drewcoo

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by drewcoo 2y ago
The people who are staggeringly smarter than us have better things to do with their time than post on HN.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
About 50% of people are below average. About 50% of people in your specialization are below average in that specialization. You are likely below average in many respects, also.
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This again? Didn't expect that.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> the only way you can be sure of what you're ordering from Amazon is to be looking at the site Ah . . . an optimist!
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Churchill said "_it has been said that_ democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time," so Churchill himself acknowledged that the quote wasn't his.
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> I cannot think of any technology developed by slaves. No thinking needed. A quick search turns this up: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/with-patents-or-wi...
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by drewcoo 2y ago
For me, at least, flow is about the ability to focus on a problem and really see (almost touch) all of the pieces that are or should be. Flow is not just using an editor. If it were, it would be easy to force people into flow.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
He also said "What we learn from History is that no one learns from History." He was the Prussian friggin' Yogi Berra.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> I wish this self-harming myth would stop being repeated as a "simple truth". In an industry that exploits a pool of young workers, paying them less but assuring them that they're smarter and their skills are more up-to-d
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by drewcoo 2y ago
And there are always people standing in the middle ground deciding "objectively" who lives or dies. Sometimes that middle is the problem.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> predict that the USA will collect less and less data Then you're betting against insurance industry and their legion statisticians. The odds favor the house.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Autodidacts learn on their own. They are not taught by others. That means the teaching skills are not passed along from teacher to student. Pedagogy is more like cooties than like a science. We share it socially and once you've "c
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by drewcoo 2y ago
The lesson from one-room schools was how to teach. You'd have older kids who knew not just how to do the younger ones' lessons but also how to teach them. And that kind of help builds community. We're social animals and need
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> If your definition of responsibility is so broad, wouldn't every Head of Government for every country be deserving of assassination? Chomsky would say "put to death, not assassinated." https://chomsky.info&#x2
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> It is impossible to reason about or even understand have the statements made by members of other teams in a meeting or communication because every other word they use is a code name for something that you’ve never heard of and the name
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by drewcoo 2y ago
"Just" is a weasel word. I can't ever trust it.
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NT4 released in '96. SP4 a couple years later made it really stable.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Pascal was the typical learning language at most schools before Java caught on.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Maybe actively is literally virtually the new passively.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
If the businesses valued it, it would be documented knowledge. It's clearly not worth the time or money to document. If the workers values it, it would likely be documented knowledge. Undocumented knowledge can be job security.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Superstition plus documentation equals religion.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
https://treefruit.wsu.edu/web-article/apple-varieties/
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Um . . . no. Citations needed about any historical claims. Also, show me yours about serious farms vs hobby farms and I'll show you mine about century farms...
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Is farming their "second job?"
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by drewcoo 2y ago
The con men [edit: pluralize] aren't selling their product to software engineers. They're selling to management. So they twisted agile into some kind of feel-good micromanagement called Agile (with the cap A), which is what appeal
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> I think we'd end up doing this no matter what. If it wasn't "agile" it would be "brisk methodology" or "go-minded development" or something. The reality is people sort of just like having hand-wa
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by drewcoo 2y ago
< Agile is like communism - it sounds like a great idea. Except it never seems to work anywhere Agile always fails because it's undermined from the inside. Communism always fails because it's undermined from the outside.
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> The original reaction for that pathology is "The Mythical Man-Month", it's what started everything. In software, Gerald Weinberg was writing about how to organize and optimize this stuff at least a decade before Brooks.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
I agree that we need better performance testing but I tend to see it as a top-down or an operations-in problem. Performance work from the bottom up, from low-level code constructs seems like the kind of work I've seen XKCD or even Dilb
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by drewcoo 2y ago
People get promoted by "managing up," which you call "fluffing."

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