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by hbrn 4y ago
I haven't seen a single case where it doesn't go off the rails. One problem with tests is that benefits are immediate, but costs are delayed. When you're writing tests it feels like you're creating nothing but value. By
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by hbrn 4y ago
Honestly, in most cases testing is a band-aid on top of a bigger problem. IME things usually break due to complexity, not due to lack of tests. But of course, tackling complexity is hard. It's much easier to sprinkle the big ball of mu
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by hbrn 4y ago
Pretty bad advice. The good thing about YAGNI is that you can treat it as dogma and you'll be fine. Sometimes you'll be wrong, but it's always going to be easy to recover from mistakes. Doesn't matter how much experience
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by hbrn 4y ago
How exactly would it improve? Right now any person in the world can contribute to Wikipedia because of their notable sources policy. Any person in the world can validate and correct mistakes. Would homeless people write their own biography?
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by hbrn 4y ago
> If they think there's an oppurtunity to improve the developer experience at the cost of complexity, they'll try it and see what it looks like IME this fails most of the time. Perception of complexity varies across the team. A
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by hbrn 4y ago
This proves that wealth as a metric is imperfect (like any other metric), especially if we are ignoring all other metrics (we're not). In no way it indicates that wealth is useless . Still waiting to hear which metric is more useful.
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by hbrn 4y ago
Doctors want people to be sick, police wants people to commit crimes, military wants wars. This is a dangerous mindset. Did they improve their practices after the breach? Sounds like they did: "Zoetop became independently certified as
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by hbrn 4y ago
If you read past the headline, it's not $0.05, it's $5.07. A 100 times higher. Maybe even more, if you only count New Yorkers that were not notified about the breach (255,294). And it sounds like they weren't fined for the br
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by hbrn 4y ago
> He thought that the publicity of "not cooperating with the system" (or whatever) would be more valuable than the cost of losing the case. Sounds like he won. I can entertain a thought that given he's not going to pay it
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by hbrn 4y ago
We could and you are free to run such experiment. While I think the experiment is likely dumb, criticizing authors for not mixing science with charity is not productive. For experiment like that it's already virtually impossible to pro
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by hbrn 4y ago
> if Alex had taken the lawsuit seriously and treated it with the gravitas most people would assign to a lawsuit like this, the judgement would be nowhere near $1B What do you think it would have been? I don't mind the "asshole
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by hbrn 4y ago
That sounds like a conspiracy theory, how would that work in practice, where are the incentives? Does attorney general get a cut of the fine?
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by hbrn 4y ago
One big issue with planning is that it is enjoyable. And if it is enjoyable, you will likely overdo it. Planning is "dreaming" about the future. All of your biases will emerge and self-reinforce during planning. The amount of plan
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by hbrn 4y ago
Playing devil's advocate here: > Lacrosse players tend to be white and male I suspect they also tend to attend certain schools, and that could very well be causal. > Why would it make any kind of sense to artificially shrink thei
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by hbrn 4y ago
> Wealth creation is a shitty metric. Ideally, all economic activity serves some purpose that makes actual people's lives better Shitty compared to what? Wealth does correlate with better life and is fairly easy to measure. Do you a
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by hbrn 4y ago
Do you really think I didn't google before? > for productivity, there's basically no measurable impact detected in studies, positive or negative As I said, controversial at best. But you're not being completely honest here
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by hbrn 4y ago
AMD market cap in 2015: $2B Intel market cap in 2015: $150B Kinda looks like crushing.
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by hbrn 4y ago
Is there a good way to sync between Mac OS, Windows and iOS? Seems like you can only pick 2 out of 3. Edit: Today I learned there is iCloud for Windows, so you can point Obsidian to the iCloudDrive/Obsidian folder. Going to give it a t
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by hbrn 4y ago
While I agree with the premise, your example doesn't really prove it. Your friends basically invested in real estate and got lucky. Whoever sold this house was also rich and lost potential profits.
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by hbrn 4y ago
Because it's supposed to be an experiment that "unlocks their full potential". Not a charity program.
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by hbrn 4y ago
"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses".
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by hbrn 4y ago
> everything that happens today was "led to" by history, including a black person getting a high-paying job Then why focus on the past at all? "everything led to everything" is meaningless statement, it adds no value.
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by hbrn 4y ago
> Is there a neutral historian version of world events? Just because there's no truly neutral version doesn't mean we shouldn't aim for neutrality. There are clearly anti-neutral approaches which we should always try to
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by hbrn 4y ago
> history which has led to you having a cushy, high-paying desk job doing whatever you do So when a white person gets a high-paying job, it's because of history of slavery. If a black person gets a high-paying job, it's because
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by hbrn 4y ago
> if your hiring funnel doesn't represent the general population then it is biased So 0.1% of engineers in the funnel should be Amish and 18% should be younger than 14. There might be a flaw in your logic. Jokes aside, this is malic
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by hbrn 4y ago
I did not imply you're a hypocrite. I only tried to explain the cancel culture / diversity paradox. Both cancel culture and DEI are incredibly hypocritical "holier than thou" contests. > belief that it’s inherently be
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by hbrn 4y ago
> white nationalist groups are growing in numbers I don't know if it's valid, but let's assume it is. Have you considered that some of this growth can be attributed to DEI and the rest of far-left policies? If you're
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by hbrn 4y ago
Being able to perform under stress could be a metric he values. "Hey, the website was down for a few hours. Technically I could fix it in a minute, but have a downtime anxiety".
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by hbrn 4y ago
> you wind up with a better, more productive company when you put forth the considerable effort necessary to increase diversity Diversity, as everything else, has a sweet spot. Too little and too much are equally bad. Of course nobody kn
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by hbrn 4y ago
> or perhaps don't think they're good enough Or perhaps it is not your business to decide what blacks should think? Imagine if you're hiring in a region where blacks are 10% of the population, but only 1% of resumes you re

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