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by jdlshore 2y ago
If you have sufficient karma, you can click a dead comment’s timestamp and “vouch” it back to life (which I’ve done).
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A Software Engineering Career Ladder(jamesshore.com)
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> For the past decade Apple’s product lineup has pretty much remained the same You seem to have forgotten the M1 Mac, which was released in 2020. It was followed by the complete overhaul and revitalization of the Mac lineup, all to criti
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I’d guess that your preference for windowless rooms is out of the norm, and that most people do want windows. Or at least enough do that it doesn’t make financial sense to convert office buildings. Or maybe I’m wrong! Maybe the reason that
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My understanding is that office buildings don’t usually have the windows, ventilation, or plumbing required to support apartments. A retrofit would be expensive and would leave you with a ton of cave-like rooms in the interior.
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Just renewed my pre-check. Was surprised to see that the security screening was by a private company: I had a choice of three, each with their own (similar) pricing. Clear was one of them.
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I’m on not saying you’re wrong, but old games don’t really count as evidence of lack of maintenance. Games generally don’t receive maintenance unless there’s an ongoing revenue model, which there isn’t for Half-Life and Portal.
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The problem is extrinsic motivators (which includes group validation), not money specifically. Extrinsic motivators destroy intrinsic motivation, even when the recipient is highly motivated. I remember reading about a study in Alfie Kohn’s
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by jdlshore 3y ago
It failed—that’s just the preamble. The video’s probably too long for it. You should know better than to use AI without checking the results.
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It’s similar in some ways, but very different in practice. I don’t study these things, but my understanding is that cap & trade puts a hard limit on emissions, then allows businesses to trade carbon allowance as a new sort of currency.
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A carbon dividend pairs effectively with a carbon tax. You give people (not businesses) an equal proportion of the tax collected. People who consume less than the average end up earning more than they spent.
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Yeah, it feels like conspiracy thinking to me.
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Who’s this “we,” kemo sabe? Let’s summarize the situation here. A group of people have chosen to work on GenAI customer support. You’re criticizing them for not working on a difficult political problem instead. Meanwhile, what are you doi
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That's a false dilemma. We can do both. Some people are addressing roadblocks (or attempting to; politics are hard), and some people are working on AI-assisted support. I'm as skeptical of GenAI as they come, but let's not pr
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Easy? You’re letting your outrage short-circuit your brain. There’s no way you’ve thought this ridiculous proposal through. Boeing is part of the S&P 500. Almost every American who has stocks is going to have a fund that includes Boeing
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Are you saying that he was wrong, and tech workers do have the same work ethic as garbage men, or are you saying that the comparison was inappropriate? Basically, what was so egregious about the complaint that people shouldn’t listen to him
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It may not require a camera, but in practice I think most or all units use them. It’s definitely not a Roomba-specific issue. I’m familiar with the “woman on a toilet” story and I think it’s overblown. It was a prototype unit used for train
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High end robot vacuums have been innovating (including Roomba), with self-emptying bins and ML-based obstacle avoidance for things like cords and pet waste. This requires a camera, so any high end robot vacuum is going to have one. For me,
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How is that different than a dishwasher? The problem is collecting the dishes and putting them away, not washing them. Unless you’re imagining something to scrub pots and pans?
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> If someone wants to actually persuade it’s better to present the argument in a calm rational way. That’s one of those “works better in theory than in practice” positions. In a perfect world, sure, people are persuaded by calm, rational
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by jdlshore 3y ago
They discuss New York in a short segment of this video (linked to timestamp): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nChhkHpkD0Y&t=945s&pp=2AGxB5... You are, of course, within your rights to object to an article’s tone, ju
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by jdlshore 3y ago
Tone policing isn’t a valid argument. [1] It’s also perfectly valid to raise a problem without providing a solution. [2] As it so happens, though, Strong Towns’ thesis is pretty clear. This article is one of many examples. It boils down to
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You’re implying causation, but doesn’t the fed always look at core inflation?
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by jdlshore 3y ago
The agile-industrial complex came from Scrum and its certified trainers, and its imitators such as SaFE, not Kent Beck and XP. Kent disappeared for a while to raise goats in Oregon, then worked for Facebook and other companies (as an employ
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Sorry to belabor the point. Again, if what you're doing works for you, more power to you. However, your unit tests should survive starting with one file and breaking it out into multiple files. That's exactly what evolutionary d
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If you have to refactor both, something is still wrong. Tests should check behavior, not implementation. Refactoring should change implementation, not behavior. If refactoring requires you to change your tests, something is wrong with the w
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TDD was invented by Kent Beck, who also is a big proponent of evolutionary design, which is what y’all are talking about. If the way you use TDD doesn’t fit that way of working, you’re doing it wrong. (The most common mistakes are to write
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Blame-oriented cultures result in people hiding problems, which makes them worse in the long run. That doesn’t mean people aren’t accountable for their actions in “blameless” cultures, but problems are first assumed to be the result of syst
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You might appreciate nohello.net .
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You’re saying this like it’s a “gotcha,” which makes me believe you’re confusing OOP-as-practiced-in-enterprise with OOP-as-invented-by-Kay. The sad truth is that most great ideas are doomed to drown in a sea of mediocrity and misinterpreta

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