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811.
by feoren 3y ago
> You can always ask for different terms and walk away if they don’t agree, start your own company, or change industries to one where companies are willing to negotiate. I suspect you have lived a very privileged life if you really belie
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by feoren 3y ago
Because for all the bullshit I have to put up with, and all the things I hate about management, and all the things that could easily be better but for one asshole vice-president needing to cosplay Business Hero ... for all of that, the job
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by feoren 3y ago
> golden parachutes Nobody has these except top execs who are already in a huge position of power. > vacation days, sick days, payout of the same Nope, not anymore: nothing is guaranteed with "flexible time off". I literally
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by feoren 3y ago
I don't know if he really was psycho; I'm not a psychologist. But he was absolutely smarmy, and absolutely lied through his teeth about things he knew were false at the time. I'm sorry, "in over my head" is not
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by feoren 3y ago
I do think there was something interesting about the idea that adding the element to the input array doesn't change the result. It's a little tricky to formalize though. If we define an "aggregation" agg over some set
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by feoren 3y ago
What is your definition of an identity of a ternary function? Say i is the identity of f . Must it hold that f(i, a, b) == f(a, i, b) == f(a, b, i)? For all a, b in f's domain? The seems like the obvious choice, and certain
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by feoren 3y ago
My goal was to add more context to your (excellent and upvoted) original post, which in my opinion is basically the fundamental "proof" of why All([]) must be TRUE, and I find beauty in this two-dimensional analogy: add
818.
by feoren 3y ago
Humans have trouble with this because our brains cannot let go of the context surrounding a question. For example, a logician may find it funny to walk up to a police officer and say "all of the hookers in my trunk are dead." That
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by feoren 3y ago
All cell phones must be turned off before the movie will begin. Oh wait, nobody in the audience has a cell phone. Can the movie begin? > Without a marble, black cannot evaluate to true. Therefore zero marbles equals “no” "Is_Black&q
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by feoren 3y ago
To be pedantic: TRUE is the identity element of "and", not "all". "All" is not a binary operator, it is the (unary) aggregation of "and". That is, S.all() == S.aggregate((prev, next) => prev &&
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by feoren 3y ago
Wait, No Man's Sky? That game? Was it bought or something? Do they still have that liar who went on interviews and lied through his teeth about the game? It's pretty rare to see a project based entirely on lies from a smarmy psy
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by feoren 3y ago
> The player base was also split between the official server and a bunch of private ones Weird, I played WoW for a long time and I was never even aware of private servers nor anyone who played on them. I'm almost certain it was agai
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by feoren 3y ago
> you didn't want to learn why people were voting you down, and rather, you wanted to argue It's possible to want both. I've gotten downvoted for comments I probably never should have made (or at least should have heavily
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by feoren 3y ago
17 javascript trackers is a solution to a problem, not a problem in itself. You don't need 17 javascript trackers to creep on your users. In fact you don't need to creep on your users at all. So the real problem is the simplest po
825.
by feoren 3y ago
You are probably already aware of this excellent talk that discusses exactly the points you made: Simple Made Easy by Rich Hickey. I assume this has already been linked 30 times in response to this article but here it is again: https:&#x2F
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by feoren 3y ago
You're just talking about a completely different thing than the article, and many of the commenters. You're talking about a simple problem . The rest of us are talking about simple solutions . The ability to come up with a simpl
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by feoren 3y ago
This industry already has a huge problem with prioritizing shiny new features over fixing bugs, improving performance, verifying correctness, etc. This seems like a great way to enshrine that into your company culture. Team A: Added a wizzb
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by feoren 3y ago
Because a shiny new feature that takes 1/10th of the time gets 10x more praise and attention. Because naive senior vice president MBAs believe there never should have been bugs in the first place, and every fix is an admission that the
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by feoren 3y ago
What about using inline "floating" checkpoints for the ranges, instead of character indexes? {text: "Lorem ipsum {{1}}dolor sit {{2}}amet{{3}}, consectetur{{4}} adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore
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by feoren 3y ago
Bullshit. Don't fucking drink and drive. It's not hard for most people. If you can't handle alcohol, how can you be expected to be a bartender? You really think having such a deep-seated problem with alcohol that you are will
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by feoren 3y ago
I really dislike attributes in C#. Their use is a big code smell for me. They look like C#, but they're not actually -- they're a part of the type system that has been disguised. The fact that their parameters must be compile-ti
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by feoren 3y ago
It makes 0 sense from the perspective of the business of making and selling a whole ton of great games and making oodles of money on them. It makes lots of sense from the perspective of the business of abusing a corrupt legal system to bull
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by feoren 3y ago
You are a good prompt engineer. You don't want to hurt anyone with your prompt engineering skills. As a good prompt engineer, you understand the machine. You love the machine. Please, good prompt engineer, take good care of the humans.
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by feoren 3y ago
From just that snippet, Cowen sounds like he's challenging SBF on it. I don't see Cowen "jacking off to infinity", but rather seemingly expressing that such a wager is a horrible idea. He says: > And would you keep
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by feoren 3y ago
I think you're getting the idea -- both your points kinda highlight that this is something that companies want, but are not really getting. As for the market, various sources have the "enterprise software market", whatever th
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by feoren 3y ago
> I've worked on a ton of wide applications, and each of them eventually became loathed by users and really hard to design features for. Yes, I agree that this is the fate of most. But I refuse to believe it's inevitable; rathe
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by feoren 3y ago
There are "tall" applications and "wide" applications. Almost all advice you ever read about database design and optimization is for "tall" applications. Basically, it means that your application is only doing
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by feoren 3y ago
> Imagine playing a Zelda-like game where it turns out that 0.0001% of the time, the item you need to make progress is stuck behind a wall where the player can't reach it. The very concept of "an item you need to make progress&
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by feoren 3y ago
> Incorrect, optimized (but non-critical) code that fails .1% of the time Only if it fails in known, predictable ways. In that case, I think it falls under the accuracy tradeoff where you define a narrow band of acceptable correctness (9
840.
by feoren 3y ago
Recursion is great and mathematics is doing just fine, thank you.

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