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by dimal 4y ago
I agree. I was an English major. Luckily, I had one teacher who taught us how to really read the base text and extract as much meaning from that as you could, without extrapolating at all. It turned out that there was an enormous amount of
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by dimal 4y ago
Empathy. Our team already had a great culture of empathy and mutual respect. People just tried to see things from other's POV, or if they couldn't, they'd at least be respectful. To behave differently would have just seemed w
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by dimal 4y ago
I worked at one company where (at least within our team of about 40) our process was legitimately good. There was a genuine back and forth discussion and good ideas tended to float to the top. Then we got acquired and things steadily change
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by dimal 4y ago
Making sure that the top-level classes of components are unique isn't difficult. Making sure the inner classes are unique (yet still follow a consistent naming convention) is only possible with a methodology like BEM, which is clunky.
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by dimal 4y ago
> In iOS and iPadOS 16.4 beta 1, third-party browsers can now offer their users the ability to add websites and web apps to the Home Screen from the Share menu. If it's available for webkit-based third-party browsers now, it seems l
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by dimal 4y ago
Oh wow. I pay $140/year and can't get customer support when they mess up? I guess I'll be canceling.
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by dimal 4y ago
Which is almost always known at the time of estimation, in my experience. In the cases where it's not, then ok, points could make sense, but only as an interim step towards getting to a real time estimate once you know who is doing it.
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by dimal 4y ago
> Senior says task will take one day. Junior says it will take 3 days. What do you put into estimate? Who is doing the work? The senior? One day. The junior? Three days. The estimate should always be done by the person doing the work. Th
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by dimal 4y ago
I’ve never understood story points either. Somehow, the argument goes that if you take a process that involves an high level of uncertainty, and you replace clearly defined units of work (time) with vaguely defined units of work (points), t
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by dimal 4y ago
But it allows a fully functional style, and so you can do railway oriented programming[0], where every function has a success and failure route. The top level code looks the same as that without error handling. [0] https://fsharp
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by dimal 4y ago
It was the period when people started building real companies that created real value and made money instead of bullshit pump and dump IPO schemes. Some of the talented people being laid off right now could create the next wave of innovatio
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by dimal 4y ago
Inflation is dropping like a rock, but it takes a while to fully show itself in the official numbers because it's measured year-over-year. The supply chain crunch is over. We've gotten through huge interest rate increases and only
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by dimal 4y ago
I recently saw a headline that some economists' model showed a 100% certainty of a recession in 2023. Made me think, there's not going to be a recession. Economists have never been good at predicting anything.
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by dimal 4y ago
Gas is underneath the price of everything. And anecdotally, it seems to me like grocery prices have dropped a lot compared to 8-10 months ago. Back then, I remember over and over seeing the prices in the store and being dumbfounded. But now
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by dimal 4y ago
I’ve been thinking of creating a startup founded with the mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Since there isn’t any other company doing this, I think it could really take off.
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by dimal 4y ago
I noticed that the number of recruiter messages I get on LinkedIn was proportional to the number of replies I give to the messages in my inbox. When I'm active, I get more interest. Like, going from 0-1 new recruiter messages to 5-7 a
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by dimal 4y ago
I’ve been reading “Notes on the Synthesis of Form” recently after seeing it mentioned in an Alan Kay talk. I had never heard of it before. Such an incredible book. Such an elegant argument showing how tightly coupled systems are inherently
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by dimal 4y ago
Depends how you measure “big”, right? In the social media market, not so big. In the microblogging market, they are what… 95% of the market? I honestly don’t know what a judge would say, but that’s a one way of looking at it.
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by dimal 4y ago
How much of those shortages are simply from the supply chain crunch? I keep reading how that is easing.
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by dimal 4y ago
I think when dealing with chronic issues, it might be better to optimize for luck. [0] A little ridiculousness like homeopathy might be worth it to find the thing that actually works. [0] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts&#x2F
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by dimal 4y ago
Are all doctors working these hours? I thought these were the hours for residency, not the average general practitioner or specialist working outside of a hospital. If they’re working 15 hours a day, why are they only open 8?
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by dimal 4y ago
Maybe you don’t want creativity in the ICU, but as a patient with chronic health issues, I do want creative clinicians. Over and over my entire life, I’ve gone to doctors with health issuesand watched as they mentally plug my symptoms into
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by dimal 4y ago
24% decrease in transmission, decreasing by 6% every 5 weeks after that.[0] So, not nothing, but it doesn't come close to stopping transmission. Personally, I'm vaccinated. That's based on my own risk calculation. But forcing
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by dimal 4y ago
> Slow to hire, slow to fire is the only sustainable way to run a company. I disagree. Expanding the range of positives to decrease false negatives does not mean that the goal is "increase developer churn". Many startups seem t
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by dimal 4y ago
I'd guess it's the rotating globe canvas animation showing real-time stats.
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Looks nice. Can you explain what exactly "full stack" means in this case? I see "Auto live reloading using virtual DOM in development mode". But not production? So it's not doing any SPA-style client side DOM update
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by dimal 4y ago
It is possible to implement infinite scrolling and maintain the scrollbar height if you know the full number of results you’re going to scroll through and the height of each element (both of which are usually knowable). You simply set the s
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by dimal 4y ago
Maybe Thomas Edison was wrong. He was a tech and business guy, not an educator. He wasn't exactly a "people person".
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by dimal 4y ago
Absolutely. You start with nothing then you write magical words that DO things.
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A historical counterfactual I've often wondered about is, what would have happened if Timothy Leary didn't exist? Prior to psychedelics going counterculture, there was a lot of evidence that they could help with alcoholism and oth

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