drewcoo

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by drewcoo 2y ago
If they're not asking more pointed questions about your tech as it is today, that suggests that you have very junior people in your hiring pipeline. [edit] Or at least those are the only people that make it to the stage of talking with
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> Newton’s apple fell from the tree for the same reason as water flows downwards For the sake of the narrative?
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by drewcoo 2y ago
I'm not sure I followed all that, but maybe check out the EFF: https://www.eff.org
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Yes! Unless you plan to go fast, you'll just keep getting slower and slower. And slow feedback is bad feedback. I see lots of people adding slow tests to already-slow test suites and thinking they're helping. They are not helping.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
My experience with my friends who had kids isn't like that at all. To a person, they spent many years trying to be "responsible adults" and then they feel they've given something up, they've missed something. They s
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by drewcoo 2y ago
There's no atheism allowed in 12 step programs . . .
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by drewcoo 2y ago
This atheist says the Song of Solomon is not at all boring.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Ubiquitous televisions and beer. Or smartphones and fentanyl in the 21st century.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Do you say that as someone who's been a janitor or is this only fantasy janitoring?
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by drewcoo 2y ago
If the EU is working on a time machine, Lotus Notes might be their next target!
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by drewcoo 2y ago
America? There are many Amish enclaves here. There is no "the" Amish country. I shop at an Amish grocery store. Lots of us "English" do. It's worth dealing with the curt, standoff-ish service for good food at reason
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Sure, and "beating Vegas" is about skill and following a system, too. /s
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> should inspire future whistleblowers I'd think his treatment might dissuade future whistle blowers.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Weinberg didn't say there was a correct answer. He wrote the questions back during the bad old days when a lot of shops tried to measure developer productivity in KLOCs. Understanding the context, something similar today might be &quo
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by drewcoo 2y ago
You just plan for things differently. The workers you mention are commodities, so it's easier to plan for them. My father needed to design assembly lines that were safe enough for tweaked out workers who may not have slept for days to
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> This type of post is practically a trope at this point No, but software engineers in aggregate have the memory and attention spans of goldfish. Relearning again is the new learning again.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
I think intentionally misunderstanding Weinberg is a people problem.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> warned me that it would be quite spicy and steered me to some somosas This means the clerk was suggesting samosas because they're not spicy.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> vote along party lines consistently to get the least evil choice, but that doesn’t make you less independent I don't see how the cause of partisanship determines whether it's "real" or "independent" partis
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> If one is consistently awful and the other meets the minimum threshold to be acceptable Then one is acceptable to you. Many of us don't feel that way. At all.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> correlation versus causation Well, polling can't give us causation. Nothing but ESP or really good guesses can do that.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> engineering is applied science for money I thought that was science, not engineering! Money determines the subjects researched, how they're researched, and the results, right?
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Getting <100% coverage means you have no idea what some of the code does when run in dumb, non-parallel mode. Thar be bugs! And those bugs are easier to find than the ones that might still exist if you have 100% coverage. No one ever any
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Playing a trombone usually does not mean playing microtones in tune. Imagine a greater-than-twelve-tone chromatic scale. Or go listen to some Harry Partch. Partch's compositions sound to me more like gamelan than someone noodling on a
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by drewcoo 2y ago
That's just silly. It's even sillier than claiming than Burroughs adding machines helped create today's software engineering jobs, given that the languages used are largely ALGOL derivatives. (Sorry, Lispers!)
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> Art is fundamentally a form of communication. AI “art” will never be genuine art until it’s produced by some genuine intelligent being. So recordings of whale songs are art? IFF whales are intelligent? And field recordings of factory e
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> as if to associate it with hate crime But she sees it as a hate crime. "It is antithetical to the life force that exists in all of us." Granted, she also thinks we can trick frogs into being boiled when all evidence is to the
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Is "self-described mentally ill author invites public scorn" a good reason to flag?
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by drewcoo 2y ago
The talk was entitled "Organization, Collective, Decision." "Hope without optimism" was his first topic, based on the book of the same name by Terry Eagleton. The grammar is distractingly bad in places and I'm not s
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Heroics are responses to crises. Why are there crises?

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