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by ebiester 3y ago
When I see something like this, I think the appropriate response is that with requirements, there is no "best way" for every circumstance. If you have an internal user or small set of internal users, you are likely better off spen
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by ebiester 3y ago
For people interested in this, look at the RACI framework. https://project-management.com/understanding-responsibility-... - I don't see it used in a way of moving away from a blame culture, but more when an organizati
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by ebiester 3y ago
If you have enough money, you will not be immune to rubber hose decryption attacks or other shows of force. Either you live in a country where you can trust your money system, or you don't.
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by ebiester 3y ago
Yes, but I think for most companies this has more to do with cost. They're not going to pay for the OSS model, and if they can use an OSS model + fine tuning, they'll choose to save the money.
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by ebiester 3y ago
> In theory, systems can be built such that changes and updates are simple configuration changes, including new features. Taken to the extreme, that's a low code platform. However, the complexity I am speaking of is the intersection
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by ebiester 3y ago
The further up the ladder you go, the less this is true. I tell people about a senior plateau - after this point, the growth gets smaller. Everything is just another framework, just another language, just another pattern. At this point, unl
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by ebiester 3y ago
The mission of the university, from the university's perspective, is to advance the world's fundamental knowledge first and teach students second. (Some may see this as 1a and 1b, mind you, and smaller liberal arts colleges and co
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by ebiester 3y ago
I don't know of any environmentalists against the research. Most I've talked with are skeptical that this is viable given current technology and believe that we need to act as if this doesn't exist, but that's different
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by ebiester 3y ago
Sure. You maintain the entire application state in session scope or some sort of internal state. It was possible, but it was hell.
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by ebiester 3y ago
It wasn't GET mutation... it was POSTs with multi-page forms that was the problem. It was such a pain to subdivide a form and create server and session state and intuit the return state. And what happens if you needed a modal with dyna
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by ebiester 3y ago
You have to account for the cost of transportation as well, though. The more density you have, the more you will be able to walk to most destinations and the more cost-effective public transport gets.
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by ebiester 3y ago
There is a happy medium here... I'm as density-friendly as it comes, but I think that we'd be much better off at maximum 20,000/sq km or so. (That's not a magic number - that's about the density of the city of Paris
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by ebiester 3y ago
If they were angry enough, they’d unionize.
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by ebiester 3y ago
Think a little more laterally. If we're talking about doing everything well, I think that's true. However, if I want to create my own personal "word calculator," I could take, for example, my own work (or Hemingway, or
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by ebiester 3y ago
I'm sure that has to do with the dataset available to them.
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by ebiester 4y ago
Are you saying that he isn't even in the conversation, or that it's too hard to push him past Kasparov, Fischer, and Capablanca relative to his peers? (I can't reasonably put Morphy in this conversation, and I'm not sure
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by ebiester 4y ago
https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2018/02/14/poorly-defin... A provost is an executive position over the academics of a university. A university president is the entire university, which has more fund
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by ebiester 4y ago
Both no management and micromanagement are failure states. The parent is comparing two failure states. But I think the key to point out is that most line managers have fewer than 5 years of experience. The good ones move up the chain and th
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by ebiester 4y ago
What are the full set of responsibilities of the team member? Are they being tied to previous projects? Is there something that is getting in their way? Is there a culture clash? Also, understand that the new person is learning the context
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by ebiester 4y ago
I have an RSS feed at the bottom. I have a fair number of articles planned on it in the next couple of months.
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by ebiester 4y ago
Time management is possibly the easiest part, for me. You end up putting it on your calendar and the calendar will take care of it for you. The hardest part that I had to learn as an EM was how to identify ways to be effective with small bl
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by ebiester 4y ago
Spiral goes deeper once you get in. I got into a rabbit hole reading through some of the best practices and it ran into the same stakeholder management that is common. It’s a fun historical count and I might write up some of the learnings l
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by ebiester 4y ago
As I wrote this as a response to many of the agile complaints here, I thought this might be a good place for discussion. I want to make clear that I don't think agile is perfect, but I find the major problem with most critiques is that
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What is your alternative to Agile?(ebiester.com)
4 points by ebiester 4y ago|3 comments
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by ebiester 4y ago
Your standard of living might be comparable. Your retirement is taken care of, you have a reasonable amount of vacation, you have better job security, your health care, in most European countries, has much less hassle, and your property cos
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by ebiester 4y ago
Gladwell's strength is that he's an incredible storyteller. It will be a while before an LLM gets to that level.
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by ebiester 4y ago
I think there's more than that. As someone who has written millions of words in my life, I agree with you - the mechanical transformation of my ideas is not the hard part. However, there will be people who haven't developed their
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by ebiester 4y ago
If it's one tool, it's not a problem. If it's every tool, it becomes a problem quickly. I had a tool that moved from 300/month to 2,000 a month just for SSO (for our needs.) Launchdarkly is just not usable due to the add
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by ebiester 4y ago
I have genuine interest in both. I build things because it's awesome to make someone's day better. It's a demotivator for me to put out software that doesn't work well. Technology is a means to that goal. Because I'
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by ebiester 4y ago
When you talk to a manager, you should lead that you are interested in building great products. Even if my company is using functional technologies, I want people who are professionally interested in learning business domains. It's gre

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