drewcoo

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by drewcoo 2y ago
At the top of the org there is often an inward-managing VP focused on execution reporting up to an outward-facing CTO who focuses on tech direction and relations with external parties. I'm not saying that has to happen. I'm just s
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> Leadership communicating to workers never seems to work out well Well the first problem is management calling themselves "leadership." Then there's communicating "to" instead of "with" a separate grou
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by drewcoo 2y ago
I don't think they're talking about Ruby code golf. Another way of stating the GP's comment is that a Rubyist looking at a Python codebase will be shocked at all of the verbose boilerplate. Ditto for a Pythonista looking at C
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Hiding complexity behind a simple interface is not clever. It's smart. It's also the facade design pattern. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facade_pattern
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Do you think it works that way in medicine or in public health? Medicine is reactive. It is individually-focused. Something goes wrong, so we visit the doctor. Public health is proactive but possibly based on bad predictions. It deals with
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by drewcoo 2y ago
There's an old saying: "a bad workman blames his tools."
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by drewcoo 2y ago
I prefer fast software to support slow, deliberative humans. Slow software "gets in the way" instead of "making life easier."
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> They contort themselves to redefine the word density, Not once does the term "word density" occur. They talk about Tufte's concept of "information density," though. Edward Tufte is really must-read for any desi
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Elite is a minority. I don't think minority means a group faces biases.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
So how do you convince companies that they should be responsible to their communities and the world at large instead of focusing on shareholder profits? Corporations are created by and controlled by governments. Maybe stricter laws and heig
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Those protesters are clearly being noticed. That is the intended effect.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> "Hertz Is Even Sending People To Jail That Never Rented Cars From Them" Well that's just good business for Hertz. Now there's no down-side to renting from them. Except for unsafe vehicles, of course.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Trying to get 10 people to agree which is the best chocolate ice cream is closer to the quality problem. I appreciate the scatological approach, though. And most of the time when I hear the word "quality," it's said in anger
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> 99% of Americans have never tortured anyone at all and don't ever want to A lot of movies seem like torture porn to me. I'm not so sure we the people are opposed to torture.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> Companies are out there straight up selling snake oil to them right now Well snake oil sells. And the margins are great!
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Cell phones mask the behavior now. I can never tell when someone walking toward me, talking to themselves, gesturing wildly, is a danger anymore.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
What about pirate activity? https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikaandersen/2012/03/23/true-f...
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Is the glass half full or half empty? Completely full but half air? Twice as much volume as needed? Is the correct half of the glass full? Is the glass even actually made of glass? So many questions!
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Not so sure about "lots of" corn. That seems like retconning. Yes, they grew corn, quash, and beans. They were also semi-nomadic and hunted. Until they were placed on reservations in Kansas and Nebraska, where they started raising
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> If you've ever driven through the Midwest, you already know you can drive hours through the landscape and see one thing: Corn fields Oh, yeah? I dare you! Even here in Iowa, there are plenty of soybean fields among the cornfields.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
That author: https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/heartsill-willia... The mention of Mr. Lynch a line or so earlier was another threat of violence on the prisoners. "Lynch" was still relatively ne
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by drewcoo 2y ago
I got so sick of having to explain what smoke tests were that I just don't use the term anymore. In software, they tend to happen at deploy time, whether to an internal environment or production. I just call them "deploy tests&quo
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Far too small and not enough blinkenlights for 1950s SF.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> you'd expect the market to deal with it how it normally does I expect it to work just like it did with human health care. People happened before pets. https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/burge
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by drewcoo 2y ago
https://improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume10/v10i1/LFH...
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> Sarcasm is by definition https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sarcasm > accomplished by vocal intonation, and at a stretch, by context You must be using a different dictionary from the rest of us. > An
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by drewcoo 2y ago
But we're not talking about protected classes. They did not take "extreme measures." We're talking about large institutions adopting policies to shield themselves from potential lawsuits from protected classes.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
As I stated above, the Daley machine rigged the 1960 election. 3 people did prison time for it. That absolutely happened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_United_States_presidentia... It doesn't actually matter
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by drewcoo 2y ago
JFK didn't just wear shirts on TV. He managed to convince the dead in Cook county, Illinois to vote for him, often several times each! I'd consider that a much more impressive first. It eclipses hanging chads and Russiagate in mor
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by drewcoo 2y ago
You interviewed on The Dating Game? edit: Oh - they only had 3 candidates at a time!

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