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by diatone 2y ago
Apples to oranges. Card networks have more than three stakeholders to work with per transaction, apply fees indiscriminately from milk to digital music subscriptions, and operate at truly staggering volumes.
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (2002)(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by diatone 2y ago|0 comments
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by diatone 2y ago
I’ve certainly had off days reviewing someone’s work and only realised certain feedback later. If I happened to surface that in a meeting with others, and got labeled a sociopath for it, I’d be concerned for sure. I can’t speak to your pers
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by diatone 2y ago
Great book recommendation that covers this topic and many more like it: Turn the Ship Around, by David Marquet. Highly influential for me when I started managing (and remains highly influential!) https://davidmarquet.com/tur
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by diatone 2y ago
Be careful not to burn bridges so quickly. This isn’t particularly helpful advice in domains where unknown unknowns really do appear. Not everything can be surfaced at design time. Having said that, design time is the perfect time to align
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by diatone 2y ago
Yep delegation works. It works especially well when it’s matched to the scope the person is capable of exercising competently at, and when the boundaries and context of delegation is crystal clear. I’ve seen mismatches on both sides fail -
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by diatone 2y ago
Agree, there are pointer-centric patterns of computer use. Usually visual things: art, design, some CAD, marketing, and of course the GUI patterns of personal computer use that most people have been taught
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by diatone 2y ago
Oh and on one more thing I hadn’t addressed. I’ve seen teams try to “swarm” on a problem, with varying levels of success. It’s easy to be cynical and draw allegories to storming a trench. If we just all run together, maybe one of us will ma
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by diatone 2y ago
It really depends on the person. And people change too! I’ve seen scenarios where someone will refuse to collaborate tightly (eg: pair programming), but also be surprisingly slow at getting around the tools and getting code out the door. Or
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by diatone 2y ago
It’s not enough for the method to be possible, it has to be economical. If it’s not prevalent yet it means one of two things: (1) cheaper methods work too well for now to even bother with sophisticated approaches (2) it’s too expensive to b
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by diatone 2y ago
People do it because they like to, for reasons entirely up to them. Maybe they find it interesting. Maybe it’s therapeutic. Maybe it gives them a social opportunity. Maybe it’s fun to push your own limits, for its own sake. None of that is
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by diatone 2y ago
A high rate of customer acquisition isn’t the same thing as a network effect. OpenAI has some network effects baked into its product suite, but it’s not even in the same league as Microsoft’s bundling strategy (setting aside Google for a mo
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by diatone 3y ago
This is a great insight, the idea that management has to look at leading indicators for the org itself. Makes me think that beyond line management, a manger’s job is to behave as an investor and steward of the org, instead of getting involv
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by diatone 3y ago
I’m not sure you can characterise all software with such a sweeping generalisation. There are plenty of use cases outside commerce - outside optimising distribution and trade of goods and services - which software contributes to immensely.
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by diatone 3y ago
If you haven’t already, and I know this doesn’t hold up for GUI emacs or vim, but consider running them through https://mosh.org/
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by diatone 3y ago
Check out TigerBeetle!
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by diatone 3y ago
It’s intentional, to distinguish between known unknowns and unknown unknowns.
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by diatone 3y ago
I'm not sure it's fair to say that the industry has added overhead versus the 90s. Unless you're talking about gamedev, which I can't comment about. But it's hard to say that tech in general is slower moving as an
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Private Chat and DMs Are Good(v5.chriskrycho.com)
2 points by diatone 3y ago|0 comments
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Managing Up(reforge.com)
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by diatone 3y ago
Yeah it’s bizarre; if someone’s going to get an LLM to ghostwrite their reply (not saying this is the case here but my internal ChatGPT alarm also went off reading this), will they use it for replying in the thread? Will they fact check the
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by diatone 3y ago
Frequency distribution I think - normal, not uniform.
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by diatone 3y ago
Worth pointing out, we live better lives not just from the technological breakthroughs, but also from the social movements that have brought us things like the 40-hour work week and keeping children from labour for a reasonable time. Which
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by diatone 3y ago
This is an interesting position to take. I’ve been back and forth with my N+1 about the utility of sync vs async comms to lead, and I can never nail down a result I’m happy with. Like, sync comms is effective for ladder climbing as you say.
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by diatone 3y ago
> Pictures are worth a thousand words but if you don't know which words you want to communicate your picture is worthless. Something many artists eventually learn, what is it you actually want to say? If I had a dollar for every tim
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by diatone 3y ago
As someone who grew up in the area (mid 20s atm), there is a well known phrase amongst locals (at least my mates), the "Brighton Bubble." Also yes you're spot on about keeping ties through all levels of education, at least in
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by diatone 3y ago
Can anyone weigh in on the state of the JS / TS ecosystem for linear algebra and matrix operations, and how that stacks up against the Python ecosystem?
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by diatone 3y ago
Is this just a difference of perspective? Seems like GP's point was that software has latent value, and differentiation, and the act of selling is commodifiable. Your point, correct me if I'm wrong, is that software is more the co
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by diatone 3y ago
> Running an LLM query through a GPU is very high latency: it may take, say, 5 seconds, with a throughput of 0.2 queries per second. Why?
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by diatone 3y ago
It would be great for someone with experience from the dot com bubble to weigh in here, to describe if similar dynamics occurred back then

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