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by dkarl 2y ago
I don't think the other poster was objecting to the excitement about this being a potentially important discovery, or criticizing the research or the researchers. They are objecting to the way the linked article presents it, specifical
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by dkarl 2y ago
There's a step left out, which is how they know that what happens in the BCO models also happens in real brains in developing fetuses. That might be context known from previous research, but it isn't explained in the linked articl
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by dkarl 2y ago
"There's no semantic reason my program isn't embarrassingly parallel but oh WTF are my libraries/frameworks doing? is it all a lie?" is apparently the pretty universal first experience trying to speed things up wi
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by dkarl 2y ago
None of those division heads were trying to honestly assess the microcomputer market. They were trying to stay in harmony with opinion at their level and higher in IBM. That's what you get at that level in a company that big. Anyone wh
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by dkarl 2y ago
When I was a kid, programming was something I did to screw around and procrastinate my real studies. I saw it as one or two steps up from video games or crossword puzzles on the spectrum from "waste of time" to "valuable self
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by dkarl 2y ago
They would probably think you handled programming for a local movie theater, arts organization, performance venue, or something like that. But my guess is they would find it an odd way to say it.
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by dkarl 2y ago
When people are used to virtually everything waiting on multiple round-trips over cellular connections, there's no point in optimizing local performance. An extra hundred milliseconds of lag in the UI gets attributed to the slowness of
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by dkarl 2y ago
Reminds me of a conversation I had with a project manager. To match the example, I'll recast it in terms of deadlines. Project manager: Sam is working on a deadline validator. You made a deadline validator last sprint right? Could Sam
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by dkarl 2y ago
> A possible consequence of one's first programming language could in fact be not a tainting by its methods, but, on the contrary, a persistent hatred for anything of its kind Java was not my first programming language, but it was t
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by dkarl 2y ago
Spot on. Part of it is wanting errors-as-values without knowing what that is (which is good and contains a kernel of real insight), and part of it is assuming that error handling can be a negligible fraction of the work (which is the opposi
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by dkarl 2y ago
> However, as data from that external feed was unavailable, the price of the value of the Index instead defaulted to -1 To me, this reeks of a couple of bad experiences I had repeatedly as a back end developer coordinating with the front
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by dkarl 2y ago
> You don't normally want to write "clever" code - you want to write easy to understand straightforward code I think what the parent comment is getting at is the relative nature of "clever" and "straightforw
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by dkarl 2y ago
The hook of the article leaves unanswered the question of why Steve Jobs made a big deal out of the backs of cabinets. The answer is that Steve Jobs knew how to sell luxury items to people who identified themselves with the quality of the
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by dkarl 2y ago
> It's a similar feeling I get when I observe the vast array of notetaking apps I see made and think here is a place where it would be better to pick one FOSS solution and contribute. I feel the opposite -- I use a commercial note-t
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by dkarl 2y ago
To me, it feels like a nerd minstrel show, like, "Oh, that's how they see us."
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by dkarl 3y ago
I often think about their Senior Engineer video before interviews. I simultaneously aspire to match that character's ancient wisdom and am terrified that I might accidentally resemble him personally.
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by dkarl 3y ago
Exactly, there is SO much cool stuff in biology that was already known 50+ years ago, even 100+ years ago, and when you're first learning biology, it's all new and fascinating. Unless you don't click with it! And then nothing
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by dkarl 3y ago
> I don’t really like the idea of blaming others for one’s lack of curiosity about a subject. There are a lot of factors that determine how receptive we are to learning something - current interests, life experience, how developed our br
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by dkarl 3y ago
I strongly buy the premise of this article, and it goes beyond people who try to fly under the radar and blend in because of toxic politics. Even in companies without toxic politics, a lot of managers subconsciously overestimate the abiliti
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by dkarl 3y ago
And sometimes people who really are extremely good at their jobs forget that how good they are has a large element of luck in it, in addition to the work they put in.
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by dkarl 3y ago
Many people have a sense that they could perform much better, given the right opportunities, the right environment, etc. In software development, the thoughts might be: if only the requirements didn't change, if only the codebase was m
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by dkarl 3y ago
> This entire article has dog in burning house vibes, but I can’t tell if it was intentional or not. I’ll give them credit for being a good sport about it at any rate. Yeah, I appreciate the honesty. I think it's just a straightforw
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by dkarl 3y ago
We had an internal tool that was written as a quick hack by a rogue developer but then became crucial for our operations. It was starting to show some rough edges and some performance limitations, so a big project was planned to replace it,
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by dkarl 3y ago
Weighing down the leaves is one possibility, but is it also possible that water adhering to surfaces was creating reflections and providing alternative paths for the signal? I don't know if such a thing could happen at that frequency,
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by dkarl 3y ago
Nobody should bring just ideas. Ideally a non-technical founder would bring whatever skills are required to guide the evolution of the idea. Engineers like to assume product-led growth guided by data, where the external human factors that d
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by dkarl 3y ago
I would love to see a movie where aliens show up to help us with the looming crisis that is about to destroy our civilization, and it's CSS.
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by dkarl 3y ago
Check out Peace on Earth by Stanislaw Lem.
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If?
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by dkarl 3y ago
> If I could just "start" things on command, I wouldn't need any of these special techniques in the first place For me, it's the opposite. This is one of my favorite things about doing pomodoros. I hate to be the tact
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by dkarl 3y ago
> awk v gawk doesn’t make me want o to relive those days That's a fair point. I always explicitly write my scripts to invoke gawk so that I don't accidentally invoke a different version.

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