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by iamcasen 3y ago
With what I know from watching this shit-show up close with my own kids, this is no surprise. Kids essentially learned nothing during those years aside from what we as parents provided them. We were fortunate enough to be able to hire an ai
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by iamcasen 3y ago
I think all of these fears are human projections. We fear our own evil, and thus we project it onto something formidable, something we can't grasp or understand. Fear of the void. We write sci-fi stories of aliens whose technology has
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by iamcasen 3y ago
Agreed. It's worth noting in the context you describe, you have valuable customers who have paid for long-running contracts. This warrants the ongoing time and investment in quality. Most of the time, this is not the case. My experienc
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by iamcasen 3y ago
No. I think humans are all unique. Just like a pro basketball coach, you are looking for the right talent for your particular team and your particular context. I have had extremely smart, talented, thorough engineers who are slower than wha
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by iamcasen 3y ago
IMO if the code sticks around long enough to disintegrate under its own weight, than that code was a rousing success! "Resisting management" is almost always a horrible idea. Code is only useful when it provides a solution at the
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by iamcasen 3y ago
Good lord, I'm so sorry. My heart goes out to you and your family.
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by iamcasen 3y ago
This has to be fraud. I can't see any other possibility. VC's aren't stupid.
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by iamcasen 3y ago
The irony of seeing a guy with big goggles on his face gawking at his children and recording them while the narrator says something like "get closer to those memories that matter most." You will not get closer to your family by hi
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by iamcasen 3y ago
I did this competition in college, and I was obsessed! This post brings up a lot of nostalgia for me. I partnered with my EE friends, and I built the software. I devised my implementation of the flood-fill by writing VB scripts in excel spr
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by iamcasen 3y ago
The problem with tech is that the landscape is changing so rapidly. Businesses can hardly keep up before they are obliterated by a new competitor from nowhere. They spend years and millions developing tech assets that age poorly because eve
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by iamcasen 3y ago
Count me in as a SWE who would be interested in flexible engagements. I like to push hard for a few months, and then change with the seasons. I think this is very realistic with most software engineering work. Project based, develop a rappo
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by iamcasen 3y ago
Illness is largely a function of overall health. As a society, we generally lead very unhealthy lives: eating mountains of processed food, working too much, sitting indoors and staring at screens. We have a failed concept of the nuclear fam
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by iamcasen 4y ago
Exactly this! Most managers are not expecting the air-tight rocket science that most software devs seem to insist is absolutely necessary. I was tasked with creating an entire email campaign system (like mailchimp). But I had only 3 weeks t
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by iamcasen 4y ago
Thank God somebody said this. When I was working as an IC, I would be very communicative, highlight the unknowns, and get buy-in from my boss. If a surprise came up, I would make sure everyone knew the game had changed. As a manager now, I
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by iamcasen 6y ago
I think this is the big takeaway because somehow, most startups miss this. When you invest internally, you maintain strong institutional knowledge and culture. You deepen the commitment and the connection to the project. This is just a win-
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by iamcasen 6y ago
I think the author is being a tad pedantic here. You can't possibly find your "who" unless you already know your "why." In fact, they go hand in hand really. It should also be noted that your "why" might b
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by iamcasen 6y ago
I agree. Honestly, my belief (no sources!) is that cities are expensive precisely because there are so many regulations and restrictions about what can be done, and where. Modern cities and suburbs have ZERO flexibility in how they can adap
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by iamcasen 6y ago
The double edged sword here is groupthink. If you are trying to have a discourse about being gay in a social network comprised of people from Saudi Arabia, they might flag your very loving and helpful posts as being hostile. Thus banning yo
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by iamcasen 6y ago
His invention allowed the easier transmission of knowledge, which is undoubtedly valuable. His mistake was in thinking that transmission of knowledge necessarily leads to wisdom. Wisdom comes from direct experience. Knowledge is knowing, wi
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by iamcasen 6y ago
I agree for the most part. That being said, I have noticed more senior engineers will grow resentful and bored if they are assigned very basic tasks, while a more junior engineer would be thrilled. Senior engineers should be mentoring junio
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by iamcasen 6y ago
As others have mentioned, this is entirely dependent on the organization. The issue is that talented people hit a ceiling faster than anyone else. Organizations aim for stability, and that will usually come at the cost of stifling top perfo
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by iamcasen 7y ago
True, but how can a non-technical founder know who is good, or who is just expensive? I've seen dev consultancies that are very expensive, and they play the part in every way, but they produce total garbage. There really isn't any
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by iamcasen 7y ago
Hiring bad programmers is so common it's crazy. Most hacker news types probably won't know this, but there are so many startups out there than aren't VC backed and they have a limited dev budget. They try and hire who they th
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by iamcasen 7y ago
This is obvious for all but the most obtuse. A university education does very little, if anything, to prepare someone for a career. After all, that's not the purpose of a university. Many big tech companies hire candidates straight out
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by iamcasen 7y ago
It really looks like this guy found his calling, good for him! I'm impressed his managed to keep his organization healthy with 700 remote employees, that takes some real business/management talent. In my own business, we are a rem
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by iamcasen 7y ago
I agree with Musk's point, but I think he should have been more clear: most people treat college as 'basically for fun and not learning.' I personally got a hell of a lot out of my degree, but I was working my ass off, and st
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by iamcasen 7y ago
Yes this is troublesome, but as an owner of two cats, I can tell you keeping them inside is equally troublesome. I can tell my one athletic cat is not fulfilled. No amount of cat furniture or toys keeps him from clawing desperately at the d
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by iamcasen 7y ago
Why not base physics on the idea that "particles" are just spherical standing waves with a high energy density in the center? The math is simple enough for electrons at least and explains enough of the standard-model paradoxes tha
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by iamcasen 7y ago
I welcome the reckoning honestly, I think there was a whole decade or more of this myth that tech startups just print money and that young, hip, techie folks were at the forefront of innovation. The reality was just that many, many idiots w
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by iamcasen 7y ago
The 20th century saw the pendulum swing towards an absolute faith in materialism to cure all ills, and today we are seeing the pendulum start to return back toward faith in the immaterial: love, thought, spirit, community, etc. While materi

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