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by gyulai 4y ago
Also, not sure if you saw my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33933186 I already established that (a) I'm one of those hello people. (b) I'm allowing this conversation to change my behaviour,
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by gyulai 4y ago
...wow, and you got all of that from "hello".
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by gyulai 4y ago
> You cannot control how a recipient receives your message. My point exactly. Only problem: If A hurts B's feelings, that doesn't automatically mean B has the moral high ground and A is therefore in the wrong. If B plays the &
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by gyulai 4y ago
The hello people? rofl ...there must be some psychology student out there to whom this thread is an absolute gold mine for their Ph.D. thesis. ...or maybe a standup comedian.
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by gyulai 4y ago
I'm not even saying that I wouldn't take the advice, after all it's not costing me much to add a "topic header" to my "hellos". ...the fact that there's resonance here is something I'm only begin
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by gyulai 4y ago
...this is some rando posting something on github. Advice that's binding on the recipient is not advice, it's a command. And I don't take commands from randos on github. I also don't understand how this thread got so a
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by gyulai 4y ago
Group chats have a problem with "diffusion of responsibility" [1], and sometimes you have reasons for not wanting to broadcast whatever it is you're about to say (e.g. you're in a toxic culture where your bosses will use
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by gyulai 4y ago
...I really don't think there's "emotional cost" on the part of the recipient in entertaining a "hello", at least not in peer-to-peer scenarios. Now, if you're someone's boss and hitting up a subordin
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by gyulai 4y ago
I disagree. I start text chats with "hello" all the time. It basically relates to channel choice. For some kinds of messages a near-real-time text chat is the right channel but async email-like flow would be entirely the wrong c
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by gyulai 4y ago
Can you elaborate? Why does Boomers' retirement lead to a credit crunch?
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by gyulai 4y ago
...oh, I remember many many hype cycles. I'm old enough to have been around when people ripped out relational databases from underneath applications and replaced them with XML files because if you didn't you were clearly living u
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by gyulai 4y ago
If you get into it now, you'll probably be on the losing end of a pork cycle [1]. All of the hype is creating overinvestment on the side of "producers" of AI. All that overinvestment will mature at roundabout the same time.
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by gyulai 4y ago
> "Scale" Can you give the author?
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by gyulai 4y ago
> “Knowledge and Power” Can you give the author? Your other suggestions look interesting. I've read Antifragile and loved it.
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by gyulai 4y ago
> I doubt there is ever a really good reason to gaslight someone. Manipulating others is pretty much the activity most highly rewarded by our economy. It's deeply immoral but someone with no morals clearly does have very good reaso
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by gyulai 4y ago
Yup, I agree fully with what you just said, also the bullying-part and erring on the side of being nice. I guess there's a few layers to unpack here. The lowest layer is that I was acting out a psychological impulse, not implementing
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by gyulai 4y ago
Psychological studies show that people derive pleasure from policing social norms, and I'm no different. In this case: "Don't brag". So I made fun of OP's writing style. Of course, deriving pleasure at the expense
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by gyulai 4y ago
Amazing, all of this "skyrocketing" and "zero to top" stuff. And all of that thanks to your "little system". Do you also have a weird old trick for losing weight that doctors don't want us to know about?
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by gyulai 4y ago
> I should've mentioned that the official mascot is called The Benthos Blobfish. The mascot really really creeps me out. This is entirely subjective, of course, and I really don't want to be mean about it, but I thought it migh
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by gyulai 4y ago
> For me, all of that is a bunch of irrelevant noise. I share that exact same experience you describe. For me, learning is all about making connections between the new material and material I already know. If I kept notes I would have to
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by gyulai 4y ago
> That does sound like the 99% are pretty dumb then for using a tool that's not suitable for them... Computing history is full of examples where technologies that are objectively not the best technologies end up being dominant. It&
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by gyulai 4y ago
...so you are among the 1% who use the functionality that causes 99% of what makes git's mental model so convoluted and hard to learn (for everyone , not just the one-percenters).
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by gyulai 4y ago
Basically, not to put too fine a point on it, I believe that distributed version control is a problem no one ever truly had, and no one intends to ever have in the future. I mean: Imagine going back in time 20 years to when git, hg, and bzr
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by gyulai 4y ago
Sane revision numbers are among the many reasons I prefer SVN to GIT.
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by gyulai 4y ago
> I consistently ignore anyone who tells me I shouldn't try something because it's "too hard" or "nobody will use it". Inspiring. Thanks for your contribution!
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by gyulai 4y ago
The subject matter covered is so ancient & timeless that there are plenty of cheap "dover reprint" type books, and even books in the public domain. The spirit of open access / open source in relation to textbooks is comm
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by gyulai 4y ago
No, it definitely does not mean that. This e-residency thing cyclically pops up to generate attention, but it's unmitigatedly and unconditionally a bad idea unless you're a lawyer who is extremely well-versed in what they'
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by gyulai 4y ago
I suppose what they really want, although "decolonise" is a very weird word for it, is for teachers to throw in enough information about the biographies behind the big names in math for students to not engage in unreflected hero w
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by gyulai 4y ago
> How can a team be invincible to "assholes" if a team is the sum of the result of the people who compose it, "asshole" included? I can think of lots of ways. You can connect two pieces of wood together with a chain:
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by gyulai 4y ago
It's management's job to set up a team in such a way that an individual on a team, just by virtue of being an asshole, can't destroy it. This commonly fails if the manager himself is the asshole, in which case the job falls t

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