ericmcer

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by ericmcer 4y ago
Yeah the only way to get rewarded for working on resiliency like this is if you do it very loudly. If you spend an extra day or two refactoring a feature so that it is more robust you will be looked at poorly versus the engineer who slaps a
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Social class, attractiveness, intelligence, charisma, mental health, physical health, luck, etc. all play a big role in your success in life but we don't try to equalize those at all. Race and gender are probably just really easy to qu
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by ericmcer 4y ago
I guess you just consume media with no thoughts or responses to it.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Yeah I like this. It also showed a future where capitalism had driven us all the way to dumbed down and instantly gratifying everything.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
The problem it raises is: only idiots are having kids so in the future everyone is an idiot. The opening scene is literally a generic portrayal of trailer trash having 8 kids and you didn’t get that implication at all? Wow your a real saint
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by ericmcer 4y ago
How did he get away with Idiocracy? I thought it was a good movie and somewhat prescient, but if you peel back the layers it is basically advocating some kind of population control or eugenics policy. Or it is just a comedy, but I hear it f
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by ericmcer 4y ago
You really think in <10 years AI will be able to take a loose problem like: "our file uploader is slow" and write code that fixes the issue in a way that doesn't compromise maintainability? And be trustworthy enough to do
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Companies have optimized products for convenience very heavily. Anytime a minor amount of friction is encountered people throw their hands up in exasperation. It is less that they aren't 'tech-savvy' and more that they are un
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by ericmcer 4y ago
I don’t ignore them I usually view them as someone whose priorities don’t align with mine. Money is freedom and trading that freedom to get a shiny toy doesn’t make sense to me. I would much rather know I can work on what I want or not work
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Do you really think counting the number of websites of a certain bias and comparing the two counts is an accurate measure? How many of those websites do you think it takes to equal the readership of a single Reddit or Fox News? We know most
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by ericmcer 4y ago
B2C is definitely a bigger technical challenge, B2B is a sales challenge. B2C people expect perfection for free and will balk at the slightest complication.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Do we do this with regulation? Or education? Trusting businesses to not do whatever they can to make money isn't a plausible strategy. People who can avoid social media will surpass their peers who are logging hours of mindless screen
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by ericmcer 4y ago
In personal project’s refactors are dangerous. Not because of bugs, but because they tax your motivation more heavily than other tasks. Personal projects don’t fail until you decide they do, so maintaining your enthusiasm is key.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
I remember hearing a theory that consciousness is the PR agent of the body. It’s job is to rehearse and craft stories to explain the bodies actions so that it can maintain social standing. It resonated with me because I feel like my brain i
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Yeah good point. I don’t think condensing the stories is bad at all though. It is way worse to attempt some long anecdote on someone who is trying to catch a train. The only thing that determines whether a story was “good” or not is how you
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Really cool, love little design tools like this.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
It's hilarious that this is on the front page next to an article about longevity. Simultaneously dreaming of immortality and perfect health while accidentally killing thousands trying to build a humidifier.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
This is the opposite approach you should have. The whole point of longevity is you no longer have to maximize your life. The idea of doing self-improvement and min/maxing my lifestyle for 500 years sounds like a nightmare. The whole po
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Why not just have a fluid work/retirement cycle? Work for a few years, take a year or two off, switch industries, etc. We would need stricter capitalism I think. Immortals would be even more self-absorbed, and lack the motivating aspec
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by ericmcer 4y ago
My dentist said something similar, that flossing will pull a bunch of stuff out of my teeth. I never floss and on the rare occasion I do nothing comes out, maybe a little blood. I don't know if anyone else has experienced this, I don&#
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by ericmcer 4y ago
The same happens with my ISP. I just call customer service and tell them I want to cancel. They offer me a significantly better price for a year, I take the new price and after the year it goes up again and I call to cancel again.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
I would just consider all those intermediary states as one “loading” state. It is pretty simple to have a “loading” and “error” state in addition to your other ones.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
How does this article fail to mention the pandemic. That is crazy that they talk about 2019-2021 but never once address it.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
This viewpoint implies that everyone successful achieves it through merit. I think a ton of people achieve success just through insane confidence. Look at something like Scientology. It is just one insanely confident man willing an entire r
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Giving it a narrow set of pre-programmed movements defeats the entire purpose of building a human shaped robot. The goal is for it to be general purpose. If they wanted to perform a single discrete task they could design a way more efficien
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by ericmcer 4y ago
I am sure it is not a parody. I have witnessed co-workers getting professional photographs and using spreadsheets to track dates/matches, all to carefully optimize their dating app success. It reminds me of the early 2000s "pick u
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by ericmcer 4y ago
I am just pointing out that it is all relative. My friend is a doctor who makes 500k+ and dropping to a lowly 120k would make him miserable. I also have friends who make 25/hr and are fairly content, they don't need drugs to fend
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by ericmcer 4y ago
I mean I worked at Safeway, Trader Joe’s and a bunch of other terrible jobs from age 15-27. Low skill labor/service jobs are not bad at all when you don’t have much context. Sharing one bathroom with 4 roommates who party constantly wo
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by ericmcer 4y ago
So how do you accept it? I know a handful of 75+ year old family members who I am close to and they don’t think about it at all. The ones who act like they are still young and don’t dwell on death seem the happiest. It runs counter to the a
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Thanks for your work, TS saves me time every day. I was saying something similar to the op 3-4 years ago but really cannot picture working without some kind of type safety in JS now.

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