drewcoo

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by drewcoo 3y ago
> I’ve heard explanations like “music is mathematical and programming is mathematical”, but I was never satisfied with them because they didn’t match my experience Yes, it probably did match the author's experience. Mathematics is
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by drewcoo 3y ago
I thought those were more common, in fact, because of frequent hand-washing.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Well those scrum meetings (back before people capitalized scrum) were owned by self-organizing teams whose agile (which used to also be lower-case) methods were to fit those meetings and all other structure to their needs, adding or discard
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by drewcoo 3y ago
I wonder how much of the "old fart sadness" going around is about loss of control. Tech used to be a thing that could be not just understood but controlled. Then we moved to libraries and frameworks for everything. Then to renting
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> Writing a toy program that fills the screen with "HELLO, I AM COMPUTER" does not feel like you just learned a magical incantation that makes this machine do your bidding. No, but in the 80s, when the guy at Radio Shack didn&#
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Isn't this just the other side of trading privacy away? Most of the groups in the chart also harvest what was once private. We trade our privacy for "free" goods. We are then constantly surveilled. The institutions doing the
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by drewcoo 3y ago
"Trust is a technology?" I had no idea that other social animals were so high-tech!
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by drewcoo 3y ago
In UML, the joke would be much longer. And is the punch line solid or dotted?
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Offer them a different behavioral strategy in the guise of managing those weaklings better? I wish I could say. I suck at fixing that, too.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
I'd argue that most internal tools are lesser copies of something else external. Sometimes because of lack of awareness sometimes just NIH syndrome.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
You claim autism is characterized by thinking of things in binary. That seems to be a trait of humans, especially humans in distress, not autism. You see an n-dimensional spectrum as having two sides. Assuming you're neurotypical, that
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by drewcoo 3y ago
So based on that and my own personal data, the not-so-smart kids in the 1970s had "more brain connectivity" than the reasonably-smart kids. They can keep their "brain connectivity!" I'm sticking with block caps.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
If you want to do it with the whole page and talk only to the local code, then yes, I'd recommend Sinon. I think that's a much simpler solution than . . . creating an all new NIH framework! I'd also recommend refactoring to a
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> Conversely, using integration testing tools like Cypress or Playwright provides control over the page, but sacrifices the ability to instrument the bootstrapping code for the app. These tools operate by remotely controlling a browser t
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Well when a company has problems with retention, "HR, go fix it!" What can HR do except add stuff like this to the hiring process? They're not allowed to actually fix teams with problems. Or "culture." Or bad execs.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
In my experience, tag-team or tribunal-style interviews are themselves a red flag. Usually it's a sign that the company doesn't know how to interview or whose opinions to trust, so they're just throwing everyone into the meet
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by drewcoo 3y ago
If you have to ask, if you can't do a search, if you don't know anyone . . . then there are none. And you should stop being a manager. Now. Just stop, please. Also, you're asking asking HN - WTF!!!
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by drewcoo 3y ago
While I'm sure it's very kind of companies to care about my quality of life and the type of my housing, it's honestly none of their business. Even if they tell me I'm "family." Fair pay to me, at least, means p
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Where a person lives is indicative of their culture. And their unwillingness to move shows deep ties to family and friends. There is a clear difference in mental/emotional makeup with those willing to relocate at the drop of a hat. Jus
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Police officers aren't exactly high income. I'd expect living next to a cop to be cheaper, not more expensive.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
And a debunking by the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/08/fact-che...
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Most of what I read about people missing offices makes me think "gee, I'm glad I don't share an office with that person." But I do miss lunches. Even the loud, obnoxious people are much more tolerable in that context.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Designers also need to show portfolios. Hard when your work is all behind some corporate firewall.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Actually if they could be categorized somehow, we could selectively filter and that would solve a ridiculous number of problems. Including the folks who complain because conversations they care about get flagged. They could simply be catego
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> Thinking for yourself required knowledge and actual study, not just something people can do on a moment's notice. What do you think happens when people work the land? When people cook, plant, tend animals, build their own tools to
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> Can we please stop reading history and stories as things that people in the past slavishly believed to the letter like unthinking machines? Medievalists don't do that. There are a lot of common wrong-headed beliefs that stem from
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by drewcoo 3y ago
I like to think of the solo hero vs the group as more like the difference between men's and women's basketball. Men's is all about the individuals but women's is interesting because there aren't really heroes so muc
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Actual crafts, as in hand crafts are either wildly expensive or imported from the 3rd world. You can make them yourself, but then it's probably expensive not just in equipment but in time. With software craftsmanship, I think there are
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> too decoupled with plugable parts Decoupling is good. But if you build a plugin system now you have many more problems.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Recipe for getting on HN: 1. Pick a contentious topic that everyone knows something about. 2. Intentionally misunderstand what you're doing. 3. Claim it's all bullshit. 4. Adopt a defensive stance: anyone saying you're doing

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