ‘<empty>’) ``` I think
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7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy(7powers.com)
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by diatone 2y ago
Hamilton Helmer describes a moat as "persistent differential returns." Or in other words, it's something that lets you keep making more money than your competition. There are many kinds of moats but they all end up giving you
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by diatone 2y ago
Not true; UX designers typically are responsible for advocating for a robust, intuitive experience for users. The fact that kernel updates don’t have a user interface doesn’t make them exempt from asking the simple question: how will this a
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by diatone 2y ago
To adjust an old joke about economics: “Two open source maintainers are walking along the street when one says: Look! A repo exposing an API allowing unprivileged deletion of users! The other replied: that vulnerability clearly cannot be re
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by diatone 2y ago
Good idea, generalising: it’s sampling mappings from arbitrary domains to a binary range (the message appears, the message does not appear). This gets more complicated when your range isn’t binary but the underlying intuition, to take an in
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by diatone 2y ago
> There is definitely value in endurance. Examples abound: whether history, religion, etc. This is spurious. What about history or religion shows that for profit companies should last a long time?
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by diatone 2y ago
Or they’re successfully excluding you from a target audience due to lack of fit, saving money. Everyone wins
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by diatone 2y ago
> I find it impossible to believe that some prefer the imperative loop/conditional nesting approach. Yeah, there’s your problem. This is in fact possible!
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by diatone 2y ago
Gamblers fallacy
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by diatone 2y ago
The irony here is that there are many domains using statistical methods, that bound the complexity and failure modes of statistical methods successfully. A lot of people struggle with statistics but in domains where the glove fits I think A
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by diatone 2y ago
Ehhh it’s a spectrum. First you innovate, then you commercialise. Even Google took a few years to successfully monetise and they weren’t the first mover in web search. LLMs have been around for, what, coming up on three years? Probably two
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by diatone 2y ago
Exactly right. I’m not against competitor analysis here. But let’s at least compare against a basket of structurally similar offerings instead of cherry picking companies whose rake happens to be an order of magnitude lower in percentage te
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by diatone 2y ago
My point, which hasn’t really been addressed, is that “more” isn’t a meaningful term when comparing card networks and software app stores, because the markets are structurally different.

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