drewcoo

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by drewcoo 2y ago
Also a no hire, though. On a first date, people want to feel flattered, they don't want to feel they've been truth bombed.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
To be fair, the BS is probably a regular part of the job at that company, so it's a good way to signal that to the candidate.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
But Perl started this whole one package manager to bind us thing with CPAN.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
That was the web. Most of my view of the Internet in 1994 was not web-based. I used more Gopher, NNTP, and Archie-searching for stuff to FTP-download. I'd dial into my university and an amazing amount of text was available to me. If I
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> One thing that we have, these days, is the luxury of believing that we have a right to be happy in our jobs. That's one way to look at the common job requirement of "passion." Drink the Flavor Aid!
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Introvert/extrovert is a false dichotomy. https://www.simplypsychology.org/what-is-an-introverted-extr... Like horoscope signs, though, we all know ours and confirmation bias kicks in so the predicted behaviors start t
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Ideas are cheap, execution should be too? No.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> Startups ship more per person than big companies – everyone knows this. Startups can quickly change alignment to make the company work. They can throw more spaghetti at the wall to see when it's done. > But how do you retain th
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> This comes down to the old saying "everything is memorization at the end of the day". I certainly don't remember hearing that!
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by drewcoo 2y ago
how strange! for me it has always been whatever the highest paid person wanted: "Agile"
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Heaven forfend we should not throw baskets of money at LEGO and Disney! > I would have my doubts about the chemical composition of the blocks themselves The real ones don't have midi-chlorians either.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> who doesn't say Meijers and Krogers, despite neither having an S in their name Those aren't pluralizations with an s though. They're possessives with an apostrophe s. LEFOs is a pluralization. Like Kleenexes instead of &
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by drewcoo 2y ago
I've never heard of nudges being "the implicit elimination of certain choices" before. I usually talk about nudges in Michael Lopp's terms, the Jedi Mind Trick in this post on his Rands in Repose blog: https:/&#x2F
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> we should have simply started counting centuries from zero Latin, like Lua, is 1-indexed.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
I would say that stateful stuff is better covered by model-based testing. Feel free to mix test styles - it's your code!
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> I’m starting to wonder if post war America was this unique time in history It certainly was re: journalism. When we only had the big three TV networks vying for our eyeballs, they each used news as a way to attract the broadest set of
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by drewcoo 2y ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42749089 Knife crime isn't a joke.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
HN title is misleading.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
So Fermi problems are considered brain-teasers? We considered those especially useful for PMs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Some other fad toys that persist: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hula-hoop-patent... https://www.si.edu/spotlight/yo-yo https://time.com/3667058/frisbee-history&#
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Sorta. That timeline even says it wasn't "Rubik's Cube" until 1980. So that's 46 years.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> john deere isn't known for being cheap Just non-repairable.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> Imagine you already live in aplace like Illinois, > decide to cut 600 whole people in Illinois Do you think all the Deere employees live across the Mississippi in East Dubuque, IL? Not likely. Dubuque is in Iowa. Iowa thanks you for
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Yes, the engineering part is where the applied science meets business. It's not just a "better" job title.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Teaching in those "hard" contexts doesn't seem more difficult than mentoring/managing multiple junior engineers, possibly of several skill levels. Actually, teaching tabula rasa students might well be easier than teachin
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Can the BBC make questions less stupid?
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by drewcoo 2y ago
I've never seen that but I've heard the claim before. So . . . is the team of devs who spent years writing and maintaining those tests incompetent or is it the new dev with the complaint? If it was the whole team, how did that hap
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Tests don't find bugs. They find things a developer needs to investigate. Most tests I've seen aren't aids to diagnosability, so if there is a bug, the developer is still needed to find it. > tests are written too early, u
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> Cash is cumbersome and annoying. So is freedom. Tech that robs us of freedom offers ease of use or extra "free as in beer" services.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
It's also the British billion which is larger than the American billion.

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