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by ebiester 3y ago
Vanity or not, knowing that a few hundred people checked out a post I made when I linked it from an HN comment is valuable to me. It helps motivate me to write the next one, because I'm writing for others rather than myself. Maybe othe
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by ebiester 3y ago
This isn't about us. This is about the systemic problem and its relation to our industry.
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by ebiester 3y ago
It takes a lot to learn how to be accountable without being responsible. Further, you have a lot of work to invest in a team that may not have the skills necessary - meaning that you accept reduced quality or put in extra hours of mentorshi
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by ebiester 3y ago
You delegate all responsibilities other than information collection and administration. (That is, approving vacation and the like.) You trust the most senior people below you to tell you when there's a problem. You rely on gut instinct
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by ebiester 3y ago
It's amazing how nobody complains about this with any other operating system -- at least since Leopard/Snow Leopard (IIRC - that was the one that had major compatibility EOL). The problem isn't the EOL. The problem is that th
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by ebiester 3y ago
There are tradeoffs. What happens when the CI team is a bottleneck? What happens when you have to frontload tasks you might not need because you’re afraid your release could be compromised? What happens when the CI team says no and it intr
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by ebiester 3y ago
Gitlab is 29/month. It’s hard to stomach 29 + the money for GitHub and Jira, depending on the features you need. (Minimum 11/mo)
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by ebiester 3y ago
I believe this is a different problem than the essay is speaking about. You can choose what problems and domains fit your ethics. This is about how you build a system and how you prioritize the work.
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by ebiester 3y ago
I used to use Divvy (and have a paid copy), but I've moved to Rectangle which also does everything I need and is open source. It doesn't have the same "drag" mouse capabilities that Divvy does, but I don't end up us
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by ebiester 3y ago
To clarify, I am speaking about seniority at a particular company combined with a bitterness toward that company because they are trapped. I think having older ICs is still incredibly valuable!
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by ebiester 3y ago
The increased visibility about Autism has helped in the workplace somewhat. When someone is able to be diagnosed, they are given the resources to help navigate the neurotypical world, and managers have been expected to adjust their communic
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by ebiester 3y ago
I feel like their prevalence in tech has decreased in the last 10 years in the places I've worked. They are not allowed to maintain their bad behavior from my experience, or they are drummed out of the organization relatively quickly b
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by ebiester 3y ago
You can just as well be on an F1 and all the professor has to do is deny funding for a semester, and you've wasted years of effort.
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by ebiester 3y ago
Everything nobody else has the time to do, like they do now.
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by ebiester 3y ago
The Scrum guide does not capture the culture and ecosystem of scrum that has developed around it. It’s like Node without NPM.
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by ebiester 3y ago
I am not convinced that it would. The quick team will get to learn three times as much and adapt to the actual customer need. The cost of change in a system built with stability as a quality attribute will be higher. (As you can see from a
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by ebiester 3y ago
You could use Java or Python and have the same guarantee. I am not convinced Node will be here in 100 years.
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by ebiester 3y ago
I can build you a team using today's (quality: average B2B startup) programmers and today's methodologies that will write software for 40 years. It will just cost twice as much as the team that iterates quickly. It will cost more
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by ebiester 3y ago
I will defend "orthodox privilege." The problem with unorthodox thinkers, as Graham defines them, is that they are often not grounded in expertise. For example, I will take an unorthodox opinion of my own: Neither socialism nor ca
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by ebiester 3y ago
Those that profit off of the prison system, whether it be the ecosystem of companies supporting the system or those that are employed by it.
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by ebiester 3y ago
So long as you give them their entire claim to land as a sovereign nation, including water, mineral, and air space rights… And at that point you don’t have much space for the colonial powers left.
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by ebiester 3y ago
I have no financial vested interest. To prove it, I'll post Dr. Emily Bender's fantastic podcast about the problematic issues behind the current LLM wave. https://peertube.dair-institute.org/w/qpKuiNLTuHHMnvWG
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by ebiester 3y ago
I don't understand the lock-in argument here. Yes, if a competitor comes in there will be switching cost as everything is re-learned. However, from a code perspective, it is a function of the key and a relatively small API. New regulat
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by ebiester 3y ago
Considering the length of transmission lines in the US, is 500 miles (or so) the constraining factor with transmission?
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by ebiester 3y ago
I think it's more than just "getting used to." You aren't just buying an EV. You're buying an EV and a way to charge it. If you have a garage, that's not a problem. If you have to run electrical to have a way t
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by ebiester 3y ago
He is still up and has a video an hour ago.
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by ebiester 3y ago
And, as you will notice, I did not say "I" on this. I said "someone." The point of the argument is to say that someone who espouses A does not immediately support B, and used a contemporary example. I could have as easil
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by ebiester 3y ago
But what does that have to do with an online personality test? You can make that argument without having it bleed into situations that are expected to be apolitical.
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by ebiester 3y ago
Let's say you support A, but know that many supporters of A also support B, C, and think that A implies D. Detractors also know that an argument that A implies D. If you are arguing for A, and you are versed in basic argumentation (as
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by ebiester 3y ago
I always wonder about this 401k balance. How many people don't roll over their 401(k)s?

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