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by jdlshore 4y ago
I enjoyed this story quite a bit. Thanks for sharing! (I don't think it was answering the question, which I took to be about build-it-yourself vs. buy-something-prebuilt, not outsource-to-someone-else, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.)
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by jdlshore 4y ago
Good to know! Thanks for sharing your experience.
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by jdlshore 4y ago
> won’t be terribly easy to reverse As far as I know, migrating servers is in fact very easy. I haven’t done it myself, but there’s a big button to click in the interface to do so. Learning that removed a lot of the anxiety I had about b
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by jdlshore 4y ago
> top decile I think you’re overestimating the hiring ability of big companies, and underestimating the people at small companies.
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by jdlshore 4y ago
The answer: special robots used during development for training ML image classification. Presumably leaked by human gig workers in Venezuela who were hired to perform image classification. > All of them came from “special development rob
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by jdlshore 4y ago
Eh... your hate is blinding you. Java was the first mainstream garbage-collected language. Not the first GC language, but the first one to get serious traction. It started the post-C++ era. That was a pretty bold design decision for the tim
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by jdlshore 4y ago
I abandoned an HP PageWide color inkjet MFP for a Brother color laser MFP and couldn't be happier. Brother's front panel tech and UI isn't as polished, but the printer is rock solid and the company isn't scummy. (There&#
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by jdlshore 4y ago
My statement wasn't actually directed at you—I don't know you! Sorry it sounded like a criticism. I was responding to @scott_w saying that process change not taking root isn't the consultant's fault, because companies do
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by jdlshore 4y ago
Speaking as a consultant who's work does hold up, part of the job of a consultant is to make sure clients are aware of what's needed to succeed, and to turn down work that won't succeed. No matter how tempting the fee may b
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by jdlshore 4y ago
Yeah, no. I wrote one of the more popular books about Agile development ( The Art of Agile Development ) and it says right in the first chapter that "meeting requirements on time and within budget" is not the goal. "Agile t
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by jdlshore 4y ago
What battery waste? Batteries are highly recyclable.
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by jdlshore 4y ago
I disagree with the fundamental conceit of the article: > But in terms of the only measurement that really matters—satisfying requirements on time and within budget—I haven’t seen any methodology deliver consistent results. What matters
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by jdlshore 4y ago
Thanks for responding. You're right, I misunderstood, and I apologize for being dismissive. I thought you were making a legal argument, but instead, it sounds like you were making the moral argument: mass algorithmic searches by privat
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by jdlshore 4y ago
It took me a moment to parse your argument here. To summarize, I think you're saying that my reasoning is wrong because it's illegal in the US for private services to conduct mass scanning for CSAM and notify the government. That&
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by jdlshore 4y ago
Okay, that's a nice soundbite. Now let's steelman it. I believe the following to be true: 1. Children are sexually abused. This abuse is far more widespread than we as a society want. 2. Images of this abuse is called CSAM (child
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by jdlshore 4y ago
I see it as more a lack of developer discipline than a need—or, more charitably, developers choosing to prioritize things other than longevity. You can certainly choose to develop in a way that's more stable.
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by jdlshore 4y ago
Are you sure about that statement? I’m not a historian, so I could be wrong, but my understanding is that currencies came very early, raw bullion wasn’t really used for normal trade, and silver was much more predominant than gold.
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by jdlshore 4y ago
Because you’re young, the “right” way to invest is to automatically put a portion of your monthly paycheck into an stock market index fund such as VTSAX and ignore it for 25 years. Over time, you can expect an average return of at least 7.5
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Conway's Game of Life in APL [video](youtube.com)
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by jdlshore 4y ago
You'll probably enjoy this video about implementing Conway's Game of Life in APL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4
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by jdlshore 4y ago
> rather than doing a cascading series of layoffs That has yet to be seen...
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by jdlshore 4y ago
Yeah, this one’s on you. Before embarking on a get-rich-quick arbitrage scheme, take some time to enumerate the risks and study policies and regulations.
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by jdlshore 4y ago
I’ve found hardware-oriented businesses to be woefully behind the times when it comes to software engineering processes. This article is no exception. Although I agree with his overall framing, once you get to the details, James is describi
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by jdlshore 4y ago
Also, one of the themes of the book is how different the outcomes are for Nell, who had a real narrator, and the children who had an artificial narrator. (Although the content was AI-generated in both cases.) But I agree, it’s a great book.
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by jdlshore 4y ago
Oh, it's absolutely speculation. I won't be paying a dime until I think the value is there. Although I'm willing to speculate a bit... it's only a hundred bucks. Getting ordinary users into advertising is their old game.
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by jdlshore 4y ago
In terms of value, I think it's going to be more about avoiding anti-value—specifically, I expect that accounts lacking the checkmark will be seen as spam, scams, or bit players. Here's what I expect to happen: 1) First, Twitter i
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by jdlshore 4y ago
Again, although you’re technically correct, I don’t think it changes my overall point.
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by jdlshore 4y ago
Although you’re technically correct, I think there’s a qualitative difference here. Traditional advertising is priced on number of impressions. As a result, publishers are incentivized to juice engagement numbers. Practically speaking, that
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by jdlshore 4y ago
From the linked thread: 1) Priority in replies, mentions & search, which is essential to defeat spam/scam 2) Ability to post long video & audio 3) Half as many ads I also expect the following: 4) Increase in perceived legitimac
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by jdlshore 4y ago
I'm likely to pay for it at that price. For reference, I have a bit more than 14K followers on Twitter. Why? Two reasons. 1) Funding social media through advertising has led to dysfunctional outcomes like outrage being more visible tha

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