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by fallous 6y ago
I'm not sure we treat individuals as good/bad or successful/unsuccessful based on purely on outcomes. Criminal law, for example, depends upon intent in many cases. The general biological view of viruses certainly demonstrate
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by fallous 6y ago
Is this not similar to the philosophy of capitalism (at least as posited by Adam Smith) upon which much of modern Western thought rests? Arguably it's also very much reflected in John Locke's work as well as many philosophical fo
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by fallous 6y ago
By "things" it seems you ignore the key bit of the parent I was replying to... namely "technology," especially within the confines of the main article which focused on UX. Specifically I used the word "changing&quot
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by fallous 6y ago
I'm not sure I'd use the term "improving" but would instead say "changing." The perception of those changes has certainly been weighted towards "improvement" but some of that perception is a hangover
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by fallous 6y ago
Those aren't anachronisms, they actually existed in the 80s and 90s on private online networks. Real-time chat? Compuserve's CB Simulator. Craigslist? Compuserve certainly had classified ads as I'm sure did most of the oth
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by fallous 6y ago
I went a bit further back when I saw "mechanical programming" and thought of this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwf5mAlI7Ug Mechanical analog computing FTW!
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by fallous 6y ago
Why does it make human-like predictions as if it knows about reality? Because it's essentially pattern-matching the consensus of the literature it was trained on. Literature as a whole will tend to settle on a consensus sentiment, al
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by fallous 6y ago
I'm not sure that you can assert that language is tightly coupled to reality, unless you're using the term "reality" to mean something akin to "as one perceives the world" (regardless of whether that perception
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by fallous 6y ago
You invite the problem of eventual vs strong consistency, split brain issues, etc. There's a reason that the two hard problems in computing are naming things, cache coherency, and off by 1 errors.
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by fallous 6y ago
My interpretation of current ML solutions is that it's mostly brute force statistical models hoping to hit a satisfactory p-value (some implementations being more elegant in the brute force than others). The calculating power defines
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by fallous 6y ago
If this is a result of poor execution then I'd stay and change it. If instead it's a result of a cultural or company vision that does not embrace focusing on the customer, their problem (not just your opinion of it), and working
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by fallous 7y ago
Note that my post isn't limited to credit card inputs, nor do I say that the request for clarity is mandatory in all fields. What I'm advocating is a focus on ensuring the user's explicit intent rather than attempting to infe
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by fallous 7y ago
Part of the problem is that inputs don't necessarily reflect the specific intent behind the use of certain symbols. For 99% of people using US keyboards when they input a dash in a credit card number they are using the exact same key
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by fallous 7y ago
You're limiting it to "I want to do something, I need reminders" but it also applies when you're trying to convince people to do something as well, such as sales or particular behavior in apps. I can't begin to cou
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by fallous 7y ago
That this kind of basic understanding of human behavior and interaction is no longer considered common sense, at least within the business domains he's targeting, is pretty sad. How it lost its place in the basic toolkit of dealing wi
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by fallous 7y ago
With regards to Eternal September, you're exactly right. Prior to that AOL invasion you had relatively small bursts of new people joining with no predetermined cultural expectations who had to assimilate into an existing culture. Whe
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by fallous 7y ago
It was less the barrier to entry than a combination of limitations in the rate of new members in a subgroup (you may get burst of new members in September but the total number added over the course of a year was manageable) and a process of
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by fallous 7y ago
If I rephrase the title to "Why are the results of software engineering so bad?" it makes it easier for me to point out the most obvious problems, in my experience at least. The alternative to nearly all software solutions is &quo
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by fallous 7y ago
Definitely gives me some nostalgia for the days when I ran AfterStep for my desktop machine while at Netscape.
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by fallous 7y ago
It's event driven in the manner of stimulus/response. A computer may process a series of instructions, but absent a loop it then finishes and does nothing without being told to process another series of instructions. Even within
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by fallous 7y ago
I think the level of abstraction applied to "event" is key in determining whether the architecture is successful (or even appropriate). If you attempt to implement at a granular level (got click on button!) then it turns into a gi
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by fallous 7y ago
Yeah, a senior engineer role is most assuredly is NOT "all-nighters and unreadable code." But neither is it necessarily the mentor style of role that the author advocated, which is more appropriate as the job duties of a team lea
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by fallous 7y ago
Will I, especially since I'm actually the engineer with 30 years of experience? Jumping from new hotness to new hotness isn't a means to achieving real experience, it's often a quick way to 10 of the same one year since you n
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by fallous 7y ago
I'd agree with your criticism of tool/new hotness as a bad metric for measuring leveling up. It's too easy to get the dopamine hit from novelty or being busy rather than putting in the real work that provides value. We learn
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by fallous 7y ago
Indeed, and given that this was an intentional design tells you who they truly believe is their primary "customer."
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by fallous 7y ago
I think the article has some good points regarding the expectations of a senior engineer but also seems to conflate the duties of a team lead with senior engineer, but in my experience those are two different roles (and usually titles).
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by fallous 7y ago
Indeed. As I've had to remind many people over the years, "doing the same basic work you learned in your first year repeatedly for 10 years is not 10 years of experience... it's 10 of the same one year."
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by fallous 7y ago
I'm probably picking nits, but is something intentionally designed and implemented a "flaw" if it works as intended?
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by fallous 7y ago
It's not that the products are poor but that Intel has a long and proud tradition of killing any product that is not directly related to x86. Intel GPU started with i740 (a stand-alone AGP card), which is the last stand-alone GPU they
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by fallous 7y ago
Just a quick reminder when considering Intel products... if it ain't Mama x86, it won't be around very long.

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