dlwj

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by dlwj 10y ago
Same, the people who are crazy about react are often the people who never understood MVC originally, writing terrible apps in older frameworks like Backbone with jquery code shoved into the render() function and the model event system used
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by dlwj 10y ago
Using Kim Malone's radical candor framework http://www.kimmalonescott.com/ The preferred quadrants are: Radical Candor > Obnoxious Aggression > Ruinous Empathy > Manipulative Insincerity The "defaults&quo
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by dlwj 10y ago
Somewhat related, there's a very good post here: http://lesswrong.com/lw/l8/conjuring_an_evolution_to_serve_y... It's about the unintended side effects of trying to be a 'Natural Selector'. One
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by dlwj 10y ago
"I came, things got better, I left, things got worse. What do you think that says about me?" Whether it's an engineer, or a manager, or C-level executive, this is very easy to achieve by borrowing from the future. Very diffic
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by dlwj 10y ago
This article is mostly about scheduling, but a bigger issues is actually amount of actual work. (Ignoring cases where amount of perceived work is important like in Japan) A “reasonable” amount of work basically always comes down to what som
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by dlwj 10y ago
There's an interesting series of tweets here: http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=78cbbb7f2882629a5157fa59... It outlines a model of "supernova" companies. Companies that initially earmark such a large market
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by dlwj 10y ago
IMO React is popular because it forces people to understand MVC. I've actually never seen a Backbone app where views render based on the model. It's too easy to just ram in jQuery in the render function. A lot of new frameworks ju
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by dlwj 11y ago
Employees these days have a paradoxical role to fill. On one hand, the value in an employee is the ability to solve a problem. On the other hand, they have to market themselves as passionate people. The only way to do so is to exclaim inter
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by dlwj 11y ago
IMO there is a limited market for mature ideas that is often much smaller than the previous prediction. When startups start meeting this boundary, instead of reigning in expectations and become an efficient tool serving a small market, it&#
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by dlwj 11y ago
One of the theories I have is that the best jobs in the U.S. require you to be culturally american. The U.S is great in that it is far more meritocratic than other countries but at the highest levels you still need to be culturally american
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by dlwj 12y ago
Justified inequality is good as long as it filters out high quality from low quality. The genius should be compensated more than the low-life. Systems that classify human potential at birth though are rather unfair and amount to nepotism. T
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by dlwj 12y ago
I don't really agree on the hard-wiring. I do think programming is more of a mind based pursuit rather than a socially based pursuit though. "Autistic" tendencies are for the most part due to lack of experience or disinterest
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by dlwj 12y ago
I think the advantages and disadvantages are minor compared to other influences. Many poor immigrants for example speak 2 languages. Yet rich well travelled people also speak 2 languages. This debate is only possible in the U.S. ... the maj
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by dlwj 12y ago
Each social subgroup or culture maintains its identity through shared cultivated interest in some areas, and cultivated disinterest in others. The degree to which this interest or disinterest is realized is determined by how much an individ
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by dlwj 12y ago
The thing I didn't realize about the hiring process before going through it a couple times is that it's not an inherently evil process or system. It's just that no one knows what the hell they are doing. It's Hanlon&#x27
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by dlwj 12y ago
Imagine you need to cross a tightrope to do something amazing and everyone is afraid of heights. Some forms of criticism are useful but yelling out "Hey, it's 2300 meters to the bottom, be careful!" is not very useful. People
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by dlwj 12y ago
First time I've actually sort of understood eigenvectors. Linear algebra was actually the class that made me hate math, after years of loving it in secondary education. Not everyone has the benefit of a good teacher, and the tools that
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by dlwj 12y ago
Technology also allows 1 person to do the work of 10 creating a larger supply of unemployed people. Since right-to-live-well is tied to "productivity" and holding a job, technology in the abstract has also enabled this large pool
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by dlwj 12y ago
Here's what I personally see: Pencil on Paper vs Vector Pen Tool on Computer. The difference between these tools doesn't matter. Neither will teach you about the importance of proportion of characters bodies, or how the illusion o
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by dlwj 12y ago
If the results are saying "Self control when hungry is lowered." then I agree completely.
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by dlwj 12y ago
Java itself was once so popular that a completely unrelated programming language, javascript, had java in its name to ride the coat-tails of its popularity. The culture and behaviors that have grown up around it though make it easy for peop
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by dlwj 12y ago
I think Robert Pirsig's concepts of Static Quality and Dynamic quality are a more useful model to view culture. The world that is advocated here is pure dynamic quality, with nothing to latch onto and preserve static quality. "Goo
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by dlwj 12y ago
Would thinking of the fourier transform as breaking a signal down into basic elements (like atoms) and figuring out how much of each atom is in the signal? Each different value of "K" then is like using a Ph strip to measure appro
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by dlwj 12y ago
I agree with the below comments. These types of papers are always emphasizing rigor over actual experience. Many types of "100%" security fail because of this disconnect. Forced rotating passwords or long ones with required symbol
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by dlwj 12y ago
"The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal name" Once "art" becomes defined, it ceases to become art. The barista ceases to become important once a machine can replic