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by jack_h 2y ago
> If you instead use your resources to deliver new features that might have a nonblocking bug here or there, you're improving your position over the competitor's. In the short term. Features can attract new customers but softwa
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by jack_h 2y ago
As Jeff Bezos said a few days ago: "Voting machines must meet two requirements. They must count the vote accurately, and people must believe they count the vote accurately. The second requirement is distinct from and just as important
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by jack_h 2y ago
It seems like people are trying to min-max their lives and in doing so are missing the forest for the trees. Not a single drop of alcohol is healthy, not a single photon hitting bare skin is healthy, etc. In the end life is full of unknowns
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by jack_h 2y ago
I don't think the market is broken, I do think it has been heavily distorted by government intervention though. I think you are correct that credentialism is a problem here. For those who suggest free tuition for everyone (government f
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by jack_h 2y ago
> In Coders at work, Douglas Crockford said to spend the sixth cycle - whatever the cycle is - on refactoring. It's a sound advice if you care about technical debt as an engineer. My point is that very often it's not up to engi
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by jack_h 2y ago
I'm going to have to disagree with the entire premise of this piece. If you are a cabinet maker you have many individual clients who all want what you're producing. They each have their own budget and preferences that you can work
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by jack_h 2y ago
> There are outstanding systemic inequities at every level of American society. I think this needs to be backed up with evidence rather than merely asserted. I've been reading through a number of books by Thomas Sowell lately and he
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by jack_h 3y ago
> I say, that the power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.
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by jack_h 3y ago
This seems really bizarre to me and kind of dismisses the entire premise of this subthread. So we have a particular activity - theft - which we as a society have deemed to be inappropriate and codified the punishment of such behavior into l
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by jack_h 3y ago
> Professionals use professional tools--Altium doesn't qualify. > 99% of companies are not doing anything complex enough for it to matter. There seems to be very few professionals in the industry then.
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by jack_h 3y ago
Malthusianism is from the late 1700s. Another example would be Paul Ehrlich who wrote 'The Population Bomb' in the 1960s with the quote: > The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people
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by jack_h 3y ago
I really don't know much about Medicare so I decided to visit the wikipedia page on this. Here is how it describes Medicare Advantage: > Medicare Advantage (Medicare Part C, MA) is a capitated program for providing Medicare benefits
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by jack_h 3y ago
All of this talk about testing and labeling doesn't make sense to me or likely any layperson. I don't want to have to know what capabilities a cable needs and then compare it to a label and I really don't want to have to te
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by jack_h 3y ago
> I think someday it would be amazing to have 1500W to 3000W kettles simply being powered by Type C, and other home appliances too. I've actually jokingly suggested that USB will go this way. You'll plug in your new induction c
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by jack_h 3y ago
It changes between companies. At my company the Product Owner is the one who maintains the relationship with customers. Product Managers are there for prioritizing the feature requests. We also have Project Managers for inter-project depend
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by jack_h 3y ago
That's like saying only engineers care about appliances that work long past the warranty expiration; users don't so business people value engineer it and everyone except the engineers are happy. Except that's not true. Users
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by jack_h 3y ago
Yeah that makes sense. I suppose that juxtaposition just didn't click with my brain when I read it. Intelligent people can certainly be naive or ignorant.
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by jack_h 3y ago
I've never seen a "dumb" programmer vomit out TMP code. Generally speaking what I encounter are programmers who don't know or want to know anything beyond basic C, even when programming C++. I consider this an issue with
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by jack_h 3y ago
Battle rifle implies a full powered cartridge such as 7.62 NATO. Assault rifle implies an intermediate cartridge such as 5.56 NATO. Intermediate cartridges have lower energy than full powered cartridges. Barrel length is important to veloci
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by jack_h 4y ago
Is that really so different from the following C++ equivalent? auto SmallestFactor(int32_t n) -> std::pair<int32_t, bool> { ... }
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by jack_h 4y ago
To drive the point home, look at all the rampant speculation about the recent high altitude balloon news. People play armchair ___ and invent plausible sounding explanations all the time, and people believe them.
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by jack_h 4y ago
This attitude exemplifies McNamara's fallacy.
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by jack_h 4y ago
You are correct in the fact that 'buy' doesn't mean zero cost. At scale both 'build' and 'buy' suffer from the same problem, overhead. 'Build' has the overhead of the initial development, documen
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by jack_h 4y ago
It's nothing groundbreaking, although my idea alone wouldn't really help in the safety critical space. If web development were like embedded development every single company would be building their own web server, browser, and pro
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by jack_h 4y ago
Perhaps I'm missing some deeper use case here. More complicated firmware projects can have only part of the system loaded during production, namely the bootloader and some system level image(s). The firmware that has all of the busines
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by jack_h 4y ago
At a previous company our firmware was literally called by a part number. So I would regularly work on the repos 5400-520, 5400-521, 5400-524, 5400-526, etc.
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by jack_h 4y ago
I worked at a place once where one of the EEs who wrote firmware told me that algorithms and data structures were pointless because in the end it's just bits in a linear address space in RAM. The industry has basically screwed itself.
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by jack_h 4y ago
My parents divorced when I was very young and my dad ended up getting a job in a different state. So by age 4-5 I was flying alone between parents semi-regularly. This was in the late 80s to early 90s.
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by jack_h 4y ago
I've been using C++ for around 20 years now. I've spent a lot of time learning the language, although I don't know any of C++20 yet. The issue with C++ is that the 'proper' way to do something almost always requires
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by jack_h 4y ago
If that was its purpose it failed. Many (most?) companies have no progression path other than management, but they'll happily call you an IC.

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