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by hitekker 4y ago
Ironically, I haven't seen steelmanning demonstrated well in this comment section. Lots of praise, specious examples. The top comment claims that a heated back-and-forth where they recommend steelmanning is a successful discussion. Hmm
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by hitekker 4y ago
The author chooses a great video where Scott Meyer implies that the lack of integrity in the C++ programming language and its decision-making committees causes C++ to be a mess. However, the author's conclusions for Rust does not add
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by hitekker 4y ago
The GP is referring to a well-known phenomena that the founder of HN described in http://www.paulgraham.com/before.html . > We saw this happen so often that we made up a name for it: playing house. Eventually I realized w
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by hitekker 4y ago
As an engineer, I love hearing that marketing is wrong and engineering is perfect. But how do you explain the Sega Saturn? A half-baked, expensive and overly complex system driven by Sega of Japan & hated by Sega of America. https:&#x2
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by hitekker 4y ago
This is a fun article. One of my favorite youtube videos is a collection of scenes (presumably) animated/directed by Miyazaki before he started Ghibli: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SANfYqmNz6U
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by hitekker 4y ago
The GP's profile indicates he's comfortably upper caste.
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by hitekker 4y ago
Nah, the phrase is "choose boring tech", not "choose convenient tech". The problem is that calling out "resume-driven development" triggers the resume-driven developer. They're enraged but they don't
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by hitekker 4y ago
This thread reminds me of high school. A kid tries and fails to argue with a teacher, so they resort to trolling in order to "win". Meanwhile the rest of the students are just rolling their eyes and hoping the kid gets over their
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by hitekker 4y ago
I think the GP means that the NYT has a recent history of peddling journalistic rags as academic papers, without the approval of the academic experts they've consulted. One of those fact checkers even wrote an article about how they we
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by hitekker 4y ago
> world where Singapore was kicked out of Malaysia in 1965 for being too poor and violent Absolutely false. Singapore was kicked out of Malaysia for wanting its Chinese citizens to have equality with Malayan citizens. Which the Malaysian
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by hitekker 4y ago
Back then, many NoSQL/MongoDB opportunists were in positions of authority on the web. When WebSQL was discussed, those folks pushed the lie that "SQL is SQLite. Therefore, SQL does not belong in the browser". They pretended t
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by hitekker 4y ago
You seem to know what you're talking about. Ignorant question: do you think Dagster would work better as an orchestration/validation tool than AirBnB's Wall?
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by hitekker 4y ago
It's not just their roots that are different. Blender also once had some weird deficiencies in its UI/UX. As I recall, the developers swallowed their pride and started working alongside with designers and HCI experts. Blender matu
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by hitekker 4y ago
The metastasis of this belief in a social body is particularly revolting. No need to do the hard work of learning; just read that one's commenters thousand paragraph essay which applies familiar concept A onto unpleasant reality B, and
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by hitekker 4y ago
The point about the splintering of atheism is well covered in: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/30/new-atheism-the-godles... > Most movement atheists weren’t in it for the religion. They were in it for t
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by hitekker 4y ago
Sam is either being intentionally obtuse or hasn't worked in a corporation. The idea that sales is the only department that can partner with other companies is just stupid.
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by hitekker 4y ago
Yeah, Leonard inadvertently gave away the game with that comment. Removing credit from a blogpost because you want it to be "succinct" is not justifiable. I think he's trying hard to pretend he didn't know any better; th
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by hitekker 4y ago
I'd wait for the emails to come out. One side is probably hoping that won't happen. In my view, ethics go out the window when the mantra is to eat the world. The kind of ultra-fast, ultra-huge growth that Stripes pitches to invest
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by hitekker 4y ago
Speaking as a manager, a lot of managers seems to resort to the "managers are people too" truism whenever they're called out on managerial misbehavior. I think a lot of people in the occupation can't own up to abuses of
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by hitekker 4y ago
This should be the top comment. The utility of the word "steelman" is already mostly covered by words like "Devil's advocate". Instead, the real purpose of the term is to signal "look at how smart I am, I'
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by hitekker 5y ago
Same, I had a really hard time parsing that comment. My read is that they had a terrible teacher who had the power to label them as “average” instead of “above average”. It’s hard to see that as undermining tracking as a concept, since the
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by hitekker 5y ago
What you're speaking of is "Prioritize Wellbeing" which is a worthy belief to hold and to remind ourselves as engineering managers. However, the specific word used by the OP is "Facilitate" which gives managers the
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by hitekker 5y ago
A ruling clique spreads quasi-religious beliefs that boil down to "we're the future!" to prospective followers. The ones who join up, are inspired and push ever intensified (yet even more honest) versions of those beliefs ont
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by hitekker 5y ago
It's fine to dismiss boring flamebait. The top-level comment is dressed up to sound curious but basically falls in the same category of questions that the GP and OP called out as thoughtless.
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by hitekker 5y ago
Looking at the author's LinkedIn, I see Luke has no engineering background, and no STEM experience. His expertise before becoming cofounder of Terminus is in diplomacy and marketing. It's weird to be write articles on Git and Term
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by hitekker 5y ago
pron wrote an insightful comment on Kotlin’s future sometime ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24197817 . He has actively commented on Kotlin this past decade in good faith. The key quote: > Kotlin's design g
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by hitekker 5y ago
I think the other commenters have raised valid points that you seem to be willfully disregarding. It’s actually similar to when you've denied Amazon has a “hire to fire” policy, or a toxic PIP culture. I guess engineering managers like
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by hitekker 5y ago
Rich Harris actually disagrees with the browser vendors decision to deprecate alerts. From the article you linked: > We can't normalise the attitude that collateral damage is the price of progress, even if we accept the premise — wh
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by hitekker 5y ago
> OpenSearch is a registered trademark of Amazon Web Services. Hidden away at the bottom of the page. It's too bad there isn't an Open Source License that protects smaller business from the tech Goliaths.
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by hitekker 5y ago
That's a few too many passive aggressive questions to be asking with a sockpuppet account. If you could rewrite it to be less leading and resentful, I think the GP would be more willing to engage.

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