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by geoffmanning 3y ago
and just to play devil's advocate for myself, perhaps the reason that artists never lose that is because of a childhood trauma that "traps" them in this creative vice? I hate to admit that this could potentially ring true for
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by geoffmanning 3y ago
have you considered that perhaps that desire simply didn't fade for artists? it reminds me of an artistic piece i saw in Florence, Italy back in 2013 that was of a tree suspended by wires, roots hanging out and all, and while i can&#x2
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by geoffmanning 3y ago
Much appreciate this response, definite upvote, i found it very helpful and clarifying, however, a couple things here that strike me: 1. while all this is compelling, it doesn't change that the author of the study started off by making
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by geoffmanning 3y ago
This study starts with the baseline "There is a common perception that creativity is associated with psychopathy". Uhhhhh.... common to who? That's news to me. Most psychopaths i've met are lifeless corporate execs. I co
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by geoffmanning 4y ago
someone say something hopeful, or funny, please.
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by geoffmanning 4y ago
I 100% second the baffling nature of this. Maybe not baffling, but telling. If you can't relate your programming experience to new languages and paradigms, if you aren't curious and driven enough to learn the differences and liken
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by geoffmanning 4y ago
Seriously? Good riddance to the "developers" that couldn't adapt. The job market is littered with garbage developers, and it's exactly the type of developer that can't adapt to a new language or style of programming
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by geoffmanning 4y ago
I can't help but laugh a little, tho it's definitely a bitter laugh. How many times will we continue to tolerate this largely unregulated infrastructure and be surprised when this happens? It's the definition of insanity.
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by geoffmanning 4y ago
I read the title and immediately agreed, but i had misinterpreted "short-sightedness" as the inability to consider the long-term effects of our choices and habits, at least to the effect of making positive changes, rather than the
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by geoffmanning 4y ago
That's not a useful thought experiment because it doesn't reflect reality, and on the other side, this isn't about the "odd neurosurgeon or astronaut". I'm either an accidental unicorn that rarely ever tried to
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by geoffmanning 4y ago
It makes me sad to hear this kind of argument. While i agree with the idea that a job shouldn't define someone, to completely write off 40 hours a week (arguably our most productive hours) as simply selling your time without taking pri
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by geoffmanning 4y ago
While i respect the other commenters in fintech and adtech and such (to each their own), just to give you an alternate perspective, i've been working in the health care and then the renewable energy sector my entire working life (~20 y
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by geoffmanning 4y ago
Very disappointing, i expected to see mature plants, sprouted seeds aren't anything to write about, they'll sprout as long as it's moist and warm. Most disappointing is that the scientists were surprised. Then again, this IS
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by geoffmanning 5y ago
As a lifetime windows user that just recently joined a macBook company, i have to say i am indifferent overall, but there have been many alternating moments of delightful surprises and annoyances of unmet expectations in my journey to learn
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by geoffmanning 5y ago
You kind of making my point for me about economics playing a part. No, a mom and pop shop, or even some boring established company that has no 'status' would not be likely to get many applicants w that much friction. The popularit
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by geoffmanning 5y ago
No, i got all that, although i don't know that i agree with that conclusion (but i also don't care to argue for or against it). My point is that there are actual stories about people getting recruited into cults that are worth rea
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by geoffmanning 5y ago
I'm just now finding that webpack is mostly a foreign concept in backend nodejs tech, but it's mind boggling to me that the norm was to ship code with the node_modules folder instead of bundling and minifying. Seriously, why? It&#
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by geoffmanning 5y ago
100% agreed here. If your package manager confuses established tooling and libraries, it's garbage. I recently started working at a company that uses this, and, horrifyingly, uses a monorepo, and their serverless lambdas are all at lea
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by geoffmanning 5y ago
This was ALMOST a story worth sharing. The author made a big leap in their conclusion without enough evidence to be compelling, and basically just confirmed their friends' judgements that they were being paranoid. I feel a little sad f
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by geoffmanning 5y ago
I hadn't considered that choice, you're absolutely right! A well summarized commit, and even a potentially detailed body, is absolutely within the realms of what i would review, and trying to anonymize by pull request title seems
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by geoffmanning 5y ago
If you think a little deeper about that 5min vs 3hrs between reviewer and reviewee, you may consider that the reviewer is likely to have a great deal many of reviewees to review. In the choice of initial friction and evaluation before human
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by geoffmanning 5y ago
Totally agreed. Especially when you're as popular of an org as github, assessing the technical level in a completely indiscriminate process can very easily reduce the pool of candidates that need to be assessed by the actual team that
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by geoffmanning 5y ago
Trying to understand where the danger is with git reset. To avoid a very harmless and easily reversible command, you complicated the process with another branch. The fact you feel it is dangerous tells me that you don't have a strong u
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by geoffmanning 5y ago
While i can't disagree with Michael's points, i feel like this is one of those occasions when it's not that one side is misrepresenting, but that rather both sides have a piece of a greater truth. Michael's research is v
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by geoffmanning 5y ago
Sounds like good news to me. Adding more natural gas plants will just create more demand for fracking operations, which involves chemicals that bind to water at a molecular level.
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by geoffmanning 5y ago
Just throwing it out there; i know it's scientifically accepted that genetic mutations are simply random and the ones that just so happen to be helpful are propagated by natural selection, but i sometimes wonder that 'random'
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by geoffmanning 5y ago
Yet here we are. Thanks for contributing.
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by geoffmanning 5y ago
Context matters.
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by geoffmanning 5y ago
Not quite sure what you're getting at. The definitions of those words can't simply be categorized as good or bad. Beautiful and lucky do, however, somewhat infer a positive outcome in the context they were used. Incredible infers
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by geoffmanning 5y ago
Somewhat of a good point, however, life sustains life. Not quite the same thing as killing an animal for some made up concept like money. That said, i personally don't eat mammals because i feel like they have too much in common with u

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