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by ebiester 4y ago
White is modifying collar, not race, in this circumstance, and in this case also affects other workers (as he explicitly says in the article.) The point was that this Taylorism now affected the group of people historically immune to it.
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by ebiester 4y ago
I think I get frustrated here because "Clean Code" is talking about a very specific style of coding popularized by Robert Martin in the book with the same name. It is not a synonym for Good Code. Longer variable names are certainl
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by ebiester 4y ago
It's certainly there, but it comes in different avenues: tech lead meetings (where is our technical debt?), early in projects (as everyone is building a consensus for the project), and code reviews (where they're talking about a f
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by ebiester 4y ago
You say gimmicky, I say life-changing. Now, some of them are certainly gimmicks, but split keyboards make it so much more comfortable to type that for trips of more than a day or two where I think I might have to type, I have brought my key
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by ebiester 4y ago
A smart team doing layoffs will know there is bound to be attrition after an event. They are relying on it if they are smart. They may even know they'll lose some of their most competent and have priced it in. Feel no guilt for keeping
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by ebiester 4y ago
And as always, archive today (or an alternative) saves the day: https://archive.ph/hHiCJ
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by ebiester 4y ago
Everything is eventually called a dead end in AI, no? Once it has moved from the bleeding edge to something the public uses, the limitations become known and everyone says, "of course a computer can do it, but that's not intellige
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by ebiester 4y ago
What changes is that there are different needs from different segments of the world, and we have reached a problem (authentication in general) that is truly impossible to solve with our current toolset. For me, the larger threat is that som
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by ebiester 4y ago
When I did this last, we incorporated size of epic instead and looked at number of tickets on average. You still have to break it down but you can take into account the number of added tickets given a large enough sample size.
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by ebiester 4y ago
Forecasting looks like this: https://medium.com/expedia-group-tech/monte-carlo-forecastin... It’s running through simulations based on previous team behavior to give a range.
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by ebiester 4y ago
So what does the incentive structure look like? Do you get tenure for running a lab that replicates? Are your postdocs in line for tenure track positions? How is it funded: do you put the secondary replications into the original grant? What
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by ebiester 4y ago
Conceptually great idea, but I think setting the cap of top employee compensation as a multiplier of the lowest paid employee is a better start, as well as requiring full benefits for any employee rather than a minimum. (You will have to tw
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by ebiester 4y ago
Small pull requests is the key. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/... was a study written on it (among other things.) This lines up with traditional code review wisdom.
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by ebiester 4y ago
However, even if we say that the majority were indeed people who would be back on their feet, any effort to prevent these people from dropping into chronic state is a continual savings.
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by ebiester 4y ago
A word processor and spreadsheet is necessary. Everything else is optional. The question isn't "is it neat?" The question is does the money expended save more than if a human performed the equivalent labor? Does Confluence an
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by ebiester 4y ago
Recently, with my husband's work, I saw three one-hour meetings turn into over 200 emails because someone doing the work refused to get on the phone and misunderstood the written word. I am skeptical that email is that much more produc
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by ebiester 4y ago
Well, how much money are you making and how much are you spending? How much do you have in the bank? If you aren't going to be able to raise money in the next year, this is even more important, no?
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by ebiester 4y ago
This is where I think the confusion lies. When I think of the tools that my teams build, they effectively are internal and external tools that happen to use the browser as a platform because nobody was able to converge on a universally-inst
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by ebiester 4y ago
So long as Citrix isn't under-provisioned, which is all too common.
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by ebiester 4y ago
I think the article is illuminating. When I was actively interviewing, I found that I struggled in code interviews precisely because I was trying to be engaging, but it interfered with how I was actually solving the problem. I think I would
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by ebiester 4y ago
Check out the "Death By Meeting" by Patrick Lencioni for his take in a non-tech scenario.
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by ebiester 4y ago
It's an ugly problem. The farmers actually have first right to the water over the cities, even if they use it inefficiently, due to the oldest laws in Arizona: water right laws. That's right, the first laws in Arizona were about w
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by ebiester 5y ago
While I'm on board the therapy train, I think the career coach would be the far more appropriate professional help in this case.
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by ebiester 5y ago
A bubbled city on mars will not be immune to climate refugees. It's about how many bubbles we would need, and how many people might not fit. And it's easier to ignore people on another planet. Empathy does not survive distance, an
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by ebiester 5y ago
If and only if you build the system around those cars. If there is no free parking and a parking lot is taxed like it is productive land, then parking is expensive. Cars are convenient because we have made the tax system cater to them. It m
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by ebiester 5y ago
The most valuable strategies may or may not be the most profitable. VC is about return on investment. This feels like square peg and round hole. It is going to take a lot of failure. Government turns failure into finger-pointing. VC is comf
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by ebiester 5y ago
It's people like me who had it on their to-do list and it was a reminder to do it later.
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by ebiester 5y ago
The article is saying "this is why we aren't doing it for our startup," not "this is why you shouldn't do it for your personal life or startup." It is fair to say that for building a startup, crypto adds additi
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by ebiester 5y ago
Hopefully someone is doing this in testing or staging.
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by ebiester 5y ago
So, why not just have schools start one hour later starting in the fall in the areas where that is an issue?

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