drewcoo

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by drewcoo 2y ago
> Mental hospitals and other rehab facilities impose rigid structures and schedules on the residents So do schools. So does the military. Those are structures of control. There are a variety of opinions pro and con on control and well-be
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Even if you're only doing reads, you'll be relying on interfaces that can change at any time with no notice. That's a kind of tech debt time bomb waiting to blow up your service and make a big pager party! If you're doin
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Construction involves a lot of changing technology.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
This "Founder Mode" seems more like "Victim Mode" looking for someone to blame.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
What a crock. Most startups fail. So they commonly get advice about how not to fail. Most of them still fail. That doesn't mean the advice was bad. Founders are gamblers and the odds suck. If founders weren't looking for someone t
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by drewcoo 2y ago
It used to be called "terminal services." By your reasoning, it's possibly "career down" for a PM to name their project "terminal."
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Bug was clearly part of the lexicon already. Otherwise no one would have written "First actual case of bug being found." And it wouldn't have been so funny. Pedant "debunking" obvious joke in a JSTOR article is pret
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> "Wait, how is this different from every other peach pie recipe that's ever been written? It seems really similar to another recipe I have." > That's not an unreasonable answer. Pies are not supposed to be unique.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> If you are selling something and you can't articulate what it is that you are selling, you are wasting your time That's not how advertising works, though. Ads want to communicate how the product will make you feel or be. Cars
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by drewcoo 2y ago
This is missing: 1a. Listicles Suck
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Or gods. Which are both like conspiracy theories and like drugs.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Sorry, but if "everything positive in my world is stuff that I can see, explain and influence" then that means that stranger on the Internet doesn't have any real friends. Anything you try to do beyond being that person'
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Middle-mad is better than all of this, then? I can only hope that someone can show me just the right middle-mad . . .
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by drewcoo 2y ago
. . . and the Spanish Inquisition. Our four greatest skills are . . .
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Does that mean Apple ][ and Commodore 64 software or does it mean PLATO, everything from Xerox PARC, and Lisp machines?
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Older workers haven't been paid well enough to retire. FTFY, WaPo. The root cause of the problem is not between the generations.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Outlier amateur detective wins are commendable, but also emblematic of a problem. Why aren't the real police revisiting these cases? Why are we arming them better and better against our own people instead of spending some money on actu
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by drewcoo 2y ago
That's almost (Terry Pratchett's) trollish counting. For trolls, it's quaternary to a point: one, two, three, many, many-one, many-two . . . many-many-many-three, lots
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> WTF is a police chief saying officers are doing that would be incriminating? What is anyone doing that might be incriminating? Both questions are equally invalid.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Well if I know how to do my job and I do it well, so must those recruiters, right? I'm sure the recruiters would agree. Conversely, if other people who think and are told they're doing their jobs well but we have evidence that the
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by drewcoo 2y ago
And most decisions of any kind are made emotionally, then explained with post hoc rationalizations. To magically seem logical and objective, you can withhold your decision until you've explained the rationalizations. Consider also the
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> I really don't care much about the code being written; I don't even care if it runs Great! Then you're not one of those interviewers with "the one true answer" in mind. > I care about how they're think
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by drewcoo 2y ago
RSVP is from French. I wish I could cleverly work in a "QED" here (from Latin) but it just doesn't fit.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Video by that guy. Again. Am I honestly the only one who wants to see a video of him getting punched in the face? He really needs to be punched in the face.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> we'd have scores of industries behind them Not if they have good lobbyists. In the US we still have beer ads on TV though tobacco commercials have been gone long enough to barely be remembered. https://www.youtube.com&#
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Sure, and confirmation bias says that's absolutely the best way to handle interviews!
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by drewcoo 2y ago
I think most famous actors also don't know anything about acting. Most of them in Hollywood are paid to look pretty on screen and have the acting range of a turnip.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
If you mean his tonsure, the style was known as "a monk."
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Those newspapers made most of their money through ads. Most of what people paid was their attention, not their money.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
The fossil record is prehistory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded_history

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