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by duggan 3y ago
Yeah, it’s the complexity that makes the difference. There’s nothing but that to differentiate anything. You, a phone, a G class star, a comedy special on DVD. All “just” complex arrangements of matter. People make a big deal out of those d
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by duggan 3y ago
Wordplay. I can hold your hand in my hand, is it similar to a phone? Otherwise your line of reasoning boils down to “it exists.”
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by duggan 3y ago
Sure, if the user can build their own phone. Otherwise they're competing with a lot of other people interested in what the phone should and should not do. If they own a hammer, they can do what they like with a hammer, but a phone is n
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by duggan 3y ago
True, the economies of scale here will really only kick in once the robotaxis can also pick up your food order en route.
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by duggan 3y ago
I hate this sort of logic. Sounds far too much like social darwinism. Sometimes things that are worth doing are hard.
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by duggan 3y ago
> I suspect that this approach is strongly fueled by the unlimited VC money available in tech, Well, I suppose we could trade anecdotes and counter-examples, but my position largely comes from my own experience rather than received wisdo
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by duggan 3y ago
Something that just about seems to work is something that has often met the threshold for "solves a real problem" while also meeting the other requirements that a product needs to be successful. It's easy to make something th
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by duggan 3y ago
To be clear, I'm not talking about how it sucked for the Irish a hundred years ago. I'm talking about the country's latent economic disadvantage from being historically impoverished. If you're in a former empire, you can
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by duggan 3y ago
Ireland was one of the poorest countries in Europe 30 years ago. Explicit government policy encouraging foreign investment has made it one of the wealthiest. I don't think Ireland needs to apologise for this; it's a small island n
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by duggan 4y ago
Sounds like something a person living on the dark side of the Earth would say.
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by duggan 4y ago
I used to think this, but I'm not sure google-fu is the real superpower here. I've been surprised to encounter many developers who just don't seem to be able to read and comprehend the output of a program; logs, stack traces,
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by duggan 4y ago
For some reason, it's often like hearing other people's dreams, but for the obvious exception that sometimes someone will surface a ChatGPT prompt that might be useful to you.
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by duggan 4y ago
Then perhaps consider keeping your weird sexist fantasies to yourself.
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by duggan 4y ago
> damn, that’s a lot of social insecurity built in by default to almost every interaction and conversation Hah, I think that's just part of being a young adult, isn't it?
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Meetings for an Effective Eng Organization(lethain.com)
2 points by duggan 4y ago|0 comments
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Lessons Not Worth Learning(lethain.com)
4 points by duggan 4y ago|0 comments
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by duggan 4y ago
I'd like to believe this works, but my experience in Big(ish) Corp is that you get the blame. If you think you're in a position to change it and you're motivated to do so, go for it, otherwise my experience is that you'r
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by duggan 4y ago
Dijkstra's full essay[1] is a bit more illuminating, but essentially it's about how, for example, developing a system of symbols and formal language around mathematics has allowed "school children [to] learn to do what in ear
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Focusing Twilio more and reducing our size(sec.gov)
3 points by duggan 4y ago|0 comments
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by duggan 4y ago
You have to remember that the EU was created in the aftermath of World War 2. It was built to eliminate war amongst a group of countries that had warring for hundreds of years. Making it easy to leave would undermine that. There is a proced
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by duggan 4y ago
A corollary to 1, however is: Company B does the automation project. They can offer their services for a million dollars a year less than Company A. Company A is eventually outcompeted. That's market capitalism!
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by duggan 5y ago
Clearword | REMOTE | https://clearword.com Cmd-F (or Ctrl-F) for meetings. You'll see the pitch "almost no meetings!" as a benefit in hiring posts. People are drowning in meetings. The truth though is that meeting
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by duggan 5y ago
Calling something that isn’t slavery slavery is simply incorrect, and the equivalence has been broadly dismissed by historians.
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by duggan 5y ago
I don’t think the “Irish as slaves” idea is historically accurate[1]. Even without the Wikipedia article, as an Irish person, it’s never come up in my education or in public discourse. 1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by duggan 5y ago
I think that's almost the point; it's a kind of youth culture manifesto. Something like like A Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace[1]. 1: https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
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by duggan 5y ago
When you say “if your stack was simpler” do you mean “if your problem was trivial”? I’m always interested in simpler ways to do things, but solving distributed system and data governance issues tends to involve putting things in different p
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by duggan 5y ago
If you think you're worth 120k to some company, you should find that company. Or found it.
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Some things that could or should be learnt in schools of architecture(architectsjournal.co.uk)
2 points by duggan 5y ago|0 comments
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Let's Build a Browser Engine(limpet.net)
3 points by duggan 6y ago|0 comments
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Pricing Niche Products(kevinlynagh.com)
1 points by duggan 6y ago|0 comments

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