dkarl

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> The problem Perl and the like have to contend with is that they have to compete with Python. If a dependency needs to be installed to do something you have to convince me that whatever language and script is worthwhile to maintain over
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I think if they were testing my ability to work through misunderstandings in requirements, they would have been decently impressed that I got from "system for selling concert tickets" to "system for giving out random integers
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I think the "fake product" interview is a great format, but it can be done poorly if the setup is unrealistic. I've been on the receiving end of a couple of very bad attempts. In one, which I have described here before, an in
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You nailed it. Perl replaced awk and then turned out to be counterproductive in a lot of cases because there was no simple and broadly understood way for people to write Perl code that was 1) readable for other programmers and 2) scalable t
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I didn't have a particularly horrific childhood, but every chapter title would be about social struggles, anxiety, and depression. The positive stuff was random events, and the organizing themes were negative. Isn't that true for
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For hiring software engineers, something I read decades ago that has been a consistent indicator for me is Bjarne Stroustrop's observation that good programmers are almost always good writers in their native language. In my experience,
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> The main issue is that most of the tooling (in Git or GitHub or whatever) generally only shows the first line. So in the case of this commit example would be the very simple message of a generic "US-ASCII error" problem. This
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> I haven’t been able to bring myself to do it, due to trust issues related to handing over something like that Same here. Imagine the value of this data in the hands of insurance companies that are willing to misuse it. Will we, as a so
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Agreeing means the providing team understanding and meeting the needs of the consuming team. Teams that can work together to accomplish this wouldn't be called "silos." However, when two teams work together to create an API,
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Cicadas like that exist in different places around the world, including in the southern United States. They're a kind of regional mascot in Provence.
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Zwo is still common today, because it's the word for two in some German dialects. The military adopting zwo would be similar to the American military adopting "y'all," a word that's commonly used and universally und
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That's not true, and we'd get to a much, much worse place if we relied on that. The industry put the current system in place because it could see that airlines would make gruesome compromises if consumer choice was the only thing
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> very confusing on the product side of things (i.e. what is it and why does it matter to me) My initial thought was, this vision looks like what happens when a company realizes that their core product is less valuable than everything ad
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Programmers want to embed domain terms everywhere. They look at scientific code and expect to see variables names containing "gravity," "velocity," etc. Scientists need code to conform to the way they examine, solve, and
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> developers are going to favor building apartments over parking one hundreds times out of one hundred Once we have apartments with and without parking on the market, we'll see how much more people are willing to pay to get parking,
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A lot of things have sold me on the value of weight training for size and strength, but watching my parents decline physically has been the biggest. I don't think they understood how close they were to losing the ability to enjoy speci
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Sometimes there's a perverse dynamic where you have to know a technology extremely well to use it simply, and if you can't invest time in understanding it at an expert level, you have to use it in a much more complicated way. If y
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> A lack of actual (not assumed) alignment within teams and leadership around what a design system is, what problems it solves, and how it will provide value. Definitely. In a retro recently I heard, "We need a design system!"
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I remember nodded excitedly along with this when I first read it maybe twenty years ago, and less so now, so I decided to go into my mental time machine and see if I could remember what was so exciting about it. At the outset let me say tha
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Agreed, serial killers are rare, and it's likely that unsavory forms of discrimination will become commonplace. People will be eager to use genetic profiles aka "all available information" to "inform" all kinds of d
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See, my instinct when working with any other technology would be that if it's that complicated, then I'm not using it right, or I'm not using it for the right thing.
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> Especially considering that PII spills over into your relatives, making the PII leakage often out of your control This is the part that gets me. I have young nieces and could conceivably have children someday. Making my DNA public coul
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I'm very poor with CSS, nowhere near good enough to call myself "full-stack," but the work I've done is enough to convince me that merely centering anything goes against the grain of the web. If the premise of this art
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Counter-anecdote, I like that Spotify hasn't changed, and if it changed significantly tomorrow, it might prompt me to look at competitors and decide afresh which music service to use.
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I worked at a company in a market with similar purchasing dynamics, but we focused exclusively on the users. We committed to a "product-led growth strategy," which meant no salespeople. Product focused entirely on the user experie
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> But what if that drive simply isn't there? I'd argue there are always exceptions, people who have initiative and drive despite growing up in conditions that would not seem to foster them, and giving the exceptions a chance to
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The sizes are so different. It's like showing Earth from space and getting the Amazon River confused with a canal.
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> Once that threshold is jumped, things can move very quickly You can see the same dynamic in how scandals unfold in small towns. Everybody knows that married person X is having an affair with married person Y, everybody knows that every
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> Imprecise asks from managers and leaders cause a disproportionate amount of turmoil and wheel-spinning. To combat this, leaders should be very precise with the amount of time investment they’re asking for when they ask for things. The
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"The company has said in previous court filings that only a fraction of the game's players actually spend money." I was recruited by a sports gambling company and went as far as interviewing with them. I really enjoyed the in

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