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by grayclhn 4y ago
Obligatory: https://www.nohello.com/ And as a blanket rule of thumb, don't send people chat messages that you wouldn't want to see displayed to an arbitrary meeting full of people. :)
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by grayclhn 4y ago
Splitting up a groundbreaking idea into so many papers that the idea is lost is 1) going beyond a “minimal publishable unit” and 2) not in the authors’ interest, since getting credit for a groundbreaking idea in a correspondingly prestigiou
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by grayclhn 4y ago
Honestly, I think this is often said cynically but is a good practice overall. Would you rather have to read and understand one giant commit reflecting 2 years of work, or 10 well-documented and logically complete individual commits?
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by grayclhn 4y ago
IDK, I think tenure contributes a lot to 1. I understand and agree with a lot of the rationale (academic freedom, etc.) but when you select for people that prioritize, “if I work really hard for 6 years and get lucky, I can never be fired,”
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by grayclhn 4y ago
Cool, make it happen. Don’t know how? Neither does anyone else. That’s why it’s not happening right now.
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by grayclhn 4y ago
I would for sure want to know why a company was using svn or fossil for source control (just to take two examples)… there might be good reasons, but either one suggests that the company may not be making the right trade-offs. (Nothing again
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by grayclhn 4y ago
Inside FAANG, it is literally a job title.
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by grayclhn 4y ago
If you're just selling them to yourself, no need to even reheat the pizzas.
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by grayclhn 4y ago
That can be good. The number of times I’ve actually wound up doing something I was “definitely going to do” is way less than 100%.
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by grayclhn 4y ago
Use data on how long it takes to complete “projects.” Or break the project down into your best projection of the component tasks and multiply “number of equivalently sized tasks” by “average time to complete that sort of task over the past
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by grayclhn 4y ago
You vote by changing jobs. I think “real governments” make it clear that this isn’t sufficient to thwart harassment though.
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by grayclhn 4y ago
>> Stop estimating. > How does this person think an organization schedule, budget and allocate resources? Collect data and use a trivial prediction model (i.e. median calendar time it took to complete the last 5 stories). Monitor a
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by grayclhn 4y ago
This is usually why people make the distinction between “leadership” and “management” — if you use “management” the way your comment does, you no longer have a word for someone with multiple direct reports. But yes — totally agree that “tec
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by grayclhn 4y ago
I’ve tried. Coauthors and journal requirements were my limiting factors, not anything inherent to the typesetting engines… These days (in industry) I manage to use pandoc markdown to word for everything (for similar reasons), which is even
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by grayclhn 4y ago
Sometimes people are just bad at things, even things that seem easy.
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by grayclhn 4y ago
Read-only offline is not a hard problem. Regardless, lots of things are hard problems _the first time it’s solved_ but become easy problems with the right tools and design.
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by grayclhn 4y ago
If you need to actually make meaningful commitments, you need to track how long stories/projects/whatever actually take, and use the data to make a prediction. Subjective “estimates” can be an input, but they’re basically guesses.
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by grayclhn 4y ago
You're definitely not the only one who struggles with this. I've tried a lot of different approaches for what to do during the meeting, but tbh what I've settled on is: 1. Avoid meetings that I'm not going to get value f
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by grayclhn 4y ago
I mean, it's nice that they have a setting for the bare minimum a lazy undergrad would do to avoid getting caught for plagarism — replace some of the words in the copied paragraph with replacements from a thesaurus. It's not somet
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by grayclhn 4y ago
One piece of advice: make damn sure you get credit for supporting the rewrite.
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by grayclhn 4y ago
Not really a discussion I particularly want to get into, but many people think “an increase in suicides” should be counted as a negative consequence of firearms.
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by grayclhn 4y ago
For _school_ use the extra functionality is basically irrelevant. (Excel for some college level courses is an unfortunate exception.)
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by grayclhn 4y ago
> As long as there is a decision to take the issue persists, it's only if you always go left (or always go right) that the issue doesn't exist. That's not true. There are two problems. 1. The math is set up to rule out a l
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by grayclhn 4y ago
TBH, a “child protection mode” does seem like legitimately new functionality, even if it was unwelcome for your in-laws.
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by grayclhn 4y ago
Write it out :)
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by grayclhn 4y ago
From skimming the paper, "continuity" seems to be a deceptively strong assumption here, and the claim "this is a physical system so it's continuous" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Unless I'm misunderstanding
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by grayclhn 4y ago
A “wrap” is the generic term for food wrapped in something vaguely large-tortilla-like. Just because people somewhere call something a burrito doesn’t make it true.
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by grayclhn 4y ago
> The biggest criticism I'm raising is the American (outside of border states like CA, AZ, NM, and TX where they don't put up with that shit) tendency to accept cheaper, filler ingredients as primary to the contents of a burrit
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by grayclhn 4y ago
Yes and no... Julia's been focused on high performance numerical computing from the beginning (and other related scientific applications). Using macros to get good performance from relatively generic code was (from my outside perspecti
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by grayclhn 4y ago
Yeah… for actual papers “easier to read” is 1000x more important than “easier to write.”

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