fsociety

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by fsociety 3y ago
Why do you think that?
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by fsociety 3y ago
> … GitHub forces you to be a slave of Microsoft … Relax, the hyperbole is out of control here. I use GitHub and am certainly not a slave.
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by fsociety 3y ago
No permanent relief. It goes away when I meditate but that is temporary. The first few weeks I started vyvanse it completely disappeared, even if I focused on it, but once my body normalized to it, it came back.
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by fsociety 3y ago
Modern tooling and lack of language features does not make it easier to design a program. I have seen self-proclaimed C developers struggle with managing the ownership and lifecycle of memory in a sane way.
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by fsociety 3y ago
In a sense it is a prediction model, a good one. I can accept that in some future, we may have a model that we label as this and it turns out it does. Who knows when, but this is an early iteration of what AI will be fwiw.
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by fsociety 3y ago
When you write “they have literally 1 data scientist to monitor the whole non-western world”, I assume you mean Sophie Zhang. I agree with a lot of what she said, and I mean a lot, but you have a misconception. The integrity org, back when
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by fsociety 3y ago
Sounds like go routines was not a selling point if telemetry tipped you over then.
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by fsociety 3y ago
That’s the thing. This whole metaverse push has been in the works for a long time. All that ad money being funneled into R&D. It does not mean they will make a killer product. But behind closed doors they have some amazing tech.
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by fsociety 3y ago
I have yet to meet a frontend dev who called a backend dev an idiot. I have met plenty of backend devs who have indirectly called frontend devs idiots.
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by fsociety 3y ago
I have heard from a psychologist that folks often confuse introversion with social anxiety. Introversion is having your default focus tending to be inwards, whereas social anxiety can make situations like you are describing unbearable. Obvi
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by fsociety 3y ago
You just described an engineering curriculum. Understanding your technical field at depth and knowing things like project management, management, business, finances etc.
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by fsociety 3y ago
So.. build the oil pipelines because think of the poor people? We already have an affordability crisis and an extreme wealth gap. I don’t buy what you are selling, but even if true the best option is still to get onto renewable energy. The
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by fsociety 3y ago
It’s not a real thing, you hit the nail on the head for pop culture talking about chemicals and neuroscience. Dopamine is responsible for many things, and you can’t remove all dopamine from your brain. Here are two separate psychiatrists d
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by fsociety 3y ago
Even within a single AWS region you can land in completely different data centers. Perhaps it doesn’t require as many people as some think, but the large cloud businesses run at a larger scale than your mom-and-pop data center.
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by fsociety 3y ago
Funny enough you learn on a percentage basis their turnover rates are greatly exaggerated, and some years are lower than a “healthy organization” of their size would like. No job is the best job, but you will learn a lot about tech and soft
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by fsociety 3y ago
When your code is under 200 LOC and not expected to be maintained for the next 10 years.. then a lot of the things you just mentioned don’t matter as much. This is not for running in an enterprise but for exercising the brain.
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by fsociety 3y ago
Ditto. His Udacity course opened me up to how expressive, yet understandable, code can be with some careful thought. Lots of wow moments comparing my solutions to his.
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by fsociety 3y ago
Good for you, their point still holds up. Languages like Python and Go are more readable than awk and bash. They are designed to be that way, and many many years of effort have been put into them for that specific purpose. Whereas if you kn
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by fsociety 3y ago
Unfortunately good code does not mean a good product, and Google is anything but a good product company.
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by fsociety 3y ago
I would much rather have a locked down phone which is secure, as I rely on it for many important functions in my life. I’ll leave the cheap web servers to a Raspberry Pi, CDN, or VPS thank you very much.
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by fsociety 3y ago
Often we are so focused on scale and quantitative data we forget to value impact like this. Sounds amazing!
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by fsociety 3y ago
Let’s assume that this is true. Then is the solution to go back to C where it is hard to get concurrency running correctly? Seems backwards thinking.
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by fsociety 3y ago
I’m not sure if I should leave you with a recommendation to watch Good Will Hunting or suggest that therapy can be quite different from self-help books.
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by fsociety 3y ago
Unfortunately even if you did not pull code from random groups, and instead curated your GitHub dependencies, you can still be caught by surprise when one person has a re-used password and no 2FA because “ugh it’s so inconvenient”. Nothing
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by fsociety 3y ago
Could be a play to spin-up 3nm, make it more reliable, while Apple foots a large part of the cost.
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by fsociety 3y ago
If it doesn’t belong there then it doesn’t belong here.
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by fsociety 3y ago
100%. If your seniors aren’t asking for help or even casually chatting in channels, then why would the juniors be expected to start. Setting the example helps encourage it and make it no big deal.
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by fsociety 3y ago
I think the experience of banging your head against the wall (for a bit) can be valuable. As long as the culture of the team encourages this and offers an escape hatch after a few hours (or whatever timeframe is appropriate for the problem)
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by fsociety 3y ago
Being a “nice guy” does not work. Having confidence, while valuing and respecting women (as they would you) absolutely does.
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by fsociety 3y ago
It’s not just the Bay Area experiencing this.

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