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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
>>This situation reads like an engineer who needs a bit of business/sales experience more than anything. Your post reads like a salesperson hand-waving away actual situations of consequences in favour of a quick buck. There is li
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
Yeah unfortunately you can chalk this up to the early 90s obsession with libertarianism and anti-regulation. Establishing strong regulatory bodies would be and continues to be antithetical to the Silicon Valley Ayn Randian obsessed cult of
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
Just because its been imposed as a "standard" for so long before anyone objected doesn't make it a core functionality of social media. Sites don't need to learn my interest by profiling me like the Stasi.
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
make up a new word for monolith that sounds sexy instead of big, bulky and scary. Something like "uniform-services" or "harmonized-services". Vertically-distributed harmonized services.
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
Budibase looks really impressive, basically a GUI frontend builder for postgres and its open source. Haven't actually deployed it, but played with the GUI builder and its nice. There's a few other similar ones out there too like B
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
>Just because someone does not know how to do something does not mean it is difficult. It just means they did not try to learn how to do it. This is very common comment on HN. It's quite silly. Honestly, whats even more common and m
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
There's actually some very interesting criticism of modern cognitive sciences, one of them contradicting the common idea that neural network based methods were inspired by a model of "how the brain worked". The criticism basi
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
Why is asking for requests to be in writing an "act of bad faith"? Literally cna't see a single outcome that would be an act of bad faith here. If the project fails, and the manager tries to blame it on you, they are de facto
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
I really like the post / comments format. Never seen hat before. Wish it was open source so I could see how it was done in Vue.
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
But aren't we talking about form fields? When would you absolutely need a gendered title from someone in a form field so that you could refer to them in the third person? In any case, I understand your point about there not being many
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
>From 2010 through 2012, UFS and TMS median favorability scores rose from 83% to 88%. Consider me unimpressed. 5% isn't all that impressive of an increase. > The UFS and the TMS depend on employees’ goodwill. They never actually
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
This is great, but when is academia, business and government going to finally get off PDF as a typical standard? It's awful, not adaptive for mobile, and a pain in the ass to work with for any kind of development.
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
Jesus christ, can you suck the corporate teet any harder here? God forbid a corporate entity can't just run amok in a country and do whatever it wants.
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
applying game theory to these kinds of social situation are really not all that interesting or really reusable in a real-world setting. "In a perfectly predictable and rational world filled with rational actors, here is what would happ
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
Why is there a toothbrush mustache even in there as an option? Like, even the most hipster or alternative people out there I've never seen people with one. I'm getting Hitler mustaches after every third click.
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
I think this post, like yours is simply forgetting that start-up culture isn't some immutable meritocracy of free market behaviour with these odd abberations of irrational behaviour. The whole thing is built off irrational behaviour, b
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
Except the cargo cult religions weren't trying to get cargo to return in any meaningful sense. It was a religious ritual like anyother. If we were watching Christian practices from the outside and not knowing any of the nuances of thei
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
>(The weakness of this study is we didn't follow up with people. We only knew if our candidates got hired, not how well they did after they were in the door, as employees. So we might have just been mirroring the same biases the com
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
Yup there's even a very fascinating documentary about this called Waiting For John Frum. It traces the history of background from the insane colonial administration to what led to the development of the John Frum cult. Basically the gi
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
This isn't true. Originally advertising was designed around the premise of explicitly highlighting utility and functionality of goods/content. It wasn't until Bernays came along and adapted his uncle Sigmund Freud's theo
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
Yeah, there's a really odd all or nothing kind of attitude with knowledge, experience or skill, as if "being smart" is like a linear growth Pokemon level-thing rather than being more like a radar chart of skills and experienc
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
Not every project is a greenfield project. Very often you're inheriting a huge codebase of legacy production code, so you also need to account for that in your architecture as well. Or at least you should account for that. I work with
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
This is a great example when it comes to trying to understand the epistemological limits of AI. People inherently fall back on an argument that presumes the human mind works like a neural network. There's an interesting theory that I&#
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
I wouldn't cite grocery stores as a model for "organization" given that their "information architecture" of where things are in relation to another is driven by dark design patterns like "put the most often sou
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
If only we had a means of transportation that could efficiently move large quantities of people into dense areas of living. It would be like a really big car that could fit lots of people. You could then put it on tracks so it had its own r
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
If you read the rest of the site, you would see that the argument against not buying a new laptop every year is to find ways to lower the insane amount of electronics waste we're generating any single year. It's not just about lac
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
Sorry, this was already on its way out from the very beginning with the term "software engineer". Outside of tech, being an actual engineer involves universal standards, certifications and the onus and responsibility of failures t
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
> As opposed to the professionals who went with a microsoft xbox controller? I think what's more telling is that they didn't even splurge on the actual Microsoft Xbox controller. They cheaped out with an unproven logitech gamep
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
Thats fair, sorry I sort of looped in your point about UI vs text unfairly into the designer vs non-dev bit. Thanks for the kind response :)
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
Developing better HCI and UX is not a "hangup". Accessibility (in the broader sense) is incredibly lacking in technical spaces. Also, your example is a poor one, because in your example, both a visual method and a quicker keyboard

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