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by drewcoo 2y ago
> But what do we get if we take Conway’s law, and flip it on its head? What happens if we design a codebase first, then base the organizational structure around it? Given that humans have agency and codebases do not, we eventually end up
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by drewcoo 2y ago
The article is not about teaching at all despite the title. The closest it comes to pedagogy is claiming (without evidence) that BASIC is how computers work instead of those other languages with useful abstractions. > BASIC lacks some un
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Prison in your country sounds quite pleasant!
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Thus was Ned Ludd finally laid to rest, his name taken up by helicopter parents who chose to battle against screen time instead of autism-inducing vaccines or power lines.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> Nevertheless, the revolutionary economics of FOSS are based on collaboration, and are incompatible with competition. FOSS seems to mostly be about copying existing non-free work in some legal way. It only exists because it copies its
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Good point. Wisconsin is known to drive people to drink. https://wisconsinwatch.org/2023/03/do-wisconsin-residents-re...
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by drewcoo 2y ago
It's political. This is Deere doing conservative virtue signaling at a time when politics is on every American's mind. Deere's customers tend to be very conservative so that makes sense. No idea about Microsoft. It's a m
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> My leadership team is encouraging me to work more hours to finish things faster, but then also says they don't want me to burn out. Well you can't do both. What do they really want? If they can't tell you without contrad
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by drewcoo 2y ago
The idea was to not use direct measures of time to estimate because someone above you will start assuming those estimates are promises and then life gets unpleasant. Story points, much as I personally dislike them, were invented for develop
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by drewcoo 2y ago
If you're measuring foo/time, then foo is probably not time. Unless you're measuring some kind of acceleration. Charts are supposed to be pretty and reassuring and go up and to the right. That keeps the managers happy!
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by drewcoo 2y ago
To further correct that article snippet . . . Dragon Quest did not have Wizardry-like dungeon crawling. It had Ultima-like dungeon crawling. Ultima III had top-down tiled dungeons in '83.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
American society agrees that we cannot fix any of the problems of capitalism. They must be ignored like daddy's drinking. We can vilify tech, though, as business's proxy. And AI makes a wonderful target. It sounds even more sinist
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> I hesitate to say they have anything in common. Bash and Powerpoint both seem approachable at first. It's easy to get started and have something to show for your time. Both also completely suck at anything complicated.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> I bet most customers would be frightened if they knew exactly how cavalier most startups truly are. I think it's more about being able to push liability for a service onto a vendor (the startup) and less about making sure the vend
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Software today might be more like cars in the 1950s. Every year, cars needed to feature new, useless styling to be attractive to buyers. Cars were often replaced annually so that the neighbors could see your taller fins and space-age stylin
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> It seems that the article is trying to intentionally mislead its readers to think that those 130M adults don't possess literacy skill in any language that they use, while the underlying study only looks at literacy skill in Englis
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by drewcoo 2y ago
https://openai.com/about/ > Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. How does God feel about lying? Maybe OpenAI prays to other gods.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Presumably one does not quit unless one is disgruntled. These things are not mutually exclusive.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
There is no contradiction in that. I'd like to see the quants that are using ChatGPT for HFT. Apples and oranges.
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> final, penultimate Final (or "ultimate") is what comes after penultimate. We're just in the swing of history toward monolithic power. We'll likely swing anti-trust-ward soon. No idea what this has to do with a singu
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Notably missing from the clues is "a famous quote from Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli." Or I'm just old.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
There is projection and there is also reverse projection. This seems like the latter. I wonder how many slave owners said "look, I can't leave this plantation either"?
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Notepad for the longest time was just a lightweight app wrapped around a standard edit control. The same edit controls anyone could use in their applications. Notepad was almost killed years ago, but shell dev/guru RaymondC[1] adopted
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Can someone be prosecuted for ripping book club sections out of the backs of books before giving the books away? Asking "for a friend." I really feel I'm doing a service to the people receiving the books and anyone they hand
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Even the silliest argument against becoming a historical district is a wonderful argument. I live in a historic district and am not allowed to do things that would help preserve the house or even to change it back to its original state (unl
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by drewcoo 2y ago
I've been on both ends of successful hiring via "Who's Hiring?" more than once. It seemed like CraigsList was really useful back in the mid-aughts, then HN lists started to dominate the "interesting jobs without BS
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> In 1942, atom bombs didn't work at all. Does that mean nobody on the Manahattan Project cared? In 1942 the a-bomb didn't exist. It wasn't an overhyped, extant bomb that gave wrong responses! Straw man. Straw bomb?
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> hypothesii hypotheses Are the psych studies really any different from all the "cleverly contrary to mainstream belief" software stories that land here? I assumed they were all HN-flavored clickbait.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> Then it's a straight-up hazing question. Hazing is an initiation rite. This is a barrier to entry. They turned away anyone who wasn't deemed humble enough. They were assholes but that's not hazing.
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> You'd definitely hire programmers with the same sense of humor I suppose. There are many ways to structure interviewers to hire clones of yourself.

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