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by feoren 3y ago
> It's local history that one rewrites I don't understand this. You do not back up your code to any shared repository while still working on a feature? What if it takes 2+ weeks? You have 2 weeks of code replicated only local
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by feoren 3y ago
In both cases we're just "hoping" that the result is what we want. Merging is acknowledging the parallel development and explicitly dealing with it; rebasing is pretending it never happened and applying my patches on top of a
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by feoren 3y ago
The fact that rebase would ever be preferred over merge just shows how bad Git really is under the covers. It's insane that everyone is re-writing their development history to avoid issues with their source control system. There&#x27
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by feoren 3y ago
Learn about your industry. Learn about the problem. Learn as much as you can about the problem your company is trying to solve. Learn industry jargon. You already know enough about the tech; just focus on the subject matter itself.
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by feoren 3y ago
As other replies have pointed out, your problem is with the word "they". There is no "they" at a publicly traded corporation. The key decision-makers are only there for 2 to 5 years, however long it takes them to suck ou
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by feoren 3y ago
Car companies making their money off of financial instruments only loosely related to the cars people drive off their lots ...
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by feoren 3y ago
A cynical take is not "disinformation". Let's not dilute that word.
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by feoren 3y ago
Capitalist is not the right opposite here; democratic or democratic-republic is. You can have a totalitarian capitalist system (in fact that's what I'd argue China roughly is). Totalitarian socialist systems are often called &quot
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by feoren 3y ago
Thanks, that paper is arguing something very different from what I'm used to seeing so that alone makes it worth a look. It's nice to see that not everyone is taking it as a given that humans are irrational.
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by feoren 3y ago
> presumably it was unintuitive because people imagined more complicated ways it might be working behind the scenes I think this is exactly it. And then Sid Meyer calls his players stupid and irrational for assuming the game had more dep
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by feoren 3y ago
> He's saying they're irrational. And he's right. No, he's not right. Humans only seem irrational when you myopically narrow your focus to one or two axes. This is something "smart" people do all the time: t
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by feoren 3y ago
"Player psychology has absolutely nothing to do with rational thought ... the attacking unit has a strength of 1.5, and the defending unit has a strength of 0.5. So the attacking unit should win 3 times for every 1 time the defending u
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by feoren 3y ago
Just from reading the article you can see how bad it is, and it makes sense that it would be worse for larger playlists. They've completely discounted the fact that when you play large playlists, you don't listen to the whole thin
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by feoren 3y ago
> Many of those beliefs boil down to “scientists say” The beliefs don't "boil down" at all : they form an interconnected web of theory and explanations that support and reinforce each other. You're acting like anythi
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by feoren 3y ago
> we just need to trust authorities. (Including you!) That's not actually what I'm saying at all. They're not putting 100% trust in one authority. They're putting a very small amount of trust in millions of others
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by feoren 3y ago
Everyone can explain how we know that. The base of ships disappear before the mast from far away. You can see the tops of skyscrapers, but not the bottom, from the right distance across a body of water. We have photos and video of the Earth
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by feoren 3y ago
> a single name of a scientist or paper Unlike philosophy or religion, science does not rest on the laurels of one accomplished prophet. The idea that something is only true if it comes out of the words of a famous scientist is antitheti
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by feoren 3y ago
> a $500K/year lower bound for 10-12 years I don't care if you are talking about top talent here; that is an insane thing to say. As a lower bound ? What percentage of software engineers / AI practitioners / data sci
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by feoren 3y ago
Nobody should ever fix anything unless they can fix everything !
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by feoren 3y ago
> my ISP blocked the router's web interface This is the weirdest thing in your story. Your ISP disallowed you from configuring your router? I've never heard of such a thing, and it certainly sounds ... suspicious. You should be
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by feoren 3y ago
Some time around 6 months old, I watched my baby slowly realize that he had control over his own hands. He just stared at them for minutes at a time, slowly twisting his wrist back and forth, slowly moving his fingers. Although it came grad
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by feoren 3y ago
I think you know what I meant. If you want exact definitions of words, study math.
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by feoren 3y ago
Highlight all the code you have written / are responsible for. Have you highlighted just one single project that gets deployed as one unit? Then you have a monolith. Monolith doesn't mean you never talk to other services; it means
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by feoren 3y ago
It's not necessary. Nouns-as-categories is a misunderstanding of language; an extremely common mistake that people make when studying language, but never when fluently using language. Half of philosophy is based on (and rendered co
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by feoren 3y ago
(I loved this conversation by the way, so thanks!) Just a couple last major things: > make-the-impossible-unrepresentable ... ECS clearly falls in with the dynamically typed / NoSQL camps I see why you think that, but I disagree: yo
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by feoren 3y ago
I have so much to say about all of this, but the indentation on this comment thread is getting extreme. Everything you said is correct in some general sense of understanding software engineering, and yet ... somehow too fence-sitting. Sta
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by feoren 3y ago
> The phrase "Carbon is a chemical element with symbol C and atomic number 6" specifies a "chemical element". Have you not just categorized Carbon as being a chemical element? A fair point -- except it's a worldw
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by feoren 3y ago
I probably should sit down and write a comprehensive blog post about it sometime instead of dropping pieces of it in HN comments. > So, I build a table (call it "transactions"?) that contains all of these, without repeating any
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by feoren 3y ago
> he can use big boy words You're not asking him to use "big boy" words, you're asking him to use your preferred set of terminology from a particular branch of philosophy that you happen to be familiar with, and fuc
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by feoren 3y ago
It's similar to this: Person A: "I am highly critical of society for the following nine reasons..." Person B: "Curious! You are critical of society, and yet you live in it! Hypocrite much?" Person A: "Yes I do

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